Dispater Splorts League

The **Dispater Splorts League** (DSL), originally the **Netherhell Blaseball Association** (NBA) and often know as **Dis League Blaseball**, is a Blaseball league that exists in at least one plane of perception, yet is always shifting and cycling through a great many existences. In any and all of them, however, it drifts through the endless existential waters of the Underleagues. The main theme of the DSL is interdimensional play; the majority of teams in the DSL are in some form related to dimensional travel, whether they exist in pocket dimensions, overlap other dimensions, or so on, and it is very rare that two DSL players, let alone teams, are from one universe.

## Background

Situated just outside of existence is the “city” of **Netherhell**, a floating world populated by one of the most frightening possible forms of hell: endless corporations. The largest of these companies is **Belhor Entertainment**, a massive company which specializes in two things; firstly, owning other companies, and two, producing entertainment on an interdimensional level. The latest venture of its CEO, a very powerful milf named **Belial**, is branching out into Blaseball, through settling in some of the many realities that make up Blaseball and its Underleagues. The main theme of the DSL is interdimensional play; the majority of teams in the DSL are in some form related to dimensional travel, whether they exist in pocket dimensions, overlap other dimensions, or so on, and it is very rare that two DSL players, let alone teams, are from one universe.

Picking and choosing from some of these many dimensions and sub-dimensions, Belial has set up a number of teams in a small Blaseball administration, originally known as the Netherhell Blaseball Association. After being issued a series of DMCA takedowns from Hades, lord of Hades and owner of the Hades Tigers, they retracted the branding of “Netherhell” in favor of “Dispater,” a label that Hades found more agreeable due to personally interacting with his brand in a way that implies subservience, resulting in their rebranding to the “Dispater Splorts Association.” This also affords them the possibility to branch out to other splorts, though they have yet to do so due to the surprisingly consistent commercial unsustainability of the DSL in any realms except Dispater.

## Style of Play

### Fundamentals

Unlike the majority of leagues in Blaseball, which is usually situated in a single dimension per league, the Dispater League sustains itself on the idea of numerous interconnected realities. To this end, play manages to be somewhat unconventional at times. Each team has a home stadium that is part of a continuous interconnected world, but these are not always necessarily the same world as Blaseball itself. As such, play is organized through a licensed vendor stand operating somewhat legally out of a closet at the Amphitheater, in which a team’s captain can spend PlayCoins, tokens of merit earned from strenuous Blaseball activity on the part of their team, to purchase Portal Tokens to other teams’ home stadiums.

### Variable Play

Due to this interdimensional nature, play is highly variable due to the varying rules of the dimensions making up the DSL. As an example, the Shreveport Stevedores, a rarity among the DSL due to entirely originating in the standard Blaseball world, overlap with Anti-Louisiana, which leaks terrible magics into Shreveport and sometimes creates their stadium’s "Second First Base" near First Base that causes dimensional shifts to the Astral Plane while standing on it and is counted as a valid base during play.

Another oddity of this style of play results from the fact that, across universes, Blaseballs vary in size, shape, and appearance. As a result, a catalogue has been made of these assorted Blaseballs and they have been distributed across the DSL evenly to be used as pitchers see fit. In compliance with this, batters in the DSL function differently than standard rotation. Rather, pitchers are required to announce the type of Blaseball they will be pitching in advance and captains then decide players on the fly from a pool of players remaining in the rotation, each player being assigned a certain type of bat. This is comparable to glolf, a fact which proves controversial on the rare occasion the DSL interacts with teams from other leagues.

## Divisions and Teams

The DSL is split into four divisions; the **Pocket Division**, the **Overlap Division**, the **Parallel Division**, and the **Endless Division**. The four categorize teams based on their origin. Teams from the Pocket Division and Endless Division represent two extremes; respectively, self-contained pocket realities and realities sitting outside of existence (like Dispater itself). The Overlap Division and Endless Division also represent two extremes, similarly; respectively, locations that overlap unique dimensions and locations that exist as alternate counterparts to other notable locations or are populated by alternate counterparts to other notable people. Due to the DSL’s relative commercial failure, the DSL is unable to acquire further teams and these divisions are thus unevenly balanced and teams play inter-divisionally all year round, thus making their existence more of a formality than anything.

### Pocket Division

* Grange City Greys 👽
* Grange City Townies 👨 (missing)

### Overlap Division

* Shreveport Stevedores 🛥️
* Princeton Glolf Remnants 🏌️ (contested)
* Paterson Silkworm Farmers 🧵
* Maple Valley Bad Tribute Band 🪕
* St. George's Right Triangles 📐

### Parallel Division

* Puyallup Augustes 🎟️
* Eternal West Wranglers 🏇
* Leaf River Fish Cakes 🍥

### Endless Division

* Dark West Carolina Floppers 🦄
* Dispater Standardized Robotic Team 💾
* LA Unlimited Tacos 🌮 (claimed by DSL, unverified)

## Notable Players

Players are diverse, shifting, and indeterminate, but some themes and players include:

* a dimension-walking, team-shifting, transgender Guy Fieri clone, known as Girl Fiery
* someone you swear you went to high school with, but who just kinda seems a bit "off"
* players from other, completely unrelated splorts, who ended up here by circumstance
* copyright violations seemingly existing in an eternal state of "parody" or "tribute"
* Wren Moonbow, captain of the Greys, who has never pitched a strike
* a physical representation of the ambiguous canonicity status of the Underleagues
* ...and you, if you'd have us