Goldfish

Goldfish after winning the 2020 Marbletopia MR

Goldfish is a marble from Yo Island who competes in McDolphin Marble Racing. She competed in the first ever MMR race and challenged for the win before falling to 15th, only to win the next race and place 3rd in the 2019-20 championship with 2 more top 3 finishes. She also won round 2 of 2020 and placed 2nd in Marblevaniya that year. She currently sits in 9th in the 2020 standings after a drop-off in performance in recent rounds.

## Early Life and Career

Goldfish was born on the 3rd of June 1996 in Marbletopia, Yo Island. Her mother was called Tinker-Bell Goldfish and her older sister was named Eva. Her first name was Ellie. In 2002, her and her family moved to the (at the time) poor Phoebe City suburb of Basket. It was that year that she met her best friends Sophie Whizzer and Camron Storm. They were all big fans of athletics and hoped to become sportsmarbles in the future. Camron was known for his good control at high speeds in difficult situations, Sophie was particularly fast and Goldfish was known for her racecraft. At the age of 13, these 3 joined a street racing club that raced around the roads of suburbs of Phoebe City. They entered under the names of Spinball Whizzer, Cyclone and Goldfish. In their championship, Goldfish was always good at tracks with sudden turns, where she would dive up the inside or even the outside of her competitors. Then, in 2012, the Mystery Elimination series began. Goldfish was immediately hooked and when it was revealed that in Mystery Land, Loungeland and Marblevaniya there would be regional tournaments and national tournaments that could get a marble picked for one of the 4 Mystery County teams, she persuaded her mother to move to Velmaville and join one of the tournaments.

In January 2013, Ellie Goldfish waved goodbye to her friends and flew over to Velmaville to join the elimination league. The previous time it had been run the champion had been a 16-year-old marble named Super Scooby. Goldfish had lots of competition though, including future rival Kit Kat, who chose to race in the quieter league rather than the Scooby one.. In her first season in March, at which point she was just 16, Goldfish finished 3rd, a very good result. In the next month's tournament, however, she won and for the May tournament season she was in the National tournament. In her first season, she was into the semi-finals battling Coral Kingdom's Pearl and Scooby District's (in an area that is now a section of Cat Land) Kit Kat. She was a favourite for the final but a hard collision with Pearl denied her a shot at the victory. In June, with Pearl promoted to the Fredshire team, Goldfish and Kit Kat were dominant, winning every race between them, and Goldfish came out on top. However, due to her colours not matching those of any other team, she was rejected, unlike Kit Kat, who was signed to the Scooby team. After some more good performances, Goldfish's family had to return to Yo Island due to a lack of money. The infamously random run of Radiator Raceway was erected in 2015 after Goldfish returned but it never satisfied her, unlike Sophie Whizzer, who had made a reputation for herself over the 3 years Goldie was away. Then money really became a problem and Goldfish's mother became more and more depressed and secluded while she attempted to get a job.

In July 2019 it was revealed that a new marble run championship would begin, unlike one that had ever been seen before. It was McDolphin Marble Racing, the first ever international run racing championship. Unlike the Mystery tournaments and the occasional races at Radiator, it was a championship held over a year with points scored rather than eliminations or prize money. There would be 20 competing marbles who would be announced over time in groups of 5.

In the first wave of announcements, Super Scooby, as predicted (mainly due to videos being shown in the reveal featuring him) was announced as #01 with Octopus as #02. Mystery racers Warning Light and Shaggy were revealed as 4 and 5 but number 3 was a marble who hadn't left Yo Island or even been noticed by most other nations since 2014. She was Goldfish.

The first race of MMR 2019-20 was, as Goldfish put it, painful for the small fish marble. Held at Marbletopia Theme Park, just 5 miles from her birthplace, Goldfish started second and had a shot at the win until hits from Green Turtle and Super Scooby (in particular) caused her to get scooped up by the delayed 7th-20th pack, who relegated her down to 15th place. The second race was held in Phoebe City centre and Goldfish again was placed in the top 3 on the grid and this time she fought brilliantly against Red Rallier and Deep Blue to take her first ever win in MMR.

The next two races were a lot more trying for Goldfish. She qualified second in the first of 2 tests of a qualifying system but was smashed down to an abysmal 19th place in Radiator Raceway. In the next race in Loungeland, Goldie again made the Superpole shootout for P1 on the grid and an extra point but finished 5th of 5 in that race. She fell to 9th in the race and fell to 6th in the now separating championship with just 2 races left to go.

In race 5 Goldfish came from the back of the grid along with Super Scooby to take 2nd place and moved back to 4th overall, just 12 points behind Red Rallier in the championship lead. She could still win overall in the championship with a poor finish for Shaggy, Super Scooby and Red Rallier (and ideally Frankfurter) and a top-3 finish for her. She was also the only female marble still in with a championship chance. In the end, she did what she had to do by taking 3rd place but Red Rallier finished 6th, which kept him ahead of her but more importantly Shaggy won the race, thus immediately shutting down any hope that the other 4 contenders had. Still, 15 points compared to Super Scooby's 6 allowed her to take 3rd overall.

For 2020, Goldfish was automatically qualified, along with the other top 10 finishers from 2019-20.