u/Swimming-Step1326

So, back in the last SMR season, back in 2024, I roasted everyone that failed to qualify for that season, and yes I know I'm a bit late, but better late than never, so why not do it again?

Here is me roasting everyone that failed to qualify for Marble Rally Season 8!

Comet

Welcome to your home, Comet! The only reason you are revelant is because you won a race from a decade age which went super viral during the pandemic. For some reason has been in the Showdown once, but they got second, so they could go one better and win the whole thing? But knowing Comet, it isn't happening.

Black Knight

The more the years go by, the more I realize that Black Knight's 2018 was a fluke. They becoming Souless Wonder worked intially, but they are stuck in a limbo in the Showdown which I don't see them escaping.

Silver Bolt

You decided to be pretty good in 2022 and 2023, but you remembered who you were, and you are now in the Showdown. Let's see if Silver Bolt decides to follow the path of fellow Bolts colleagues the Thunderbolts.

El Capitan

Yeah, El Capitan might be now on fraud watch. Doing good in the Showdow but not good enough to escape it is not good in my eyes. Do you really want to be pre-2025 Kobalts? TBH I wouldn't be suprised if you went back-to-back-to-back and DNQ AGAIN for Season 9. Your choice.

Wisp of Darkness

After getting oh so close to winning the Showdown last season, WOD decided that they weren't ready to return to the big league yet and gave the Showdown another go. Maybe they will improve, maybe they won't improve. Let's just hope you don't reurn to your Season 6 self. See you in Season 10!

Deep Ocean

How is this marble the 3rd most popular in the Marblebase? With Green Turtle finally making it, Deep Ocean now holds for most time without being in the A League for an active marble, with the last A League appearence being in 2018 and I don't see that change anytime soon. Good luck having another season of doing nothing in the Showdown again!

Quicksilver

This might anger some people, but Quicksilver is heavily overrated. Yes, they are the true winners of 2017, and they had a good 2018, BUT THEY ONLY QUALIFIED THROUGH THE QUALIFIERS ONLY ONCE, in 2017. The other times Quicksilver was in the A League was because they were invited or AQed. Maybe the Showdown is Quicksilver's true home.

Crazy Cat's Eye

CCE (not to be confused with the much more succesfull ML team) became tired of winning Race 1 and then falling to the midpack and decided to try their best in the Showdown. You could be the next El Capitan or return into the A League already in Season 9. Again, your choice.

H2 Blue

No suprises here. We are talking about one of the worst marbles the Rally has to offer. You were bad in the Showdown last season despite having 3 medals and a race win (which Greg confused you for Quicksilver multiple times). I think you will be even worse this season.

Summer Sky

Another mainstay that's now stuck in Showdown purgatory. I kinda like you, so return to the main league ASAP, but I wouldn't be suprised if you stayed in the Showdown like El Capitan.

Amethyst

If I had a nickel everytime a Marble Rally marble did well in their first season and then went on to do nothing afterwards, I'd had two nickles. Amethyst's biggest inspiration seems to be Pheonix of peaking as a rookie and doing absolutely nothing for the rest of their careers. Hope that I'm wrong because you are one of my favorites.

Reflektor

Again a marble that suddenly became good in a very short time and remembered who they were. Reflektor was leading after Race 6 of last season, but decided to choke and fell to 6th and now finished last in the Qualifiers. Let's see if Season 7 becomes a fluke, which IMO, will def be.

And that's all 12 marbles who will compete in the Showdown. Who do you think will win, who do you think will succeed and who do you think will fail? Tell me in the comments below.

In this contest, all songs that finished second in their NF will compete here. Entries selected by internal selections remain here due to the runner-up being unknown.

Here are the 10 countries from SF2 that qualified to the final:

https://preview.redd.it/15kw2700wg3h1.png?width=357&format=png&auto=webp&s=36711c4439472cc0be3aa309befcd6a40e9f6c65

Here are the results of the NQs:

11th: Ukraine (Laud - "Lightkeeper") - 42 points

12th: Bulgaria (Mihaela Marinova - "Curse") - 37 points

13th: Cyprus (Antigoni - "Jalla") - 31 points

14th: Azerbaijan (JIVA - "Just Go") - 26 points

15th: Norway (Alexander Rybak - "Rise") - 7 points

Here is the running order for the final (it is randomized):

https://preview.redd.it/660c387kwg3h1.png?width=962&format=png&auto=webp&s=3901960647eb85ea4a07bd9e806f21a1e40b6fa3

Here is the voting link:

https://scorewiz.eu/rsvp/827614/xXuGEcgVdFa

VOTING IS OPEN UNTIL FRIDAY!

In this contest, all songs that finished second in their NF will compete here. Entries selected by internal selections remain here due to the runner-up being unknown.

Let's begin with the results of the first semi-final. The 10 countries that made it to the the final are:

https://preview.redd.it/irnojzm6j13h1.png?width=357&format=png&auto=webp&s=01508f3b94fdf819a483a2682aeef370e5060643

And here are the results of the NQs:

11th: Croatia (Cold Snap - "Mucho Macho") - 35 points

12th: Moldova (Pavel Orlov - "Can't Say Goodbye") - 31 points

13th: San Marino (Kelly Joyce - "Oh Là Là") - 20 points

14th: Israel (Gal de Paz - "Michelle") - 8 points

15th: Poland (Ola Antoniak - "Don't You Try") - 7 points

And now, here are the songs competing in Semi-Final 2 (Bulgaria is represented by the artist who finished second in the artist selection with the song that finished second in the song selection):

https://preview.redd.it/2rxjnv7km13h1.png?width=757&format=png&auto=webp&s=42b67bc69e36765d7ff8a0b0f45886b058645760

And the voting link is: https://scorewiz.eu/rsvp/827443/sHrUzUnmgvm

In this contest, all songs that finished second in their NF will compete here. Entries selected by internal selections remain here due to the runner-up being unknown. Since Israel only selects its artist, I have replaced Noam Bettam with NF runner-up, Gal de Paz, but the song remains the same.

Here are the songs competing in SF1:

https://preview.redd.it/7bage4ptkq2h1.png?width=635&format=png&auto=webp&s=b0a9b47e115deb58921023572c96fb4783f6f073

And here is the voting link: https://scorewiz.eu/rsvp/827291/kGjLjdgcNgU

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