Beta/Season 3
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Season 3 of Internet League Blaseball began on Monday, August 3, 2020. The regular season concluded on Friday, August 7, 2020, followed by the postseason and the 3rd Internet Series on Saturday, August 8, 2020. It is the second season of the Discipline Era.
Initially, Season 3 was titled the season of the Peanut Plague; however, following the day of Blasphemy, it became the season of Uncertainty.
Season 3 concluded with the Hades Tigers defeating the New York Millennials to win their first Internet Series championship. The election results were followed by the Grand Siesta, an extended hiatus declared by Blaseball officials.
Notable Events
Peanut Plague
See the main article on Peanut Plague.
Peanut Plague is the first subtitle of the Discipline Era, appearing at the Season 2 decree known as Peanuts, and through the opening pitches of Season 3 Day 1 games. This period introduced several participation elements revolving around peanuts, such as peanuts as an item type, peanuts as a weather type, and peanuts as an allergic reaction.
Peanut Fraud
See the main article on Peanut Fraud.
On Season 3 Day 2 (August 3, 2020), play was interrupted following the discovery of Peanut Fraud. Officials had announced play would not resume until the peanut cheaters have repented. Due to the fact that "Blaseball is inevitable,"[1] play resumed soon after; however the peanut cheaters did not come forward. Umpire Husky was quoted as saying, "THE BLASEBALL GODS WILL REMEMBER THIS."[1]
Blasphemy
See the main article on Blasphemy.
During the Internet League downtime of August 3, 2020, all website display pages were replaced with a large rotating image of The Peanut; below which was scrawled in red text the word 'BLASPHEMY' in addition to a string of letters in a dark-dark-grey color. Blaseball fans speculate that these letters represent recently incinerated blaseball players.
Uncertainty
The meaning of Uncertainty is uncertain.
Uncertainty is the second subtitle of The Discipline Era, appearing on August 3, 2020 as an apparently direct response to the Peanut Fraud and Blasphemy incident. The state of the splort following the period of Uncertainty is one of great uncertainty. This period has marked the introduction of Lots of Birds as a weather type, who are seemingly attracted to peanuts. This period also seems to coincide with increasing incidents of blaseball player incinerations (although it is possible there is no causation at work.)
The period of Uncertainty ended at the conclusion of Season 3, when it was replaced with the period of Drought.
The Grand Unslam
See the main article on The Grand Unslam.
On Season 3 Day 73 (August 6, 2020), a lengthy game between the Charleston Shoe Thieves and the Los Angeles Tacos became the longest game (by minutes played) to date, and went on to produce a temporal phenomena. At the bottom of the 15th inning, play was interrupted by a Bad Gateway event, prompting an official pause by umpires. Players were then visited by messages from The Peanut, similar to the Blasphemy event above.
When regular play resumed three hours later, the standings reflected that the two teams had 75 total games played by the end of Day 74—one more game than the rest of the league. Fans began to dub the events surrounding the extra, unseen game as The Grand Unslam.
This event had tremendous consequences on the cosmos that were only apparent at the end of the season, such as Spacetime tearing Los Angeles into a single infinite cit(ies), and all now-Unlimited Tacos players experiencing Wyatt Masoning.
Ongoing Decrees
Following the Season 2 election, the following decrees were in place for Season 3:
- Fourth Strike: All Batters on the bottom four teams of the previous Season's standings gain a Fourth Strike. It will take four strikes to strike them out, as opposed to three for every other team. The teams benefitting from a Fourth Strike are the New York Millennials, the Kansas City Breath Mints, the Hellmouth Sunbeams and the San Francisco Lovers.
- Peanuts: Peanuts
Standings
The Good League | Record | The Evil League | Record |
---|---|---|---|
Lawful Good | Lawful Evil | ||
San Francisco Lovers* | 59-40 | Hades Tigers* | 70-29 |
Dallas Steaks* | 55-54 | Philly Pies* | 53-46 |
Kansas City Breath Mints | 49-50 | Baltimore Crabs | 44-55 |
Los Angeles Tacos | 38-62 | Mexico City Wild Wings | 42-57 |
Chicago Firefighters | 35-64 | Hellmouth Sunbeams | 38-61 |
Chaotic Good | Chaotic Evil | ||
New York Millennials* | 65-34 | Canada Moist Talkers* | 53-46 |
Charleston Shoe Thieves* | 60-40 | Breckenridge Jazz Hands* | 50-49 |
Yellowstone Magic | 53-46 | Houston Spies | 49-50 |
Hawaii Fridays | 48-51 | Seattle Garages | 48-51 |
New York Millennials | 42-57 | Miami Dalé | 40-59 |
* Denotes teams that advanced to the playoffs.
Postseason
Round of 8 | Round of 4 | Internet Series | |||||||||||
1 | New York Millennials | ||||||||||||
4 | Dallas Steaks | ||||||||||||
1 | New York Millennials | ||||||||||||
Mild League | |||||||||||||
3 | San Francisco Lovers | ||||||||||||
2 | Charleston Shoe Thieves | ||||||||||||
3 | San Francisco Lovers | ||||||||||||
ML | New York Millennials | ||||||||||||
WL | Hades Tigers | ||||||||||||
1 | Hades Tigers | ||||||||||||
4 | Breckenridge Jazz Hands | ||||||||||||
1 | Hades Tigers | ||||||||||||
Wild League | |||||||||||||
2 | Philly Pies | ||||||||||||
2 | Philly Pies | ||||||||||||
3 | Canada Moist Talkers |
Election Ballot
Decrees
The two Decrees with the most community votes will go into effect.
Icon | Name | Effect |
---|---|---|
Eat The Rich: | Redistribute the funds from the Top 1% of Fans at the end of each Season | |
Eat the Crust | 5 Players from the 2-Time Champion Pies will be reassigned to Random Teams | |
Interviews | GET TO KNOW THE PLAYERS | |
Late Stage | Postseason Bet Payouts increase each round: 2x, 3x, 5x | |
Blaserunning | Stolen Bases are worth 0.1 Runs |
Blessings
Each blessing will be awarded to a randomly selected player or team based. Votes from a team's fans increase the likelihood of that team receiving a blessing.
Name | Effect |
---|---|
Anticapitalism, Brought To You By Friends At The Table | Your team will become fully anticapitalist. |
Rigour Mortis | Stiff Limbs. -10% team baserunning to your team's division opponents. |
Evil Wind Sprints | The Wind can be Evil. Run. +15% Team Baserunning |
Bloodlust | URRRRRRGGHHHHHH. Maxes the stats of a random player on your team. |
Highway Robbery | The best player in the league joins your team. |
Headhunter | The best hitter in your team's subleague (Good or Evil) joins your team. |
Vulture | The best player in your team's division joins your team. |
Pretty Plz? | Feed your hitters coffee grounds. Team hitting changes from -5% to +15% |
Team-Building Exercise | Re-rolls your team's three worst players |
Summoning Circle | Re-rolls your team's 3 worst hitters |
Exploratory Surgeries | Re-rolls your team's worst 3 pitchers |
Performance Enhancing Demons | Mggoka match ng strike fm'latghor. Fm'latgh. +8% Team Overall |
Pseudo-Thumbs | Pseudo-Thumbs burst from the skin on the opposite of your pitchers' hands. +10% Team Pitching |
The Rack | [cartilage and bone snapping] +15% Team Defense |
Exile | Send your team's worst hitter to a random other team. Receive a random player back. |
Go Away | Send your team's worst pitcher to a random team. Receive a random player back. |
Election Results
Decrees
- Interviews passed with 10,914 votes, 33% of all decree votes.
- The microphone lifts
- Note: Player stat ratings and new personal information was made available by clicking on a player's name.
- ERROR: The Grand Unslam Weakened The Bridge[2]
- Spacetime Tears over Los Angeles
- The Infinite cit(ies) shine
- Platonic Form Corrupted
- You've looked too close...
- The microphone lifts
- Eat The Rich passed with 10,883 votes, 33% of all decree votes.
- Each 99%-er received 193 coins from the top 1% of coin-havers.
- So the people have spoken, so it shall continue.
Blessings
- Bloodlust blessed the Hades Tigers
- Yazmin Mason's pitching stats were maxed out.
- The Tigers won with 10% of the vote. The Unlimited Tacos had 12% of the vote. 8312 votes were cast.
- Exile blessed the Hades Tigers
- Hades Tigers sent their worst hitter, Alyssa Harrell, to the New York Millennials and received Mclaughlin Scorpler in return.
- The Tigers won with 2% of the vote. The Kansas City Breath Mints had 27% of the vote. 4760 votes were cast.
- Go Away blessed the Philly Pies
- Philly Pies sent away their worst pitcher, Kevin Dudley, to the Charleston Shoe Thieves and received Forrest Bookbaby in return.
- The Pies won with 23% of the vote. They were the highest bidders. 5947 votes were cast.
- Evil Wind Sprints blessed the Breckenridge Jazz Hands
- Their pitching was increased by 10%.
- The Jazz Hands won with 1% of the vote. The New York Millennials had 29% of the vote. 14,776 votes were cast.
- Highway Robbery blessed the Breckenridge Jazz Hands
- The Jazz hands stole Nagomi Mcdaniel from the Hawaii Fridays and sent Bevan Underbuck in return.
- The Jazz Hands won with 3% of the vote. The Baltimore Crabs had 49% of the vote. 9615 votes were cast.
- Summoning Circle blessed the Kansas City Breath Mints
- Rodriguez Internet's hitting was randomized from ½ to ★★½.
- Grey Alvarado's hitting was randomized from ½ to ★★.
- Eduardo Ingram's hitting was randomized from ★ to ★★★.
- The Breath Mints won with 36% of the vote. They were the highest bidders. 16,905 votes were cast.
- The Rack blessed the Kansas City Breath Mints
- Their defense was increased by 15%.
- The Breath Mints won with 13% of the vote. The Tigers had 23% of the vote. 14,269 votes were cast.
- Rigour Mortis blessed the Houston Spies
- The Canada Moist Talkers, Miami Dalé, Seattle Garages, and Breckenridge Jazz Hands had their baserunning decreased by 10%.
- The Spies won with 17% of the vote. The Yellowstone Magic had 21% of the vote. 7665 votes were cast.
- Pretty Plz? blessed the Seattle Garages
- Their hitting was improved by 3%.
- The Garages won with 4% of the vote. The Magic had 24% of the vote. 11,495 votes were cast.
- Pseudo-Thumbs blessed the Seattle Garages
- Their pitching was improved by 10%.
- The Garages won with 33% of the vote. They were the highest bidders. 18,717 votes were cast.
- Headhunter blessed the Baltimore Crabs
- The Crabs stole Nagomi Mcdaniel from the Breckenridge Jazz Hands and sent Holden Stanton in return.
- The Crabs won with 50% of the vote. They were the highest bidders. 8151 votes were cast.
- Anticapitalism, brought to you by Friends at the Table blessed the Unlimited Tacos
- The Tacos maxed out their Anticapitalism attribute.
- The Tacos won with 5% of the vote. The New York Millennials had 16% of the vote. 15,210 votes were cast.
- Exploratory Surgeries blessed the Unlimited Tacos
- Wyatt Mason's pitching was randomized from ½ to ½.
- Wyatt Mason's pitching was randomized from ½ to ½.
- Wyatt Mason's pitching was randomized from ½ to 0.
- The Tacos won with 11% of the vote. The Charleston Shoe Thieves had 25% of the vote. 23,028 votes were cast.
- Vulture blessed the Chicago Firefighters
- The Firefighters stole Axel Trololol from the Kansas City Breath Mints and sent Atlas Guerra in return.
- The Firefighters won with 4% of the vote. The Baltimore Crabs had 57% of the vote. 8000 votes were cast.
- Team-Building Exercise blessed the Chicago Firefighters
- Joshua Butt's hitting was randomized from 0 to ★★½.
- Edric Tosser's hitting was randomized from ½ to ★★★½.
- Paula Mason's hitting was randomized from ½ to ★★★½.
- The Firefighters won with 7% of the vote. The Philly Pies had 14% of the vote. 16,587 votes were cast.
- Performance Enhancing Demons blessed the Chicago Firefighters
- Their overall attributes were raised by 8%.
- The Firefighters won with 3% of the vote. The Mexico City Wild Wings had 13% of the vote. 18,027 votes were cast.
Incinerations
When any player is in a match during a Solar Eclipse, there is a chance they will be incinerated and killed by a Rogue Umpire. Known cases of this in Season 3 are listed below.
Peanut Reactions
When any player is in a match during Peanut weather, there is a chance they will "swallow a stray peanut"[3] and experience a permanent physical reaction, called either an Allergic Reaction or a Yummy Reaction. Known cases of this in Season 3 are listed below.
† Denotes Wyatt Mason prime, as this was before the events of The Wyatt Masoning.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Umpire Husky [ump_husky] (3 Aug 2020). "THE CHEATER DID NOT COME FORWARD BUT BLASEBALL IS INEVITABLE. THE BLASEBALL GODS WILL REMEMBER THIS." - via #announcements, Blaseball Discord.
- ↑ Without conclusive evidence, this is also believed to be the cause of the Wyatt Masoning.
- ↑ Game Log. Blaseball.com.