Marble League 2022, which lasted more than two months, finally ushered in the final battle in Greenich Pond today - the Elimination Race. The race schedule arranged by this year's Draklin competition club is unique.
Of course, it's just because Greenstone is too long.
Under the rule of "elimination of the last place", this year's league ending battle has added a sense of tension. After each round, a team will determine their final league results, but the changes in the relative ranking are still complicated, the competition situation is also sticky, and even some analysts have found a permutation and combination that can make the only four teams competing for the championship completely equal.
Of course, will the result be so dramatic? Well, let's watch the game.
Round 1-4
When the Clutter hit the side of the race track of the Elimination Race hard and could not move, the league journey of Balls of Chaos this year also ended abruptly. At the end of the Balls of Chaos, everything finally disappeared in the audience after a long loss of surprise. Perhaps the only relief at this moment was Oceanics who had prepared for 2024 ahead of schedule in the B-League a few days ago. After all, no one would mention the "reverse record" of 70 points they set at their own doorstep in 2019.
But obviously those accidents that can make the audience exclaim are far from over: in the second round, Minty Maniacs captain Minty Fresh unexpectedly withdrew from the game in a fierce standoff confrontation; In the third round, Captain Bumblebees, Bumble, went up the wall and fell to the "last mile" in front of the finish line.
Mocha, the Chocolatiers player who was eliminated in the fourth round, fortunately finished the game. However, three players failed to finish the game in the first three rounds, which was enough to shock the whole audience for a long time. It may be at this time that we realized that today's Elimination Race is far less simple than we thought, and for other competitors who remain on the track, "surviving" seems to be as important as "faster".
Round 5-8
The delayed Orangin had no choice but to declare out in the fifth round, and O'rangers also completed their league with an embarrassing result: under the good situation of Team Aquathlon's strong championship in the 13th game, they collapsed in the last three rounds of the competition, with only 8 points for "0-4-4", and the fifth place is also in danger.
The next round of Midnight Wisps, which was quite flat, ended their league without any waves. Wuspy did not bring any surprises, and of course, the whole team's performance throughout the season does not expect them to offer any miracles. However, the only 16 teams who have nothing on the medal table seem to be out of place.
The story of defending champion Mellow Yellow also ended after Yellup bumped into the baffle. In "even years", the crotch pulling may be a joke at first, but it will become true only when the times of downturn are more. The three championship teams may have encountered some problems respectively. Whether they can find an effective solution can only be judged by time.
For Shining Swarm, the eighth round may be a nightmare that they will be repeatedly aroused in the future: Red Eye, who was killed in the diagonal stab, suddenly turned to attack and sent them to the knockout area, while Glimmer, who has been struggling with Starry for a long time but has always surpassed the unsuccessful Glimmer, can only watch helplessly as the champion opponent snatches the last place for promotion and also completely strangles their championship hopes.
Round 9-11
The captains of Savage Speeders and Cat's Eyes Crazy Cat's Eyes, Speedy and Red Eyes are called "peerless double reds" in the media circle in the circle - their performances in the league matches and M1 matches can be called historic. After the strong rise of Red Eye in the past two years, the competition about who is G.O.A.T has also been put on the table, and every direct contest between the two captains on the field is undoubtedly a thunderous battle.
However, in today's game, the protagonist is neither Red Eye nor Speedy, and the two who have left the field one after another have to leave a gloomy figure behind. This is not their best league performance, either for a ball or a team: Cat's Eye has set the lowest league ranking after the restructuring, while the wild competition has lost the last chance to compete for the top three.
After Iceberg was defeated by the host at the finish line to finish the match in the sixth place, the game also entered the most intense stage.
Round 12-14
Team Galactic may be only 5cm away from dragging the championship battle into another long set final. Before the accident, they almost firmly won a place for promotion in this round. However, fate played a costly joke on them at this moment:
Maybe everything is perfect in the countless precise calculations before the Team Galactic game, but they may not count that Starry, who has experienced many battles and countless counter attacks in the team, will make such a fatal mistake at such a critical moment. Judging from the exclamations of the audience and the suddenly raised voice of the commentator, everyone on the scene may not have thought that this would happen to this player with the nickname of "stabilizer".
But it happened in this way, and the title of the champion was settled. There was no suspense.
Aryp, the Team Primary substitute who sat on the bench almost in the whole league, showed his best in the last two matches. Although he was sorry that he could not be promoted to the last three finals to achieve two games and two cards, he still locked the highest score in the Team Primary; After locking the league title, Pinky Panther also easily completed its last dance in the league, winning a bronze medal and 40 points in two games, and ranked among the top three in the Most Valuable Marble.
Round 15
The last game had the taste of a fateful battle: Green Ducks and Raspberry Racers, the competition opponents for the championship of the 2019 league, would fight again for the last gold medal in The Green Pond this time, and Green Ducks captain Mallard, who had locked in Most Valuable Marble, might also have a layer of obsession——
It is also an unforgettable beauty to be able to win the first individual gold medal in the team history in front of Draklin's hometown elders. It seems that this belief has also become the driving force of Malard in the last round: after a struggle with Ruzzy in the early stage, Malard suddenly made efforts to shake off the opponent in the middle of the stage, flickering in the obstacles like a leisurely pace, and the whole game seems to be in his hands.
The skillful Mallard finally broke the line with absolute advantage. After four years of hard work in the league, Green Ducks finally won the first gold medal in the individual game by their captain. Green Ducks also surpassed the silver winning Raspberry Racers in the championship, and finally finished the game in the fifth place, perhaps to some extent, it was also a tribute to the competition for the championship in 2019.
Although it was a pity that they failed to finish with a gold medal and were overtaken by their opponents in the championship, Raspberry Racers can still celebrate their victory in another battlefield: in the championship after the league reform, they regained the top spot from Savage Speeders, and at the same time, they achieved the "Grand Slam" - league total points, individual game points and team game points.
The battle of Draklin of "the first team of restructuring" finally ended with the victory of Raspberry Racers.
I don't know how many days and nights in Draklin have finally ended.
Podium Moment
Let's talk about several teams standing on the podium: obviously, this is not the arrangement and combination that everyone is familiar with. At this moment, those well-known "giants" can only stand under the podium and look up to them as challengers receiving flowers and applause.
There is no doubt that this is a positive change - we are pleased to see that after the league reform, the strength barrier between teams is constantly being broken down, and the concept of "strong" and "weak" is becoming more and more vague. The flowing water does not corrupt the house, and only a dynamic league has great vitality. Although in the process of restructuring, we have also experienced various pressures, and even once had the situation of going back, the final persistence and the results we have obtained prove that this path is still correct.
In the arena, Team Galactic was not recognized as a strong team. Although they were stable, they lacked the upper limit of performance. But under the shining of four gold medals and five medals this year, everything seems to have changed quietly. The league in Andromedome two years ago may be the beginning of everything. Since then, sports centers have mushroomed in Polaria, and groups of young people have embarked on this path with the dream of becoming the next Starry or Cosmo, which is the strength of Team Galactic. The forgotten two years may be a rather painful existence for Shining Swarm: they can only commit themselves to a corner out of light, and the sweat that they shed day after day may never be seen or noticed. However, no one could have foreseen that two years ago, the "who" who could not think of his name was just the words on the lips. In Draklin, at the Green Pool Stadium, with 182 points, three gold medals and the second place in the total, their names were deeply engraved on the minds of the world.
"There must be a team to win the championship, why not us?" This may be the most legendary story of Marble League: last year, the team ranked second in Showdown, but this year, the new king achieved the throne by pressing five former league champions. Perhaps no imaginative writer can use his pen to create such a ups and downs story on paper, but today, it is written by this team from Rosaka - the name of this miracle is Pinkies.
They have not never experienced a critical moment in the league, especially when they lost the first place in the second half of the season and were quickly opened up by the strong counter attack of their opponents. But even when the situation began to gradually break away from their own control and develop in an increasingly unfavorable direction, they never placed their hopes on the surreal "invisible hand", but just chose to continue to move forward firmly. If there is one thing they have always carried out and believed in, it may be themselves.
"Never underestimate the heart of a champion". This time, the glory belongs to Rosaka and the glory belongs to Pinkies.
From the manager to the coach to the technical director to the team members, they spent more than 60 days and nights together to draw the most complete end to this magnificent epic.
The key egg after the closing ceremony is naturally the organizer of next year's league, but the buzzer from the field shows everything——
After the acquisition of Hornets in 2021, Bumblebees made a drastic adjustment in the team during the off-season. Those who used the "mixed formation" array to fight Draklin also surprised the whole court with their stable and outstanding performance in the early stage, and naturally conquered the host of Marble League 2023.
Author: Wo Xia Shuo
From: Draklin
Whiteboard Editorial Department from China
