u/Bootleg_Earth27

Part 1 of this series: Interesting facts and statistics about ML26 (Part 1)

Part 2 of this series: Interesting facts and statistics about ML26 (Part 2)

The Raspberry racers were the only team this season to get zero double-digit point events in the 2nd half of ML26. From ML19-25, only two other times has a team failed to score double-digit points in an event in the 2nd half of the season. Those being ML21 Team Momo and ML22 Balls of Chaos. Even if you include 1st halves from ML19 onwards, only an extra three times has it happened. ML19 Pinkies, ML20 Bumblebees and ML25 Limers.

Pinky Promise is not only the first marble to be named Best Coach twice, along with their other title in ML22 but also the first host marble to win Best Coach. As well, Pinky Toe would win MVM(Most Valuable Marble) making it the 2nd ML that the team that won Best Coach and MVM would go on to win the title with the other being ML19 Raspberry Racers.

Pinky Toe with their 64pts to win MVM is just 1 point below the most points ever for a MVM winner as Mallard in ML22 would have 65pts after 1 Gold and 2 Silvers in 3 events.

Also, this is the first ML since ML19 that the teams who won Best Coach, MVM and Best Captain would all get on the podium. Snowy won Best Captain this season while Pinkies won Best Coach and MVM.

The point difference between the winner and last place team this season is the 2nd smallest of any ML. The point difference between Pinkies and Chocolatiers is 68 points, with only ML23 having a smaller difference of 62 points. 

With Kobalts and Black Jacks being last in the overall standings at least once this season, the Indigo Stars, Jawbreakers, Team Primary and Wolfpack remain as the only teams to never be in last place in ML a single time.

After Bumblebees got a Gold Medal in E14, they ended their 55 event streak without a gold medal that started all the way back ML23 E7. That ties for the 2nd longest with the Balls of Chaos streak with the longest being of course the Bolts’ 72 event streak.

With Chocolatiers failing to get on the podium, they tied with the Balls of Chaos for most ML appearances, 7, without a podium finish. Combined, that's 14 ML appearances. For comparison, Kobalts, Indigo Stars, Black Jacks and Shining Swarm have a combined 13 appearances and have 1G, 2S and 1B in that time.

The Green Ducks come 3 points away from being the ninth team to score over 1000 total ML points. Right now, they’re sitting at 997 while Crazy Cat’s Eyes and Pinkies managed to surpass 1000 points this season, being currently at 1093 and 1046 points respectively.

With Solar Flares and Team Plasma getting 143 and 131 points respectively, their ML point total increased to 280 and 240 respectively. That leaves the Jawbreakers and Wolfpack as the only active teams with less than 200 total ML points.

Raspberry Racers career total of 1327 ML points after their 152 point performance this season makes them the second team to get over 1300+ total ML points, joining the Savage Speeders. They managed to beat the O’rangers, Mellow Yellow and Team Galactic to it despite having 1 less ML appearance. Though, the Razzies have been to 140 ML events which is more than the O’rangers and Team Galactic but Mellow Yellow have 8 more ML events than them.

Pinkies and Snowballs become the 6th and 7th ML team to win multiple ML podiums with the others being Oceanics, Savage Speeders, Mellow Yellow, Raspberry Racers and O’rangers.

The Kobalts become the third team since ML19 to score less 40 points by halftime while also finishing outside the bottom three. They had 38pts by E8 but would place 11th after a 85 point 2nd half. The two other teams who also achieved it are ML23 Thunderbolts who placed 13th and ML20 Oceanics who placed 10th.

Despite reaching at least 88 points by E8, neither the Raspberry Racers nor the Indigo Stars won the title. Since ML19, only two teams have scored 88 or more points  through E8 and also won the title. Those teams being ML19 Raspberry Racers and ML22 Pinkies who each scored 102 and 103 points respectively. 18 other teams got 88 points by halftime yet failed to win it all with eight of them not even getting on the podium.

Mellow Yellow 8th place finish makes it the first time they had two back-to-back seasons of top half finishes since ML16-17 as they got 3rd last season.

The Savage Speeders’ run of three consecutive bottom six finishes from ML24-26(13th, 11th, 15th) marks just the 3rd time a team has gone three straight ML seasons without finishing higher than 10th. The only other teams to endure such a stretch are ML16-18 Limers(15th, 10th, 14th) and ML22-24 Gliding Glaciers(10th, 15th, 16th). Unlike the Speeders, however, both of those teams at least got a 10th place finish during their streak.

With Mellow Yellow getting 8th place, the ML20 podium remains the only podium where all three teams would fail to finish in the top half of the next ML.

A little pattern for every team since ML16 who won the first event was that they ended their season with only one 0 in the gold/silver/bronze medal standings. Eg: 2025:Oceanics-2G/1S/0B, 2024:Savage Speeders-1G/0S/1B, 2023:Crazy Cat’s Eyes-3G/01S/3B. Unfortunately, Solar Flares would have 2G/1S/1B this season and end the streak.

With Team Plasma, Kobalts and Solar Flares all getting 100+ points, Team Primary and Jawbreakers remain the only active teams to have two or more ML appearances while also not having at least two 100pt seasons. And Team Primary has been in four seasons, granted three of them from ML16-18.

With Indigo Stars getting 2nd place, every single team that had 85pts or more by E6 would go on to not win their respective championship.
ML26 Indigo Stars(96pts, 2nd)
ML25 Oceanics(87pts, 2nd)
ML23 Bumblebees(89pts, 2nd)
ML23 Savage Speeders(88pts, 3rd)
ML20 Minty Maniacs(91pts, 3rd)
ML20 O’rangers(90pts, 2nd)
ML20 Crazy Cat’s Eyes(90pts, 5th)
ML19 Green Ducks(90pts, 2nd)
ML17 Savage Speeders(92pts, 2nd)
ML16 Thunderbolts(86pts, 3rd) 

As well, Indigo Stars became the 13th time that a team has gotten 90pts or more by Event 7 and the 12th one to not win the title. Only 1 of them would do so being the ML22 Pinkies. That’s a 7.69% success rate.
List of all 123teams to do it:
ML26 Indigo Stars(2nd)
ML25 Midnight Wisps(4th)
ML23 Savage Speeders(3rd)
ML23 Bumblebees(2nd)
ML22 Pinkies(1st)
ML21 Team Momo(6th)
ML20 O'rangers(2nd)
ML20 Crazy Cat's Eyes(5th)
ML20 Minty Maniacs(3rd)
ML20 Midnight Wisps(4th)
ML19 Green Ducks(2nd)
ML17 Savage Speeders(2nd)
ML16 Thunderbolts(2nd using current point system)

Of those 13 times above, four of them got 100 points by E7 or earlier too including the Indigo Stars who had 104 points, and all four of those teams also lost their respective ML. ML17 Savage Speeders(2nd), ML20 O’rangers(2nd), ML21 Team Momo(6th) and now ML26 Indigo Stars(2nd).

Indigo Stars also have become the fifth team to have led an event by 20 points or more in a season, with them doing so 4 times in a row from E4-7, while also not winning the title. The other 4 are ML22 Team Galactic, ML21 Team Momo, ML20 O’rangers and ML17 Savage Speeders. The only team that managed to do so is ML25 Kobalts as they led by 21 points after E16.

Indigo Stars recorded 6 straight events where they lead the standings. Only 2 other times has a team lead for 6 or more consecutive events, ML19 Savage Speeders and ML21 Team Momo who both did it for 7 straight events. All 3 teams failed to win their respective ML.

Raspberry Racers from E6-8 earned three medals, two of them gold. It was the 8th time it has happened in ML and they became just the second team to ever accomplish that while also failing to get on the podium. The other team that didn’t make it was ML24 Solar Flares who finished in 7th.

ML26 is the 2nd ML ever where every single top half team got a gold medal. ML22 is the only other ML where this also happened.

With the Pinkies winning the title and the Snowballs finishing third, every ML podium in history now features at least one team that has either previously podiumed or would eventually go on to podium in a future season. Prior to ML26, the podiums from ML22 and ML24 were the only exceptions, as all three teams on each podium had just a single career podium finish at the time. The Pinkies and Snowballs who were on the ML22 and ML24 podium respectively, have now since gone on to get another podium finish. 

Part 1 of this series: Interesting facts and statistics about ML26 (Part 1)

Part 3 of this series: Interesting facts and statistics about ML26 (Part 3)

After Indigo Stars finished 2nd, every single ML podium so far has at least one team on there that won their first ML podium. Eg. ML23 had CCE and Bumblebees, ML24 had Team Momo, Snowballs, Black Jacks, ML25 had Kobalts and now Indigo Stars for ML26. Pretty impressive considering ML25 and ML26 had three and four teams respectively with zero ML podiums.

From their 184 point total in ML25, Kobalts lost 61 points in ML26. It ties with ML16-17 Thunderbolts for the 6th most points lost in consecutive MLs. The five teams to lose more points between 2 MLs are:
ML20-21 Savage Speeders(-62 points)
ML22-23 Shining Swarm(-70 points)
ML20-21 Minty Maniacs(-80 points)
ML19-20 Raspberry Racers(-83 points)
ML19-20 Green Ducks(-103 points)

Before ML26, the last place team of each season got a different position in E15
Event 15:10th,11th,4th,9th,13th,15th,5th
After Chocolatiers got 11th however, this is no longer the case.

As well, the eventual winner of each season also got a different position in E14
Event 14:4th,2nd,14th,5th,3rd,10th,1st
After Pinkies got 3rd, the streak has been broken. However, every single position in E5 and E13 is still unique.
Event 5:8th,3rd,10th,9th,4th,16th,15th,5th,12th,6th,1st
Event 13:1st,16th,15th,12th,13th,7th,2nd,9th

Team Plasma 7th place in this event is their first ever 7th place finish in ML. The only position they haven’t gotten yet is 5th.

Oceanics 9th place overall finish makes it their 10th bottom half finish in ML, MLS and M1 combined. They’re the fourth team to reach 10 total bottom half finishes across all 3 tournaments with the others being Balls of Chaos, Limers and Thunderbolts.

Kobalts’ 85pts in the 2nd half of the season(E9-16) tied with ML24 Hazers for the most points scored by the halftime last place leader from ML19 onwards. Along with that, they join ML24 Hazers and ML18 Team Momo as the only teams to be in last place by the middle of the season and not finish in the bottom 4 by the end of it. ML24 Hazers got 11th while ML18 Team Momo got 12th.

Solar Flares, Indigo Stars and Snowballs are the only teams to not only get a top half finish in the first event but also finish top half in the overall standings this season. That ties with ML22 for the fewest teams to accomplish that in a single season.

The Bumblebees are the fourth team to improve their ML finish in three consecutive seasons. From ML24-26, they went from 15th, 10th to 6th. The other three teams to accomplish this are ML18-20 Team Galactic(11th, 8th, 7th), ML20-22 Green Ducks(12th, 11th, 5th) and ML21-23 Savage Speeders(12th, 4th, 3rd).

Black Jacks on the other hand became the eighth team to record at least three consecutive seasons with a worse finishing position after each ML. From ML24-26, they went 3rd, 9th to 12th. The other 7 teams to achieve this are:
ML18-20 Balls of Chaos(5th, 9th, 15th)
ML21-24 Gliding Glaciers(3rd, 10th, 15th, 16th)
ML16-18 Mellow Yellow(2nd, 3rd, 15th)
ML17-19 O’rangers(1st, 4th, 6th)
ML21-25 Raspberry Racers(2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th)(Streak finally broken!!!)
ML22-24 Team Galactic(3rd, 6th, 14th)
ML16-18 Team Momo(4th, 9th, 12th)

The Pinkies' 97 points and Snowballs’ 95 points in the 2nd half of the season are ranked as the 8th and 12th most points scored by a team in the 2nd half from ML19-26 respectively.

Savage Speeders 40 points in the 2nd half however is ranked as the 7th fewest points scored by a team in the 2nd half from ML19-26. As well, it is their first ever sub-50 point half in their history and that’s including ML16-18 halves which are only 6 events long. 

Indigo Stars 2nd place finish makes them the 6th team to have led by halftime while also not winning the title in the process since ML19. Only 2 teams who led after E8 would later on win the title with those being ML22 Pinkies and ML19 Raspberry Racers.

Pinkies’ 97 points which are the most for any team in the 2nd half this season means that every single team that scored the most points in the 2nd half of the season from ML16-26 would go on to win the title with the only two exceptions being ML16 Mellow Yellow and ML22 Shining Swarm.

Both Indigo Stars and Raspberry Racers point difference between their 1st and 2nd half would amount to 50 points.
Indigo Stars(109 points in first half-59 in 2nd half)
Raspberry Racers(101 points in first half-50 in 2nd half)
Both rank as the 9th biggest point discrepancy between the 1st and 2nd half for a team in a season as well as being the 3rd time the Raspberry Racers had a point difference of 50pts or more between their 2 halves. No other team has even done it twice.

Snowballs’ 95 points in the 2nd half is their new team record for most points in a single half. As well, that leaves only 12 teams left since ML19 to not yet score 90 points in a single ML half. 
(Team-Highest amount of points they’ve gotten in a half, Which ML they did it in, the half they did it in)
Balls of Chaos-88pts, ML19, 2nd half
Black Jacks-80pts, ML24, 1st half
Chocolatiers-81pts, ML24, 1st half
Hornets-47pts, ML20, 1st half
Jungle Jumpers-89pts, ML24, 1st half
Limers-63pts, ML25, 2nd half
Rojo Rollers-78pts, ML23, 2nd half
Solar Flares-84pts, ML26, 2nd half
Team Plasma-70pts, ML26 1st half
Team Primary-83pts, ML22, 2nd half
Thunderbolts-77pts, ML21, 1st half
Wolfpack-72pts, ML24, 2nd half

Additionally, Solar Flares got 84 points in the 2nd half and thus 6 teams since ML19 have never gotten 80pts in a single ML half.
Hornets-47pts, ML20, 1st half
Limers-63pts, ML25, 2nd half
Rojo Rollers-78pts, ML23, 2nd half
Team Plasma-70pts, ML26 1st half
Thunderbolts-77pts, ML21, 1st half
Wolfpack-72pts, ML24, 2nd half
Funny thing is that the Bolts actually have gotten 80+ pts in a half before, with that being in ML16 using the modern scoring point system where they got 86pts in just 6 events. Unfortunately, since I’m only counting ML19 onward, it doesn’t count.

[Next few facts will be using Q1,2,3 and 4 which represent quarters so Q1:E1-4, Q2:E5-8, Q3:E9-12 and Q4:E13-16]
Despite 75 points in Q2, the Raspberry Racers became the first team to score 70+ points in a single quarter while also failing to finish on the podium.

The Savage Speeders scored just nine total points in the final quarter of the season, tying with ML17 Jungle Jumpers(Q1), ML22 Midnight Wisps(Q2) and ML19 Oceanics(Q4) for the 6th fewest points scored in a single quarter. It also sets a new franchise low, surpassing their previous worst of 16 points in Q2 of ML19. Additionally, they scored 19 points in Q1 of ML26 too, meaning they’ve gotten more sub-20 point quarters in this single season than they’ve had across their previous 37 quarters combined.

Pinkies’ 62 points in Q4 tied with ML24 Raspberry Racers for the 6th most points scored by a team in Q4 while the aforementioned Savage Speeders’ 9 points tied with ML19 Oceanics for the fewest points scored by a team in Q4.

Hazers’ 38 points in Q4, extends their streak of getting at least 32 points in every 4th quarter they’ve played. No other team has accomplished that.

Team Plasma’s 41 points in Q4 is a new team record for most points in a quarter. The previous record of 38 points was actually set earlier this season Q2, which itself had broken their previous best of 36 points in Q1 of ML23. In other words, Team Plasma broke their own single quarter scoring record twice in the same season

6 teams this season has scored in every event:
Pinkies
Snowballs
Raspberry Racers
Team Plasma
Crazy Cat's Eyes
Chocolatiers
This is the Chocolatiers 5th ML season where they scored at least one point in each event. The only MLs they didn’t accomplish that in was ML22 and ML24 though they both came close with them scoring in 15 out of 16 events. Combined, out of the 102 events total, they’ve scored in 100 of them or a 98.04% rate. 

They also tied the O’rangers for the third most ML seasons in which they’ve scored in every event. Only the Speeders and Team Galactic with 6 and 7 appearances respectively top them. Worth noting that 2 of those 5 seasons the Chocolatiers accomplished the feat in came pre-2019 with only 12 events.

ML26 became the first ML where no teams scored at least two or more points in every event. From ML16-25, at least one team achieved the feat each season. For example, O’rangers, Team Galactic and Black Jacks in ML25 all scored at least two points in each event. With that, the 10 ML streak has ended.

With Mellow Yellow finishing 8th, it's the first time where Mellow Yellow was mathematically possible for a podium finish entering the final event but failed to do so. In ML16, 17, 21 and 25, they entered the final event while still being able to remain or get on the podium and would do so.

ML26 Hazers become the 10th team to accomplish the feat of getting the same amount of medals in a league as to their final position:
ML26 Hazers(4 medals-4th)
ML25 Mellow Yellow(3 medals-3rd)
ML24 Green Ducks(4 medals-4th) 
ML24 Jungle Jumpers(5 medals-5th)
ML22 Savage Speeders(4 medals-4th) 
ML22 Green Ducks(5 medals-5th)
ML18 Oceanics(3 medals-3rd) 
ML17 Mellow Yellow(3 medals-3rd) 
ML16 Team Momo(4 medals-4th)
Fun fact, both the ML24 Jungle Jumpers and ML22 Green Ducks are the only teams to win 5 or more medals while finishing outside the top 4.

In ML19, the Green Ducks finished 2nd while Indigo Stars placed 14th. In ML26, those positions were reversed with Indigo Stars finishing 2nd while Green Ducks placed 14th. 

The ML19 Green Ducks and ML26 Indigo Stars also would both have 5 medals with 2 of them gold and won a Silver in their first event of the season. Meanwhile, both the ML19 Indigo Stars and ML26 Green Ducks would win only a single medal, a Bronze.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts and statistics about MLS26 : r/JellesMarbleRuns

Part 2 of this series: Interesting facts and statistics about ML26 (Part 2)

Part 3 of this series: Interesting facts and statistics about ML26 (Part 3)

(This will be part 1 of a 3-parter to cap off this series. Honestly, I loved doing this even if sometimes it took a lot of time to finish it. Regardless, hope you like this final installment)

The Chocolatiers’ Bronze medal in the final event marked the fourth straight ML where every team won at least a single medal. The Chococolatiers join ML21 Minty Maniacs, ML24 Balls of Chaos and Team Galactic as the only teams to win their first medal of their respective seasons in the final event. 

Thanks to the Chocs’ bronze medal, every team surpassed the 100 point mark for the 4th straight ML in a row. By comparison, every season ML19-22 featured at least 2 teams who failed to reach 100 points. Since then, the benchmark has shifted and instead at least 2 teams don’t reach 115 points in every ML.

This is the first time the Chocolatiers have been on a ML podium with either the Solar Flares or Pinkies.

Pinkies became the 13th team since ML19 to score at least 175 points, along with it marking the 3rd ML in a row that a team has accomplished it. 

Savage Speeders and Crazy Cat’s Eyes finished with 112 and 119 points respectively and now becoming the first time for both teams that they’ve failed to reach 120 points in a ML since the 16-event format was introduced in ML19. The Speeders had gotten 120 points in 7 of their previous appearances while CCE also did it in their previous 6 appearances. With that, Raspberry Racers, O’rangers and Team Galactic remain the only teams to have been in 6 or more MLs since 2019 and gotten at least 120 points in all of them.

After finishing with 120 points, the Black Jacks no longer qualify for an exclusive consistency award. Four teams remain with multiple ML appearances since ML19 that have scored at least 130 points in every season they’ve been in. Those four being Raspberry Racers, O’rangers, Jungle Jumpers and Solar Flares with 8, 6, 2 and 2 appearances respectively.

After Bumblebees finished 6th place overall, that leaves the Black Jacks, Gliding Glaciers, Minty Maniacs and Thunderbolts as the remaining teams with just a single top seven finish in their entire career. Each of their lone top 7 finish in ML coincidentally happens to be 3rd, Black Jacks in ML24, Gliding Glaciers in ML21, Minty Maniacs in ML20 and Thunderbolts in ML16. The Bolts have gone the longest without repeating the feat at seven ML appearances.

By finishing 2nd in ML26, the Indigo Stars along with the Minty Maniacs, who finished 3rd in MLS26, became the 15th and 16th team to record a podium finish in at least two of the three major tournaments.

Entering ML26, Savage Speeders averaged approximately 10.23 points per event in ML. Following this season, that average has dropped to 9.915, leaving them just 0.096 points per event ahead of the 2nd ranked O’rangers with 9.81.

As well, the Pinkies went from averaging around 8.71 to 9.017 points per event after this season, moving them from 10th to 6th in terms of most points per event among the 18 teams with at least 5 ML appearances.

Snowballs also climbed the all-time points per event rankings as they improved from 8.65 to 8.93 points per event. They rose from 11th place to 8th place.

The biggest drops on the list belong to Green Ducks and Crazy Cat’s Eyes.  The Green Ducks fell from 5th to 9th in all time points per event(9.177 to 8.9), while CCE dropped from 7th to 11th(9.019 to 8.810)

Pinkies become the fourth team to average 10.5 points per event in multiple ML seasons (Equivalent to 126 points from ML16-18 and 168 points from ML19-26). They previously achieved the feat in ML22 and join the Savage Speeders, O’rangers and Midnight Wisps who have each done it 5, 2 and 2 times respectively.

The Pinkies averaged a finishing position of 6.8125 per event, the lowest this season and tied with ML24 Team Momo for the 13th best average in ML history while ranking eighth among seasons since ML19.

Despite recording the worst average finishing position this season at 9.875, the Savage Speeders still averaged under 10 per event. As a result, ML26 is the 2nd ML to have zero teams averaging a finish of 10 or more with the other being ML24.

ML26 also became the 3rd ML in which two teams that did not finish in last place actually had a worse average finishing position than the team in last. The Chocolatiers in last had an average finishing position of 9.4375, while the aforementioned Speeders along with the Kobalts, who had an average finishing position of 9.6875, finished higher than them. The 2 other MLs to accomplish this were ML24 and ML16.

The Savage Speeders become the second team to lead a season in best average finishing position and lead another in worst average finishing position. The other being the Pinkies. The Pinkies had the best average in both ML22 and ML26 while having the worst in ML18. The Savage Speeders meanwhile had the best average in both ML20 and ML23 while having the worst average in ML26. 

The Pinkies also become the third team to have three or more seasons with an average less than 7. They’ve done it in ML17, ML22 and now ML26. The only two other teams who also accomplished the feat are the O’rangers and Savage Speeders. Mellow Yellow and Crazy Cat’s Eyes in 10 and 8 appearances respectively have never done it once.

After Chocolatiers won a bronze medal, they’ve won a bronze medal in all of their ML appearances from ML19 and onwards. They have the most appearances since ML19 to win a bronze medal in each appearance with five. The Gliding Glaciers and Rojo Rollers are the only other teams to do the same while having at least three ML appearances.

Along with that, the Chocolatiers 21-event medal drought, which started from ML24 Event 12, ended this event. That streak ties with the Jawbreakers for 5th longest medal drought ever.

Indigo Stars not only became the fourth team to be top three in the standings in all 16 events, joining ML21 Raspberry Racers, ML23 Savage Speeders and ML25 Oceanics, but also being the only one to be in the top 2 of the standings in all events as well. Despite that, all 4 of those teams would not win their respective tournament with 3 of them failing to win it all after leading in the 15th event.

Stars also broke the previous record held by ML20 O’rangers of 15, for most consecutive events in a season placing top 2 in the standings. Yet both teams would not win their respective tournament.

Pinkies’ silver medal and thus 3rd straight medal marks them as the 22nd instance of a team winning three medals in a row. As well, they’ve become the second team alongside Savage Speeders to do so three different times. They did it from ML22 E2-4, ML25 E11-13 and now ML26 E14-16.

After Team Plasma failed to win gold, it is the first ML since ML17 where zero teams won back-to-back gold medals. The streak has nearly ended multiple times like in ML23 where CCE became the first team to do it in E15-16 as well as Hazers doing it from E12-13 in ML24.

By winning both the first and final events, the Solar Flares became just the third team to accomplish this, with the others being ML20 Minty Maniacs and ML23 Crazy Cat’s Eyes.

The Pinkies became the ninth champion out of 11 to podium in the final event with the two exceptions being ML20 and ML24. As well, they’re the second team to win multiple Marble Leagues, and the first team to win it as the hosts.

They are also the 3rd champion to win it while never leading a single time before the final event with the others being ML17 O’rangers and ML18 Midnight Wisps.

The Indigo Stars led the standings in 10 total events this season, tying the ML22 Pinkies for the most events led in a single ML season. Remarkably, out of the 11 times a team has led in six or more events in a single season, only two would end up winning the title that year with them being the aforementioned ML22 Pinkies as well as ML19 Raspberry Racers.

In total, the Stars have led in 11 ML events over their history, with an additional one from E1 of ML21. They’ve become the sixth team to have led in at least 10 ML events with the other 5 being Oceanics, Pinkies, Raspberry Racers, Savage Speeders and Team Momo. They also join the Oceanics as the only teams to lead in seven or more events without ever winning a single ML.

Raspberry Racers one single led event in E10 ties them with Team Momo for 2nd most led events with 13 in total. They still have a long way to go to top the Speeders with 28.

Solar Flares become the first team to lead an event and then end up in 7th in the final standings.

Indigo Stars, Oceanics and Bumblebees all had 11 top half finishes this season, marking as the first ML where three teams had at least 11 top half finishes in a single season. The previous highest was 2 teams with those happening in ML19, ML20 and ML21.

With the Oceanics 12th place, their 7 event streak of top half finishes comes to an end. Had they gotten another top half finish, they could’ve been the fifth team to have eight or more consecutive top half finishes in a season.

Green Ducks became the fourth team to get the same position in 2 consecutive MLs as they got 14th in ML25 and this ML. The other times it has happened was ML17-18 Savage Speeders who got back-to-back 2nds, ML19-20 Thunderbolts with back-to-back 13th and ML20-21 CCE with back-to-back 5th.

Savage Speeders’ 15th overall finish leaves 11 teams who have appeared in ML who have never finished in the bottom three. Of the 11 teams, six of them have 6 or more ML appearances with those from fewest appearances to most being Hazers(6), Thunderbolts(7), CCE+Team Momo(8) and O’rangers+Raspberry Racers(9).

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts and statistics about Event 15 of ML26 : r/JellesMarbleRuns

(I'm back after what, 2 weeks? Regardless, im posting only the MLS one today and I'll post the ML version tmr though it may come in either 2, maybe 3 parts. For now, i hope you like this.)

The Shining Swarm became the fourth team to win the showdown and then finish bottom 4 in the showdown the following year. The previous three teams to do so are MLS19-20 Snowballs, MLS21-22 Kobalts and MLS23-24 Indigo Stars.

Team Momo finished the season with zero medals, leaving the MLS23 Oceanics as the only MLS team to finish last overall while still winning a medal.

This marked the first MLS season in which both the Shining Swarm and Balls of Chaos failed to win a single medal. Each team has earned at least one medal in every previous MLS appearance. As a result, Wolfpack now hold the record for most MLS appearances, 4, while winning at least one medal every time. The Shining Swarm had previously shared the record with them.

With Wolfpack 1st place, that leaves the Balls of Chaos, Limers, Solar Flares and Jawbreakers as the only active teams to have never finished on the podium in a ML, MLS or M1 tournament. Even when including other tournaments like MLWS, ML All-Stars, MS100 Season 1 and 2, Hubelino, Impact Marble Racing and Iron Marble, none of the four have ever finished in the top 3 in any of them.

Along with that, the Limers and Gliding Glaciers remain the only active teams to have never led the standings at any point across ML, MLS and M1. For context, the Limers and Gliding Glaciers each have 132 and 98 combined ML, MLS and M1 events respectively.

Considering the Jawbreakers were just one point away from getting on the podium, it would be pretty embarrassing for the Balls of Chaos and Limers that a team that hasn’t competed since 2020 would have earned a podium finish before either of them.

O’rangers’ silver medal in this event makes them the 22nd team to win a medal in all three major tournaments, ML, MLS and M1.

After sitting in 16th after E1, the Bolts would finish at 8th overall. With that, they joined MLS21 Snowballs and MLS20 Pinkies as the only teams to have been last in the standings at some point before eventually finishing in the top half. As well, the Bolts are the only ones to do it in the 16-team era starting in MLS22.

Rojo Rollers also join MLS24 Shining Swarm as the only teams to be in 1st place in the standings at least once and then finish in the bottom half with both teams placing 11th in their respective tournaments.

The Wolfpack and Turtle Sliders each had an average position finish per event of 5.5 and 5.667 respectively this season, ranking as the 4th and 5th best average finishing position per event since MLS22. Only the MLS22 Team Plasma(4.375), MLS23 Indigo Stars(4.667) and MLS Shining Swarm(5) posted better averages. It is also the first MLS season in which two teams had an average less than six.

Team Momo on the other hand had an average finishing position per event of 11.5 which ranks as the 2nd worst average in MLS ever. Only the MLS25 Purple Rockets had a worse average of 12.5. 

With Turtle Sliders leading in three events and failing to win the MLS title, they are the third consecutive team to lead the most events in the season while still not winning the title. The Sliders led in four events in MLS25 and Pinkies led in three events in MLS24 but both got 2nd.

The Sliders also have now led the standings in seven MLS events across MLS25 and MLS26 yet also without a single MLS championship. They have the 3rd most led events in MLS history behind the Kobalts and Team Plasma each having more with eight and nine led events respectively.

Rojo Rollers and Wolfpack become the 16th and 17th team to lead an event in MLS with one and two led events respectively. With that, Team Primary, Limers, Minty Maniacs and Solar Flares are the only MLS teams that have been in 28 or more MLS events while also not leading a single event. They have 40, 34, 28 and 28 total MLS events respectively.

With Turtle Sliders finishing 2nd two times in a row, they became the third team to win multiple MLS podiums, the other being Pinkies and Kobalts. They also not only became the seventh instance of a MLS team having two consecutive MLS seasons with top half finishes but they did it twice with their other streak being from MLS22-23 where they finished 4th and 5th. They’re the only team to accomplish that.

Since MLS21, every season has featured at least one team to have gotten a top half finish in at least five or more events. This year’s team was the Jungle Jumpers, who finished in the top half from E2-6. They became the third team to achieve a streak of at least five consecutive top half finishes, joining the MLS23 Indigo Stars who got a top half finish in all six events along with MLS23 Team Primary who, like Jungle Jumpers, also got a top half finish from E2-6.

Along with that, after finishing 5th overall, the Jungle Jumpers have not finished in the bottom 4 of standings in six MLS appearances. No other team currently with even five MLS appearances has accomplished that. The closest right now is the Thunderbolts and Wolfpack with four appearances each.

With Team Momo finishing dead last, there remains five teams who have never finished in the  bottom 3 in either ML or MLS:
(Listed by total ML and MLS appearances)
O’rangers(11)
Thunderbolts(11)
CCE(9)
Hazers(9)
Wolfpack(5)
And yes, the Bolts have never gotten bottom three in both leagues a single time. In fact, the Thunderbolts are the only team with three or more MLS appearances without ever finishing in either the top 4 or bottom 4 of the final MLS standings. Only five other teams have achieved that but none have more than two appearances. The five other teams are CCE, Mellow Yellow, Gliding Glaciers, O’rangers and Team Galactic. Bolts on the other hand have four such appearances where they’ve neither performed well or terrible. Just mid.

The Midnight Wisps’ 14th place finish means they’ve now placed in the bottom 4 in every MLS appearance. Only two other teams, the Oceanics and Turtle Sliders, have matched that total but it took the Sliders six appearances to do so, while the Oceanics at least managed to win a MLS title at the end of it.

As well they’re one of two former champions to get relegated, alongside Team Momo, as well as being the 3rd time a team went from 4th in ML to bottom 4 in the Showdown the next year, the other times being ironically themselves from ML20 to MLS21 and Hazers from ML21 to MLS22.

Wolfpack became the first MLS champion to get 9th place in an event. That leaves 12th through 16th as the only event placements never recorded by an eventual MLS champion.

With the Balls of Chaos finishing 15th and Limers finishing 12th, both teams now have 12 bottom half finishes across ML, M1 and MLS combined. Between them, they have just five total top half finishes in those tournaments. For comparison, the Indigo Stars have six top half finishes despite competing in only nine tournaments compared to the pair’s combined 29.

O’rangers’ 6th place finish makes it their 13th top half finish across ML, MLS and M1, allowing them to overtake Savage Speeders for the most for any team. They now have 13 top half finishes to only four bottom half finishes, meaning 76.47% of their appearances have ended in the top half.

By winning two gold medals, Wolfpack became not only the sixth team in MLS history to win two gold medals in a season but also the second team to do so while going on to win the title, with the other being the MLS20 Kobalts.

The Jawbreakers became the fourth team in MLS history to win four medals in a season, joining the MLS21 Kobalts, MLS22 Team Plasma and MLS25 Hazers. Like the Hazers before them, however, they would also miss out on the podium.

Since the Minty Maniacs avoided finishing 16th in this event, the Balls of Chaos and Hazers are now the only teams with at least three Showdown appearances to have finished last in at least one event in every Showdown they’ve been in.

Despite finishing 16th in E1, the Thunderbolts would finish 8th and become the first ever team to finish in the top half of the final standings while also getting last place in the first event. Every previous team to finish last in the opening ended in the bottom six, with the previous best performing team being ironically the MLS22 Thunderbolts, who got 11th.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts and statistics about Event 14 of ML26 and Event 5 of MLS26

(Managed to put this out before I go on holiday, hope you enjoy it. Next post for E16 and E6 for ML and MLS respectively prob wont come out for a while)

Event 15
The Chocolatiers right now are at 92pts and are at risk of becoming the first team since ML22 Midnight Wisps and Balls of Chaos to get less than 100 pts in the 16 event ML format. Plus, they haven’t won a single medal and are at risk of being the first team since ML22 Midnight Wisps to not win a single medal. 

With the Indigo Stars having a 99.98% chance of getting on the podium, the streak continues of every ML podium having a team on there getting their first ever podium. Last year was the Kobalts and now it's the Stars. It's really impressive considering last year only had 3 teams who didn’t have a single ML podium while this year ML had 4 teams without a single ML podium.

As well, the Stars could be the fourth team to be in the top 3 in the standings after every event in a season alongside ML21 Raspberry Racers, ML23 Savage Speeders and ML25 Oceanics. Plus, they’ve tied with ML20 O’rangers for most consecutive events, 15, for a team in the top 2 in the standings. If they finish 1st or 2nd by the end, they’ll be the first team ever to go an entire ML season without placing 3rd or lower in the standings.

Stars also tie with ML22 Pinkies for most led events in a season with 10. If they win the ML next event, they’ll have a total of 12 lead events in their history, 11 from the ML and the other being from all the way back in ML21. That would tie the Oceanics and Raspberry Racers for 3rd most led events for a team only behind Team Momo with 13 and Speeders with 28.

A win for the Stars in E16 would make them the 2nd team alongside the Kobalts to win both MLS and ML plus make them the 6th team to win in 2 of the 3 main tournaments, ML, MLS and M1. The other 4 being Crazy Cat’s Eyes, Hazers, Kobalts, O’rangers, and Savage Speeders.

The Oceanics continue their streak of top half finishes, going 7 straight events and being the 12th instance of a team getting 7 consecutive top half finishes in a row. They also broke the record for most consecutive top half finishes without a medal with 7, with the previous holder being ML20 O’rangers who went 6 events from E4-9 without a medal while still finishing in the top half in all those events.

As well, the Oceanics become the 4th team to have both a 7 event stretch of bottom half finishes and a 7 event stretch of top half finishes. The other 3 teams being Balls of Chaos, Pinkies and Black Jacks.

The Oceanics right now have 11 top half finishes, if they manage to get a top half finish in the next event, they’ll be the 5th team to get a top half finish in at least 12 events in a season and the first since ML21 Thunderbolts and O’rangers.

Savage Speeders become the 3rd team to score 4 last place finishes in a ML season alongside ML20 Mellow Yellow and ML23 Team Plasma.

After the Speeders got 72pts in the first half, which btw is their 9th consecutive ML season of getting at least 70pts in the first half, they’ve gotten only 39pts in the 7 events afterwards. In all of their MLs since ML19, the fewest pts the Speeders ever got in a single half has been 51 back in ML24. In fact, the fewest pts they’ve ever gotten in a single half from ML16-18, which is 6 events, has been 58pts. So the Speeders are having not only their worst 2nd half performance ever but their worst half performance period.

Indigo Stars 168pts right now is already more than Mellow Yellow, Balls of Chaos, Chocolatiers, Oceanics and Thunderbolts' each personal best for most points in a ML tournament. Plus if the Stars win a gold or silver next medal, they’ll be the first team since ML22 Pinkies to have gotten at least 185pts in a season. 

If Team Plasma doesn't win a gold medal in the next event, it’ll be the first ML since ML17 that not a single team won 2 consecutive gold medals during the season.

Black Jacks get their first ever 7th place in an event and have now gotten every single position at least once. That leaves 9 active teams that have not yet gotten every single position. If the Indigo Stars finish 14th in the next event, then they’ll have gotten every single position.

The Savage Speeders right now are at risk of not only getting the lowest amount of points in a ML ever but break their 8 ML streak of at least 120pts in each appearance. The lowest amount of pts they’ve gotten from ML16-25 has been 125pts in ML24 while from ML19-25, they’ve gotten at least 120pts in all 8 of their appearances. As well, the Crazy Cat’s Eyes have gotten 120pts in 7 of their appearances from ML19-25 and right now, they’re at 116 pts.

With Green Ducks getting a Bronze medal, they’ve gotten their 20th ML medal and becoming the 10th team to win 20 ML medals

With no teams having 6 medals, ML26 is the 2nd ML alongside ML23 to have 0 teams with 6 medals by the end of E15. Plus, if neither Indigo Stars, Pinkies or Snowballs win a medal, it’ll be the first ML since ML17 where no team reached 6 medals.

If Kobalts don’t finish last or Chocolatiers finish 11th or above, not a single team will finish the season with an average finish per event of 10 or more. It would be the 2nd time it has happened, the other being ML24.

If the Pinkies pull off a win, they would be the first ML champion to not lead in any previous events since ML18 Midnight Wisps.

With Snowballs winning Best Captain after this event, they are the first team to have won MVM(In ML25), Best Coach(In ML23) and Best Captain at least once each.

With one final event left, there stands just 5 teams left who can take the trophy home. Here is my personal view of what it would mean for each team if they won it, though if you have a diff take, share it in the comments.

Indigo Stars-A win would mark 2026 as the year for the Indigo Stars. Firstly, their first ever M1 appearance for them after years of requests and they ended with a respectable 9th. Then, they became Iron Marble Champions a month later with Diego as the Iron Marble pts leader. Made their 3rd ML appearance and their first in over 5 years then doubled their total ML medal amount from 3 to 8 with 2 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes. Gogo and Bingo got 2 and 1 individual+duo gold medals respectively along with the first individual medal for Diego. Gogo is 2nd in the MVM race and only 2 pts behind the current leader and Ringo wins Coach of the year with a 11pt gap between him and 2nd place. Plus, they hold the record in Bowling.

And now a 79.74% of winning the entire thing and becoming the 2nd team to win both MLS and ML alongside Kobalts. Not to mention their other stats like tied for most led events in a season, tied for longest streak in a season placing in the top 2 of the standings or going 4 straight events leading by more than 20pts. It is possibly the greatest ML run for a team that hasn’t qualified for at least 4 years, maybe even beating ML25 Kobalts.

Pinkies-A win here would mark them as the first host team to ever win their own tournament along with them becoming the 2nd double ML winner alongside the Savage Speeders. It would also be one of the biggest comebacks as they were 12th after E4 and only been in the top 3 in the standings for 4 events by this point. As well, they would be the first champion to not lead in any previous events since ML18 Midnight Wisps.

With the win, it could also put them as top 3, maybe even best, ML team of the 2020s alongside Raspberry Racers and Crazy Cat’s Eyes as they would have 4 top 6 finishes in the 4 ML appearances this decade. One of the biggest turnarounds for a team ever.

Snowballs-A win would redeem them of their choke back in the final event of ML24 as well as their mini-choke lately of getting only 3 pts in the past 2 events. Thus, winning now would erase that cloud of shame over them. Snowy could also cap off their Best Captain award, an award they won with a 24pt gap between them and 2nd place with it being the 2nd biggest gap for best Captain behind only ML25 Kobalts, with a ML championship. Basically, they want redemption.

Raspberry Racers-A win for them would make them the 2nd double ML winner and possibly make the case for being on the same level as the Speeders for best ML team ever, maybe even better. It would also make them the 3rd team to podium in 3 MLs alongside Mellow Yellow and Savage Speeders alongside having 7 MLs with top half finishes in the standings, tying with O’rangers and Speeders. Basically, it would cement them as one of the top 2 ML teams, over the O’rangers, which is impressive considering they only joined in 2018. Plus, winning it all after being in 13th in the first 3 out of 4 events would be a neat comeback.

Hazers-A win, even as slim of a chance there is, would be one of the biggest comebacks ever as they would be the first champion since ML18 Midnight Wisps to win it all while not ever placing top 2 in the standings once but also coming back from a 22pt deficit, breaking Crazy Cat’s Eyes 19pt comeback back in ML23. As well, a win would mark their 3rd top 2 finish in a tournament in a row alongside their first place finish in M1S6 and 2nd place finish in Iron Marble along with becoming the 2nd team to win a ML and M1 season in the same year, the other being Savage Speeders back in 2020. A win would also show they still got it in ML ever since their 4th place finish all the way back in ML21 and failing to qualify for 3/4 years after that. Plus, beating the Stars after losing in Iron Marble to them by just one point would be a nice comeback.

TLDR if there was a single word to describe each of their storylines:
Indigo Stars: Ascension
Pinkies: Transformation
Snowballs: Redemption
Raspberry Racers: Legacy
Hazers: Resurgence

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts and statistics about Event 13 of ML26

(The MLS part is a bit shorter than other MLS parts but still, pretty normal length post. Hope u enjoy)

Event 14
Hive’s gold medal is the Bumblebees first ever gold medal in an individual or duo event in ML, MLS, M1, MLWS, ML All-Stars, MS100 or MS Season 2. They along with Team Plasma and the recently un-retired Jawbreakers were the only active teams without a gold medal in an individual or duo events in any of the tournaments I just listed.

As well, Hive becomes the 100th unique marble to win a gold medal in an individual or duo event in ML, MLS and M1. 

Hazers from E12-14 went 15th, 1st and now 16th. It is the 5th time that a team has had a gold medal inbetween 2 bottom 3 finishes. The others were ML18 Hazers E4-6(14th,1st,14th), ML19 Midnight Wisps E6-8(16th,1st,15th) and then from E7-9(15th,1st,15th), ML23 Snowballs E4-6(15th,1st,15th) 

With Team Plasma, Chocolatiers and Green Ducks all not yet with 100pts, it is the first ML since ML22 that 3 or more teams by E14 do not have 100pts. Every ML before ML22 had at least 3 teams less than 100pts by E14 and there was at least 2 teams by the end of the season that won less than 100pts so we could potentially see our first sub-100 team in nearly 4 years.

Indigo Stars are just one event away from tying ML20 O’rangers for the longest streak for a team placing in the top 2 in the standings in a single season. They’ve gone 14 straight events being in the top 2 and the closest difference between them and 3rd place throughout the tournament being 5pts, all the way back in E1 when they got 2nd place. 

They also have now led 9 total events which is one away from tying ML22 Pinkies for most led events in a single season. They also have now led in 10 total ML events across their history, becoming the 6th team to have led 10 total events but be the 2nd team to lead in at least 10 ML events and 3 MLS events alongside the Pinkies.

Bumblebees gold medal is their first gold medal in ML, MLS or M1 since ML23 Event 6, all the way back in October 2023. That leaves Team Primary, Jawbreakers and Gliding Glaciers as the only active teams to not win a gold medal in any of the 3 tournaments from 2024 and beyond.

The Oceanics become the 2nd team this season to go 6 straight events with a top half finish in all those 6 events, with their streak being from E9-14. They are the 23rd instance of a team accomplishing such a feat. They also are the 2nd ever team to go at least 6 consecutive events with all top half finishes yet winning 0 medals during that streak. The other being ML18 O’rangers who from E4-9 went 8th, 7th, 7th, 5th, 5th and 4th in that stretch without a single medal.

Team Plasma became the 15th instance of a team going 6 events with a bottom half finish in all those events, with their streak starting from E9. 

The Kobalts since E8 have scored 77pts. If they score at least 9pts in the next 2 events, they’ll break the record for most pts scored in the 2nd half by the last place leader in the first half since ML19. Right now, the record belongs to ML24 Hazers who scored 85pts after only getting 41pts in the 1st half.

With Bumblebees winning their 3rd ML gold, they’ve surpassed the Thunderbolts in terms of gold medals, being the 5th team to do so this ML along with Solar Flares, Indigo Stars, Kobalts and Black Jacks. If Team Plasma somehow wins 2 more, they’ll also surpass the Bolts.

Bumblebees become the 14th team to win 15 total ML medals with their gold, Kobalts win their 8th Silver medal, tying with Mellow Yellow and Hazers for 6th most Silver medals despite only being in 42 events while having 2 more than Team Galactic who have been in 132 events and Pinkies’ Bronze medal puts them 1 bronze medal away from tying Speeder’s total of 13.

As well, Pinkies become the 8th team to win 25 total ML medals. So far, 3 teams have won their 25th ML medal this season, the other being Hazers and Crazy Cat’s Eyes.

Event 5:
With Shining Swarm with 0 medals, this may be their first MLS appearance without a single medal. They’ve gotten a medal in all previous 4 appearances and have been in the most MLS with at least a medal in each appearance. The Wolfpack are the only other team with 4 or more MLS appearances with a medal in all of them.

Minty Maniacs gold leaves 5 teams left who have won a gold medal in only 1 out of the 3 big tournaments, ML, MLS and M1:
Bumblebees(ML)
Gliding Glaciers(ML)
Mellow Yellow(ML)
Wolfpack(MLS)
Jawbreakers(MLS)

Turtle Sliders 10th place breaks their streak of consecutive top half finishes since the start of the season. As well, Balls of Chaos 6th place also breaks their streak of consecutive bottom half finishes since the start of the season. BOC’s streak tie with MLS21 Solar Flares and MLS25 Purple Rockets for longest streak of bottom half finishes from the start of the season with 4 events.

Turtle Sliders have led in 3 events in a row for the 2nd time in a MLS, the other being MLS25. They’re the only teams to accomplish the feat twice. 

Team Primary have a chance to become the 2nd team since MLS22 to place in the top half of the standings while winning 0 medals, the other being MLS23 Team Primary who finished 8th. Rn, they are 2 pts from 8th place so it’s possible.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts and statistics about Event 12 of ML26

(Very short one today, also for the posts for E15 and E16, I may not release them on time as I'm going on vacation during that period but I will eventually post them either together as one single mega-post or separate. Anyway hope you enjoy this one)

Event 13
With Green Ducks still not getting 100pts, it is the 2nd time they’ve yet to do so by Event 13, the other being ML20 when they only did it in Event 16. They’ve gotten 100pts in all 6 previous ML appearances, they need 16 more in the next 3 events to keep the streak alive.

Both Crazy Cat Eyes and Hazers won their 25th ML medal after this event becoming the 6th and 7th team to win 25 or more ML medals. The Hazers won all 25 ML medals in just 89 ML events which is the 2nd fewest events it took for a team to do so, only behind the Savage Speeders who took 73 events. As well, Hazers have won their 10th ML Gold medal, becoming the 4th team to do so and the only team to win 10 ML and 10 M1 gold medals.

With Chocolatiers and Green Ducks without a medal, they become the 12th and 13th instance of a team not winning a single medal in the first 13 events of a ML season since ML19. It is both their 2nd time doing so as Chocolatiers didn’t win a medal till E14 back in ML22 while Green Ducks didn’t win any in ML20. The Balls of Chaos are the only other team to not win a medal in the first 13 events in 2 separate seasons, being ML19 and ML24.

With just 3 events left, it is the 2nd time that no team has won back-to-back gold medals in the first 13 events, with ML23 being the other time. If no team wins 2 consecutive gold medals, it’ll be the first time that has happened since ML17.

The Indigo Stars tie with ML23 Savage Speeders for 2nd most consecutive events for a team in the top 2 in the standings, with 13 straight. Only the ML20 O’rangers have more with 15. As well, they are 3 events away from becoming the 4th team to be in the top 3 after every event.

The Snowballs become the first team this season to get 6 consecutive top half finishes, with them doing so from E8-13. They become the 21st instance of a team accomplishing it. As well, the Oceanics are on a 5 event streak of top half finishes as well

On the other hand, Team Plasma right now is on a 5 event streak of bottom half finishes. If they finish in the bottom half next event, they’ll be the 15th instance of a team getting 6 or more consecutive bottom half finishes.

With Mellow Yellow’s 15th place finish, they’re the only team to appear in all Underwater Race events in a ML season and not finish in the top 10. Their previous finishes are 15th in ML17 and 11th in ML19. 

With all top 6 teams in the standings having a gold medal, it is the first time since ML19 that the top 6 teams after E13 all have had at least one gold medal. ML25: Kobalts and Bumblebees had 0 gold medals, ML24: Black Jacks and Wolfpack, ML23: Savage Speeders, ML22: Bumblebees, ML21: Thunderbolts, ML20: Team Galactic. Also the 2nd ML alongside ML22 to have 4 teams with at least 2 gold medals in the top 5.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 11 of ML26 and Event 4 of MLS26

(Alot more than the last 2 posts, hope you enjoy it)

Event 12
With Black Jacks winning their 3rd gold in ML along with Kobalts winning silver, every time that Black Jacks have won a gold medal, the Kobalts have also won silver in the same event. Every event where Black Jacks won a gold in:
ML25 E10, Block Pushing
ML25 E13, Sand Moguls
ML26 E12, Archery 
All resulted in the Kobalts winning a silver medal as well

The lowest score in the ML17 edition of Archery was 30.5 by the Oceanics. In the ML26 version, only 7 teams were able to beat that, and Black Jacks 33.5 would only net them an 8th place if their results were put in ML17. In fact, the lowest score a single marble got in ML17 was 5.5 accomplished by Momomo. In ML26, 15 marbles alone either tied or got less than 5.5. Savage Speeders had all of their marbles get 6 or less. In ML17, no team even had more than 1 marble get 6.5 or less.

Compared with the 5 teams that participated in both ML17 and ML26, none of those teams outscored their ML17 points. 
Each of the 5 teams difference between ML17 and ML16:[Diff][ML17 total-ML26 total]
Oceanics-0.5 (30.5-30.0)
Mellow Yellow-2 (32.5-30.5)
Pinkies-5 (34.5-29.5)
Chocolatiers-15 (37.5-22.5)
Savage Speeders-15 (32.0-17.0)

With Black Jacks winning their 3rd ML gold, they’ve surpassed the Thunderbolts in terms of gold medals, being the 4th team to do so this ML along with Solar Flares, Indigo Stars and Kobalts. If the Bumblebees win 1 more gold or Team Plasma wins 2 more, they’ll also surpass the Bolts.

Not a single team so far has gotten more than 3 of the same medal. The only other ML where no team has gotten at least 3 of the same medal by E12 was ML23. It took until E14 in ML23 for a team to win at least 3 of the same medal, being Crazy Cat’s Eyes with 3 Bronzes.

With Raspberry Racers crossing 130pts, they’ve gotten at least 130pts in all 8 of their ML appearances since 2019. There’s only 1 other team who’ve gotten 130pts in at least all of their 4 or more ML appearances, with that being the O’rangers with 6. As well, the Savage Speeders and Crazy Cat’s Eyes have 4 more events to score 120pts to keep their 8 and 7 ML appearance streak of getting at least 120pts in all of their ML appearances alive.

Black Jacks placed 11th in the overall standings, the first time they’ve ever done so in a ML tournament.

Indigo Stars remain in the top 2 of the standings once again continuing their 12 event streak and now just 1 event shy of tying ML23 Savage Speeders for longest consecutive event streak of being top 2 in the standings. They’ve also become the 5th team to be on the podium after every event for 12 consecutive events since the start, with the others being ML21 Raspberry Racers, ML23 Savage Speeders, ML25 Oceanics and ML25 Midnight Wisps.

With Snowballs leading for the 2nd time since E3, over 8 events ago, that ties for the 2nd longest gap between leading 2 separate events for a team in a single season. The record for the biggest gap between 2 led events is ML23 Crazy Cat’s Eyes who had a 12 event gap between E3 and E16. The other team to have an 8 event gap like the Snowballs being ML21 Raspberry Racers who led in E4 and 13. 

Indigo Stars’ 138pts surpass their highest pt total back in ML21 which was 133pts. 

If the Green Ducks don’t score 27 more pts in the next 4 events, it’ll be the first time they fail to win 100pts in a ML.

The Snowballs right now are on a 5-event streak of top half finishes with the streak beginning in E8. If they get one more top half finish in the next event, it’ll be the 22nd instance of a team accomplishing it and the first instance of it happening this ML.

Despite both Black Jacks and Snowballs sharing the podium in ML24, it is the first time that both teams shared the podium for an event.

It is also the Kobalts 7th silver medal in ML, more than the Bumblebees, Chocolatiers, Oceanics, Thunderbolts, Crazy Cat’s Eyes and Team Galactic each have in their history. For perspective, Kobalts have only participated in 40 ML events meaning they’ve gotten a silver in 17.5% of their events while Team Galactic in 132 ML events have only gotten 6 silver medals or 4.55% of their events.

In the past 4 events, Snowballs scored a total of 72 events thus marking the 3rd time this season that a team has scored 70 or more pts in a single quarter.(Quarters being E1-4, E5-8, E9-12, E13-16) The other 2 teams to do so this season were Raspberry Racers in the 2nd quarter where they got 75pts while Indigo Stars got 71pts in the 1st quarter. That also ties with ML20 for most times it has happened in a season where O’rangers, Minty Maniacs and Savage Speeders all accomplished it. Snowballs’ 72pts rank as the 3rd most pts scored in the 3rd quarter behind only ML21 Mellow Yellow with 73pts and ML20 Savage Speeders who scored 77pts.

As well, Chocolatiers 11pts across the 3rd quarter ties with ML18 Pinkies for the 2nd least pts in the 3rd quarter. It also ties with 5 other teams as the 13th least amount of points scored in any quarter.

The Snowballs now have 19 ML medals in 84 events and thus 1 medal away from being the 10th team to get 20 ML medals as well as being the 2nd team to win at least 15 ML medals, 10 M1 medals and 5 MLS medals, with the other team being the Hazers. They also have more ML medals than Team Galactic despite participating in over 48 less events, 3 ML seasons worth, than them. The Green Ducks are also 1 medal away from 20 ML medals so rn its a battle between the 2 teams to who can get to it first. 

In the past 35 ML events, the Green Ducks have won 1 medal while for Snowballs, in their last 35 events, they’ve won 10 medals or 28.57% of the 35 events.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 10 of ML26

(Not alot this time, mostly due to me not having that much time to make these posts as well as there not being that many facts. Still hope you enjoy it)

ML26 Event 11
With Black Jacks getting a 14th, they become the 13th instance of a team getting at least 3 consecutive bottom 3 finishes in ML. From E9-11, they got 14th,15th and 14th. The Kobalts accomplished the feat as well earlier from E5-7 with 15th, 15th and 14th.

The Chocolatiers and Green Ducks continue their streak of 0 medals so far. They have 5 more events to get at least once if they don’t want to become the first team since ML22 Midnight Wisps to win 0 medals in a season. As well, if the Chocolatiers don’t win a medal, it’ll be the first time they've never won a medal in a ML or MLS season. In 9 combined ML and MLS seasons, they’ve gotten at least a medal in all of those appearances.

With Indigo Stars still in the top 2 in the standings, they now hold the record for 2nd longest event streak for a team to be in the top 2 in the standings, they’ve passed ML19 Raspberry Racers and are now 2 away from tying with ML23 Savage Speeders who have 13.

It is also the Indigo Stars 8th led event this season with their career total being 9. They are just one event away from being the 6th team to have led 10 or more events across their history. The O’rangers rn have 9 led events meaning the Indigo Stars could lead more events in 3 MLs than O’rangers 9.

The Solars get their first 11th place finish in an event along with Team Plasma getting their first 15th place finish. With that, every active team has gotten 11th place in a ML, I specify active as the Quicksilvers never got 11th place, while every team, both active and retired, have now gotten 15th place in a ML.

MLS26 Event 4
If Thunderbolts manage to finish on the podium in MLS, it will be the first time since ML16 that they’ve done it. Since the end of ML16, over 29 teams(Including the retired Hornets) have podiumed in a ML, MLS or M1 tournament.

As well, with the Thunderbolts winning a gold medal, they become the 11th team to win a gold medal in ML, MLS and M1 joining the Chocolatiers, Crazy Cat’s Eyes, Green Ducks, Hazers, Kobalts, Midnight Wisps, Snowballs, Team Galactic, Team Momo and Team Primary.

Ever since MLS had 16 teams back in MLS22, the team that got 16th in the first event has finished in the bottom 6 every time with the highest placed team being ironically, the MLS22 Thunderbolts who got 11th. In fact, there have only been 2 teams who finished on the MLS podium while getting a bottom half finish in the first event, MLS19 Rojo Rollers who got 7th in E1 and MLS22 Team Momo who got 14th.

Turtle Sliders and Balls of Chaos could both break a record for lowest average finish per event and highest average finish per event respectively. Turtle Sliders have not yet gotten a bottom half finish in any of their 4 events, with the lowest being 2 5th places. Since 16 teams were introduced to MLS, only the MLS24 Pinkies and MLS22 Team Plasma have gone 4 straight events with top 5 finishes since the start of the season. Their avg finish per event rn of 3.75 is the lowest average for any team since MLS22 with the closest being 4.375 by MLS22 Team Plasma.

As for Balls of Chaos, its more grim as they’ve tied MLS25 Purple Rockets and MLS21 Solar Flares for most consecutive bottom half finishes since the start of the season with 4. They’ve also become the 7th instance of a team having 2 last place finishes in a MLS season, joining the MLS25 Purple Rockets, MLS24 Indigo Stars, MLS23 Balls of Chaos, MLS22 Solar Flares, MLS21 Balls of Chaos, MLS21 Snowballs and MLS19 Limers. That's right, in all 3 MLS appearances for the Balls of Chaos, they’ve gotten a last place finish at least twice in each of them. No other team has even done it twice. Rn, their avg finish is 13.75 which is miles away from the closest team of MLS25 Purple Rockets who had an avg of 12.5.

With the Turtle Sliders leading after the event, they have 6 total MLS events which they’ve led in. They have the most led events for any MLS team without a single championship. There are only 2 other teams with more led events being Kobalts and Team Plasma and both won an MLS tournament.

The Thunderbolts gold medal in this event is their first gold medal across ML, MLS and M1 since 10 July 2022 in M1S3 Race 9. 1425 days or 3 years, 10 months and 25 days. And yes the 3000+ ML day streak continues but now at least, we’re free from one streak. As well, that leaves the Gliding Glaciers, Minty Maniacs and Jawbreakers as the only active teams to not yet win a gold medal in any of the 3 tournaments since the end of 2022.

The Jawbreakers have won 3 medals in the first 4 events so far, becoming the 6th time a team has done so with the other being MLS22 Team Plasma, MLS21 Kobalts, MLS20 Jungle Jumpers, MLS19 Snowballs and MLS19 Hornets though all the teams from MLS19-21 benefit from only having 12 teams participating. As well, they, along with the Hornets, are the only ones to do it without winning a gold medal

It has been 3 years, 10 months and 26 days since our last gold medal in ML, MLS or M1 and our first gold medal in MLS ever. Idc if we somehow manage to place bottom half, the wait is over

I've been waiting for ts for so long and now we have it. No more mockery or "Blunderbolts" jokes for just one day.

FOR TONIGHT, THE BOLTS HAVE WON A BLOODY GOLD MEDAL!!!

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 9 of ML26 and Event 3 of MLS26

(Very short one today as I have exams coming up so the posts for E11-13 will prob be shorter than usual. But I'll make sure they're all published at least. Anyway, hope you enjoy the post)

Event 10
With the Snowballs getting 100pts, it is the first ever they’ve gotten 100pts in 10 events or less. They had the 3rd most ML appearances for a team to have only gotten 100 or more points in a season from Event 11 and onwards. The Balls of Chaos and Chocolatiers are the other teams who have more ML appearances than them and also never gotten 100pts by E10 or earlier, with 7 and 6 appearances respectively.

Team Plasma got their first 10th place in their ML career. That leaves Jawbreakers and Wolfpack as the only active teams to not yet have gotten a 10th place in a ML.

The Indigo Stars despite now out of 1st place, are still in 2nd, meaning they continue their 10 event streak of being top 2 in the standings which ties with ML19 Raspberry Racers and ML21 Team Momo for 2nd longest streak in a single season.

Indigo Stars’ 6 event streak of being 1st in the standings also comes to an end. They could’ve tied with ML17 Savage Speeders and ML21 Team Momo for the most consecutive led events in a season with 7 but they still have the 2nd-most led events in a row.

It is also the Raspberry Racers first time leading in the standings since Event 15 of ML21. They held the record for the 2nd longest drought for a former ML champion since their last led event, only beaten by the O’rangers who haven’t led an event since ML20 E14.

The Kobalts were just one bottom half finish away from having 6 consecutive events with a bottom half finish in all of them. Thankfully, they managed to get a gold and erase the streak.

In the Indigo Stars first 5 events, they had an average finish per event of 4.4 and 86pts. Over the next 5 events, they had an average finish per event of 10.6 and 29pts. Their average finish per event across the 10 events jumped to 7.5 after E6-10, worse than the Pinkies and Snowballs. The Raspberry Racers on the other hand had an average finish per event of 9.2 in their first 5 events and an average of 4.6 from E6-10, making their average now 6.9.
 
Black Jacks’ 63pts breaks the record for lowest points for the 16th place team after E10, the previous high was ML23 Thunderbolts with 58pts. That also means this is the first ML to have all 16 teams get 60pts or more by Event 10. It also is the 2nd time that no teams would have more than 120pts or less than 50pts by E10, the other being ML18 when the highest was Oceanics with 111pts and the lowest was Minty Maniacs and Mellow Yellow tied at 54.

(For Bolts fans and I guess also haters)With Kobalts winning their 3rd ML gold, three teams this year have surpassed the Bolts ML gold medal count of 2. Solar Flares, Indigo Stars and Kobalts. The Gliding Glaciers, Team Plasma, Jawbreakers and Wolfpack are the only active teams who’ve appeared in a ML and have less golds. Bumblebees, Limers, Black Jacks and Team Primary all have 2 gold medals. 

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about ML26 Halftime(Part 1)

(Much shorter one ts time after I got worn down having to compile all the fun facts for the big Halftime post. Still hope you enjoy it)

ML26 Event 9
This is the first time the Snowballs and Mellow Yellow have podiumed together in a ML event. Despite appearing together in 5 MLs and 64 events before Event 9, they’ve never once been on the podium together. Until now.

Kobalts rn have a 5 event streak of bottom half finishes. If they finish in Event 10 in the bottom half, they’ll be the 15th team to have gone 6 or more consecutive events without a single top half finish in a single ML season.

Indigo Stars have been in the top 2 in the standings for 9 events now, which is the 5th longest streak of consecutive events a team has spent in the top 2. It is only beaten by ML19 Raspberry Racers and ML21 Team Momo, both with 10, ML23 Savage Speeders with 13 and ML20 O’rangers with 15.

They’ve also led in 7 events so far, which ties with ML17 Savage Speeders, ML19 Raspberry Racers and ML23 Savage Speeders for the 4th most events led in a single season.

Black Jacks placed 15th in the overall standings, the first time they’ve ever done so in a ML tournament and thus making them the 15th team to have been in every overall position in the standings after an event, and the 4th team this season to accomplish it, the other thre being Green Ducks, Savage Speeders and Crazy Cat’s Eyes.

In the standings, the Solar Flares, Crazy Cat’s Eyes and Black Jacks all tied with 73pts. It is the 3rd time that there's been 2 consecutive events where 3 teams tied in both as in the last event, the Hazers, Mellow Yellow and Bumblebees all tied with 73pts. The other 3 times it happened was ML21 E4-5, ML19 E6-7. So far this season, we’ve seen 4 teams tied in the standings, which has never happened before, back in E2 as well as the first time ever that the exact same 2 teams tied in the standings in 2 different events in the same season which happened in E4 and 8 when the Hazers, Mellow Yellow and Bumblebees tied each other in both events.

From E1-6, the Indigo Stars had an average finish per event of 4.667 which was better than ML19 Raspberry Racers’ average finish per event which is the lowest avg for any team in a single ML season. In the next 3 events, it jumped all the way to 7 after an 8th, 11th and 16th.

MLS26 Event 3
This is a list of every team in the bottom 4 halfway through each Showdown:(9th-12th from MLS19-21/13th-16th from MLS22-25)

Bold-Number of teams that ended up surviving bottom four, (#th)-Their final position

MLS19:Bumblebees(7th), Kobalts(10th), Minty Maniacs(8th), Limers(12th)

MLS20: Shining Swarm(4th)+Turtle Sliders(9th)[Both tied at 8th after E2], Limers(11th), Pinkies(5th), Jawbreakers(12th)

MLS21: Jungle Jumpers(8th), Oceanics(11th), Snowballs(6th), Solar Flares(12th)

MLS22: Jungle Jumpers(12th), Snowballs(10th), Oceanics(16th), Kobalts(14th)

MLS23: Hazers(10th), Kobalts(7th), Purple Rockets(15th), Solar Flares(12th)

MLS24: Orangers(10th), Rojo Rollers(4th), Thunderbolts(12th), Indigo Stars(16th)

MLS25: Rojo Rollers(15th), Wolfpack(9th), Minty Maniacs(13th), Purple Rockets(16th)

MLS26: Midnight Wisps, Gliding Glaciers, Team Momo, Balls Of Chaos (?)

As shown, an average of 2.14 teams from the bottom 4 finish outside it from MLS19-25. If you only take MLS23-25 since its the same format as MLS26, an average of 2.33 teams finish outside the bottom 4. As well, 4 teams that were in the bottom 4 managed to finish in the top 6 by the end with the most recent being MLS24 Rojo Rollers who were 14th after 3 events but finished 4th. So rn, its not over for the 4 teams stuck in the bottom.

With the Thunderbolts getting 6th, it’s the first time they’ve gotten 2 consecutive top-6 finishes in a ML, MLS or M1 season since ML23 Event 10-11. Over 2 years and 6 months ago.

Jungle Jumpers Silver medal is their first medal in ML, MLS or M1 since ML24 Event 16, December 2024. With that, every single team has gotten a medal in one of the three tournaments since 2025. Before MLS26, both the Jungle Jumpers and Thunderbolts hadn't won a single medal in all 3 tournaments in 2025 or 2026. Now, both have won one.

Turtle Sliders and the Wolfpack have not placed bottom half in an event so far while Team Momo and the Balls of Chaos have yet to place top half in an event. The Turtle Sliders in fact have not placed outside the top 5 while Team Momo have not placed outside the bottom 5. So it’s no surprise when Turtle Sliders have an average finish per event of 3.33 while Team Momo’s average is 12.667.

First part: Interesting facts about ML26 Halftime(Part 1)

(If you are confused about anything, just comment below)

Event 8(Part 2)

Team Plasma 3rd place means that every single active team aside the Jawbreakers have gotten a Bronze medal in the ML at least once.

Kobalts’ 38pts at the end of the first half also makes it the 3rd time in the 4 most recent MLs that the last place team by halftime got 38pts. The other 2 were the ML23 Thunderbolts and ML25 Limers. Also, ML20 Mellow Yellow remains as the last time that a team got less than 35pts after the first 8 events.

Kobalts also became the 11th instance of a team scoring less than 40pts in the first 8 events. Bad news for the Kobalts, 9 of the other 10 instances resulted in a bottom 4 finish, with only the ML20 Oceanics finishing 10th.

Indigo Stars won 4 medals in a 5 event stretch from E1 to E5 which is the 6th instance time it has happened with the other 5 times being ML20 Savage Speeders(E1-5), ML21 Team Momo(E3-7), ML22 Shining Swarm(E10-14/11-15) and ML23 Savage Speeders(E10-14)+(E11-15), ML25 Kobalts(E6-10)
F
With Crazy Cat’s Eyes placing 13th in the standings after the event, it is the first time they’ve gotten bottom half in the standings by the end of the first half of a season since 2021. As well, Kobalts finished 16th and thus every single team, active and retired, who have appeared in a ML has placed in the bottom half at least once in the standings by the end of the 1st half in a ML season.

Both Team Plasma and Indigo Stars placed 8th and 1st respectively, finishing in the top half by the halftime of a ML season for the first time ever. That just leaves the Gliding Glaciers, Solar Flares and Team Primary to never once be in the top half by halftime ever.

Raspberry Racers become not only the 21st instance of a team winning 3 or more consecutive medals in a single ML season but the 8th time a team won 3 consecutive medals with 2 of those medals in the streak being gold. The 7 other times it has happened are:
Minty Maniacs(ML20 Event 1-3)(3rd)
O’rangers(ML20 Event 2-4)(2nd)
Savage Speeders(ML20 Event 10-12)(1st)
Mellow Yellow(ML21 Event 10-12)(1st)
Bumblebees(ML23 Event 4-6)(2nd)
Crazy Cat’s Eyes(ML23 Event 14-16)(1st)
Solar Flares(ML24 Event 8-10)(7th)

With Indigo Stars' 20pt lead finally ended, we can look back on how dominant they were from E4-7. They were not only the second team to have 3 or more events where they led by 20pts or more, joined only by the ML17 Savage Speeders, but had 3 events leading by 25pts. Before then, there were only 4 total events where a team has done that. As well, they had 4 consecutive events leading by 20, only 2 other times has a team even had 2 consecutive events doing that, nonetheless 4. On average, they lead by 28.25pts across those 4 events. If we compare that to ML17 Savage Speeders 4 events, they only led by an avg of 24pts. Even if we include every time a team led by 15pts or more, Indigo Stars would have the 2nd longest streak of events leading by 15+pts, beaten only by ML17 Savage Speeders E6-10. Interestingly, the Savage Speeders total pts lead over that 5 event stretch was 114pts. The Star’s 4 event stretch total pt lead was 113pts. Despite having one more event, they still are only 1 pt ahead.

With their 14th silver medal, the Savage Speeders have a total of 42 ML medals. Their lead on the medal count over 2nd place Raspberry Racer is 10 meaning that even if the Racers podium every event and the Speeders don't, they will still lead the medal count by 2.

The Raspberry Racers won their 10th gold medal and their 32nd ML medal. They become the 2nd team to win at least 10 golds, silvers and bronzes across ML. The other team of course is the Savage Speeders.

Team Plasma gets their first Bronze medal meaning they officially have at least one Gold, Silver and Bronze medal. The only active teams to have been in a ML but don’t have the full set are the Jungle Jumpers, Jawbreakers and the Wolfpack. The Jungle Jumpers is surprising as they have 10 total medals yet 0 silver medals while Jawbreakers have 2 silver medals, but no Gold or Bronze. Wolfpack just doesn’t have a single Gold.

With Team Plasma getting 70pts as of right now, they have beaten the Wolfpack in ML pts and makes the Wolfpack the active team with the fewest ML pts with only 135pts.

Hazers break their 18 consecutive event streak of being in the bottom 8 in the championship standings. Their streak started in Event 1 of ML24 and lasted till ML26 Event 2. It ranks as the 10th longest streak for a team ever.

With Crazy Cat’s Eyes placing 9th after E2, they break their 20 consecutive event streak of being in the top 8 of the championship standings in ML. Their streak lasted from ML23 Event 14 to ML26 Event 1 and is the 7th longest in history. Oceanics also broke their streak of 18 consecutive events after placing 15th in the standings after E3. Rn, the longest active streak now belongs to the Midnight Wisps with 17 consecutive events. 

There have been 3 times so far that a team has dropped 6 places or more after an event:
Chocolatiers dropped 6 spots in the standings from 7th to 13th in Event 5
Oceanics dropped 8 spots in the standings from 7th to 15th in Event 3
Savage Speeders dropped 6 spots in the standings from 9th to 15th in Event 2

This is the not only the 2nd time we saw 3 separate instances of a team dropping down 6 spots in a single season with the only other time being ML25, not only is it the first time we had 2 consecutive events where a team dropped by 6 spots or more, but Oceanics dropping by 8 spots breaks the record for most positions lost after an event. The previous record was 7 held by ML17 Team Momo in E2, ML21 O’rangers in E2 and ML25 Pinkies and ML25 Team Momo also in E2. 

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 7 of ML26

2nd part: Interesting facts about ML26 Halftime(Part 2)

(I would usually have ts as a single post but I got so many facts that I have to break ts up in 2 posts so thats why theres a part 1 and 2. If you are confused about anything, just comment below)

Event 8(Part 1)

Hazers, Mellow Yellow, Bumblebees all tied at 36pts in Event 4. 4 events later in Event 8, the Hazers, Mellow Yellow and Bumblebees are tied at 73pts. Not only is that the 18th and 19th time 3 teams or more were tied in the standings after an event, not only is it the 4th ML to have multiple events where that happened but it is the first time ever that the exact same 3 teams tied in the standings in 2 diff events in the same season. Previous times where it nearly happened:(At least 2 same teams in both events)
ML19 E4(Jungle Jumpers, Balls of Chaos, Indigo Stars) and E6(O’rangers, Jungle Jumpers, Indigo Stars)
ML19 E7(Savage Speeders, Crazy Cat’s Eyes, Mellow Yellow) and E12(Midnight Wisps, Crazy Cat’s Eyes, Mellow Yellow)

Team Plasma’s Bronze is their first medal in a ML since November, 2023, ML23 Event 13. That leaves the Jawbreakers, Minty Maniacs, Rojo Rollers, Shining Swarm, Team Primary and the Thunderbolts as the only active teams to not yet win a medal in ML since the end of ML23.

Indigo Stars’ 109pts ranks as the 5th most pts for a team in the first 8 events from ML16-26 and the 7th most pts in either 1st or 2nd half from ML19-26. For comparison, in their previous 2 MLs, their combined pts after 8 events were 111(47 in ML19 and 64 in ML21).

Kobalts’ 38pts also ties for the 8th fewest pts for a team in the first 8 events from ML16-26 as well also tie for 8th for the fewest pts in either 1st or 2nd half from ML19-26.

What I find more interesting is Raspberry Racers’ 2nd quarter, E5-8. After getting only 26pts and finishing 13th in the standings after E4 with an average finish per event of 10, they would then score 75 total pts across the next 4 events after winning 3 medals in a row, 2 of them gold. They had an average finish per event during that time of 2.75. 

Their 75pts ties with ML20 Minty Maniacs first quarter as the 4th most pts in a single quarter being only surpassed by ML20 O’rangers, Q1 and ML25 Kobalts, Q4 with 76pts each as well as ML20 Savage Speeders, Q3 with 77pts. It also broke the record that was held by ML17 Savage Speeders, ML21 Team Momo, ML24 Chocolatiers and ML25 Mellow Yellow, who all tied with 67pts, for the most pts scored in the 2nd quarter. Raspberry Racers’ previous high in total pts in a single quarter was 65 pts back in ML22 in the 2nd quarter as well. This also means that ML26 becomes the 2nd ML to feature 2 different teams getting 70+pts in a single quarter, with the other being Indigo Stars getting 71pts in Q1, the other time it happened was ML20 where they had 3 separate teams that accomplished it.

After Event 5, the Raspberry Racers were 50pts behind the Indigo Stars. Over the course of 3 events, they cut the deficit down to just 8 as they outscored them 65pts to Stars’ 23pts.

Kobalts also tied for the 9th fewest points in a quarter with 10 total pts. That is also the 4th fewest pts in the 2nd quarter only beaten by ML16 Oceanics, ML17 Team Primary and ML22 Midnight Wisps. The previous lowest points the Kobalts scored in a single quarter was 17pts in ML25 in the first quarter.

Raspberry Racers reached 100+pts in this event, becoming the 14th instance of a team getting 100 or more points by Event 8 or earlier. Not only that, but they are the first team to accomplish the feat in 3 different MLs. Their other 2 times were ML19 and ML21, both by Event 8. Thus, they account for 21.4% of all instances this has been accomplished, with only the Savage Speeders and Midnight Wisps accomplishing it 2 times.

Raspberry Racers are also just 29pts away from 8 consecutive ML appearances since ML19 to score at least 130pts in each one. The only one with more than 3 ML appearances scoring at least 130pts in all of them is the O’rangers with 6.

With Chocolatiers not yet having a medal, it is the 2nd time in their 7 ML appearances that they didn’t win a single medal in the first half. The other time was ML22, where they got 14th.

Indigo Stars became the 11th instance of a team leading in 6 or more events in a season as well as the 8th team to lead in 4 or more events in a row. They are not only the 6th instance to accomplish both in one season, but the first and only one to accomplish both of them in the first 8 events.

They’ve led in 6 events in the first half, holding the record for most led events in the first 8 events, with the previous record holders, ML20 Minty Maniacs, ML21 Team Momo and ML22 Pinkies all only leading 5.

They also now have led 7 total events across their ML career, more than Team Galactic, Minty Maniacs, Thunderbolts, Midnight Wisps, Green Ducks and the Bumblebees each have.

Indigo Stars have been in the top 2 of the standings for 8 consecutive events so far, it breaks the record for longest streak of being in the top 2 since the first event of the season. ML25 Oceanics previously held the record of 7 events.

Plus, they also are the 8th time that a team has been in the top 2 in the standings for 8 or more consecutive events in a single season. Unfortunately, only 1 of the 8 times has resulted in a championship with that being ML19 Raspberry Racers who were in the top 2 from Event 7 to 16.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 6 of ML26 and Event 2 of MLS26

(Alot less than usual but the post for E8 will be alot more, promise u that. Ts just mostly a Star's glazing post really.)

Event 7
13 times in ML history has a team led an event by 20pts or more, Indigo Stars count for 4 of them. Only the Savage Speeders and O’rangers have multiple events leading by 20+pts, Speeders with 4 events and O’rangers with 2 events.

In fact there's been only 7 times that a team has led by 25pts or more, Indigo Stars are 3 of those times. All from E5-7, the only other time a team has led in consecutive events by 25pts were the Speeders from E9-10 when they led by 27 and 25 pts respectively.

In both the ML19 and ML26 5 Meter Sprint events, Yellow and Smoggy would each win gold and silver respectively in the 2 events. 

Indigo Stars join the ML17 Savage Speeders, ML20 O’rangers and ML21 Team Momo as the only teams to get 100 or more pts by Event 7 or earlier.

As well, they are the 10th team to get 100 or more pts by Event 8 or earlier. Here is a list of teams with 6 or more ML appearances who have never accomplished it once. Mellow Yellow, Team Galactic, Balls of Chaos, Chocolatiers, Oceanics, Bumblebees, Hazers and Snowballs

Indigo Stars have now led in 4 consecutive events. Not only is that the 8th time a team has ever led in 4 or more events in a row, before this event, it hadn't happened since ML22 when the Pinkies did it from E12-16. They are the 6th team in ML history to accomplish the feat. This is a list of every team to lead in 6 or more events without reaching 4 consecutive led events, Crazy Cat’s Eyes, Mellow Yellow, Minty Maniacs, Oceanics, Team Galactic and Thunderbolts.

Indigo Stars tie with the ML25 Oceanics for the longest consecutive events being in the top 2 in the standings from the start of the season. And considering that they are 28pts ahead of 2nd place, they’ll break the Oceanics’ record and join the following teams as the only ones to be top 2 in the standings for 8 events or more.
ML17 Savage Speeders(E5-12)
ML19 Raspberry Racers(E7-16)
ML20 O’rangers(E2-16)
ML21 Team Momo(E3-12)
ML21 Raspberry Racers(E4-11)
ML23 Savage Speeders(E3-15)
ML23 Bumblebees(E9-16)

Solar Flares and Team Plasma have placed 9th and 10th in the standings after an event for the first time in their history respectively. That means that every team, except for the Hornets have placed 9th in the standings after an event.

Indigo Stars’ 104pts is the 3rd most for any team in Event 7, behind only ML21 Team Momo with 108pts and ML20 O’rangers with 105pts. That kicks ML19 Green Ducks’ 98pts off the top 5 list.

With Mellow Yellow getting 1st after placing 16th, they’re the 7th instance of that happening and the first time it has happened since ML21. The other 6 times were 
ML16 Team Momo E9-10
ML16 Rojo Rollers E6-7
ML18 Limers E7-8
ML19 Midnight Wisps E6-7
ML20 Hazers E7-8
ML21 Green Ducks E1-2
They seem to really happen around the Event 6-8 range.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 5 of ML26 : r/JellesMarbleRuns

ML26 Event 6
Indigo Stars’ avg finish per event of 4.667 avg tie with the ML16 Thunderbolts for 7th best avg finish per event in the first 6 events. The 6 ahead of the Stars are:
ML21 Team Momo-4.5
ML20 Minty Maniacs-4.5
ML17 Savage Speeders-4.33
ML23 Savage Speeders-4
ML20 Crazy Cat’s Eyes-3.667
ML19 Green Ducks-3.667

Indigo Stars 96pts breaks the record for most pts by Event 6. The previous list from 1-5 were the ML17 Savage Speeders, 92pts, ML20 Minty Maniacs, 91pts and the ML19 Green Ducks, ML20 O’rangers and ML20 Crazy Cat’s Eyes all tied at 90pts.

Another interesting fact is that every team who had 85pts or more by event 6 never won their respective championship:
ML25 Oceanics(87pts, 2nd)
ML23 Bumblebees(89pts, 2nd)
ML23 Savage Speeders(88pts, 3rd)
ML20 Minty Maniacs(91pts, 3rd)
ML20 O’rangers(90pts, 2nd)
ML20 Crazy Cat’s Eyes(90pts, 5th)
ML19 Green Ducks(90pts, 2nd)
ML17 Savage Speeders(92pts, 2nd)
ML16 Thunderbolts(86pts, 3rd)

With Crazy Cat’s Eyes placing 8th in the standings after E6, they’ve placed 8th after an event in 7/8 of the MLs they’ve been in. The only one they’ve never been in 8th was ML20.

Black Jacks have also placed 14th in the standings after an event for the first time. The only position they’ve yet to be in is 15th.

With Indigo Stars still never placing out of the top 3 after every event, they join ML20 Minty Maniacs, ML21 Raspberry Racers, ML23 Savage Speeders and ML23 Crazy Cat’s Eyes, ML25 Oceanics and ML25 Midnight Wisps as the 7th team to stay in the top 3 in the first 6 events. The Stars, ML20 Minty Maniacs and ML25 Oceanics are also the only teams to be in the top 2 after every event in the first 6 events. Those Minties finished 3rd, the Oceanics finished 2nd and perhaps the Stars will finish 1st to finish the cycle.

Indigo Stars are the first ever team to lead from E4-6. No team has ever led in those 3 events consecutively. In fact, with them leading in 4 out of the first 6 events, they join ML25 Oceanics, ML19 Savage Speeders and ML20 Minty Maniacs to lead in at least 4 of the first 6 events.

Indigo Stars now have led 5 total ML events, the same amount as the Midnight Wisps, Bumblebees and Green Ducks have in all of their careers.

Raspberry Racers’ gold medal in this event means that they’ve won a gold medal in every ML they’ve been in since 2019, a 8-ML streak. The Hazers and Pinkies are the only other team to have won a gold medal in every ML they’ve been in since 2019.

Both Kobalts’ 30pts and Indigo Stars’ 96pts after this event are the first time either point total has been achieved by a team after Event 6.

Solar Flares have gotten 7th in an event for their first time. That leaves Black Jacks, Kobalts, Team Plasma, Wolfpack and Jawbreakers as the only active teams to not yet have gotten it.

Raspberry Racers’ Gold medal brings their total Gold medal count to 9. If they win one more, they’ll join Savage Speeders as the 2nd team to win 10 Gold, Silver and Bronze medals each. 

Pinkies’ Bronze medal is their 10th Bronze medal in their ML careers. They join Savage Speeders, Raspberry Racers and Crazy Cat’s Eyes as the 4th team to have 10 or more Bronze medals.

Raspberry Racers jumped 9 spots after this event and with Pinkies and Hazers both gaining 10 spots in E5 and E3 respectively, this is the first ML where 3 different teams gained at least 9 spots after an Event. Before ML26, there had been only 7 times where a team jumped 9 or more spots in the standings. Now there’s been 3 just this season.

Indigo Stars’ 29pt lead is not only the biggest lead a team has ever had in Event 6 but the 3rd biggest lead of all time beaten by O’rangers 35pt lead in ML20 and of course their own 34pt lead back in E5. It is not only the 2nd time that a team has led by 25pts or more in 2 consecutive games with the other being ML17 Speeders from E9-10, but also the first time that a team has led by 20pts or more in 3 consecutive games. There have been 12 events in ML history where a team has led by 20 or more pts, Indigo Stars have 3 of them. Only the Savage Speeders have more than them with 4.

Here’s a list of teams with 7 or more ML appearances to never accomplish that even once:
Pinkies
Crazy Cat’s Eyes
Raspberry Racers
Mellow Yellow
Thunderbolts
Oceanics
Midnight Wisps
Green Ducks
Chocolatiers
Balls of Chaos

MLS26 Event 2
Thunderbolts’ silver medal in this event has ended the longest active medal drought of all active teams in ML, MLS or M1. Before this, their last medal in any of the 3 tournaments was ML23 Event 14 back on November 25, 2023. The longest medal drought in all 3 tournaments now belongs to the Jungle Jumpers who haven’t won once since ML24 Event 16 on December 29, 2024. The time difference between Bolts and Jumpers’ last medal is 1 year, 1 month and 4 days.

The Thunderbolts gold medal is not only their first medal but also their first top 4 finish in ML, MLS or M1 since ML23 E14.

With the Wolfpack leading this event, they’ve not only led for the first time in a MLS tournament but in ML and M1 too. The Limers and Gliding Glaciers now remain as the only 2 teams to have never led once in all 3 tournaments. Limers have participated in over 128 combined ML, MLS and M1 events. Not a single one they’ve led in. 

With Rojo Rollers, Team Galactic and Jawbreakers all getting bottom half finishes, it is the 3rd time ever in MLS that all 3 teams on the podium would get a bottom half finish in the next event. The other times were from E2-3 and E4-5 in MLS23.

After Balls of Chaos got last, they’ve gotten last place in all MLS tournaments they’ve been in. They alongside Minty Maniacs and Hazers are the only teams with 3 or more Showdown appearances to have gotten last place in at least one event in every Showdown they’ve been in. Rn, the Minty Maniacs have to get last once to continue their streak.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 4 of ML26 : r/JellesMarbleRuns

(Probably my longest one so far, also credit to the ML discord for inspiration for some of these facts)

Event 5
Indigo Stars became the 2nd team in ML history to win 4 medals in the first 5 events. They join the ML23 Savage Speeders as the only other team to do so.

Indigo Star’s 86pts breaks the record for most pts for a team after E5. The previous list from 1-5 was ML20 Minty Maniacs, 83pts, ML20 O’rangers, 80pts, ML23 Savage Speeders and a tie between ML20 Crazy Cat’s Eyes and ML25 Midnight Wisps with 78pts. None of those teams would go on to win their respective tournament.

 Kobalt’s 29pts are also the highest last place scores after E5 in a ML tournament. The previous holder was 26pts, held by ML24 Hazers.

With Pinkies jumping 10 spots in the standings after this event and Hazers jumping 10 as well in E3, we have, for the first time, 2 events in a season where a team jumped 10 or more spots in the standings. ML21 and ML17 both had 2 events where a team jumped 9 or more events. Shining Swarm in E3 and Midnight Wisps in E2 for ML17 jumped 10 and 9 spots respectively, while Green Ducks in E2 and Savage Speeders in E5 for ML21 jumped 13 and 9 spots respectively.

Pinkies also break the record for most spots gained in Event 5 of a tournament with the previous hold being ML21 Savage Speeders, who mentioned before jumped 9 spots.

Indigo Stars’ 34pts lead over 2nd place is not only the biggest lead for a team after E5, with the previous closest being 15pts back in ML23, but also the 2nd biggest lead for a team in ML history. The other being ML20 O’rangers 35pt lead after E13. It also marks the 11th time that a team has led an event by 20pts or more. The other 10 times being:
ML26 E4(22pt lead)
ML25 E16(21pt lead)
ML22 E2(23pt lead)
ML21 E7(27pt lead)
ML20 E13(35pt lead)
ML20 E14(20pt lead)
ML17 E6(22pt lead)
ML17 E7(22pt lead)
ML17 E9(27pt lead)
ML17 E10(25pt lead)

Indigo Stars’ 34pt lead over 2nd place means that the difference between 1st and 2nd is larger than 2nd and last place which is 23pts. In all of ML history, there's only one other time this has ever happened, ML22 E2 when Team Galactic’s back-to-back gold medals got them a 23pt lead while the difference between 2nd and last was 22pts.

With Indigo Stars and Snowballs still being on the podium for 5 consecutive events since E1, they join just 7 other teams who have also accomplished that. 2025 Oceanics, 2025 Midnight Wisps, 2023 Crazy Cat’s Eyes, 2023 Savage Speeders, 2021 Raspberry Racers, 2020 Minty Maniacs and 2019 Savage Speeders. All 7 of those teams ended up in the final standings at an avg position of 2.86. Only one would win it all, that being 2023 Crazy Cat’s Eye.

Team Plasma have gotten an 11th in a ML tournament for their first time ever in a ML tournament. Now the Solar Flares remain the only active team to never place 11th in an event.

With Pinkies scoring their first gold of this tournament, they have gotten a gold medal in all 5 of their ML appearances since ML19. They, along with Hazers and Raspberry Racers, are the only teams with 5 or more ML appearances since ML19 where they’ve gotten a gold medal in all of them.

Indigo Stars’ 86pts and Bumblebees’ 47pts are both the first instances that a team had those specific amounts of pts after E5.

Crazy Cat’s Eyes have placed 15th in the standings after an event for the first time in their history. It is the lowest they’ve been in the standings since their 16th place back in ML21. As well, Kobalts and Team Plasma have placed 16th and 11th respectively in the standings after an event for the first time too. 

That makes the Crazy Cat’s Eyes the 14th team to have been in every overall position in the standings after an event and the 3rd team this season to do so, alongside Green Ducks and Savage Speeders. Kobalts just have to place 3rd after an event and they’ll be the 14th team to do so. As well, Team Primary remains the only team who have been in a ML to never be in 6th after an event.

With Crazy Cat’s Eyes failing to win a medal so far, it is the first time they’ve haven’t won a medal in the first 5 events of a ML tournament.

Back in ML16, Speedy would win E12 Hurdles by 0.002s. 10 years later, they would lose in ML26, E5 Hurdles by 0.002s. They lost to the same team, the Pinkies, that was last in that Hurdles event back in ML26. The last place back in ML16 was due to disqualification, and it was Pinky Toe, the same marble who won it in this event.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 3 of ML26 and Event 1 of MLS26 : r/JellesMarbleRuns

This time, I got ts out alot earlier than last time. Hope you like it.

Event 4
Indigo Stars’ 71 pts in the first 4 events ranks as the 6th best quarter and 3rd best 1st quarter in ML history. The only other quarters to have more pts than them are the ML21 Mellow Yellow, Q3(73pts), ML20 Minty Maniacs, Q1(75pts), ML25 Kobalts, Q4(76pts), ML20 O’rangers, Q1(76pts) and ML20 Savage Speeders, Q3(77pts). [For clarification, Q1 refers to E1-4, Q2 is E5-8, Q3 is E9-12 and Q4 is E13-16]

Savage Speeders’ 19pts in the 1st quarter is the 2nd fewest points they’ve scored in a single quarter across their career. The only one to beat it is their 2nd quarter in ML19 where they scored just 16pts.

With Indigo Stars leading after both Event 2 and 4, they now have a total of 3 events where they lead in the standings. They have led more events than the Balls of Chaos, Snowballs and Team Primary. They’ve led as many events as the Hazers have.

With Snowballs and Team Plasma getting a bottom half finish and Black Jacks getting a top half finish, every team so far has had at least 1 top half and 1 bottom half finish. It is the fastest it has ever happened since ML16 when each team had a top and bottom half finish in the first 3 events.

The Solar Flares, Indigo Stars and Snowballs have all remained in the top 3 of the standings after the first 4 events. That ties with ML25 as the longest streak, from the first event onward, in which the teams on the podium in event 1 have remained in the top 3 in th standings. 

Green Ducks have placed 15th in the standings after an event for the first time in their history. As well, Oceanics have placed 8th in the standings after an event for the first time too. That makes the Green Ducks the 13th team to have been in every overall position in the standings after an event. Oceanics just have to place 12th after an event and they’ll be the 14th team to do so.

Indigo Stars 2 gold medals in a 3 event period is the 9th time where a team has gotten 2 non-consecutive gold medals in 3 events. The others are ML25 Kobalts, E14-16, ML24 Solar Flares E8-10, ML24 Jungle Jumpers, E2-4, ML23 Bumblebees, E4-6, ML20 O’rangers, E2-4, ML20 Minty Maniacs, E1-3, ML19 Midnight Wisps, E7-9 and ML16 Savage Speeders, E6-8.

As well, Indigo Star’s 3 medals in the first 4 events ties for the most medals for a team in the first 4 events. They tie with ML25 Midnight Wisps, ML23 Savage Speeders, ML22 Pinkies, ML21 Raspberry Racers, ML20 O’rangers and ML20 Minty Maniacs. All of them would appear on the podium except for the ML25 Midnight Wisps.

Solar Flares have finished 9th in this event meaning that every single active team that have been in a ML rn have gotten 9th in an event before. I specify active cause the Hornets have never gotten 9th in a ML event before.

The top 4 teams in event 3, Hazers, Snowballs, Raspberry Racers and Savage Speeders, all got bottom 4 in this event. It is the first ever time that has happened in a ML tournament. The closest it had ever gotten before, from what I’ve found, is from E7 to E8 in ML16 when Rojo Rollers, Team Primary, Team Momo and Team Galactic who were 1st-4th in E7, finished 13th, 14th, 16th and 12th respectively in E8.

Continuation of this post: Interesting facts about Event 2 of ML26 : r/JellesMarbleRuns

(Sorry that I couldn't get this out earlier, I was sick past few days and didn't have time to post. Anyway, hope you like it.)

Event 3 fun facts
Snowballs’ avg finish in the first 3 events is 3, which ties them with ML19 Savage Speeders for the 5th best avg finish start in the first 3 events. The other 4 are ML23 CCE, 2.67, ML19 Hazers, 2.67, ML18 Balls of Chaos, 2.33 and ML20 Minty Maniacs with 1.67. 

With Kobalts getting 11th place both times in Event 2 and 3, they get their first consecutive ML events where they’ve gotten the same position. Only the Jungle Jumpers and Hornets have never done it.

With Raspberry Racers placing 8th in the standings after the event, they’ve kept their streak since ML22 of placing 8th in the standings at least once after an event. They’ve done it all of their MLs except 2019 and 2021, Which just so happens to be the 2 MLs where they ended up on the podium

Solar Flares also placed 3rd in the standings after an event for the first time meaning that they’ve placed in 3 different positions in the standings for the first time ever in 3 consecutive events. 1st in Event 1, 2nd in Event 2 and 3rd in Event 3.

The Solar Flares, Indigo Stars and Snowballs have all remained on the podium after the first 3 events. This is only the 2nd time it has ever happened, with the other being ML25.

With Savage Speeders, Hazers and Raspberry Racers all getting top half finishes in this event, that leaves the Black Jacks as the only team to have gotten bottom half finishes in all 3 events. As well, with Solar Flares and Indigo Stars getting bottom half finishes, that leaves Snowballs and Team Plasma as the remaining teams without a bottom half finish.

With Snowballs leading after the event, it is the 4th time in history that 3 diff teams lead in the first 3 events. The others are ML16, ML18 and ML21.

With Hazers winning gold in this event, they’ve now gotten a gold in all 6 ML appearances

With Indigo Stars and Snowballs getting 46 and 47pts after Event 3 respectively, it is the first time that those 2 point totals have ever been achieved over the first 3 events.

All 16 teams got 12pts or higher after the first 3 events for the first time since ML21.

With Indigo Stars getting 15th place, that leaves Team Plasma as the only team left who has yet to get 15th in a ML event. Every active and retired team who have been in a ML have done it already.

MLS26
Event 1 fun facts(Not much unfortunately)
With Jawbreakers winning a medal in the first event of the showdown, that ended their almost 7-year long drought of getting a medal in ML, MLS or M1. Their last medal funnily enough would be all the way back in August, 2019 in MLS19 Event 1.

With Team Primary getting a bottom half finish, they’ve continued their streak since MLS23 of a bottom half finish in the first event of each MLS

Team Galactic also has gotten a medal in the first event of every MLS they’ve appeared in. Sure they’ve only been in 2 MLS, the other MLS21, but still note-worthy.

With Rojo Rollers, Team Galactic and Jawbreakers all getting a medal, they've now become the 2nd, 3rd and 4th team to win 2 medals in the first event of a MLS, the 1st being Indigo Stars. Jawbreakers first medal, Gold, was in MLS19, Rojo Rollers' one, Bronze, was in MLS20 and Team Galactic's one, Gold, was in MLS21.

With the Thunderbolts getting last place in MLS26 Event 1, Thunderbolts and Minty Maniacs are the only teams to finish last place at least 3 times in ML, MLS and M1 each.