With the temperatures warming we turn our attention from the Winter MarbleLympics
to the summer Sand Marble Rally.
Competitors are in the blocks.
We have several different races, the top four of each will qualify.
Off they go.
Quick burst out into the lead is Comet.
Marbly McMarbleface back into second place.
Wisp of Darkness in third trying to get that second spot.
Masterfully blocked by Marbly McMarbleface.
Top four that qualify, so it doesn't necessarily matter who wins and gets second,
but it's that third and fourth spot where you're right on the bubble,
that is where it matters.
Crazy Cat's Eye making a good move up into fourth, that's a transfer spot
and loses out as I say that.
Back and forth they come, Comet still at the point up front.
Marbly McMarbleface now makes a charge,
several marbles go airborne.
And oh! Crazy Cat's Eye stole second place away.
Wisp of Darkness just short by one tenth of a second behind Summer Sky.
Let's watch this replay.
Look, they're airborne.
Ah, and that impact slowed Marbly McMarbleface
and actually ended up stopping Wisp of Darkness from transferring.
Alright, second of our qualifying races.
Remember, top four advance.
Cobra out to the quick lead.
And oh! Cobra gets stuck!
Cobra, stuck there on the far side of the track,
and he's not gonna get going again.
Oh my.
So one down, that makes your chances of transferring just a little bit easier.
Got a good train going between second through fourth place.
Big Pearl, of that group, assumes P2.
Can she track down the lead spot?
Big Pearl, last year also struggled,
18th in the Sand Marble Rally.
Did get a win in the second race of the season, but nothing really after that.
Down here at the bottom, they come across.
Ghost Plasma does make it in front of Rastafarian,
Reflektor and Blazing Fireball do not,
and of course Cobra stuck back higher up on the course.
In this race you'll see a couple of our newcomers: Grasshopper and Ducktape down there.
Pollo Loco, H2 Blue, Nemo,
Black Knight.
Silver Bolt,
last of whom falls back to last.
Our two newcomers up in front.
Grasshopper leading the way.
Nemo in third, trying to get around up front.
Briefly does and then can't hold the spot.
Grasshopper up in front, remember top four transfer
so that battle that's going on back there, and it's a good one,
to decide who will get up front.
Everybody riding that outside line.
Trying not to scrub off any speed by bumping the wall too much
Stay in the middle of the track, maybe strategically nudge off that sand to keep you in the lead.
Grasshopper and Ducktape do a good job of that.
Black Knight and Nemo come across as the other two transfer positions.
How close was it back there?
Ooh, it was very close.
Lollipop, White Widow, Blue Moon, Phoenix, Slimer and Superball.
Down they come.
Superball up into second place.
Slimer, of course, already qualified along with three of the other top three finishers
in last year's Sand Marble Rally
so the likes of Dragon's Egg and Red Number 3, Quicksilver and Slimer.
In this race, because Slimer is already qualified and has chosen to run the race anyway,
if he finishes in the top four, whoever finishes fifth will automatically transfer.
Fantasy in last year's Sand Marble Rally finished squarely in the middle,
12th.
Lost out a couple spots at the end.
Really didn't have much success over the course of the season.
Maybe he will rise up this season.
Across they come.
And that's a good way to do it.
Phoenix, Slimer, Lollipop, Superball.
And remember, because of Slimer's presence in this race, Blue Moon will advance.
So we look at the qualified marbles with the already qualified down at the bottom.
The non-qualified marbles competing in a new B-division this season
for those who just don't want to see their marble disappear for several months.
We are happy to oblige.
Now we're gonna do a race with the MarbleLympics teams
who failed to qualify for these last 2018 Winter MarbleLympics.
They figured "Eh, why not? We don't have to worry about training too much. Let's just have at it
and see who finishes where."
Where did your favorite team end up in the MarbleLympics?
You'll have to go back and watch the videos.
If you have not seen it, it ended up being quite a series.
Jungle Jumpers, Chocolatiers, Rojo Rollers, they're all up there.
Team Plasma just to the left of your screen there,
trying to fight back.
This is for kind of a consolation gold, silver, and bronze.
What's it gonna be?
Rojo Rollers trying to get up there to the front but can't do it.
That was a good little parry from the Chocolatiers.
Watch the Jungle Jumpers
they've got a lot of speed in fourth place.
Can they get a bronze medal out of this?
Rojo Rollers up front though,
looks like they are gonna hold on to this one.
Taking the win in front of the Chocolatiers, Jungle Jumpers, the Quicksilvers
and the Kobalts.
Oof! [Laughs]
Technically that was already crossing the line.
Guess there's nothing that says that you can't hit the actual finish banner up there
but you want to make sure you cross the line first
[Laughs]
Chocolatiers and the Jungle Jumpers
getting the mythological silver and bronze in this one.
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