雪球

* Current
* 2019

雪球是在2016弹珠联赛出道的一支队伍，队伍由Snow, Snowy, Snowflake和Snowstorm五名成员组成。

雪球队在2016弹珠联赛表现不佳，仅以14分的成绩位列第十四。唯一的奖牌是接力赛的铜牌。尽管雪球并没有完成比赛的最后一棒，还在小组中排名最次，他们还是被授予了“安慰铜牌”，因为JMR官方确认了1号跑道，也就是雪球比赛的跑道上的一个缺陷。雷霆和雪球均获得铜牌，各得5分。

在2017弹珠联赛预选赛中，雪球位于并列第十三名，因此无缘2017弹珠联赛正赛，在此之后，Snowblast也正式成为参与2018弹珠联赛雪球一员。

雪球作为2018弹珠联赛的东道主自动晋级正赛，他们在友谊赛的表现为他们赢得了众多粉丝，但是他们直到第六个项目——团队速滑才获得了一枚金牌，之前的表现都令人失望，最终以第七的成绩结束这个赛季。

在2019弹珠联赛预选赛被淘汰后，他们参加了B级联赛。他们获得了B级联赛的冠军，故成功得到了下一年（2020弹珠联赛）的预选赛席位，但是他们预选赛只获得了第十五名，这意味着他们将无法参与2020弹珠联赛正赛。

在2021弹珠联赛预选赛上，雪球在A组只获得了第十名的成绩，这导致他们无缘2021弹珠联赛正赛。随后他们在2021弹珠联赛B级联赛上取得第六名。

队圆
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Snow, Snowy, Snowflake和Snowstorm是雪球最早的也是现在的队圆。 Snowblast 在2018年加入. Snowflake 在2019年成为队长. 但是由于在弹珠方程式 第一赛季和2020弹珠联赛预选赛的糟糕表现，她将队长交给了Snowy

 Snowy | Snowy
 Snowstorm | Snowstorm

队圆时间线（红色为队员，蓝色为替补，黑色为队长）

## History

### Pre-Marble League

The Snowballs come from the small city of Hailfern in the northeast of North America. When the Snowballs' team members were young, Hailfern was but a village known for its ski slopes, and nothing else. Snowflake lived in an acacia log house on one of the ski slopes there. In fact, their parents were the owners of that particular slope, which they somehow named after them: Snowflake Slope. It remains a tourist destination for marbles who live in the southeast of North America. It is believed that the O'Marbles family, who later form the O'rangers, used to hang out at the slope before competing in the Fruit Circuit.

Snowflake would travel down the slope every day on their way to school in Hailfern. While at the school's after-school snowtubing club, they met their future teammates, Snowstorm and Snowblast. A few years later, Snowflake founded the school's ski team and started practicing on their family's slope. The ski team later entered a local skiing tournament. The Hailfern Ski Team proved a worthy contender and qualified for the regional finals at Blancouver. Suddenly, during the finals, Snowflake found out that their parent had been killed in an avalanche. They dropped out of the competition and returned home. Snowstorm and Snowblast talked to the other ski teams to try and raise support for Snowflake's family.

 File:Snow.jpg  The Blancouver team, headed up by Snow and Snowy, donated their funds from hosting to Snowflake's family. Snowflake dropped out of school to help their other parent run the ski lift. Months later, the team from Blancouver came to Hailfern for a friendly match. Snowflake came along to support their former team. Snow, Snowy and Snowstorm came to visit them to recount their previous competitions. They later went out and rolled together into the night. They then promised to meet up again.

Snowflake's parent supported their child in marble sports. Snowflake eventually rejoined the school ski team and, once they graduated, Snowflake, along with Snow, Snowy and Snowstorm, moved to Snoronto to attend the University of Snoronto. They continued to compete together in various university marble sports competition. They eventually came to be known as the Snowballs, and they made rivals of the university's other main group: the Gliding Glaciers, who hail from the island city of Guuk. The Snowballs became one of the most popular university teams in North America and brought international attention to Hailfern.

### 2016

The Snowballs ended up being invited to compete in Marble League 2016 as a wildcard entry compared to internationally renowned teams like Team Primary, the Savage Speeders and the Rojo Rollers. The team had a decent start to the competition, gaining one point in the first event, Balancing, five points and a technical bronze medal due to a track defect in Event 2, the Relay Race. However, they only managed to earn another eight points over the next ten events, earning no points in six of those events, finishing the competition in a disappointing 14th place.

### 2017

The Snowballs returned to the Marble League for the Marble League 2017 Qualifiers with high hopes. However, those hopes were soon crushed. They came fifth and eighth in the first two events, but earned no points in the final two events. The team came joint 13th with the Kobalts and the Balls of Chaos, 4 points short of qualifying. The Snowballs realized they needed more professional experience, so in the offseason, they went to the MFC Championship League, which the Balls of Chaos mentioned to them, and competed there as an exhibition team.

Meanwhile, Snowblast stayed in Hailfern and rebuilt the Hailfern ski team to win its first regional title. The village had also started to expand in business. A construction company, Arctic Corporation, started working on an arena and training facilities for the Snowballs on the opposite side of the mountain from Snowflake Slope. The stadium was named The Arctic Circle upon completion.

During the fall on 2017, the stadium was visited by Jelle and Dion Bakker, and Greg Woods during their world tour, after visiting the Royal Family of Snoronto. They liked the stadium so much that they offered the Snowballs the honor of hosting Marble League 2018. The team accepted and became the first team to host a Marble League.

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### 2018

The Snowballs automatically qualified for Marble League 2018 as hosts. They recruited Snowblast as their reserve member for the Marble League 2018 Friendly Round, which was basically a practice round for them. They dominated the round, staying in the lead ahead of Marble League mainstays – the Savage Speeders, the O'rangers, and Mellow Yellow. Because of this, the Snowballs quickly became a favorite for the championship title.

In fact, the Snowballs proceeded to start the main competition really well, with Snow finishing 4th in the first event, 5 Meter Ice Dash. However, in the next event, Ski Jump, Snowstorm had a mediocre performance, finishing 9th, and the team came last in the Halfpipe event. A mediocre seventh place finish in the Bobsled event saw the team fall to 13th overall. At this point, fans were starting to question the Snowballs' status as title contenders.

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But the Snowballs had no intention of giving up. They later managed to turn things around in the next three events, with the team's first actual medals, a bronze for Snowflake in Speed Skating, and a gold in Team Pursuit. They followed this up with a fourth place finish for Snowy in Snow Rally. This put the team in second overall. However, the Snowballs did not medal again and dropped to eighth as of Event 11, Ice Hockey.

Before the final event, a blizzard in Hailfern led to an avalanche that destroyed the stadium and severely damaged the Snowballs' training facilities. The Bakker brothers and the IMC decided to use the Bakker Bowl as a temporary stadium for the final event, Sand Mogul Race. Snow was chosen to represent the Snowballs in the event. They reached the Semifinals and was tied with Ocean of the Oceanics for time. As a result, the Snowballs concluded Marble League 2018 at seventh overall, tied with the Raspberry Racers for points, but ahead with a gold medal against the Raspberry Racers' silver, also from the Team Pursuit event.

The Snowballs began to rebuild the stadium in the offseason. They also competed in two events: the 100 Meter Water Race, where Snowflake did not finish, and the Amazing Maze Marble Race, where the team came second-to-last.

### 2019

The team's struggles continued into the Marble League 2019 Qualifiers, where the team finished in 18th place, thus failing to qualify for Marble League 2019. Snowflake made a comment suggesting that the conditions weren't fair at the Seven Seas Stadium, the stadium of the Oceanics. This drew scrutiny from the Oceanics. The Snowballs dropped the charges after negotiations between the Royal Family of Snoronto and the Royal Family of Dunduei.

The Snowballs then heard of the announcement for the Marble League Showdown 2019 and got back to training in their recently repaired training facility. The team did exceptionally in the competition, earning a medal in all events except for Collision. Snowstorm earned a bronze medal in the Sand Rally, Snow won gold in the Funnel Race, and the team claimed silver in Balancing. The team earned 53 points and won the Showdown, securing their spot in the Marble League 2020 Qualifiers.

### 2020

While training for Marble League 2020, the Snowballs received an invitation from the JMRC to take part in Marbula One Season 1. They happily accepted it and chose Snowy and Snowflake to represent them. With their strong performance in Showdown 2019, the Snowballs could bet on Marbula One to prove their newfound supremacy in marble sports as they kept an eye on the Marble League 2020 Qualifiers.

Even though the team won the Marble League Showdown 2019 they were not able to qualify for the Marble League 2020. The team collapsed in the 5-meter sprint, where they sat fifth in the overall standings, and finished fifteenth overall due to Snowflake finishing last in the sprint. For the second straight year, the Snowballs will be watching the Marble League from the sidelines. Frustrated fans have called for the replacement of longtime coach Blizzard, as well as demands that Snowy take over as captain.

After their failed qualification, the team took a holiday to Winterpeg to ski. While collecting themselves on their vacation, the Snowballs received an invitation to participate in the second season of Marbula One, which they accepted. Snowy, the runners-up of last season's Marbula One was retained for the second edition of Marbula One, however, the Snowballs decided to replace Snowflake, and chose Snowstorm to take their place. On 14th November 2020, the Snowballs were announced to host the sixth race of the season at the Arctic Circuit.

## 2016弹珠联赛

主条目：2016弹珠联赛

\*雪球队原本在决赛中获得第4名，但由于他们所跑的上车道存在缺陷，他们额外获得了1分，并在领奖台仪式后获得了铜牌。

## 2017弹珠联赛

主条目：2017弹珠联赛
 File:DSC01542.JPG  雪球并没有在2017弹珠联赛晋级

**预选赛成绩**

## 2018弹珠联赛

主条目：2018弹珠联赛
 File:SNOWBALLS LOGO.png
雪球作为东道主自动晋级2018弹珠联赛正赛
**友谊赛成绩**

 冰壶赛
 半管赛

## 2018其他比赛

雪球还参加了2018其他两个比赛。他们分别是100米水中竞速和Amazing Maze弹珠比赛

 Amazing Maze弹珠比赛

## 2019B级联赛

主条目：2019B级联赛
雪球晋级到了2020弹珠联赛预选赛

## 弹珠方程式 第一赛季

主条目：弹珠方程式 第一赛季
雪球参加了弹珠方程式第一赛季（M1S1），他们选择的车手阵容是现队长Snowy搭配前队长Snowflake

他们的车手表现之间的鲜明对比而引人注目。 Snowy获得了 58 分，甚至在获得车手锦标赛第二名的过程中赢得了比赛胜利和两次第三名。 相反，Snowflake的表现不佳，包括从杆位出发后最后掉到第14。 雪球最终以66分结束这个赛季，在车队积分榜中位列第4。

\*Snowy在正赛拿到了最快圈，得到了额外的一分

## 2020B级联赛

主条目：2020B级联赛
雪球没有成功晋级到2021弹珠联赛预选赛

## 队员个球积分

### **弹珠方程式**

 Snowy | 弹珠方程式 第一赛季弹珠方程式 第二赛季 | Savage Speedway GP (S1)Mototrway GP (S1)Short Circuit GP (S1)Midnight Bay GP (S1)Minty Mania GP (S2)Honeydome GP (S2)Arctic Circuit GP (S2)Momotorway GP (S2)Misty Mountain GP (S2)Midnight Bay GP (S2)
 Snowstorm | 弹珠方程式 第二赛季 | O'raceway GP (S2)Aquamaring GP (S2)Tumult Turnpike GP (S2)Raceforest GP (S2)Palette Park GP (S2)Savage Speedway GP (S2)

## Gallery

Team Profile 2020Team Profile 2021SBM1.jpegMarbula One (S1) PosterSBM1S2.pngMarbula One (S2) Poster
## Trivia

* The Snowballs are the first winners of the Marble League Showdown.
	+ Furthermore, they have the singular record of having won at least one of each type of medal, which they achieved in 2019.
* In the Snowballs' announcement poster for Marbula One, Snowflake's childhood home (the acacia log cabin) makes an appearance in the background.
* The Snowballs along with Mellow Yellow and the O'rangers are the only teams that are a solid color.
* The Snowballs were often confused with the Pinkies due to their similar colors before the Pinkies changed their uniform to be more distinctive.
* The Snowballs are one of four teams to never successfully qualify for a Marble League via the Qualifiers. The others are the Kobalts, Solar Flares, and Turtle Sliders.

## References

1. ↑ Skystrykr (15th March 2019). 2019 MarbleLympics - Team Members. Reddit.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Stynth (11th January 2020). RetRollSpective – Snowballs. Marble Sports.
3. ↑ Stynth (8th August 2020). Offseason Moments – ML2020 Showdown. Jelle's Marble Runs.