As a follower and lover of the Midnight Wisps, I have to say that this generational change was necessary. Wespy, Wospy, Wuspy and Waspy were the protagonists of the greatest times of the Wisps, but also of the present decadence that we have been dragging since 2020-2021. It's not easy, changes hurt, but at this moment I prefer to put the illusion in the Wisps project, the confidence in Twila, Eve, Amaya and Yvaine, in front of the farewells of our legends. They will be remembered this way, as champions, the golden period that the Wisps reached since their debut in 2017 cannot be eclipsed by these bad years. Anyway, to our new team, the warmest welcome and much encouragement for the next Marble League; and to our legends, we will remember you as what you are, champions.

LET'S GO WISPS, YOU ARE THE LEAD!

Hello, and welcome to my 2024 Showdown Recap! Let's what teams to crown and teams to clown.

16th: Indigo Stars - Ah yes, this team they exist, and they exist in dead last! How did you manage to win the Showdown last year, and you manage a dead last finish with 33 points, You're not going to M1 this year...

15th: Midnight Wisps - The clock struck midnight again, You guys have never been good since 2020, you failed to qualify twice and qualified twice, and your best finish since 2020 is 8th in 2023, also Midnight Wisps.

14th: Turtle Sliders - Wow... I didn't expect you to finish bottom four in the Showdown, you guys started out decent, but a dead last finish by Crush in Ice Maze tanked your Showdown, You're never going to qualify.

13th: Team Plasma - I'm really not that surpised you finished bottom four, that 2022 Showdown was a massive fluke, How did you get silver in Short track? All of your other finishes were mid at best and trash at worst, All of those finishes put you in a three way tie for the basement along with the Turtle Sliders and Midnight Wisps.

12th: Thunderbolts - Yeah this doesn't surprise me, your Showdown was a disaster, you only survived bottom four because of Thunder finishing 5th in Ice Maze, you're never going to have a good year.

11th: Shining Swarm - How the heck did you fall from 1st to 11th? And you won two golds, Sterling didn't even win funnels because Random Tripping reasons, that 2022 was just a fluke, I just know it.

10th: O'rangers - Another 10th place finish? Are you becoming the 10rangers now? You had a best finish of 7th and couldn't even score double digits, now watch you guys get dead last in Marble League 2025.

9th: Kobalts - Lots of 9th place finishes, You're now the Ninebalts, Phoenix once raged in the Discord server along with me on how our teams were doing trash, Thankfully Gnome got a 5th place in Short track and lots of 9th place finishes helped you get a midpack finish.

8th: Mellow Yellow - Not a bad finish, could've been worse, a silver in Ice Dash helped you get top half in the Showdown, I'm just hoping you can qualify for Marble League 2025.

7th: Limers - Another top half finish by the Limers, they got two golds in the Showdown, and Limelime also won MVM in the Showdown, and they also finished the best out of all Fruit Circuit teams in the Showdown, that's something I guess.

6th: Team Primary - Not bad for you guys, Aryp is still good after all, maybe just the captain curse struck them, lots of okay finishes helped you get 6th in the Showdown.

5th: Minty Maniacs - Lots of consistent finishes for you, Minty Swirl getting bronze in Ice Maze along with finishes of 5th and three 6th place finishes helped you get top half but Minty Fresh getting dead last in Ice Dash did cost you winning the Showdown.

4th: Rojo Rollers - Wow, what a comeback, after the Rollers were in 15th in the standings, I was raging in the Discord server on how terrible they were doing, but they managed to step it up with bronze by Rojo Dos in Ice Dash, silver by Rojo Tres and Rojo Cuatro in Duo Halfpipe, and finally gold by Rojo Uno in Ice Maze, now please try to qualify for Marble League 2025.

3rd: Purple Rockets - The Prockets got redemption after a disastrous Showdown last year, this time they got two silvers in the first two events, however lots of mid finishes did cost you the win.

2nd: Pinkies - The Pinkies were consistent for most of the Showdown and looked like they would be the first team to win the Main League and Showdown, but they blew it in the final event with Pinky Toe finishing 15th and finished in 2nd.

1st: Oceanics - What a comeback, ever since the Oceanics were in the Showdown, they finished second to last in 2021, dead last in both 2022 and 2023, and now finally winning the Showdown this year, congrats Oceanics!

That's my recap of Marble League 2024 Showdown! See you guys when Marble League 2025 ends, or any other tournament happens.

It's crazy to think that I said 9th place is progress for the Rojo Rollers, the last three events were not great for my team, however the power of scoring in every event keeps us from not being last.

Does anyone care about this marble, despite being from the most memorable team, Whizzy is as ignored as Meepo, Crush, and can be comparable to retired marbles in terms of renemberance, nobody ever talks about her, and might not even know she exists!

I know this happened a while ago but, THE ML 2024 QUALIFIERS. Kobalts, this was your best chance of EVER making it into the league (disregarding ML16) you were 8th going into the final event. 8TH!!! and that short track performance, was horrible, you needed 5 or 6 points to surpass Wolfpack, and how many did you get? 4, FOUR POINTS, Azure (I think it was Azure?) CHOKED in the short track. They better have a half decent performance in the Showdown. Because if they fail in a competition they show up in YEAR AFTER YEAR. Then they really have no excuse. Funny thing is, if the 2023 Showdown teams WERE relegated the Blackjacks wouldn't have qualified, THEREFORE the Kobalts would have qualified, MEANING THEY WOULD FINALLY BE IN ANOTHER MARBLE LEAGUE, but the Blackjacks are still one of my teams nonetheless so... I wouldn't be mad either way but Kobalts, this is truly unforgivable, do better this year.

Signed, a Kobalts fan.