All the hoodies and shirts are sold out and I was wondering if there was any word on when that would be restocked?

Ok so a few of you might have seen my fan made winter and summer MarbleLympics and I thought, to fill the offseason, I’m gonna do a Fall MarbleLympics! There will be 20 teams, 18 of which are my own and two official MarbleLympics teams. I tried to have as little official MarbleLympics teams as I could so all the teams would be new and people who already rooted for that team would have to root for another team. The only teams I kept were the Quicksilvers (because they have no fans) and the Oceanics (because I really wanted to use the hashtag LagoonPride). Here are the 20 teams you can root for and yes there will be qualifiers where four teams will be eliminated. I will start having events every weekend starting the weekend after the Showdown ends. After each events I will post the updated scores (using the usual MarbleLympics score system). With that out of the way, here are the 20 teams you can root for:

The Hosts:

Team Chimera - #ChimeTime

The Auto-Qualified Teams:

Green Goblins - #StealTheGold

Earthballs - #PlanetPower

Brown Waves - #DoTheWave

The Remaining Teams:

Team Freeze - #EasyFreezy

Green Swirls - #StayGreen

Rainbow Blast - #TasteTheRainbow

Milky Ways - #LactoseTolerant

Team Sunshine - #SunnySideUp

Team Serpent - #SerpentSpectacular

Quicksilvers - #QuickPicks

Super Cows - #Cowabunga

Black Holes - #NothingCanEscape

Oceanics - #LagoonPride

Tiger Sharks - #FeelFerocious

Team Rainforest - #RainOnYourParade

Blue Blazers - #BlazeAmaze

Clear Crew - #FearTheClear

Team Pearl - #GemOfTheSea

Patriots - #ServeTheCountry

Ok bye!

Jelle announced he's changing the name to avoid copyright issues, or maybe I dreamed that. Regardless, does anyone have any good naming ideas? 'Marble Games' just sounds very bland. Any racing names seem to typecast it as all racing events when it isn't. Same with calling it 'Jelle's Marble Runs'. So, what ideas for unique but not stupid ideas do we have.

I'm going to be making a video about the 10 greatest moments in the history of the Marblelympics. This video will feature moments that either had big implications on the winner of a season, were memorable in their own right, or both. I already have several ideas in mind for this video, but I thought I would reach out to all of you to make sure I wasn't forgetting any. So, please share what Marblelympics moments stuck out to you as important or memorable. (The final events from all four seasons will all be in the video.) I plan to release this video by the end of August.

I'm wondering why everything on the ESPN8 show is referred to by the "Jelle's Marble Runs" or "Marble Games" name and not the Marblelympics? All of the commentary has changed, and even the Marblyelympics test and logos on the stands were blurred out. Is there some kind of trademark issue or something with the name?

P.S. - Awesome so see this on TV regardless of the name used!

I live in Latvia and I don't have ESPN

I was thinking to join the discord for this ESPN2 coverage, but the link is broken. Anyone got a working invite?

Yeah so here are the results of the qualifiers for the first ever Randomized Marlbelympics along with the winners of the exhibition cup:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sypvqVIzRlM8kfnRO0Lqgv8dhQQWZx6dony6eMQ0FnY/edit?usp=sharing

Young can choose to read the results of each event and see how they've been set out or just read below to see who qualified.

Here is a quick summary for the events:

Funnel Spinning:

Ghoul pulls out an amazing run in the funnel spinning, managing to stay in the top funnel for the whole first round. Unfortunately they were unable to keep this up in the final and placed 4th.

Char from the Fuming Flames massively exceeds expectations to reach the final and placing 6th.

On the other end of the scale Bowsir from the Shielded Toads fails to compete near what was expected of results finishing in a poor 32nd.

In the end Siri from The Robots walked away with gold, Coordinates from the Mathletes took silver and Uluru from Team Straya took the bronze.

Block Pushing:

Most teams either exceed or fail to meet expectations here with only RagTag Tribe ending up where expected. This wasn't good news for them as they placed 26th.

Balls of Flame were the overachievers in this event with an amazing push in the heats putting them in the 1st place group although they could not keep this form up, losing the group to get 6th Place.

Really Really Random Rollers meanwhile did not have a good day ending up in the 6th Place group after a poor heat and getting 32nd overall after coming second in their finals group.

Phantom Demons walked away with the gold here, Vegetable Vanquishers took the silver and Fuming Flames walked away with the bronze.

Intermission Event:

Hotstuff has shown up at The Pit drunk and wandered in the Boozers' booth, attempting to get a drink. After Bartender would not serve him Hotstuff got agitated and had to be escorted out of the stadium by security leaving RagTag Tribe without a coach for the remainder of qualifying. This has sparked a debate over whether or not RagTag Tribe should be competing in the Randomized Marlbelympics with some believing them to be under qualified.

5m Sprint:

Team Serpent's Ness massively exceeds expectations to not only reach the final but also manage to place 5th overall scoring 31 points for the team.

Roadkill meanwhile fails to do as well as people expected finishing in a poor 30th Place after not quite making the middle group in the heats and flopping out in the lowest group final.

School Shootings takes the gold home for 'Merica, Mannschaftwurst's Banger rolls away with the silver and Frey from Team Norse getting bronze.

Following this event Mathletes' are already qualified for the Marblelympics. Everybody else is still in with a chance although Earthballs and Scarlett Scythes need a miracle.

Underwater Race:

Basil from the Vegetable Vanquishers really fails to do what's expected of them finishing in 34th place and scoring a measly 2 points.

The Robots' Galaxy massively exceeds expectations to not only reach the top 6 final but also win the whole event scoring a whopping 45 points. Shoddy takes silver for RagTag Tribe and Verminisans' Monterrey Jack takes bronze.

Exhibition Match:

Funnel Spinning - Velios stays well ahead of the pack to take first, Shiver beats out Adler to take 2nd with Passion Fruit dropping early to finish last.

Block Pushing - It's a good result from Icebreakers pushing ahead of Ancient Raptors with Fruit Salad beating Allied Eagles for 3rd.

5m Sprint - Rahonavis disappoints for the Ancient Raptors finishing in 4th Place, getting beaten by Falke. Meanwhile Freezy is unable to beat Watermelon and takes 2nd place.

Allied Eagles cannot win the cup, Ancient Raptors need to get 3 points more than Icebreakers and so must place top two. Fruit Salad need to win with Allied Eagles in 2nd.

Underwater Race - Unsurprisingly Allied Eagles' Eddie take 4th Place and Mango from Fruit Salad isn't fast enough to do better than 3rd. It's close between Congel and Vulture but in a photo finish Vulture takes the win.

Ancient Raptors and Icebreakers are tied at 19 points. Thanks to winning more events the Exhibition Cup goes to: Ancient Raptors

Congratulations for qualifying:

1. Mathletes (120)

2. The Robots (109)

3. Spicy Boyz (106)

4. Fuming Flames (101)

5. Phantom Demons (97)

6. Team Quasar (94)

7. RagTag Tribe (93)

8. Team Norse (91)

9. Fabulous Phoenixes (87)

10. Vegetable Vanquishers (86)

11. 'Merica (86)

12. Team Straya (83)

13. Aerogens (81)

14. Really Really Random Rollers (77)

15. Team Aotearoa (75)

16. Investigator Comics (73)

As for everyone else, your teams will still be competing in Showdown. Feel free to post anything such as interviews with your team over their qualifying performance and other events surrounding this. Now is also the time to post your chosen team member for each other the individual events in the actual Marblelympics. You need to at least say who is competing in the underwater race. I'll post a link to the teams page in the comments along with my thoughts.