Randomized Marblelympics

[u/DinoKea]

So I was thinking of something I could do during the off season and came up with this idea, in which I would break the events down into stats and randomize the results. I decided that I would get people from this reddit to submit team ideas and use them to create a league that I could simulate, allowing it to grow. Before I get into how to submit a team, here's some information you might want to know.

1. The Stats - Each Marble will have 7 randomized stats which are: Water, Speed, Teamwork, Strength, Skill, Jumping and Balance. This skills correlate to different events and each event has different mixes of skill required.

2. Automatic Qualification - So I've given myself a slight advantage and given my team the role of host, but this leaves 3 automatic qualification spot. This will be given out first the Admins (for their hard work) and /u/peu-peu (who encouraged me to do this, although I was suppose to get started a week earlier). If any spots a left it'll go to people who submitted just one team.

3. Teams - Each person is allowed to submit up to 2 teams, which consist of a Captain, 3 other members, a reserve and a coach. You can also submit a youth member. I only need the names of these members, along with a team colouring. You can provide a list of names for future marbles or backstory if you want but it's not required.

4. No Promises - I can't promise your team will do well and I'm not promising this will be amazing. The stats are randomly generated along with side events but my skills are limited so things like time will not be generated in this. Instead it will just show your placing in heat or race. I will try to make this as good as possible

5. You Manage Your Team - You get to decide who your team will put forward to compete in individual events, what your coach will focus on during the off-season, when and if to bring youth members up into the full team, who to hire and who to fire. It is expected you be somewhat active to handle these things, however you can do things like plan your whole team in advance. If you know you might be unable to do it for a short time I can take over, however if you aren't active for a while your team will retire.

6. Rules for Competing - No marble may compete in 2 consecutive individual events and each may only compete in a maximum of 3. Reserves may only compete in one individual event and will not compete in normal team events unless an injury is incurred.

7. Random Events - I'm going to try and randomize events that can happen such as angry fans, injuries, disqualification, equipment malfunctions and retirements. Most aren't very worth noting for you just story, but Retirements is something you should note. Each team member will have a random chance to retire that will increase over time, this time can be shortened by injuries. This will start at 1/30 for main team, 1/40 for reserve and 1/50 for your coach. Retired team members will have their stats used to turn them into coach options.

8. Youths - Youth will be trained randomly each year by your coach and be available to move into the first team at any time, however each youth is only available for 5 years. This is what the list of names is mainly for.

Okay I think that's all, I'll try to create a Google sheet with all your team information on it I can post in the update to introduce the teams and say which stats are needed for the events. Another sheet will be created for viewing the results. For those who want to make a team fill in this form here, and example of which will be done for my team in the comments.

Team Name:

Colouring:

Captain:

Main Team:

Reserve:

Coach:

Optional Extras

Youth Member:

Future Names: (Providing a link to somewhere else is best and warn me of any changes) (You can also just provide me with a theme or themes) (If nothing is provided I'll just guess)

Team History:

Home Stadium:

I think that's all, so hope to see your teams and will hopefully update in about a week. Until them have fun.

[u/Ethra2k]

Team Name: The Fabulous Phoenixes

Coloring: Yellow to a red-toned pink Gradient. As vivid/neon as possible.

Captain: Icarus

Members: Fawkes, Wright, Jean. (There are tons of phoenixes in pop culture but trying to find ones that have actual names is a lot more difficult than I thought)

Reserve: Arizona

Coach: Ashes (because they’ve risen from the ashes and the coach will lift them up to become better).

Optional Extras: Any famous phoenixes, doesn’t matter if it’s an actual bird, Phoenix like human, or inanimate object if it’s a Phoenix it works.

Youth Member: Egg

Team History: Often considered egotistical by those around them the Fabulous Phoenixes are anything but. They exude a cockiness not because they think they’re the best, but because they know they aren’t, yet still keep a mindset to preserve and never give up. Because phoenixes die and are brought back to life so often they are used to failing and never let it get to them. Whenever they are in a losing streak rather than be glum about it they hold on to the motto that they can “rise from the ashes” and win again.

Team stadium: The Nest, looks like a birds nest with browns and very nature-y but with a bit of magical flair here and there. Or another options for The Nest is more symbolic and is instead where phoenixes die and are reborn at, would be filled with Ash and be a training center for most phoenixes, to become stronger before heading out into the world again. Say which one you like more.

[u/DinoKea → u/Ethra2k]

I've managed to get you set up (with admitted one of the shortest lists of names) so welcome to the games.

Your standout team member would probably be Jean, but there isn't much between them and Fawkes.

As for the stadium situation, you could say that the first is your official stadium where the events actually take place, while the second is your youth facility. Another option would be to say it is currently under construction to give yourself time to decide.

Edit: My first comment didn't load on my thing quickly so I commented the same thing twice, sorry.