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General

  • The fact that these marble racing videos are treated like actual sporting events.
    • Even better when a crossover with Formula E had 12 marbles representing the actual Formula E teams, resulting in this memorable line;
      "Two huge German manufacturers, marble to marble!"
  • Some of the Crowd Chants come off as this.
    • Whenever the O'Rangers are onscreen, you can hear their fans chanting, "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
    • When the Green Ducks are competing and doing well enough, you are bound to hear loud quacking from the stands.
    • A video released in 2021 about the chants show that most teams have cool theme songs...while the Chocolatiers literally just keep yelling CHOCOLATE!
    • And the Balls Of Chaos chant has its' fans completely off key.
  • Anytime a marble enters the playing field in the same fashion as a pitch invader.
    • During the Fidget Spinner Collision event, a marble enters the arena and walks right into a running fidget spinner. And this was after an injury from Team Momo was caused by one of the spinners.
    • During the Block Pushing Event, a marble runs onto the field and tries to push one of the blocks, only to fail drastically - commentators use this to point out that this just goes to show the competing marbles are the best of the best..
  • It's hard not to laugh when watching the marbles in the stands do the wave.
  • The Theme Naming of the teams means that many marbles have silly names, with Team Momo (featuring Mo, Momo, Momomo, Momomomo, and Mimo) being a prime example.
  • The Hazers constantly failing at Block Pushing.

2016 season

  • Because of the odd scoring system that year where a disqualified team loses three points, The Balls Of Chaos have negative three points after the second event.
  • The layout for the Long Jump in the 2016 Marble League has the marbles land on a bed of much smaller marbles.
  • In the final event, the Hurdle Race, the Pinkies jump out of their lane and into the Rojo Rollers' lane, even finishing before them.

2017 season

  • For the Relay Run, Team Primary had a teammate that left their gate too early and got disqualified while the Oceanics set a new record with Greg Woods pointing out how no one was paying attention to them. Then some fans start getting upset with security trying to subdue them.
  • The Jungle Jumpers didn't start in the final 2017 event, The Sand Rally, because they were partying the night before and failed to reach the starting gate on time.
  • After the Sand Rally in the 2017 Marble League, the O'Rangers try to storm the field celebrating the team's victory. They can be seen trying to storm the stage again during the closing ceremony.

2018 season

  • The 2018 Qualifiers has Group C's Snow Race where all the marbles get stuck before finishing due to bad weather.
  • At the end of the Halfpipe event in the qualifiers, the Balls of Chaos and Team Primary get into a fight with the guards trying to calm things down.
  • In the 2018 Team Pursuit, the Raspberry Racers and Limers race against each other and get the exact same time when passing the 5 meter mark. Then at the end, one of the Limers flies out of the course after colliding at the finish.
  • Five of the marbles in the 2018 Hubelino Funnel Race get stuck causing the race to be redone.

2019 season

  • The 2019 Qualifiers has the last heat of the Relay Race interrupted beacuse Limers fans were throwing trash on the course when the Raspberry Racers and Limers compete in the heat. Team Primary stops in the race claiming that the trash interfered with their performance. When they're denied a redo, Team Primary fans and Raspberry Racers fans start fighting in the stands while the Oceanics and Team Galactic fans try and stay out of the chaos.
  • In the 2019 Marble League Funnel Race, the O'Rangers get stuck before entering the first funnel.
  • In the 2019 Balancing Event, the Balls Of Chaos get a false start and the referee gets hit with the starting gate.
  • The Savage Speeders getting dead last in the 2019 5 Meter Sprint.
  • The 2019 Dirt Race has not just one, or even just two, but ten DNFs overall (out of 24). Every race had at least three marbles get stuck with four in Group B of the preliminaries.
  • Greg Woods announcing that there is a streaker on the track during the Hurdles event, followed not long after by a string of security marbles. One wonders how he manages to announce it with a straight face.
  • The Pinkies' Rafting heat merits a mention... not because of how they did (generally average) but because the second Greg Woods congratulates the team on a great run, the raft suddenly flips over after it crosses the finish line, gratuitously ejecting all of the Pinkies into the water.
  • During Round 1 of Group B of the 2019 Elimination Race, a blue marble darts across the track with Greg Woods assuming it's the Oceanics. It was actually the Thunderbolts and the Oceanics finished last. This caused a lot of fans to leave the stadium and for the team manager, Reef to fire Coach Tide. Then Greg Woods announces that Tide was fired right when the starting gun goes off.
  • Quarter Final A of the 2019 Collision event has The Raspberry Racers and The Balls Of Chaos get a tie. Come the first tiebreak, neither team loses a marble. It's finally broken when a Raspberry Racer rolls off the side at the end of the second tiebreak.
  • At the end of the 2019 MarbleLeague Sand Rally, Oceanics fans storm the podium with a sign saying, "NOCEANICS".
  • The final event of the 2019 MarbleLeague Showdown has angry Limers fans destroying the barrier from the stands and protesting on the field while security tries to stop them after another poor result guaranteeing the team will not qualify at all.

2020 season

  • The race in Seoul of Marbula-E has a "Driver's Eye" shot. Saying anything else would spoil it...
    • This returns during the race in Jakarta, though this time it's to show the damage that the Envision marble took from its collision with Audi.
  • The Jungle Jumpers finally lived up to their name in the Qualifiers, by jumping out of the Funnel Endurance track.
  • In the Triathlon, Oceanics did really well in their heat, zipping into first place in the sand track and Marbula 1 circuit, but fell into the water and promptly bottled away the lead. Right after the commentator asked aloud if they would finally banish their demons when it came to water courses.
    • They then followed it up by winning the gold in the subsequent Sand Mogul Race, which fans noted is the exact opposite of a water event.
    • And then they went and beat the O'Rangers at the Aquathlon! Granted, the Oceanics didn't get on the podium, but there is a certain hilarious irony to this kind of Crack Defeat. Greg Woods got so distracted by the team suddenly doing well in a water event that he almost missed commentating on the following heat.
  • After the High Jump the O'Rangers had a 35 point lead in the standings and if they kept this up they would guarantee victory. The following two games then showed abysmal showings from the team, with them losing the Aquathlon to the Oceanics and coming dead last in the Collision event.
    • Incidentally, despite these two performances that can be considered downright embarrassing considering who they are, they are only behind the now first place Savage Speeders by 5 points with one event to go... which is where they stayed after the Marathon, unable to get any of the medals. Which means that, indirectly, the Oceanics cost the O'Rangers the entire league.
  • During the collision event, the Thunderbolts show off their comfort with the event by having a single marble, each time a different one, spin in the dead center of the arena in the quarter-, semi-, and finals - treating it more like figure skating than the Rugby-inspired tackle it usually is - and despite it, they manage to land their first medal in the event.
  • In the first Marble Rally race, seven marbles go off the course on the same turn in just two seconds. One of the marbles, Quicksilver managed to make it across all the way to get back on.
  • The Host Curse rears its ugly head again for Season Two of Marble One, where the Minty Maniacs not only come last in the qualifier for Minty Mania, but due to the new bottom four elimination rule, they don't even get to participate in the main race. Ouch.
  • The video for the fifth race of Season Two of Marbula One starts without commentary, and a voice is heard asking "Greg? Greg? Where are you? The race is starting. Where is he?" Then, the commentator's marble is seen going on the track.
    PA Announcer: Attention. Greg Woods, please make your way out to the commentary booth, as the race is about to start.

2021 season

  • Just about every Sand event has at least one instance of an insect interfering with the track and causing it to be delayed.
    • The Sand Rally in the Friendly Round gets delayed for a bit because an insect was interfering with the track.
    • And in the Sand Mogul Event, another insect interferes with the starting gate for the final race.
    • The start of the Sand Rally's first heat had to be slightly delayed because of yet another insect, and Greg makes sure to state that they want the event to be safe for marbles and insects alike. The eight marbles of the second heat all run over an ant within the first couple of seconds.
  • During the Qualifiers in the Wave event, the Green Ducks do a little dance after their performance.
  • As Green Eye of the Crazy Cat's Eyes takes the record from Billy of the Green Ducks in the 5 meter Sprint in the Semi-Finals. Choc of the Chocolatiers then takes the record in the other Semi-Final race. For the final race, Greg Woods wonders if the record will be broken one more time. Cue Green Eye stealing the record from Choc only for Greg to respond, "And why not? Another Marble League Record!"
  • For Block Pushing in the Showdown, Team Primary has one member get stuck at the top for the first run causing only three of them to go. And it happens once again in Run 3.
  • After the Rojo Rollers were eliminated in second-to-last in the Sand Rally, after a consistent poor showing throughout the League, their coach, Rojo Cero got called into the manager's office to be fired.
  • The Triathlon event in the Showdown has the Pinkies' coach, Pinkie Promise competing in their place because none of the team members were on the track. It's then revealed that the team members were doing a pre-game dance for the fans.

2022 season

  • When the Oceanics fail to qualify for the main tournament again, their fans riot, having to be ejected and the lights go out in the building.
  • In the "Rafting" Marble League event, five runs in a row between three teams get wedged early in the race, seeing the Balls of Chaos and Midnight Wisps fail to finish! Greg Woods can barely believe it as he commentates!
  • Also in "Rafting", the Pinkies pull a stick from behind during their run which is believed to have slowed them down only for them to finish second.
  • Team Galactic finally overcoming the Team Galacfifth meme in the penultimate event by guaranteeing them fourth or higher in the overall standings, then finishing fifth in the final event.

2023 season

  • One of the banners being held by the Balls of Chaos fans says "You like looking at BALLS, don't you?" with the accompanying furry face on a marble.
  • A post-season crossover video with Hevesh5 (who does domino rally videos) featured a short eight-team race. It was won by the Oceanics - a team that had failed to qualify again and subsequently bombed out of the year's Showdown, proving that the only times they do well are all the times that don't actually matter.

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