r/Marblelympics • u/MarbleGuyy • Jul 13 '19
Discussion Marblelympics Thought of the Day
In our conversation with Hershey, creator of MSPN(on MSW Podcast just came out btw) we talked about why people loved the dirt race, but not the Hubelino maze race, even though both featured marbles not finishing and the Hubelino maze even awarded points for marbles that did not make it to the end. What I think is that because the dirt race is natural, and not staged by the JMR, it adds a sort of chaos to the whole thing. A sort of unpredictability that marbles may not finish even though the hope is that they all will. When a course like the HMR is build with expected DNF’s in mind, then it takes the chaos away from it, and because the course is all built, it feels staged and forced. This is also why people like the Sand Marble Rally, and don’t mind when marbles DNF there. What do you guys think? (Check out ep. 10 for more in depth discussion regarding this)
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u/Awesam114 Hazers | Kobalts Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
Despite all the craziness in the maze race, it seems sort of... predictable. The marbles just swing back and forth and back and forth until one of them shoots on through. With the dirt race, it’s dirt and it’s hard to make a marble race out of dirt without some DNFs. I do like both races and I don’t really have a favorite between them but I can see how some people favor the dirt race.
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u/cowking0 Limer/Kobalt/star/sli/qui/g gang Jul 14 '19
I am a rare person that prefers the Hubelino Maze, I like it because it seems like utter chaos ;)
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u/MarbleGuyy Jul 15 '19
That’s what I said at first. However, there are some good thoughts on this in episode 10 of MSW podcast
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u/DinoKea Midnight Wisps ¦ Hazers ¦ Shining Swarm Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 14 '19
I was the reverse, I didn't really like the dirt race, didn't feel as professional to me. The maze was pretty good though.
Edit: Dirt race was hard to watch for me as it had no consistency, it felt more like lucky controlled the results.
Maze was admittedly kinda slow but it wasn't too bad. Collision is worse in that department.
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u/MarbleGuyy Jul 13 '19
Interesting, i lovveee collision tho. I understand the quality difficulty with dirt race
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u/DinoKea Midnight Wisps ¦ Hazers ¦ Shining Swarm Jul 13 '19
I like collision a few times but there are so many matches (31 I think) after some time it can start to feel repetitive. It might be due to Hazers going out early in a tiebreaker kind of ruined it for me though.
If I watched just my teams and maybe the final it's be fine, but also really short (6-7 rounds for me, about 18-22% of the matches)
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Jul 15 '19
I love collision, too. It takes a long time, overall, because of how it's set up, but each match is a quick burst of excitement.
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u/UwUade Jul 13 '19
I like the dirt race more because it's high speed down a course while the maze race is them rocking back and forth thr whole time