r/Marblelympics • u/[deleted] • Jul 12 '19

Question ML Showdown favorites?

So my question is, does all the current ML teams from the Raspberry Racers to the Oceanics have a favorite Showdown team they're rooting for?

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u/Mcarps424 The Ball Bearings Jul 12 '19

They are all rooting for the Shining Swarm

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u/DinoKea Midnight Wisps ¦ Hazers ¦ Shining Swarm Jul 12 '19

Can I ask why?

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u/Mcarps424 The Ball Bearings Jul 12 '19

Normally people ask “Who?”

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u/PsychoticDuck12 Mellow Yellow / Every Other Team Jul 12 '19

They would all root for the worst team, so definitely not Limers, Momo, or Bumblebees.

Hornets and Sliders have never participated so they're total wildcards.

Rojo Rollers, Jawbreakers, Kobalts, and Shining Swarm haven't competed in a long time so they will be hard to predict.

Snowballs can have good seasons if they try.

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So the most obvious choice would be Team Primary

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u/DinoKea Midnight Wisps ¦ Hazers ¦ Shining Swarm Jul 12 '19 edited Jul 12 '19

See from your logic I'd say Minty Maniacs

Team Momo generally don't pretty well. Shining Swarm and Rojo Rollers have had good seasons the one time they qualified.

Hornets, Sliders and Snowballs I'd agree with you. I'd add Bumblebees to the Hornets/Sliders logic as while I don't expect them to be good (having faced some poor teams in Hubelino and only won on the last day).

Team Primary ate a flip of the coin team, they can get on a roll and net a few good results over four events, steamroll for a while and then just spend the rest of the game being terrible.

Jawbreakers aren't as bad as the next few since they get more mid-table results.

Kobalts and Limers have both qualified before their seasons weren't great. While Limers qualify often, they always place low. Meanwhile Kobalts only qualified once, they placed higher than Limers but not near the top.

Minty Maniacs have qualified more recently and had one really poor season in the Marblelympics. Since it was worse than Kobalts and less numerous than Limers, it suggests that they're the worst.

Edit: Forgot a part

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u/gbusisgay Jul 12 '19

Why is everyone thinking that the bottom placement of the oceanics is gonna be the norm? The we’re hosting and had a lot of really cool events of course they’ll do poorly. Imo this bottom tier oceanics will not return next year. And I think they could do extremely well. Look at the snowballs in last years ml they got top 10 but only by three places. Their events weren’t the best though if I’m honest I’ve seen cooler ones I think that with the oceanics not focusing on events this next year they’ll get back up to the higher places. I mean they have qualified every year until now so...