Mandarin

Mandarin after winning a gold medal with a record-breaking score in High Jump (2020)

### Best Event

ML: 1st
High Jump (2020)
Water Race (2022)

## Marble League

### Individual Events Points Total

134 points

**Mandarin** is one of the members of the O'rangers Marble League team. They are one of the original members of the team, alongside Kinnowin, Clementin, Orangin and the reserve member Tangerin, from the O'Marbles family, who run an orange farm close to the city of Orlango. They are also the manager of the team.

Mandarin is widely considered as a consistent athlete as they finished every individual event in top half except twice. They have a total of 134 individual points, and three individual medals.

Mandarin is famous for their excellency in High Jump as they managed to clinch 2 individual medals in High Jump across years of competitions. In 2017, they got silver in High Jump and managed to improve in 2020, not only taking home the gold, but also stretching the old record by an astounding 2.5 cm.

Mandarin is also infamous for stopping on the track in Elimination Maze and received only 2 consolations points, which caused a great controversy among the fanbase.

## History

### Pre-Marble League

The O'rangers are a team of five siblings from the southeast of North America. The five come from the O'Marbles family, who run an orange farm close to the city of Orlango, and also specialize in bull-wrangling and off-road racing. Mandarin, the current patriarch of the family, founded the O'rangers with their siblings Clementin, Kinnowin, Tangerin, and Orangin in 2006, and participated in local competitions.

Over the first two years of competing, the O'rangers performed well enough to be noticed by Greg Woods, owner of the Fruit Circuit. In 2008, Woods visited the O'Marbles farm to verify that the O'rangers *are* a fruit-based team before inviting them to join the Fruit Circuit. The team accepted, and went on to compete in the Fruit Circuit for eight years before it shut down in 2016 due to the rise of the Marble League. In the final year of the Fruit Circuit, the O'rangers managed to earn enough points in the final race to beat the Raspberry Racers for the third spot. The team, along with the Limers and Mellow Yellow, qualified for Marble League 2016.

### 2016

Mandarin participated in Marble League 2016 with three other teammates. The team went to the first event, Balancing, under the names O1, O2, O3 and O4, coming in 9th. Kinnowin scored 102, the highest of the team. The four saw the seriousness of the competition and decided to reveal their true names before participating in the next event, Relay Race. In said event, they finished 15th, but got a consolation point because of a construction defect in their lane. The team earned their first points by finishing 5th in Event 3, Collision.In Event 5, Long Jump, Kinnowin broke the pre-existing Marble League record by 10 centimeters, winning the event and earning the O'rangers their first medal ever, a gold, and 10 points.

Mandarin participated in the next event, the Water Race. Mandarin qualified for the final in 3rd and held the early lead in the final, only to lost it as they got caught on the course, finishing 8th in this event. They did not win any medals in the remaining events, but still finished strong with five top half finishes in a row. This helped the team end Marble League 2016 in 5th overall with 31 points. Of course they were happy with the results, but wanted more. Mandarin decided to build their team their very own training ground close to the farm.

### 2017

The O'rangers qualified for Marble League 2017 in third. They started the main competition in the upper half of the field, Clementin earned the team a bronze medal in Event 5, Hurdles. The team had continued their training even during the Marble League, but they eventually decided to stop so they could conserve their energy. However, the O'rangers had a few shaky performances in the first half of the season. As of Event 6, Relay Run, the team had dropped to 9th in the overall standings.But the O'rangers would soon make up for it by breaking a Marble League record and earning themselves a gold medal in Event 7, Block Pushing, moving up five spots in the standings into 4th place. This marked the start of the team's dominance in the remainder of the season as the O'rangers, boosted by the sheer energy of their fans who convinced them to keep pushing, proceeded to finish on the podium in three of the remaining five events.

    In Event 8, High Jump, Mandarin performed exceptionally, claiming a silver medal as they came in second behind Yellah of Mellow Yellow.In the second-to-last event, Underwater Race, Kinnowin beat the Marble League record in the semifinal and, in the final, finished second behind Wospy of the Midnight Wisps. This was enough to close the gap to the overall leaders and their rivals for the title, the Savage Speeders, to just 10 points.In the final event, Sand Rally, Swifty of the Savage Speeders was eliminated in the first heat, leaving the door to the championship wide open for the O'rangers. In fact, Clementin comfortably finished in the top 4 in their Heat race. Even though they finished second, the O'rangers were able to steal the lead in the overall standings from the Savage Speeders to win Marble League 2017. But that's not all, they also automatically qualified for Marble League 2018. The team followed this up with a world victory tour. It was such a big deal that they closed the O'Marbles farm for a month and invited their entire family on the trip, causing a month-long decline in orange production.

### 2018

Orangin joined the team as the reserve in 2018. The year started with the Friendly Round, where the O'rangers came in third. But that didn't matter much as the team emerged as the most consistent of all competing teams in Marble League 2018, finishing within the top half in ten out of the twelve events. In the first nine events, they only scored a bottom half finish once in Event 3, Halfpipe. Just like the previous year, the team used the strategy of conserving their energy. They eventually claimed their only medal of the season, a silver, in Event 10, Biathlon, taking them to 2nd place overall.Unfortunately, the O'rangers could not keep it up in the final event, Sand Mogul Race. The team still had a chance of winning the League, but Kinnowin came in third in their heat and was thus eliminated. The team dropped to 4th overall at the end of Marble League 2018 and were nine points behind the Oceanics, seemingly missing out on pre-qualifying for Marble League 2019, despite their consistency throughout the season.

During the offseason, the O'rangers trained at their O'raceway track and participated in the 100 Meter Water Race and the Amazing Maze Marble Race. Mandarin couldn't replicate their previous success in the water, coming in 20th, but the team managed to come in second in the maze. The team had put in a bid to host Marble League 2019, which they lost to the Oceanics. But this left open one pre-qualifying spot for the O'rangers to claim.

### 2019

The O'rangers, along with their new coach Rango, arrived at the Seven Seas Stadium for the Friendly Round before Marble League 2019. The team finished in second place, just one point behind the Oceanics. However, the O'rangers started off poorly in Marble League 2019. Kinnowin finished in 14th in Event 1, Underwater Race. This was followed by Clementin crashing into the wall at the start of the next event, Funnel Race, leading them to stop due to head trauma. They were unable to finish, and the team dropped to dead last overall for the first time in their history. The doctors confirmed Clementin's injury was minor, but recommended them to stay off the roster for a couple of events.The O'rangers followed this up with three middle of the pack finishes. However, in Event 6, Relay Run, the team earned a silver medal, moving the team up to 9th overall.

    The team continued to drop and Mandarin was determined to make a comeback in Elimination Race. They showed promise as they just missed a qualifying spot by placing 2nd in the first race, but got caught on the course becaus of a track defection and was thus eliminated. The JMRC didn't restart the race eventually and as a result, Mandarin was given 2 consolation points. Another disappointing eleventh place finish in Surfing confirmed the O'rangers would no longer be able to finish in the top three. The next event was Collision, where the team admittedly had never got past the quarterfinals. However, they impressed the fans by winning the event, earning their first gold medal since 2017. The team jumped to 7th place overall. Along with this gold medal, Kinnowin was able to get 4th in the final event and the team finished 6th this year.

### 2020

The O'rangers held their same five members approaching Marble League 2020, and entered the Marble League qualifiers for the first time since 2017. At the beginning, they did terrible as they were just hovering above the line between qualifying and not qualifying. However, their form picked back up and eventually finishing 8th in the Qualifiers. The O'rangers started Marble League 2020 with a 10th place finish in Balancing. However, a 3-event long podium streak brought them to the top of the Marble League, surpassing the Minty Maniacs, who had the best start to a Marble League in history. Two back-to back bronze medals sent them top of the Marble League, although a 12th place finish caused the O'rangers to drop to second with a 9 point gap between them and first place.

    But then, in the High Jump event, Mandarin won the event as their title contenders Savage Speeders finished last, causing the lead to be extended to 35 points. However, a terrible 11th place finish in the Team Aquathlon, losing out to the Oceanics, whom was notorious for their poor performance in water events, followed up by an abysmal 16th place finish in Collision, saw them dropping to 2nd, 5 points behind the now-leaders and bitter rivals, Savage Speeders. In the last event, Kinnowin is unable to successfully to assert control in the Marathon event, and they lost out to the Savage Speeders by 7 points, finishing in 2nd.

### 2021

#### Marble League Winter Special

During the offseason time, the O'rangers were invited to participate in Marble League Winter Special and they accepted. They had a slow start. Clementin delivered a 9th place finish in the opening event, the Ice Dash, but then the captain Kinnowin also failed to impress and got 7th in Snowboard Cross, dropping the team to 10th in the standings. Orangin only got 11th in Speed Skating, dropping the team to only 11th with two events to go.

In the Bobsled coming up next, O'rangers managed to break the record set by Gliding Glaciers three years ago. This is also the eighth record broken by the O'rangers. In the end the record-breaking score was enough for them to win the event, jumping to 4th with only one event to go. In the final event, O'rangers met Pinkies in the round of 16 and beat them in the round of 16, and bet championship contender Minty Maniacs in the quarter-finals, and became the only team able to overtake the leader, Oceanics only if they get gold in this event. However things did not work out and they were beaten by Raspberry Racers in the semi-final. They faced Team Galactic in the Third-place Round and won, getting 3rd place in this event, jumping into 2nd place in the standings.

## Career Events

Note: Events include any kind of individual & team events (friendly events, other tournaments etc.)

## Gallery

Mandarin after getting 2nd place in High Jump in ML 2017Mandarin after getting 1st place in High Jump in ML 2020Mandarin after getting 1st place in Water Race in ML 2022
## Trivia

* Mandarin is currently one of four managers to have also participated as an athlete for the team. The others are: Glace for the Gliding Glaciers, Mouthful for the Jawbreakers, and Dodger for the Kobalts.
	+ By extension, Mandarin is the only one of these managers to be both an athlete and manager of a team simultaneously.