The Marble League Showdown 2019 is the secondary competition to the 2019 MarbleLympics and the first ever MarbleLympics Showdown. There will be 4 events.
Teams
In the 2019 MarbleLympics Showdown 12 teams competed, including the 8 MarbleLympics teams who failed to qualify for MarbleLympics 2019, the top 2 Hubelino teams of the 2018 Hubelino Tournament and 2 fan-made teams.
Fan Team Contest
The Fan Team Contest, introduced in 2019, allowed fans to submit a team for election to compete in the MarbleLympics Showdown. There were a lot of different rules for the submission
Phases
- Submission phase from 26 February - 5 March
- Promotion phase from 6 March - 10 March
- Voting round 1 from 11 March - 15 March
- Voting round 2 from 18 March - 22 March
Voting System[1]
- Voting Round 1 gave each voter the ability to choose up to 5 teams out of the 21 submitted teams to give a vote to. Then the net result was taken. In the end 8 teams advanced.
- Voting Round 2 used the "single transferable vote" system. Each voter would rank the 8 fan-made teams based on preference. The team with the least raw first-position votes had its votes transferred to whichever team the voter had ranked second. This went on for each round until only two teams remained.
Voting Results[1]
Competing Teams
Team Name | Method of Qualification | Year of Origin |
---|---|---|
Limers | 13th Place in ML2019 Qualifiers | 2016 |
Team Momo | 14th Place in ML2019 Qualifiers | 2016 |
Rojo Rollers | 15th Place in ML2019 Qualifiers | 2016 |
Kobalts | 16th Place in ML2019 Qualifiers | 2016 |
Jawbreakers | 17th Place in ML2019 Qualifiers | 2016 |
Snowballs | 18th Place in ML2019 Qualifiers | 2016 |
Shining Swarm | 19th Place in ML2019 Qualifiers | 2017 |
Team Primary | 20th Place in ML2019 Qualifiers | 2016 |
Bumblebees | Winners of HT2018 | 2018 |
Minty Maniacs | 2nd Place in HT2018 | 2016 |
Hornets | Winner of Fan Team Contest | 2019 |
Turtle Sliders | 2nd Place in Fan Team Contest | 2019 |
Events
On June 18, 2019, in an announcement on the official Discord server, the four planned events were revealed to be:
- Sand Rally
- Collision
- Funnel Spin
- 5 Meter Sprint
Main Tournament
No. | Event | Air date | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sand Rally | 16 August 2019 | Jawbreakers (Candy) |
Hornets (Vespa) |
Snowballs (Snowstorm) |
2 | Collison | 25 August 2019 | Rojo Rollers | Hornets | Shining Swarm |
3 | Funnel Spin | 30 August 2019 | |||
4 | 5 Meter Sprint | 6 September 2019 | |||
CC | Closing Ceremony |
Event 1: Sand Rally
Event 1 of the Marble League Showdown was the sand rally. The race was contested on the same course as the 2019 Marble League finale.
Event 1 Results:
Placements | Team | Marble | Time | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Jawbreakers | Candy | 2:12.96 | 20 |
2nd | Hornets | Vespa | 2:13.67 | 15 |
3rd | Snowballs | Snowstorm | 2:14.56 | 12 |
4th | Team Momo | Momomomo | 2:14.78 | 9 |
5th | Kobalts | Azure | 2:14.81 | 7 |
6th | Bumblebees | Bramble | 2:14.83 | 6 |
7th | Rojo Rollers | Rojo Cuatro | 2:15.28 | 5 |
8th | Minty Maniacs | Minty Drizzel | 2:15.55 | 4 |
9th | Turtle Sliders | Squirt | 2:16.26 | 3 |
10th | Team Primary | Prim | 2:16.58 | 2 |
11th | Shining Swarm | Sparkle | 2:17.17 | 1 |
12th | Limers | Goolime | 2:18.78 | 0 |
Event 2: Collision
Event 2 Results:
# | Team | Group | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Rojo Rollers | D | Winner final | 20 pts | |||||||
2nd | Hornets | A | Runner-up final | 15 pts | |||||||
3rd | Shining Swarm | A | Winner 3rd place match | 12 pts | |||||||
4th | Team Primary | D | Loser 3rd place match | 9 pts | |||||||
Eliminated in the quarter-finals | |||||||||||
5th | Turtle Sliders | C | Loser Quarter-final A | 3 | 4 | -1 | N/A | 7 pts | |||
6th | Snowballs | C | Loser Quarter-final C | 2 | 3 | -1 | N/A | 6 pts | |||
7th | Team Momo | B | Loser Quarter-final D | 2 | 3 | -1 | N/A | 5 pts | |||
8th | Jawbreakers | B | Loser Quarter-final B | 1 | 4 | -3 | N/A | 4 pts | |||
Eliminated in the group stage | |||||||||||
9th | Bumblebees | D | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 1 | 3 pts |
10th | Limers | C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 1 | 2 pts |
11th | Kobalts | A | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 1 | 1 pts |
12th | Minty Maniacs | B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 0 | 0 pts |
Rankings for 5th-8th based on result in the quarter-final.
Rankings for 9th-16th based on results in group stage.
Tiebreakers are based on points difference in the group stages.
Standings
Standings After Each Event
Team | Sand Rally | Collision | Event 3 | Event 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hornets | 2nd | 1st | |||
Rojo Rollers | 7th | 2nd | |||
Jawbreakers | 1st | 3rd | |||
Snowballs | 3rd | 4th | |||
Team Momo | 4th | 5th | |||
Shining Swarm | 11th | 6th | |||
Team Primary | 10th | 7th | |||
Turtle Sliders | 9th | 8th | |||
Bumblebees | 6th | 9th | |||
Kobalts | 5th | 10th | |||
Minty Maniacs | 8th | 11th | |||
Limers | 12th | 12th |
Overall Standings
Team | Sand Rally | Collision | Event 3 | Event 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hornets | 15 | 15 | 30 | ||
Rojo Rollers | 5 | 20 | 25 | ||
Jawbreakers | 20 | 4 | 24 | ||
Snowballs | 12 | 6 | 18 | ||
Team Momo | 9 | 5 | 14 | ||
Shining Swarm | 1 | 12 | 13 | ||
Team Primary | 2 | 9 | 11 | ||
Turtle Sliders | 3 | 7 | 10 | ||
Bumblebees | 6 | 3 | 9 | ||
Kobalts | 7 | 1 | 8 | ||
Minty Maniacs | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
Limers | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Trivia
- The MarbleLympics Showdown saw the Minty Maniacs return to a ML-related competition after previously withdrawing from participation in MarbleLympics 2019 Qualifiers. They will be the first team to come out of "retirement".
- It is currently unknown what will happen to the four teams that do not place in the top eight and qualify for the ML2020 Qualifiers. This will be determined prior to the release of MS2019.
- Originally, Balancing was going to be an event featured, but it was instead replaced with the Sand Rally.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geeism (31st March 2019). A debrief on how the voting went down for the Fan Team Contest. Reddit.