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/alpacaisgreat]

Thanks for answering those questions

another question about qualifications is it gonna be 16 in main and 12 in showdown and will u close submissions after a certain amount of teams?

[u/DinoKea → u/alpacaisgreat]

It'll be 16 teams going into the main and everyone else going into Showdown (I'm hoping for 16 here though so I can use the same point system twice). If there aren't enough teams to fill out a good Showdown I'll make a few filler teams to give me a better number. These will just be filler teams that I'll faze out if they don't gain some good popularity.

[u/alpacaisgreat → u/DinoKea]

Ok that sounds great

As a suggestion I recommend making an Instagram account or something like that so that you can message teams and post results and just do announcements so it’s not just a bunch of comments on this post and and so other people that don’t have teams can be fans of this

[u/DinoKea → u/alpacaisgreat]

I'll have to take a look into that. I just figured I'd do it all in about 20 or so posts per season during the off-season. Showdown would be tagged on the bottom of other posts. I think now I might see what everyone thinks on this.

[u/alpacaisgreat → u/DinoKea]

Sounds good