History VideoGame / Blaseball

* CompanionCube: Pitching Machine[[note]][[InsistentTerminology Never preceded with "a" or "the"]][[/note]], brought in to serve as pitcher when all of the Infinite Tacos' pitchers were trapped in giant peanuts, rapidly became one of the most popular players in the league- and one of the most feared pitchers.
* CosmicPlaything: an odd example straddling the line between a meta-example and an emergent one, the Infinite Tacos have been the subject of many of the stranger mishaps, fan experiments, and just plain unlucky rng rolls.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted with multiple characters, like Jessica and Sebastian Telephone or Dominic and Randall Marijuana; most prominently, there are several players with either the first name Wyatt or the last name Mason, caused by the Wyatt Masoning.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted with multiple characters, but most prominently there's five different Wyatt's.

* PlanetOfSteves: The end of season 3 saw the Wyatt Masoning hit the Unlimited Tacos--''everyone'' on the team was suddenly renamed to Wyatt Mason, seemingly by accident. This was eventually fixed, although not every player had both their names reverted.

* AnyoneCanDie: There is no known criteria (if any) for a Rogue Umpire to incinerate a player beyond that the current weather must be a solar eclipse. For all we know, no Blaseball player is safe from their wrath.

* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame: Blaseball players can be incinerated by rogue umpires at any time. Many players have been lost this way.

** The Monitor a squidlike...being...whose attention was caught by the resurrection of Jaylen Hotdogfingers.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Blessings that can be granted to the teams include Performance Enhancing Demons[[labelnote:*]]improves overall stats[[/labelnote]], Exploratory Surgeries[[labelnote:*]]randomizes stats for the team's three worst pitchers[[/labelnote]], and... Team-Building Exercises[[labelnote:*]]randomizes the hitting stats of the team's three worst batters[[/labelnote]].

* ShapedLikeItself: The Chicago Firefighters' slogan is simply "we're from Chicago".

* {{Absurdism}}: The weather in a game of blaseball can be a solar eclipse, [[ItMakesSenseInContext peanuts]], and "lots of birds."

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of Blaseball itself. A decree to open it was passed during Season 1, which was immediately followed by a Solar Eclipse, the umpires' eyes turning white, a player being spontaneously incinerated, and Hellmouth swallowing Moab, heralding the start of DISCIPLINE ERA.

* AerithAndBob: Thanks to the randomly generated names, players like Allison Abbot and Reese Clark exist side-by-side with Math Velasquez and Comfort Septemberish.

* EldritchLocation: Whatever happened to Los Angeles during the Grand Unslam tore spacetime and refracted the city into infinite realities. Accordingly, the Los Angeli Blaseball team renamed themselves into Unlimited Tacos.

* HellGate: The Moab desert was swallowed by Hellmouth after Season 1 elections.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of Blaseball itself. A decree to open it was passed during Season 1, which was immediately followed by a Solar Eclipse, the umpires' eyes turning white, a player being spontaneously incinerated, and Hellmouth swallowing Moab Desert, heralding the start of DISCIPLINE ERA.

Created by The Game Band, Blaseball is a text-based baseball sim released in July of 2020. The game includes twenty original teams, split into two leagues (with ten teams each), which are then split into two sub-leagues (with five teams each). Gameplay is simple. Every week, a new season of Blaseball begins. Players pick a team to root for and bet coins on the hourly games. With those coins, players can buy votes to lobby for Decrees, which fundamentally alter the game and its players, or for Blessings, which benefit their patron team. At the end of the season, votes are tallied and the most popular choices (may or may not, according to the whims of the Blaseball Gods) take effect at the beginning of the next season.

Created by The Game Band, Blaseball is a baseball sim released in July of 2020. The game includes twenty original teams, split into two leagues (with ten teams each), which are then split into two sub-leagues (with five teams each). Every week, a new season of Blaseball begins. Players pick a team to root for and bet coins on the hourly games. Players can also buy votes for game-changing decisions and boons for their favorite team.

Most of the game's lore and story is fan-created, and it can all be found [[https://blaseball.fandom.com/wiki/Beginner%27s_Guide_to_Blaseball here]].

* AerithAndBob: Players with names like Allison Abbot and Reese Clark exist side-by-side with Math Velasquez and Sixpack Santiago.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of Blaseball itself. A decree to open it was passed during Season 1, which is immediately followed by a Solar Eclipse, the umpires' eyes turning white, a player being spontaneously incinerated, and Hellmouth swallowing Moab Desert, heralding the start of DISCIPLINE ERA.

[[https://blaseball.com Blaseball]] is an [[Main/{{Absurdism}} absurdist]] web [[SportsGame Splorts Game]] following the game of blaseball, a game ([[SurrealHorror somewhat]]) similar to the real-world sport of [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} baseball]].

* TomeOfForbiddenLore: The Book of Blaseball itself. A decree to open it was passed during Season 1, which is immediately followed by a Solar Eclipse, the umpires' eyes turning white, a player being spontaneously incinerated, and Hellmouth swallowing Moab Desert, heralding the start of DISCIPLINE ERA.

[[https://blaseball.com Blaseball]] is an [[Main/{{Absurdism}} absurdist]] web Main/SportsGame following the game of blaseball, a game extremely similar to the real-world sport of [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} baseball]].

Created by The Game Band, Blaseball is a baseball sim released in July of 2020. The game includes twenty original teams, split into two leagues (with ten teams each), which are then split into two sub-leagues (with five teams each). Every week, a new season of Blaseball begins. Players pick a team to root for and bet coins on the hourly games.

* FictionalSport: It may be similar to baseball, but Blaseball is still its own made-up sport.
* SportsStories: The game is about sports.
* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame: Blaseball players can be incinerated by rogue umpires at any time. Many players have been lost this way.

''You are now participating in the cultural event of blaseball.''

Most of the game's lore and story is fan-created, and it can all be found [[https://blaseball.fandom.com/wiki/Beginner%27s_Guide_to_Blaseball here]].