Trivia / Blaseball

• Ascended Fanon:
  • What fans had dubbed "The Grand Unslam" became canonically referred to as such. The Vibe Check and Dial Tone bat names were also created by the community before being added to the site. For that matter, in a way, every bit of "canon" besides what's explicitly on the site is ascended fanon.
  • According to The Game band in Inside a Blaseball, the entire sequence of the teams scattering and melting the Coin in Season 24 was entirely due to the Hellmouth Sunbeams deciding to charge the mound—otherwise, the ending would have been entirely different.
• Ascended Glitch: Overlapping with Throw It In!, as the developers have taken an approach of leaving the effects of glitches and unintended interactions in place unless blatantly in violation of the Rule of Fun. For example, in the Season 10 elections a glitch causing one player to inappropriately lose a powerful active item when their team received a non-conflicting armor slot item was corrected, but a glitch causing a player to be traded to two teams simultaneously was declared a Temporal Paradox, giving one team Montgomery Bullock and the other Bontgomery Mullock, and the player's former team two players for their one.
• Newbie Boom: After this Polygon article was published, many new fans discovered the game.
• Series Hiatus:
  • Had one for two weeks between Seasons 3 and 4, and a week-long one between Seasons 8 and 9. A month-long one began following Season 11, to give the developers time to rest and to prepare for major expansions to the game.
  • Schedule Slip has since kicked in, as said "siesta" lasted for more than 4 months before finally ending on March 1st, 2021.
  • A second hiatus started after Season 24 (at the end of July 2021) to similarly prepare for the next era, also spanning approximately 4 months—it ended on November 1st, 2021, with the debut of Short Circuits.
  • A third one occurred after the conclusion of Short Circuits on February 6th, 2022, this time spanning 11 months until the next era on January 9th, 2023.
• Promoted Fanboy: The person that plays the Anchor, Quintin Smith, was a games journalist that was part of the organization "People Make Games" that made a video about Blaseball, praising it as something unique and that brought people together. The Game Band apparently saw this and liked it enough to work with Quintin to make the official recaps which explains the Anchor's favoritism towards the Miami Dale.