Category Archives: Feature Articles

High Stakes, High Rollers

You see it on every sign and screen at the Kinikolu Resort and Sportsplex: “THE PARTY NEVER ENDS.” Over the past two months, the Marble Survival 100 Tournament host site has lived up to that promise.

Each week, a new obstacle course at the Survival Stadium rises out of a cloud of artificial fog. An athlete from each Marble League team then races day after day to avoid elimination. Those who remain have survived getting battered by rams, smacked four ways by fidget spinners or treated as playthings by the Bell Carousel.

Their reward for this gauntlet will be more than a championship trophy: it will be publicity. Online or on the airwaves, the Elite Eight’s faces are plastered on marketing throughout Marblearth. In the tournament’s first weeks, fans and passersby in Kinikolu could still catch an athlete on the sidewalk or having fun. Now those remaining are hard to access, marbles who seem more like myth on the outside.

As the excitement grows, who is stepping up to the moment while staying true to themselves? The stories over one week, when ten marble survivors turned to eight, tell the tale.

Hearts Aflutter and Minds Abuzz

Fragmented rose-pink clouds decorated the orange-yellow sky. A thin morning haze hung over the city streets down below. The moon had disappeared beneath the horizon and the sun, burning the wispy edges of the clouds with its light, had emerged in its place.

The cycle of the heavens was beginning anew, and a new day was breaking over Buzznya.

A Marble Murder Mystery

Will this case be left unclosed by sidekick blue and super sleuth? Pay attention, keep close notes, and you just might find out the truth. They need to find the culprit soon whose lips are all but sealed, Can you solve the mystery before all is revealed?  Before the Storm by Flamigiri Two marbles stoodContinue reading “A Marble Murder Mystery”

Rolling On – Choices

Are you sure you want to do this? I have to do this. For the fans. For my family. For myself. But do you want to? Why do you feel like you have to prove something? It doesn’t matter what I want. And I don’t have to prove anything. I just want to make theContinue reading “Rolling On – Choices”

Rolling On – Lost and Found

Five days after the end of Marble Rally Season 6, one marble remained close to the course, camping out in the same thick grass they had nestled into when the six championship contenders had gathered at the bottom of Dopersduin Bregtdorp for a landscape portrait. Given the excitement around the final race, the striped celebrityContinue reading “Rolling On – Lost and Found”

Rolling On – A Different Story

A rush of wind strikes, as sudden as the echo of a twig snap that parodies the starting pistol. The sun has sunk to be barely visible, but it’s the sudden cold that jerks me from my dream-like state. I’ve never been one for creativity, really, but I don’t think that dreaming is necessarily aContinue reading “Rolling On – A Different Story”

Star Love

There’s something in the stars who we look up to as marble sports fans. What makes them so special to write about?

Going All In

In Marbula One, champions don’t boil down to just their best racer. Teams that were once broken can learn to lift each other up.

The Best Racer

Six racers. One champion. Who will come out on top? The Underdogs The fancy avenues of Felynia were all the more jubilant on one Saturday morning, as the sun dawned on a fantastic performance by their pride of the Marble Rally the previous day. However, the marble victorious was hardly sighted in the city —Continue reading “The Best Racer”

The Highest Glory – One More Shot

A mischievous marble we wrote about before snuck into this year’s Showdown. But what happens when they don’t predict the right results? Are they the joker, or will it be someone else pulling a trick on them?