Sand Marble Rally 2017

Sand Marble Rally 2017
Duration	1st April 2017 - 8th December 2017
Season Statistics
Champion	Dragon's Egg
Runner Up	Red Number 3
Third Place	Slimer
Number of Races	12
Number of Competitors	20
Previous	Unknown
Next	Unknown

The Sand Marble Rally Tournament 2017 was the 2nd edition of the Sand Marble Rally where 20 marbles competed on sand courses filled with lots of turns and obstacles, for the prize of being Sand Marble Rally champion.

A qualification stage consisting of 5 races with 7 marbles each was used to select the marbles for the final stage. 33 marbles entered the qualification stage in total, with the best 4 marbles of each race (20 in total) advancing to the main tournament. It is succeeded by Sand Marble Rally 2018.

New in 2017:

Ghost:

One of the new additions in the 2017 season is the Ghost marble (not to be confused with Ghost Plasma, a red marble). This is the frosted glass marble which releases the starting gate at each race, the Ghost will proceed through a small plinko track (next to the main track in front of the starting Gate) which ends on the main course. The ghost will run a few seconds back of the main competitors. The purpose of the ghost is to push up or release stranded marbles so they will still get a chance to get some points.

It is even possible that the Ghost marble can "win" a race by crossing the finish line in first. However the Ghost will not get any points so that the marble who pass the finish line after the ghost will win the race.

The Ghost will be shown on the results list when it crosses the finish line, but if the ghost doesn't finish, it won't be shown on the results at all.

New obstacles:

• Rotating object / chevron sign
• Drophole
• Plinko board
• Dummy Balls (only in race 3 & 4)
• Teardrop
• Split
• Stairs (Sand Rally)

Qualification:

Qualifier 1

1. Comet - 0:55.48 Qualified
2. El Capitan - 0:55.95 Qualified
3. Nemo - 0:56.66 Qualified
4. Wisp of Darkness - 0:56.85 Qualified
5. Blue Moon - DNF Not qualified
6. Reflektor - DNF Not qualified
7. Cobra - DNF Not qualified

Qualifier 2

1. Big Pearl - 0:54.00 Qualified
2. Blizzard Blaster 0:54.93 Qualified
3. Fantasy - 0:55.23 Qualified
4. Slimer - 0:55.88 Qualified
5. Rastafarian - 0:56.04 Not qualified
6. Silver Bolt - 0:57.16 Not qualified
7. Starman - 0:59.62 Not qualified

Qualifier 3

1. Summer Sky - 0:55.46 Qualified
2. Deep Ocean - 0:56.94 Qualified
3. Glassy - 0:57.07 Qualified
4. Pollo Loco - 0:57.89 Qualified
5. Blazing Fireball - 0:57.84 Not qualified
6. White Widow - DNF Not Qualified
7. Tarantula - DNF Not qualified

Qualifier 4

1. Red Number 3 - 0:51.04 Qualified
2. Quicksilver - 0.51.29 Qualified
3. Dragon's Egg - 0.52.72 Qualified
4. H2 Blue - 0:53.30 Qualified
5. The Flash - 0:55.24 Not qualified
6. Mocha Madness - DNF Not qualified
7. Blue Smoke - DNF Not qualified

Qualifier 5

1. Crazy Cat's Eye - 0:52.38 Qualified
2. Lollipop - 0:52.71 - Qualified
3. Ghost Plasma - 0:52.84 Qualified
4. Black Knight - 0:53.03 Qualified
5. Marbly McMarbleface - 0:53.58 Not qualified
6. Snake's Tub - 0:53.86 Not qualified
7. Super Turtle - 0:56.10 Not qualified

Qualified Marbles:

1. Comet
2. El Capitan
3. Nemo
4. Wisp of Darkness
5. Big Pearl
6. Blizzard Blaster
7. Fantasy
8. Slimer
9. Summer Sky
10. Deep Ocean
11. Glassy
12. Pollo Loco
13. Red Number 3
14. Quicksilver
15. Dragon's Egg
16. H2 Blue
17. Crazy Cat's Eye
18. Lollipop
19. Ghost Plasma
20. Black Knight

Venues:

The Races are held on tall sand dunes or sand hills in the Netherlands.

Qualification:

• Papenberg Castricum:
  • Located near the NS station of Castricum, with views over adjacent sports and football fields, but scattered with dog feces.
  • Height difference: 18 meter (60 feet),
  • Maximum race duration: 90 seconds

Main Tournament:

• Doornse Gat:
  • Located east of "Doorn", a village located in the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, 15 km south of Amersfoort
  • Race 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 and 10
  • Height difference: 25 meters
  • Maximum race duration: 2 and a half minutes

• Klimduin Brechtdorp: (Koningsweg)
  • Located along the Oorsprongweg north of Schoorl, a small town north of Alkmaar, the Netherlands. This is an alternative more quite location compared with the "famous" and overcrowded klimduin located at Schoorl itself.
  • Race 3, 4, 5, 6 and Final
  • Height difference: 45 meters
  • Maximum race duration is 5 minutes on wet sand or 2 minutes on dry sand.

• 't Peeske Montferland
  • Located 22 km east southeast of Arnhem near the village "Beek Montferland"
  • Race 11 and 12
  • Height difference: 20 meters
  • Maximum race duration: 2 minutes

Standings:

Rank	Your Marble:														Score:
---:	Ghost	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	R12	F	Total
1st:	Dragon's Egg	10	10	14	6	11	7	20	2	1	8	0	12	34	135
2nd:	Red Number 3	7	12	2	20	2	17	10	20	Ret	5	3	14	22	134
3rd:	Slimer	6	Ret	Ret	9	12	0	6	3	20	9	20	17	28	130
4th:	Quicksilver	4	9	20	4	20	14	4	17	14	0	17	2	Ret	125
5th:	El Capitan	5	Ret	9	11	14	Ret	11	9	5	11	4	20	12	111
6th:	H2 Blue	17	Ret	0	14	Ret	4	3	4	3	0	8	7	40	100
7th:	Glassy	2	6	6	5	4	6	14	7	2	17	11	9	6	95
8th:	Crazy Cat's Eye	20	Ret	5	7	1	12	5	10	8	14	1	4	7	94
9th:	Black Knight	12	5	7	17	9	8	1	0	10t	0	6	0	18	93
10th:	Lollipop	8	17	4	12	Ret	9	9	1	7	Ret	0	1	24	92
11th:	Pollo Loco	0	7	0	Ret	5	20	17	11	4	4	Ret	3	16	87
12th:	Fantasy	0	8	17	8	10	10	Ret	6	Ret	7	10	Ret	10	86
13th:	Blizzard Blaster	14	Ret	8	10	0	11	Ret	5	17	3	5	8	4	85
14th:	Nemo	Ret	11	11	2	17	Ret	2	12	Ret	Ret	9	10	9	83
15th:	Summer Sky	11	14	1	Ret	3	2	0	8	11	12	7	11	Ret	80
16th:	Deep Ocean	9	2	10	1	8	0	0	Ret	10t	6	12	5	5	68
17th:	Wisp of Darkness	0	3	12	Ret	6	3	1	0	6	20	2	0	14	67
18th:	Big Pearl	Ret	20	3	Ret	Ret	5	8	14	Ret	2	0	0	3	55
18th:	Comet	1	4	0	3	7	1	12	0	Ret	1	Ret	6	20	55
20th:	Ghost Plasma	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	0	7	0	12	10	14	0	8	54

Ret.: Did not finish and 0 points awarded

0: finished outside the points and 0 points awarded

Point System

• 1st: 20pts
• 2nd: 17pts
• 3rd: 14pts
• 4th: 12pts
• 5th: 11pts
• 6th: 10pts
• 7th: 9pts
• 8th: 8pts
• 9th: 7pts
• 10th: 6pts
• 11th: 5pts
• 12th: 4pts
• 13th: 3pts
• 14th: 2pts
• 15th: 1pts

Winners

Race	Winner	Time	Margin	Starting position
R1	Crazy Cat's Eye	2:03.06	+0.40	P1
R2	Big Pearl	2:03.08	+0.08	P10
R3	Quicksilver	1:06.21	+0.06	P3
R4	Red Number 3	1:04.81	+0.67	P6
R5	Quicksilver	1:18.52	+0.01	P10
R6	Pollo Loco	1:12.72	+0.97	P5
R7	Dragon's Egg	1:45.10	+0.77	P4
R8	Red Number 3	1:43.64	+2.77	P7
R9	Slimer	2:10.88	+0.52	P2
R10	Wisp of Darkness	2:12.75	+0.15	P19
R11	Slimer	1:48.01	+0.18	P20
R12	El Capitan	1:45.34	+1.11	P7
F	H2 Blue	2:21.26	+0.25	P15

• Note:
  • P1–P7 is on the front row
  • P8–P13 is on the second row
  • P14–P20 is on the back row

Trivia

• The first attempt of Race 3 was aborted after a huge pile up at the start. Before the start of second attempt there was a dog who was invading the track. Finally the race got away and in the end it was Quicksilver who won.
• The double points for the final race was announced only in race 12 (the second last race) and it caused a little bit of controversy because it affected the end results with Dragon's Egg (135pts) becoming champion infront of Red Number 3 (134pts), Slimer (130pts) and Quicksilver (125pts), while without double points the results would've been: Quicksilver champion with 125pts, Red Number 3 second (123pts), Dragon's Egg third (118pts) and Slimer fourth (116pts).

See Also

• Sand Marble Rally 2016
• Sand Marble Rally 2018
• MarbleLympics 2017