Get ready for marbles to be the next big esport

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I'm not sure there's a better YouTube channel right now than Jelle's Marble Runs, home of Marbula One, the world's preeminent marble racing event. Yes, marble racing is a real sport. Yes, it has athletes—are you going to tell me Minty Maniacs team captain Minty Flav isn't a star out on the raceway? Like Blaseball, Jelle's Marble Runs is a delightfully absurd sport with its own deep lore. And now it's going to be a videogame.

Jelle's Marble Runs dropped a trailer for Marble League 2021: The Game on Saturday, and I am liking what I'm seeing. I mean, let's just hit the trailer bullet points here: 

"Ultra-realistic physics"

"A compelling story mode"

Design your own marble team

"Take key managerial decisions as the season unfolds"

Stats for marble athletes

Multiplayer

Commentary by Greg Woods (*the* marble racing commentator)

Marbles

Do the graphics in the Jelle's Marble Runs game look absolutely rudimentary? Yes, but I say that doesn't matter when the field of marble esports is so ripe for the plucking. I don't know why you'd watch League of Legends on Twitch when you could instead watch a dozen marbles hurtling down a track.

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