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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: During the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjvlVYsojQ Patreon Special "Kiwi" Marble Race]], which included several of the channel's crew (as their personal representative marbles of course) participating in a friendly race with a fan and a couple veterans, Greg Woods often notes a particular "rather handsome" marble in his commentary, being quite complimentary as it manages to hold onto first place for a long stretch while downplaying the moment when Red Eye overtakes it, and at the end is a bit grumpy toward Iceberg when the final tally reveals it managed to push past into second place.

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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: During the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjvlVYsojQ Patreon Special "Kiwi" Marble Race]], which included several of the channel's crew (as their personal representative marbles of course) participating in a friendly race with a fan and a couple veterans, Greg Woods often notes a particular "rather handsome" marble in his commentary, being quite complimentary as it manages to hold onto first place for a long stretch while downplaying the moment when Red Eye overtakes it, and at the end is a bit grumpy toward Iceberg when the final tally reveals it managed to push past into second place.place (but still praises the third place marble as someone to watch out for).
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: During the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjvlVYsojQ Patreon Special "Kiwi" Marble Race]], which included several of the channel's crew (as their personal representative marbles of course) participating in a friendly race with a fan and a couple veterans, Greg Woods often notes a particular "rather handsome" marble in his commentary, being quite complimentary as it manages to hold onto first place for a long stretch while downplaying the moment when Red Eye overtakes it, and at the end is a bit grumpy toward Iceberg when the final tally reveals it managed to push past into second place.
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** Mellow Yellow in the 2020 [=MarbleLeague=] despite getting a bronze medal in the Long Jump, had a long line of inconsistency spending most of it in last.

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** Mellow Yellow in the 2020 [=MarbleLeague=] despite getting a bronze medal medals in the Long Jump and the High Jump, had a long line of inconsistency spending most of it in last.last, and only being able to move up to fourteenth place in the end because of a silver medal in the Marathon.

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* AllOrNothing: The Crazy Cat's Eyes in Marble League 2023, who finished the season with three golds, three bronzes... one 15th, and three 16th-place finishes (read: dead last, zero points for the event). Across all 16 events, they never finished between 7th and 12th place. This meant that while they started off strong (gold in the first event), a midseason slump led to them in 11th place with only three events remaining. [[spoiler:Whereupon they went bronze-gold-gold to win the entire league by one point!]]



** '''Bumblebees:''' "Honeydome" (Marbula track)

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** '''Bumblebees:''' "Honeydome" (Marbula track)track), "Superhive Stadium" ([[AllThereInTheManual Stadium]])



** '''Crazy Cat's Eyes:''' "Mirage Meowtain" (Marbula track), "Felynia Coliseum" (Marble League stadium)

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** '''Crazy Cat's Eyes:''' "Mirage Meowtain" (Marbula track), "Felynia Coliseum" (Marble League stadium)([[AllThereInTheManual Stadium]])



** With two events remaining in Marble League 2023, the Savage Speeders held a comfortable 19-point lead over the second-place Bumblebees; additionally, both upcoming events were races (the Sand Rally and Honeycomb Grand Prix). However, team reserve Whizzy DNF'd in the first Sand Rally heat and finished last among finishers in the second, the 14th-place finish lowering the Speeders' lead to a still-comfortable 15 points (meaning they were assured of a title with a 5th or better in the Honeycomb GP) but also putting Speedy in the 14th position to start the GP. Unfortunately for the Speeders, Speedy never got into the peloton and finished 13th, while the Crazy Cat's Eyes and Bumblebees finished 1-2 (both in the event and the final standings), knocking the Speeders into an overall bronze.



** In Marble League 2023, the Crazy Cat's Eyes fell from top of the league to top 5 to 11th after event 13 thanks to three dead-last finishes during the middle set of events, including four straight finishes of 13th place or below. But after a bronze in G-Force Endurance, Red Eye pulled out a gold in the Sand Rally, not only bringing the Cats up to 4th but earning pole position in the final event, the Honeycomb Grand Prix. While not leading for much of the event, Red Eye overtook Bumble of the Bumblebees during the final lap to win gold, not just overtaking the Bees but the Speeders (who finished 14th and 13th in the final two events) for the league championship.



** Several teams have retired after just one season with the Gliding Glaciers, Golden Orbs, and Black Jacks all retiring after failing to make it past the 2018 Qualifiers. Team Plasma was originally going to compete in the 2019 Marble League, but retired with the Green Ducks taking their place. Also because the Hubelino Tournament was discontinued after 2018, every Hubelino team except for the Bumblebees and Minty Maniacs have retired. The Quicksilvers retired after just two seasons. As of 2021, The Jawbreakers and Hornets have retired (the latter merging with the Bumblebees) with The Gliding Glaciers making a comeback.

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** Several teams have retired after just one season with the Gliding Glaciers, Golden Orbs, and Black Jacks all retiring after failing to make it past the 2018 Qualifiers. Team Plasma was originally going to compete in the 2019 Marble League, but retired with the Green Ducks taking their place. Also because the Hubelino Tournament was discontinued after 2018, every Hubelino team except for the Bumblebees and Minty Maniacs have retired. The Quicksilvers retired after just two seasons. As of 2021, The Jawbreakers and Hornets have retired (the latter merging with the Bumblebees) with The the Gliding Glaciers making a comeback.comeback; the Bumblebees, the Minty Maniacs, the Black Jacks, and Team Plasma have also returned.

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** While they did achieve success in the latter half of 2020, and overall gold in the 2021 winter Marble League, their conga came back in full force when they completely failed to qualify for the summer Leagues in both 2021 and 2022, the latter of which resulted in another fan riot.

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** While they did achieve success in the latter half of 2020, and overall gold in the 2021 winter Marble League, their conga came back in full force when they completely failed to qualify for the summer Leagues four years in both 2021 and 2022, the latter of which resulted in a row from 2021, suffering another fan riot.riot in 2022 and hitting rock bottom of the 2023 Showdown.



* PutOnABus: Several teams have retired after just one season with the Gliding Glaciers, Golden Orbs, and Black Jacks all retiring after failing to make it past the 2018 Qualifiers. Team Plasma was originally going to compete in the 2019 Marble League, but retired with the Green Ducks taking their place. Also because the Hubelino Tournament was discontinued after 2018, every Hubelino team except for the Bumblebees and Minty Maniacs have retired. The Quicksilvers retired after just two seasons. As of 2021, The Jawbreakers and Hornets have retired with The Gliding Glaciers making a comeback.

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* PutOnABus: PutOnABus:
** The "modern format" of the main League has thirty two teams and three segments: Qualifying, the Main League and the Showdown. Twenty four teams compete in the Qualifying for twelve slots, to participate in the Main League alongside the year's host and the previous year's podium finishers. The remaining teams who don't qualify are relegated to the Showdown, a smaller sample of the year's events, held after the Main League. The four teams who fail at the ''Showdown'' don't even get the opportunity to qualify, and are put on the bus until the next year's Showdown.
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Several teams have retired after just one season with the Gliding Glaciers, Golden Orbs, and Black Jacks all retiring after failing to make it past the 2018 Qualifiers. Team Plasma was originally going to compete in the 2019 Marble League, but retired with the Green Ducks taking their place. Also because the Hubelino Tournament was discontinued after 2018, every Hubelino team except for the Bumblebees and Minty Maniacs have retired. The Quicksilvers retired after just two seasons. As of 2021, The Jawbreakers and Hornets have retired (the latter merging with the Bumblebees) with The Gliding Glaciers making a comeback.
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** The Pinkies were this in their first six years, except 2017 when they finished 6th. They were considered to be one of the worst overall performers in the league despite being in the first four Marble Leagues. In 2016 and 2018, they finished last. And in 2019, they were next-to-last and tied with The Midnight Wisps for the most last place finishes. And in 2020, they finished dead last in the qualifiers consistently finishing in the bottom half of all four events and 12 points behind the next-to-last team, The Rojo Rollers. [[Averted]] in Marble League 2022 where they shocked the franchise by appearing 1st out of nowhere, beating famous teams like the Savage Speeders.

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** The Pinkies were this in their first six years, except 2017 when they finished 6th. They were considered to be one of the worst overall performers in the league despite being in the first four Marble Leagues. In 2016 and 2018, they finished last. And in 2019, they were next-to-last and tied with The Midnight Wisps for the most last place finishes. And in 2020, they finished dead last in the qualifiers consistently finishing in the bottom half of all four events and 12 points behind the next-to-last team, The Rojo Rollers. [[Averted]] Averted in Marble League 2022 where they shocked the franchise by appearing 1st out of nowhere, beating famous teams like the Savage Speeders.

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** The Crazy Cat's Eyes are also notorious for doing well in the first half only to fizzle out and finish much lower in the standings at the end. [[spoiler: Averted in the 2023 Marble League, however, when they win the last event, and end up winning Marble League.]]

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** The Crazy Cat's Eyes are also notorious for doing well in the first half only to fizzle out and finish much lower in the standings at the end. [[spoiler: Averted in the 2023 Marble League, however, when they win the last event, and end up winning the Marble League.]]



* IronicName: The coach of the Balls Of Chaos is named Harmony.

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* IronicName: The coach of the Balls Of of Chaos is named Harmony.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the Oceanics' pitiful performance in the 2019 Elimination Race, coming dead last in their heat after already being mathematically eliminated from overall [=MarbleLeague=] contention, their team coach was fired and their fans stormed out.

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** The Crazy Cat's Eyes are also notorious for doing well in the first half only to fizzle out and finish much lower in the standings at the end.

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** The Crazy Cat's Eyes are also notorious for doing well in the first half only to fizzle out and finish much lower in the standings at the end. [[spoiler: Averted in the 2023 Marble League, however, when they win the last event, and end up winning Marble League.]]

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* DownToTheLastPlay: Or rather, the last event. 2017's [=MarbleLeague=] ended with a heroic comeback by the O'Rangers, who took the silver medal in the sand rally to pull ahead of the Savage Speeders. In that same event, Team Galactic took the lead in the last second to win.

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* DownToTheLastPlay: Or rather, the DownToTheLastPlay:
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** The last lap of the last event! The 2023 Marble League came down to a one-lap sprint between Red Eye of the Crazy Cat's Eyes and Bumble of the Bumblebees in front of their home crowd, with Red Eye surging ahead near the end to claim both the gold medal for the event and enough points to win the overall Marble League that year.

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** Raspberry Racer fans chant "Ro ro robust! Raspberry!"

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** Raspberry Racer fans chant "Ro ro "Ro, ro, robust! Raspberry!"(Raspberry)!"



** Mellow Yellow fans chant "Yellow! Yeah!"

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** Mellow Yellow fans chant "Yellow! Yeah!""Mellow! (Yeah?) Yellow! (Yeah?)"


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** Indigo Stars fans sing “Go, go, indigo!” and clap to the rhythm.
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** Mellow Yellow had a huge one in the 2021 Marble League. After an atrocious 14th place in ML2020, as well as finishing Marbula One seasons 1 and 2 in tenth and fifteenth place respectively and not being invited to the Marble League Winter Special, they were determined to redeem themselves in the new Marble League season. Even so, it seemed that redemption was not possible, sitting at fourteenth place in the standings overall at one point. However, back-to-back gold medals in Steeplechase and the Sand Mogul Race, a silver medal in Diving, and a bronze medal in the final event, Marblocross, brought the team to their first Marble League victory, just beating the Raspberry Racers.
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** Team Galactic have been given the dubious nickname "Champions of the Preseason" since they always seem to perform well during qualifying, but fall off during the main [=MarbleLeague=] competition. To put it in perspective, of the six teams that have participated in all five Marble Leagues since its inception, Team Galactic are the only one of them never to finish inside the Top 3. Then in 2021, they miss out on qualification by finishing last in their group.

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** Team Galactic have been given the dubious nickname "Champions of the Preseason" since they always seem to perform well during qualifying, but fall off during the main [=MarbleLeague=] competition. To put it in perspective, By 2020, of the six teams that to have participated competed in all five every Marble Leagues since its inception, League at that point[[note]]the Savage Speeders, O'rangers, Mellow Yellow, Thunderbolts, Oceanics and Team Galactic Galactic[[/note]], they are the only one of them ones to have never to finish inside finished in the Top 3.top three. Then in 2021, they miss out on qualification by finishing last in their group. Ultimately, Team Galactic managed to get second place in 2022, however started fizzling out again come 2023.
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*** In addition, this trope is [[PlayedStraight]] for their Relay Race performances, having won the event 5 out of 6 times in the Marble League.

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*** In addition, this trope is [[PlayedStraight]] PlayedStraight for their Relay Race performances, having won the event 5 out of 6 times in the Marble League.



** Red Number 3 is the most popular, and most skilled of the Sand Marble Rally racers (He is a bit divisive though since it came to light that he is not actually a marble but part of a keychain). [[Subverted]] following his dead last finish in Season 6 of the Sand Marble Rally.

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** Red Number 3 is the most popular, and most skilled of the Sand Marble Rally racers (He is a bit divisive though since it came to light that he is not actually a marble but part of a keychain). [[Subverted]] Subverted following his dead last finish in Season 6 of the Sand Marble Rally.

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*** In addition, this trope is [[PlayedStraight]] for their Relay Race performances, having won the event 5 out of 6 times in the Marble League.



** The Crazy Cat's Eyes are this in their Marbula One debut in 2021. They won five gold medals and finished 61 points above the runner-up team, The Savage Speeders, and with both their marbles earning a podium spot on the individual chanpionship as well. And in their second Marbula One, they finish second, but Red Eye gets the highest point total overall.

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** The Crazy Cat's Eyes are this in their Marbula One debut in 2021. They won five gold medals and finished 61 points above the runner-up team, The Savage Speeders, and with both their marbles earning a podium spot on the individual chanpionship championship as well. And in their second Marbula One, One Season, they finish second, but Red Eye gets the highest point total overall.



** Red Number 3 is the most popular, and most skilled of the Sand Marble Rally racers (He is a bit divisive though since it came to light that he is not actually a marble but part of a keychain).

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** Red Number 3 is the most popular, and most skilled of the Sand Marble Rally racers (He is a bit divisive though since it came to light that he is not actually a marble but part of a keychain). [[Subverted]] following his dead last finish in Season 6 of the Sand Marble Rally.



** In the 2017 [=MarbleLeague=], Team Galactic stood in dead last after two events, but managed to jump up six places from eleventh to fifth overall after a last second victory in the final event.

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** In the 2017 [=MarbleLeague=], Team Galactic stood in dead last after two events, but managed to jump up six places from eleventh to fifth overall after a last second victory in the final event.event by Starry.



*** Later on in 2020, the Savage Speeders found themselves at 11th at the halfway point of Marbula One Season 2, with Rapidly in the bottom 3 of the individual championship. He would finish 14th after 2 consecutive medals as the Savage Speeders finishes 2nd.



** The Pinkies were this in their first six years, except 2017 when they finished 6th. They were considered to be one of the worst overall performers in the league despite being in the first four Marble Leagues. In 2016 and 2018, they finished last. And in 2019, they were next-to-last and tied with The Midnight Wisps for the most last place finishes. And in 2020, they finished dead last in the qualifiers consistently finishing in the bottom half of all four events and 12 points behind the next-to-last team, The Rojo Rollers. VERY subverted in Marble League 2022 where they shocked the franchise by appearing 1st out of nowhere, beating famous teams like the Savage Speeders.

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** The Pinkies were this in their first six years, except 2017 when they finished 6th. They were considered to be one of the worst overall performers in the league despite being in the first four Marble Leagues. In 2016 and 2018, they finished last. And in 2019, they were next-to-last and tied with The Midnight Wisps for the most last place finishes. And in 2020, they finished dead last in the qualifiers consistently finishing in the bottom half of all four events and 12 points behind the next-to-last team, The Rojo Rollers. VERY subverted [[Averted]] in Marble League 2022 where they shocked the franchise by appearing 1st out of nowhere, beating famous teams like the Savage Speeders.Speeders.
** The Raspberry Racers in Marbula One. After finishing poorly in Marbula One Season 2, they were not invited for Season 3, though were reinvited for Marbula One Season 4. The team finished the season with a mere 10 points in 10 races, scoring zero points in the second half.



** Happend again in the 2021 Marble League where, going into the final event, ''11 teams'' were capable of winning the whole thing. Mellow Yellow scoring a clutch bronze in the Marblocross ended up securing the first ever championship for team.

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** Happend Happened again in the 2021 Marble League where, going into the final event, ''11 teams'' were capable of winning the whole thing. Mellow Yellow scoring a clutch bronze in the Marblocross ended up securing the first ever championship for team.

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* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Marbula One 2023 ended with its individual winner Momo sitting on the sidelines as the only other two marbles that could pip them for the individual championship failing to do what was necessary.

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Marbula One 2023 ended with its individual winner Momo sitting on Season 2. He won the sidelines as Marbula One Season 2 Individual Championship without having to wait for the only results at the final Grand Prix, having clinched it in his final Grand Prix of the season, which was the Savage Speedway Grand Prix, where he completed a Grand Slam to make himself, and the Crazy Cat's Eyes unable to be caught up by other two marbles that could pip them teams in terms of points.
** Momo in Marbula One Season 4. She did not race
for the final Grand Prix after she completed all five of her races. Her other three competitors failed to surpass her by points at the final Grand Prix, hence winning Momo the individual championship failing to do what was necessary.while doing nothing for the final race.
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* GoneHorriblyWrong:
** The Balls of Chaos switched their captaincy from Anarchy to Tumult one week before the Marble League 2022 Qualifiers. While they managed to qualify, they would finish with a total of 64 points in 16 events...with a silver from the very first event. This means that the Balls of Chaos scored a mere 44 points in 15 events, or a points-per-average of 2.93.
** The Crazy Cat's Eyes replaced Yellow Eye with Blue Eye as a result of the former bottling the title against the O'rangers, leaving them to finish 2nd in Marbula One Season 3. Their result in Season 4? 5th, with them being out of podium contention before the final event.
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* CrazyEnoughToWork: In Marbula One Season 4, the Hazers conducted the first double swap in Marbula One history after their disastrous campaign, which saw them finish in 17th. They wound up finishing 4th.


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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen:
** The Midnight Wisps were once regarded as one of the Marble League's best teams, having won the 2018 Marble League and securing two 4th place finishes. However, they failed to qualify for Marble League 2021, before finishing in 9th out of 12th in the Showdown that season. Although they would qualify for Marble League 2022, they would finish 15th with no medals.
** The Hazers also apply to this trope. Up until 2022, the Hazers were considered to be the best team that never won a trophy, before a disastrous Marbula One Season 3 campaign saw them finish in 17th. Their captain, Hazy would announce that he will be taking a sabbatical, with Misty replacing him as captain. The Hazers would fail to qualify for the 2022 Marble League, and eventually got relegated to the 2023 Showdown after Misty finished 12th in the Sand Rally, coupled with the fact that the Snowballs and the Jungle Jumpers jumped them in the standings, having finished in the top 4 in that event.
** Red Number 3 was once the undisputed GOAT of the Sand Marble Rally, having podiumed in three consecutive seasons, even winning back-to-back championships in 2018 and 2019. However, his performances dipped after his surgery, culminating in him finishing dead last in Season 6.
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* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Marbula One 2023 ended with its individual winner Momo sitting on the sidelines as the only other two marbles that could pip them for the individual championship failing to do what was necessary.
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** The Crazy Cat's Eyes are this in their Marbula One debut in 2021. They won five gold medals and finished 61 points above the runner-up team, The Savage Speeders. And in their second Marbula One, they finish second, but Red Eye gets the highest point total overall.

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** The Crazy Cat's Eyes are this in their Marbula One debut in 2021. They won five gold medals and finished 61 points above the runner-up team, The Savage Speeders.Speeders, and with both their marbles earning a podium spot on the individual chanpionship as well. And in their second Marbula One, they finish second, but Red Eye gets the highest point total overall.

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