BlaseballCares Showdown

The BlaseballCares Showdown was a non-canonical exhibition series held by The Game Band during the Grand Siesta on December 13th, 2020. The Showdown was a two-hour guest segment on the fan-run Blaseball Cares Blaseballidays Holiday Charity Stream, held to raise money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.The BlaseballCares Showdown
The Showdown was a best-of-3 series between two teams of drafted players; the Danger Zone (managed by Stephen Bell and Elena Murphy) and the Tsushima Ghosts (managed by Roldan Melcon and Sam Rosenthal), with Joel Clark acting as host. Due to time limitations, the series was cancelled at a 1-1 tie after two games.
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== Teams ==
=== Danger Zone ===
The Danger Zone were the team representing Stephen Bell and Elena Murphy. The team was themed around incineration, with the majority of their drafted players having incineration-related modifications such as Fire Eater, Unstable, or Haunted.
During Game 2 of the showdown, Unstable Danger Zone batters Moody Cookbook and Sebastian Telephone were incinerated and replaced with, respectively, the non-canonical player Alx Pineapple and the deceased player Langley Wheeler (due to Squiddish).
=== Tsushima Ghosts ===
The Tsushima Ghosts were the team representing Roldan Melcon and Sam Rosenthal. Unlike the Danger Zone, the Ghosts did not have any particular theme to their draft selections, and many of the Ghosts' draft picks were chosen by the stream audience.
The team's name and slogan were a reference to a then-recent Game of the Year Twitter poll tournament held by the video game podcast The Besties in which Blaseball beat the popular 2020 video game Ghost of Tsushima.https://twitter.com/thebestiespod/status/1334151539854880771 Despite this, neither Melcon nor Rosenthal had played Ghost of Tsushima at the time of the Showdown.
During Game 2 of the showdown, Unstable Ghosts batter Pudge Nakamoto was incinerated and replaced with the non-canonical player Denim Chilly.
== Draft ==
=== Players ===
Prior to the start of the series, each team took turns selecting an existing player to be drafted to their team. Each team selected nine players for their Lineup, but only three for their Rotation (due to the best-of-3 format).
Released players and Coffee Cup guest team players were forbidden from being drafted. Each team was allowed to draft up to two deceased players from the Hall of Flame, and up to two players from the Shadows of Internet League Blaseball teams. All other players had to be selected from the active rosters of active teams at the time of the Showdown.
By guitar pick flip, the Tsushima Ghosts were given first choice. The order of selected draft players is listed below:
Team	Team 	Roster Location	Player 	Source Team/Location 	Notes
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (1) 	Nagomi Mcdaniel 	Hawai'i Fridays 	The Ghosts initially tried to pick Axel Trololol for their Rotation, but were unable to do so due to Trololol having been Released.
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (1) 	Jaxon Buckley 	Philly Pies 	
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Rotation (1) 	Wyatt Pothos 	Breckenridge Jazz Hands 	
 	Danger Zone 	Rotation (1) 	Burke Gonzales 	Mexico City Wild Wings 	
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Rotation (2) 	PolkaDot Patterson 	Canada Moist Talkers 	This pick was selected by the stream audience.
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (2) 	Margarito Nava 	Boston Flowers 	
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (2) 	Valentine Games 	Unlimited Tacos 	
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (3) 	Moody Cookbook 	Hall of Flame 	The Danger Zone's first allowed Hall of Flame pick.
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (3) 	Jessica Telephone 	Kansas City Breath Mints 	
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (4) 	Reese Clark 	Houston Spies 	
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (4) 	Fitzgerald Blackburn	Houston Spies 	
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (5) 	Alston Cerveza 	Canada Moist Talkers 	
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (5) 	Richmond Harrison 	Hades Tigers 	This pick was selected by the audience.
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (6) 	Sebastian Telephone 	Hall of Flame 	The Danger Zone's second allowed Hall of Flame pick.
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (6) 	Pudge Nakamoto 	Kansas City Breath Mints 	This pick was selected by the audience.
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (7) 	Goodwin Morin 	Seattle Garages 	
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Rotation (3) 	Mike Townsend 	Seattle Garages (Shadows)	The Ghosts' first allowed Shadows pick.
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (8) 	Esme Ramsey 	Charleston Shoe Thieves 	
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (7) 	Pitching Machine 	Seattle Garages 	
 	Danger Zone 	Rotation (2) 	Forrest Best 	Baltimore Crabs 	This pick was allowed despite the Crabs having Ascended by this point, due to them technically still being "active" in the Big Leagues.
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (8) 	Lars Taylor 	Hellmouth Sunbeams 	
 	Danger Zone 	Lineup (9) 	Fish Summer 	Canada Moist Talkers 	
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Lineup (9) 	York Silk 	Canada Moist Talkers 	This pick was selected by the audience.
 	Danger Zone 	Rotation (3) 	Sutton Bishop 	Hellmouth Sunbeams 	
This resulted in the following initial rosters:
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* Jaxon Buckley
* Margarito Nava
* Moody Cookbook
* Reese Clark
* Alston Cerveza
* Sebastian Telephone
* Goodwin Morin
* Esme Ramsey
* Fish Summer	
* Burke Gonzales
* Forrest Best
* Sutton Bishop	
=== Weather ===
Following the player draft, each team selected two Weather conditions to form the random Weather pool for the series.
Team	Team 	Weather
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Black Hole
 	Tsushima Ghosts	Solar Eclipse
 	Danger Zone 	Solar Eclipse
 	Danger Zone 	Solar Eclipse
== Games ==
Game	Away Team 	Score	Score	Score	Home Team 	Pitchers 	Pitchers 	Weather 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	
1 	Danger Zone	3 	- 	4 	Tsushima Ghosts	Burke Gonzales	Wyatt Pothos	Solar Eclipse	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	
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== References ==
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