When Minos left JMR I was worried about the music because he had done such an amazing job, but Kevin Morrison has been great! The music is definitely simpler, but the themes for event intros/outros, ML records, and podiums all sound great and really fit the Marble League.

Disclaimer: 2016 Results will be updated to use modern scoring.

Last Place Teams After Event 11

First Place Teams After Event 11

this was made with COMPLETELY LIGHTHEARTED INTENTIONS

Did anyone else receive Raspberry Racer marbles that looked like this? All 10 are a red color with literally no dark or light marbling or other color shades of any kind. I received 3 other packs that looked spot on, but these don’t look anything like the team to me. Did I just get a poor variety, or the wrong marbles entirely?

Hello all! We are basically at the 2/3rd mark for the marble league so far, and while some teams are achieving well (Black Jacks, Jungle Jumpers, Solar Flares), and others are...well...not (Hazers, Savage Speeders, Team Galactic). Regardless, there's still time in the season to make up some ground, so fear not if you are fans of those teams, but time is running out. Time is also running out in the individual fantasy competition for marbles to make their moves. Let's see which ones have done so in these past five events.

Event 6: Short Track:
We had the 2nd true individual event of the ML with Short Track, and with an appearance in the qualifiers there were expectations to be achieved...hypothetically. The top 2 marbles in the qualifiers iteration of this event (Snowstorm and Radiance) both put up placements that were well below expectations, disappointing owners of those marbles immensely. It did turn result in one of the most cursed podiums I think I've ever seen, with Chocolatiers' reserve Fudge getting gold, Qualifiers hero Sheep reaching another level, and Hop from the Jungle Jumpers attempting to return to M1 with that performance. What did that do for this tournament? Here's the top 5:

1. FantaLime - 77
2. Mathew117 - 65
3. MLGWolf69 - 62
4. Lord of the Sheep - 52
5. Quix - 48

I have to say it's a rarity to see multiple reserves on a podium in general, as it's only happened a couple of times in duo events prior (I believe '21 Jousting and '24 Snow Drag are the only duo events where it's occurred). This is however the first time two reserves have been in a true individual event podium, so if you had either Fudge or Sheep on your roster you lucked out this round.

Event 7: Ice Hockey:
The return of my personal favorite winter league event was good for some teams...and not so good for others. WMLS victors Raspberry Racers couldn't get out of the group stage, while teams like the Chocolatiers continued their hot streak since those fan letters back at the beginning of the tournament. Here's the top 8 from this event:

1. BRING ON 2026 MON SCOTLAND - 70

T2. Irixib - 62
T2. Jschieber - 62
4. Ballistic - 57
T5. Steel - 55
T5. Lime - 55
T5. Super Yak - 55
T5. Alexis - 55

I would like to give an additional shoutout and congratulations to our winner for getting the maximum score possible, with the x2 (Snowy) earning gold and the x1 (Bonbon) taking silver.

Event 8: Ice Bowling:
We have yet another duo event for these winter games, with something I would not have expected to make its way to a winter league in Bowling. Since the points were divided amongst the teammates, there were many who ended with a .5 at the end of their score (I said this last time and I'll say it again: those .5 points surely won't be the difference maker between 1st and 2nd place right? Right??) Who succeeded in this one? Here's the top 5:

1. Detro and them Marbles - 64.5
2. Lime - 58.5
3. JoViridian - 55
4. RockingGal - 49.5
5. Senkel - 48

I suppose having a winning Solar Flare marble at the tripler can secure you a top spot in this event, as our top 2 teams in this event plus 8th place Australia Hungry were the only ones to have a Solar Flares marble at the x3 slot can do wonders. Congrats to you all.

Event 9: Curling:
This is apparently the final team event of these games, meaning this is the last time that we will have exclusive captain points earned in an event. How did it shape up? It turns out this was a very top heavy event, with the top 9 all having gold medalist Mallard in the x2 slot. 23 points then separated that 9th place team from 12th place. Here's the top 5:

1. The Hazer Amazers - 65

T2. Onkogachi - 60
T2. June - 60
4. Australia Hungry - 59
5. Semiconscious - 55

Event 10: Ski Jump:
As we head into a grueling 7 event stretch with only individuals, this becomes the time for those marbles to shine. Ski Jump is a perfect place for that to happen, with standout performers from 2018 competing alongside new challengers. Who won that battle? Uh I would say the newbies, easily. The only returning individuals from that event were the three podiumists in Anarchy, Smoggy, and Yellow Eye. (Interestingly enough, everyone else in the top half in that event did not qualify). Combined between the 3 of them, they netted a whopping 8 points. The best finish was from Yellow Eye in 11th. Instead we got another cursed podium in the Solar Flares, Black Jacks, and Wolfpack. In fact, this is the first ever podium completely filled with teams who have qualified for the first time. Naturally, this is going to favor the fantasy teams who picked a lot of "underdog" marbles. Let's see what we got:

1. Lime - 78
2. FantaLime - 51
3. Australia Hungry - 51
4. JCEurovisionFan - 50
5. randomguykyle - 42

I would like to give a shoutout to our winner for being the only team to put Radiance as a tripler. That pick rewarded Lime with a massive victory in this event. I myself had faith in Ember from limited showdown success, but not enough to put him in a multiplier slot. I would never have picked Radiance to do well, and I'm actually really happy that he is succeeding. I also want to give a shoutout to the top 2 overall for having very similar names and being right next to each other in the results, kind of a funny moment there.

Overall Standings:

1. Lime - 369
2. Jack's Learning Experience V3 - 350.5
3. Jschieber - 350
4. The Hazer Amazers - 344.5
5. Australia Hungry - 343.5
6. FantaLime - 337
7. Bob the builder - 333.5
8. Salamandrog - 330
9. Scopitta - 329.5
10. billy - 328

With an incredible run lately (3 top 10s in the past 4 events), Lime has soared to take the top spot, by a sizeable margin too might I add. Of course, it's still anyone's game as to who can take the top spot, but of course time is running out. Who else will shine and make their move? That's up to the marbles participating. Hopefully, the ones on your team will do the job in these final 6 events. It's make or break time.

I will check back in after event 15 to go over standings then and deliver permutations as to who is eligible to win the championship, as we head towards what could be more of an underdog and unexpected podium than ML22. Good luck to all, and keep on rolling!

Spreadsheet for overall standings and event results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LP1Qhu1UhBnPkHcg5LZXTqU0wOCBMGKW_CnQ6BV6DVo/edit?gid=1804205925#gid=1804205925

After solid results in ice hockey and ice domino bowling, both teams look to continue that trend into the next two events to start the 2nd half of the marble league

Event 9: Curling

Roldo Location: Look to the right of the starting block during the demo run

Savage Story: Rough day for the Speeders as they were eliminated by the Black Jacks in the heat phase losing a back and forth affair 8-4. Whizzy had a shot to knock out Diamond out of the house, unfortunately she curled too far to the right, knocking Diamond further into the 2 point zone. At least the Raspberry Racers did worse and the Speeders were able to get 1 point. As a result the Speeders dropped to 11th in the standings. Also, I’m starting to question some of the decisions made by Quickly

Dumpling Debrief: After beating the hosts in heat 1, Team Momo was eliminated in the quarterfinals by the Solar Flares losing 8-5 in a very close match. Mimo had an opportunity to knock both Flare and Radiance out of the two point ring if things went right or they could've scored at least 2 points while acting as a guard. As a result, Team Momo finishes the event in 7th place and drops to 8th in the standings

LOLcow of the Event: This is going to Green Eye. Red, Yellow, and Blue Eye all scored 0 points meaning you had to score well in order for the team to advance. Instead you pulled that off, the LeBron-J.R Smith meme sums this up perfectly

Event 10: Ski Jumping

Roldo Location: He’s hiding behind a tree before the event starts

Savage Story: After a poor result in curling, Velocity was picked for this individual event and flew to a 9th place finish. I’m OK with this as the team needs to score solid points in order to move up in the standings

Dumpling Debrief: Momo was selected to jump and finished in 4th with a jump of 45 cm. This is a great result and the team moves up to 6th in overall standings

Other News: With the Solar Flares winning bronze in curling, they now have one of every medal type in the main league. Also the Wolfpack have won their second medal in the main league. Congratulations to Radiance for winning their first individual gold while setting a new ML record in the process

On November 27th, according to the Wiki page, Sapphire made the decision to resign as the Kobalts coach effective immediately with a statement being released to the public on December 17th. In my opinion this was the right call, the team has the pieces to qualify again, but Sapphire’s decisions on what athlete to run in certain events has cost the team. I’d like to wish Sapphire the best of luck in their future endeavors, and I’m giving them props for realizing they were the problem. Also, I'd like to wish the Kobalts luck in their search for their next coach

Apologies for the confusion.

Shock is more than shockwave flash, he yellow lighting flashing up, cause it used Strike Bolts to change his power of electronic, products with his team are power bolt.

Did I win the collect 32team%

The second half of the Marble League is upon us and so are events 9 and 10. Curling and Ski Jump are on the menu for today. How are the Ducks Doing? Let’s Digest.

Duck Digest 15: Going Gold and Down to Bronze

Event 9: Curling

Ducks Review GOLD! After cruising past Galactic in the heats, the Ducks take an unneeded risk in the quarters but get by the Black Jacks to advance to the semis. The Green Ducks clutch up against the Solar Flares and guarantee a medal in the finals. In the final, they win through PHENOMENAL TEAMWORK. Ducks that glide together, get gold together. To bunch up and bait the knock from the Wolfpack only to have Mallard provide the decisive knock is what dreams are made of. Congrats on a well-deserved gold medal, the first of these games, which propels you into 1st overall and 1st for Mallard in the captain’s competition.

Sweet Section A horrific display with only one marble able to score. 9th place due to point differential is lucky. You drop 3 spots due to The Green Ducks and Wolfpack medaling, as well as a couple other positions shifting around.

Event 10: Ski Jump

Ducks Review How well can a Duck Fly? Mallard’s attempt is only good enough for 7th. This drops the team to 3rd overall, tied on points with the Jungle Jumpers and 3 pointe behind checks notes THE BLACKJACKS!? Still, things are looking up and your experience in intense competition could be an important factor down the stretch.

Sweet Section Cocoa has a middling attempt of 39.55 which is good enough for 12th. This drops you one spot to 8th overall, which is still a good result don’t get me wrong.

Other News In other news, the Solar Flares are having a great Marble League. After barely avoiding relegation had they stuck to it last year, they now have 4 medals and look poised to make some noise in this wide open marble league.

It’s a Marble League for Newbies as the aforementioned Flares, in addition to the Black Jacks, and Wolfpack are outclassing the traditional favorites for medals. The Black Jacks lead the league followed by the Jungle Jumpers .The only “Traditional” team on the top-5 is the Ducks while no past champion is better than 7th (CCE). This is insane and I hope to see the crowning of a new champion this year.

That is all for this Digest. The 3rd quarter of the league will end next episode. Who will be in prime position down the stretch? The League is up for grabs and anyone can make a late dramatic run. Stay tuned to find out how things shake up on the next Duck Digest

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Hello everybody!

We have now reached the double digits. 10 events down and 6 more to go. This means that any player still alive has won the Silver Award. This means all but one of those who have survived until the Bronze Award. Unfortunately it means that from this point on, you need to score 90% of the winner's score or finish in the top 3 to win an extra life, or maybe just to prevent losing one. On the bright side, keeping all 3 lives after next event and you have already won Gold.

RESULTS: Round [PDF] / Overall [XLS]

STATS:

FORM FOR NEXT EVENT: Link - Deadline on 20 December at 16:59 CET

The Roldo's picks for Event 11 are as follows:

• 3x Jungle Jumpers (JNG)
• 2x Gliding Glaciers (GLG)
• 1x Team Momo (TMO)
• 1x Raspberry Racers (RSP)
• 1x Team Galactic (TGL)

I hope there are no mistakes. I am just extremely nervous today.

Until next time,

Micek_52

Shelly can spin himself and the water was splash, it has a shell on his head to shield him up, and he's is friends with copper from Valvik ML because they had both eyes for the same time

#puttingitallonblack

FINALLY A TEAM I LIKE IS WINNING AGAIN

Good Morning it’s u/tankshell2, welcome to The Sunspot. I got some breaded shrimp with fries and homemade salsa today. I’m gonna do two events today because I forgot to publish this two days ago. I am now subscribed so there’s an extra reminder. Let’s get into it…

The Sunspot 09: WERE SO BACK

Curling: We were in heat two, and our first match was up against the snowballs. Thank God one of our guys tapped the snowballs out of the button. I gave us the win 3 to 5. I’m liking this new rivalry for bragging rights between Momo and Flares. Our quarterfinal match was super close. We barely won 8 to 5. Momo gave us a fright. The Ducks outplayed us in the semifinals. We put up a good fight against them. We lost 6 to 5. We were able to clean bronze after defeating the balls of chaos for the three congrats to the Wolfpack and green ducks on meddling.

Ski jump: My Oh My was that a good thing to wake up to! The flares are now in fifth place at the top of the table. Radiance, you magnificent bastard I was not expecting you to break a marble league record. Great job out there! The record now stands at 50.40 cm. It secured us the gold medal because no one was able to touch it at this event. I am curious about who set the previous record. If we can stay at the top of the table, I’d be happy with that. Congrats to the Wolfpack and Blackjack. All Debutants Podium, let's go! There are still five events remaining. Can’t wait to see what happens next. Thank you for reading the Tenth edition of the sunspot! Please let know me what you think about it.

To preface, I am a hardcore Chocolatiers fan. I love an underdog story, and I love watching low tier teams have moments to shine. This has led to me having a soured relationship with the Hazers, as back when I first started watching, the Hazers would frequently stomp or bully out lower tier teams. They gave the impression that they were a team that took pride in stomping those teams, and felt like they deserved a higher place than they ended up with. It felt, for lack of a better word, kind of toxic. And it seemed as though this behavior was encouraged.

Then Hazy’s bad year happened, and they left. I do recognize Hazy was an incredible athlete, but I couldn’t help but feel a bit of schadenfreude with their captain retiring.

Then they underperformed in the 2023 and 2024 Marble Leagues, on top of their early out in the Survival 100. And during this period, I noticed a change. They’re more gracious, kinder, and play a bit more for fun. They’re definitely not as good without Hazy, but the toxicity that surrounded the team seems all but gone.

Take ceding the podium to Solar Flares. 2021 Hazers would have fought tooth and nail to keep their spot, but now they give it up with no hassle, saying they’d rather earn their place than win on an error.

Were the Hazers a better team with Hazy? Absolutely. But I’ve come to realize that the problem that I had with the Hazers way back when was not the entire team, but just Hazy. They wanted more, pushed their team, and got resentful when things didn’t go their way. I was projecting Hazy’s attitude onto the whole team.

If Hazy does return, there’s a chance the Hazers get better, but I don’t want them to get better at the cost of becoming heels again. Imagining Hazy in a coaching position, having more authority than in their Captain position, it would only cement in Hazy’s mind that they were the best thing to come out of the Hazers and would push their team to a breaking point.

I know how it feels to have your favorite team do poorly. Bringing back Hazy for the chance at glory again isn’t worth it.