BomberBall Run Marble League (BBRML) – Working Title – Coming soon pending interest!
Hi all. Hope you’re all well and getting some much needed Vitamin D boosts from the early springtime sun.
Anyway as I’ve been hinting here and there I’ve been developing a marble league that will be coming to blitz later this year.
What is a marble league?
A marble league is basically racing style sports, converted to marble form. So it could be something like a 100m sprint, a slalom run, or even a F1 style racing event!
What is the BomberBall Run League?
Basically it will be our very own version. We’ll be in charge, we’ll set the rules.
What features will the BBRL have?
So many to choose from, but here are a few highlights.
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All the track is 3D printed. 100% of it. No commercial products. We can make all sorts whether it be a 1v1 style race to a full on 14 team F1 style race.
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Marbles. Unlike other places who will name their green teams, green team, we’ll be able to name our own teams. Depending on the interest we may even in future ask for a small donation to have rights to a team. You could even send me marbles to use! Marbles will be in ‘teams’ of 5. All same colour but you’re welcome to name them and include a captain.
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Timing. The biggest thing about any sport that involves racing is timing. What started off a simple hit the end, see who won, kind of thing is now fully digitised! I’m talking auto starting gates with random drop times, timing screens, milli second precision* (on most things, or hundredths at the worst). We’ll also be able to keep track of lap times for multi lap events, fastest times (updated live during the event), leaderboard, individual marble timings, positions etc… I’m not talking one marble at a time either I’m talking up to about 14 unique teams right now. Sector times for now is a future plan if the budget comes by. Costs about $200 per sector unfortunately.
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Other fun stats. Fastest speed, by individual or of group and that sort of thing.
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Mechanical. Start line is automated. No manual fingers to then be accused of cheating. I’ve implemented F1 style starts. 5 lights, random wait between 200ms and 3000ms, then it’s light out and go.
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1v1 style events. Think track running or a winter Olympics style slalom to something as silly as two marbles roll into each other, see who pushes the other marble back the most.
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Team events. Think relays.
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Lap events. So this could be something like a cross country rally to a F1 style circuit.
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Reusable. The track can be broken down and rearranged to make different configurations. You’re welcome to provide your own ideas.
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Cameras. It’s me here. You’ll get good footage.
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Live days. Private bomberblitz functions! I do have a nice outdoor bbq near me which we can use as well.
What help do I need?
Well given the list, there is a fair bit of assistance that would be appreciated to anyone who is willing to help. I would ideally like two helpers who would become the core and as many ‘one off’ or occasional helpers as possible.
I won’t ask for any monetary help, but don’t get upset if it wasn’t implemented due to costs.
What jobs can I do to help with?
Nothing for now. Pending in future if needed.
Too much text. Give us a sample!
Here’s a very raw and early test of what’s to come. Nothing is final here, nothing fits properly anyway!
Final Notes
So please share your thoughts and hopefully we’ll be able to build a really good and fun community!
Hopefully you’ll all be on board and really get into it. It’s a project I’ve been dreaming of in the background but without a community to get around it, it will probably end up as landfill which would be quite sad.
Thanks for reading and feel free to leave comments, feedback or if you want to be part of the organisers!
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