Season 1

Season 1
Do Over(s).
Subtitles	The Return(s)
Dates	Season January 09, 2023–January 15, 2023 Offseason January 16, 2023–January 22, 2023
Champion	Charleston Shoe Thieves
Timeline
← Previous	Gamma 4, Season 1
Next →	Season 2

This page is about the first season of the Coronation Era. For other uses, see Season 1 (disambiguation).

Season 1 was the first Season of the Coronation Era. The Regular Season began on January 09, 2023 and concluded on January 13, 2023, followed by the Postseason and Internet Series on January 14, 2023. The Charleston Shoe Thieves defeated the Mexico City Wild Wings 3 wins to 1 to win the first Internet Series championship title of the new era. The Season 1 Election took place on January 15, 2023. Following Season 1, an Offseason began on January 16, 2023 and concluded on January 22, 2023.

Notable Events

Start of Season

As the season began the Black Hole appeared and the following occured.

[BURP]
WAKE UP PLAY BALL
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EMERGENCY ALERT
BELCH DETECTED
EXPOSITION INCOMING
BLASEBALL WAS NULLIFIED
PLAY MUST CONTINUE
BLASEBALL WAS NULLIFIED
PLAY MUST CONTINUE
BLASEBALL IS CAUGHT IN A STATE OF SUPERPOSITION
[ STATIC ]
ALL NEW BLASEBALL IS CALLED
POWER VACUUM DETECTED
OFFICIALS ALERTED
WAKE UP PLAY BALL

Shortly after Day 1 there was an error that caused future games to be delayed resulting in another alert.

EMERGENCY ALERT
TEMPORAL ANOMALY
TIME DILATING

Static Charges

As the Team Pages fully opened, it was noticed that there were some discrepancies between the listed Fall Ball falls and the teams themselves. NaN and Sixpack Dogwalker, the original two Receivers, were absent; in their place was Nathaniel Wilds and Dimi Wobbler, respectively. Both of these replacements were also now Receivers, having previously been Static Charges from the Short Circuits. Notably, Both the Ohio Worms (which NaN had fallen to) and Philly Pies (which Sixpack Dogwalker had fallen to), had the Entangled Modification, which they had received at the conclusion of Season β24). Whilst not explicitly stated, it can therefore can be presumed that both Teams had been Alternated on their return from the Black Hole. This revealed an as-yet-unseen (though confirmed by The Game Band in the August 31st, 2021 episode of Inside a Blaseball) interaction between the Receiver and Alternate Modifications: that an Alternated Receiver is replaced with a Static Player, who then becomes a Receiver themselves. Also notably, NaN had not had the Receiver modification since Season β15, when it had been replaced with the Echo modification. Players with Echo had not previously swapped when alternated, as Wyatt Mason X, an Echo, was Alternated in the Season β21 election with no other result.

Bonus Burps

Every ILB team started with 14 players - 10 of whom had fallen during Fall Ball, the other 4 seemingly randomly generated before games began. Additionally, as games progressed, it appeared that the new weather Horizon (which every game in this season was played under) caused the Black Hole to burp out players who then fell and landed somewhere on the field during games. The fallen players did not appear on team rosters, and their location was originally unknown. During the Offseason, the player pages of fallen players became visible via their UUIDs, which revealed the team on which they had landed and the modification Buried. It is currently unclear where on the team these players are as they do not appear on the roster. An (incomplete) list of players that fell and which team's game they fell during can be seen below.

Falling players had also, on rare occasion, hit a player on a team's active roster and knocked them out of play. The fallen player then replaced them on the active roster, and the hit player entered the Shadows. A list of occurrences of this is below.

Election Secretion

At the beginning of the season, no decrees or blessings were available. However, over the course of the season, two different kinds of EMERGENCY ALERTS revealed the ballot.

The addition of Decrees was heralded by the broadcast:

[BURP]
EMERGENCY ALERT
BELCH DETECTED
BALLOT CONTESTED
DECREE SECRETED

These secretions occurred before Day 6, Day 28, and Day 49, and added the NEW Redistribute Wealth, NEW Relegation, and NEW Open the Forbidden Book respectively.

The addition of Blessings was heralded by the broadcast:

[BURP]
EMERGENCY ALERT
BELCH DETECTED
BALLOT CONTESTED
BLESSINGS SECRETED

These secretions occurred before Day 25, Day 46, and Day 67. The first one added Strong Start, Shadow Play, and Wind Spirits; the second one added Yeet and Strike Zero; and the third added Shore Up and Guess Whose Thwack.

Other Belches

Shortly before Day 3 started, an Alert was broadcast, which re-allowed the ability to see star counts on individual stats.

[BURP]
BELCH DETECTED
STARS CHARTER

Another Alert was broadcast before Day 44 that gave the ability to see players' attributes, which had changed to a different system between the eras.

[BURP]
EMERGENCY ALERT
BELCH DETECTED
ATTRIBUTION ERROR
RECOMMEND DEEP ANALYSIS

Universal Bets and Influence

Starting with Day 24, and repeating each real-world 24 hours, a new boon was granted. This boon, referred to as "Universal Bets and Influence", granted players 100 Chips and 20 Votes. Around Day 66 the amount given was doubled for that day (which took place on a Thursday). This would happen for Thursdays in a Season going forward. This, notably, would not activate during Offseason. Coinciding with this came a Message from the Monitor:

universal bets and influence
nice
just got my daily chips and votes
time to bet big
 @monitor

Please Help.

Right before the Postseason began, an Emergency Alert was broadcast. Before long, however, the message itself was clearly being actively edited. Whilst only edited one letter at a time, the messages the alert ended up at are as follows:

P.

PLEASE WAIT
PLEASE WAIT...........
P
PLEASE HELP.
PLEASE HELP...........
PLEASE.
PLEASE WAIT?
PLEASE WAIT!?!?!
PLEASE WAIT.....

The message then continued to vary in line breaks and periods, eventually making the message vertical and adding select periods to letters, culminating at:

P....
L....
E.......
A..........
S....
E..
W....
A.......
I.....
T......

The periods and letters themselves were then deleted, and when all were deleted, the usual PLEASE WAIT... was typed out. Shortly thereafer, the message changed to PLAY BALL!, and the Postseason began.

Notable Election Results

During the Election the Hades Tigers managed to win the "Yeet" Blessing which was to send their worst player to the Black Hole, which was Eddie Tumblehome, and for them to recieve a random player in return. However the results of the election showed that the player they were to recieve was Frazier Tosser who had already fallen onto the field, during a game between the Philly Pies and Mexico City Wild Wings. Due to this, this managed to result in the Philly Pies somehow recieved Tumblehome on their lineup, and the Hades Tigers appearing to gain no player on their team. This was eventually fixed with Tumblehome being removed and The Tigers recieving the Buried Frazier Tosser.

Two players who were previously were incinerated and listed as deceased, Shaquille Torres and Derrick Krueger returned from the Black Hole with the Modification Entrenched as a result of the Election. The modification had no description.

Player Tiera Wigdoubt from the Shadows of prehistory team Laredo Excavators, was also taken from the Black Hole to join the Baltimore Crabs. Although their team was listed as deceased and they were in the Hall of Flame, they themselves were not. As a result of returning they gained the Modification In The Field, which had no description.

Apparently as a result of Shadow Play the Mexico City Wild Wings gained a new Shadows player who was not pulled from the Shadows by the Blessing, Rocket Hadji.

Golden Record

Following the Postseason the Commissioner notably stated on Twitter and through a message on the site that he was confering the Charleston Shoe Thieves, with a Golden Record of 65-25.

Ongoing Decrees

As of the end of Season β24, all Ongoing Decrees had been Nullified, and are no longer in play.

Standings

Good Conference	Record	Evil Conference	Record
Awful Good		Awful Evil
Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams 🌞*	66-24	Atlantis Georgias 🔱*	59-31
Charleston Shoe Thieves 👟*	65-25	Core Mechanics 🛠️	50-40
Miami Dale 🚤*	42-48	Houston Spies 🕵️	46-44
Baltimore Crabs 🦀	41-49	Breckenridge Jazz Hands 👐	42-48
Philly Pies 🥧	40-50	Dallas Steaks 🥩	34-56
Hades Tigers 🐅	33-57	Chicago Firefighters 🔥	28-62
Chaotic Good		Chaotic Evil
Kansas City Breath Mints 🍬*	61-29	Mexico City Wild Wings 🍗*	78-12
San Francisco Lovers 💋	40-50	Hawai'i Fridays 🏝️*	58-32
Boston Flowers 🌹	35-55	Seattle Garages 🎸*	53-37
Canada Moist Talkers 🗣️	33-57	Yellowstone Magic ✨	51-39
New York Millennials 📱	32-58	Ohio Worms 🐌	34-56
LA Unlimited Tacos 🌮	30-60	Tokyo Lift 🏋️‍	29-61

* Denotes teams that made it to the playoffs.

Divine Favor

Divine Favor was not clearly visible during this season, and it is unclear if it was used.

Postseason

Four teams from each Conference advance to the postseason, consisting of the four best performing teams in the Conference seeded by Wins.

Teams alternate home games with the higher seed hosting first. The Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Internet Series are all best-of-five.

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Internet Series
	1	Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams	3
	4	Miami Dale	0
						1	Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams	1
	Good Conference
						2	Charleston Shoe Thieves	3
	2	Charleston Shoe Thieves	3
	3	Kansas City Breath Mints	0
											GC	Charleston Shoe Thieves	3
											EC	Mexico City Wild Wings	1
	1	Mexico City Wild Wings	3
	4	Seattle Garages	1
						1	Mexico City Wild Wings	3
	Evil Conference
						2	Atlantis Georgias	1
	2	Atlantis Georgias	3
	3	Hawai'i Fridays	0

Election Ballot

Decrees

The Decree with the most community votes will go into effect.

Icon	Name	Effect
	NEW Redistribute Wealth	At the end of every Season, the Champion will trade away all of their Players.
	NEW Relegation	At the end of every Season, the last place Team's Roster will be replaced.
	NEW Open the Forbidden Book	It is Forbidden.

Blessings

Each Blessing will be awarded to a randomly selected team. Votes from a team's fans increase the likelihood of that team receiving a blessing. Each team can win at most one blessing.

Name	Effect
NEW Team Boost	Your Team is boosted Overall by 1/2 a Star.
NEW Batting Boost	Your Team's Batting is boosted by 1 Star.
NEW Pitching Boost	Your Team's Pitching is boosted by 1 Star.
NEW Max Out Batter	Max out a random Batter on your Team's Zone.
NEW Max Out Pitcher	Max out a random Pitcher on your Team's Zone.
NEW Steal Best Batter	Steal the best Batter from the Black Hole for your Team.
NEW Steal Best Pitcher	Steal the best Pitcher in the Black Hole for your Team.
NEW Randomize Players	Call the Alternates for your Team's 5 worst Players.
Strong Start	Sort your Lineup by Batting Rating.
Shadow Play	Swap your worst Player out for someone in your Shadows.
Wind Sprints	Your Team's Defense and Running are boosted by 1 Star.
Yeet	Send your Team's worst Player into the Black Hole and receive a random Player back.
Strike Zero	A Division Rival will receive the worst Overall Player from the Black Hole.
Guess Whose Thwack	Boost your Lineup's Thwack by 1 Star.
Shore Up	Boost a random Player on your Team's worst Attribute by 5 Stars.

Election Results

Decrees

• NEW Open the Forbidden Book passed with 62% of all Decree Votes.
  • THE BOOK OPENS
  • SOLAR ECLIPSE
  • UMPIRES' EYES TURN WHITE
  • STAR PLAYER ANASTASIA ISAROBOT IS INCINERATED. THEY ARE REPLACED ON THE MEXICO CITY WILD WINGS BY GÖRAN NDOYE.
  • STAR PLAYER TERRELL BRADLEY'S ALTERNATE IS CALLED.
  • STAR PLAYER ZEPHYR MCCLOUD IS CURSED. EYES CLEAR. HEART FILLS. THEY CAN'T LOSE.
  • STAR PLAYER SIMON HALEY SWEARS IN. THEY EMBARK ON A SIDE QUEST IN THE SHADOWS. PIXIE CARBERRY CLOCKS IN.
  • BRECKENRIDGE BREAKS
  • THE CORONATION ERA BEGINS.

Blessings

List of Blessings Results:

• 
  NEW Steal Best Batter
  • The Baltimore Crabs reaches into the Horizon and steals Tiera Wigdoubt.
    • 🦀 + Tiera Wigdoubt, Lineup
  • Won with 10.338373822508675%
• 
  NEW Max Out Pitcher
  • Abner Pothos' entire Zone heats up. It's Red Hot!
  • Won with 4.151796660037594%
• 
  NEW Randomize Players
  • Eddie Mulberry's Alternate is Called!
    • +  AlternateThis Player is an Alternate...
      Player is replaced with an alternate reality version, stats are randomized.
  • Una Manhattan's Alternate is Called!
    • +  Alternate
  • Edric Tosser's Alternate is Called!
    • +  Alternate
  • Serge Shortvat's Alternate is Called!
    • +  Alternate
  • Eddie Mulberry's Alternate is Called!
    • +  Alternate
  • Won with 2.8611619074412715%
• 
  Wind Sprints
  • The Yellowstone Magic' Lineup gains 1 Star of Defense and 1 Star of Running.
    • Running 2.2 → 3.2
    • Defense 2.2 → 3.2
  • Won with 10.946945195471192%
• 
  Yeet
  • The Hades Tigers yeets Eddie Tumblehome into the Horizon! The Black Hole Burps out Frazier Tosser in return.
    • 🐅 - Eddie Tumblehome, Lineup
    • 🐅 + Frazier Tosser, Lineup
  • Won with 2.554868712073952%
    • • Note: Frazier Tosser had earlier been seen to fall from the Black Hole during a game, and it can now be inferred that they landed on the Pies but were not visibly on the Pies on the site. This can be inferred because when the trade went through, Tumblehome did not vanish into the Black Hole, but instead was traded to the Pies. As of this writing, Tosser is not visibly on the Tigers, but Tumblehome can be seen at the top of the Pies lineup.
• 
  NEW Steal Best Pitcher
  • The Charleston Shoe Thieves reaches into the Horizon and steals Derrick Krueger.
    • 👟 + Derrick Krueger, Rotation
  • Won with 5.6553764600733505%
• 
  NEW Max Out Batter
  • Gumdrop Che Amran' entire Zone heats up. It's Red Hot!
  • Won with 1.9100935518068705%
• 
  NEW Batting Boost
  • The Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams' Lineup gains 1 Star of Batting.
    • Batting 2.8 → 3.8
  • Won with 11.367165400772777%
• 
  Shadow Play
  • James Boy is called up to replace Yusef Puddles. Yusef Puddles retreats to the shadows...
    • 🍗 Yusef Puddles -> Shadows
    • 🍗 James Boy -> Lineup
  • Won with 3.752543139175646%
• 
  Guess Whose Thwack
  • The Seattle Garages' Lineup gains 1 Star of Thwack.
  • Won with 11.046309370331716%
• 
  Shore Up
  • Svetlana Dickens shores up their worst Attribute!
  • Won with 10.525273528392495%
• 
  NEW Team Boost
  • The Boston Flowers gain 1/2 a Star Overall.
  • Won with 4.794977496315768%
• 
  Strike Zero
  • The Black Hole Burps out Shaquille Torres to the Chicago Firefighters! The Houston Spies receive Strike 1.
    • 🔥 + Shaquille Torres, Lineup
    • 🕵️ + Strike 1
  • Won with 2.6317888188850787%
• 
  NEW Pitching Boost
  • The Breckenridge Jazz Hands' Rotation gains 1 Star of Pitching.
    • Pitching 2 → 3
  • Won with 3.373744698964229%
• 
  Strong Start
  • The Core Mechanics optimized their Lineup!
  • Won with 2.18729580080476%

Takeover Messages

Following the Election, an emergency alert happened corresponding to the players voting for the Decree "NEW Open the Forbidden Book".

EMERGENCY ALERT
THE BOOK OPENS
SOLAR ECLIPSE
[ WHISTLES ]

Following this alert, a Crew of four Umpires appeared. They then spoke on what would happen.

PLAY IS NOW UNDER REVIEW
A POWER VACUUM IS DETECTED
SECTION 6 RULE G STATES
IN THE EVENT OF A POWER VACUUM
A TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS SHALL BE CALLED
TO NAME A NEW ACE
AND CLAIM THE MOUND.
SECTION 6 RULE H STATES
A CREW OF UMPIRES SHALL ASSEMBLE
TO HERALD THE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
AND ENFORCE THE RULES OF PLAY.
SECTION 6 RULE I STATES
A TEAM MUST HOLD A GOLDEN RECORD
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
ONLY OFFICIALLY NOTARIZED GOLDEN RECORDS SHALL BE RECOGNIZED
SO SAY THE RULES.
MORE TO COME.

After a brief pause, this was followed by one more emergency alert announcing the name of the Era.

EMERGENCY ALERT

Offseason

During the Offseason, Universal Bets and Income were not given out.

Unredacting of the Book

Shortly after the beginning of the Offseason the Umpires appeared again:

BEHOLD
SECTION 2
THE LEAGUE
THE RULES MUST BE ENFORCED
READ THE RULES

Afterwards parts of section 2 of the The Forbidden Book were unredacted. As well as rules g, h, and i in section 6, which the Umpires recited in their previous appearance.

24 hours later the Umpires appeared once more:

BEHOLD
SECTION 3
THE SEASONS
THE RULES MUST BE ENFORCED
READ THE RULES

This was followed by the unredaction of parts of section 3.

After another 24 hours, the Umpires unredactded section 4 with another appearance.

BEHOLD
SECTION 4
THE GAME
THE RULES MUST BE ENFORCED
READ THE RULES

After yet another 24 hours, the Umpires unredacted Section 5 with another appearance.

BEHOLD
SECTION 5
FANDOM
THE RULES MUST BE ENFORCED
READ THE RULES

After, once again, another egrigous wait time of 24 hours, the Umpires unredacted Sections 6 and 7 as well as announcing impending Review.

BEHOLD
SECTION 6
LEAGUE MANAGEMENT
AND SECTION 7
THE IMMATERIAL PLANE
READ THE RULES
THE RULES WILL BE ENFORCED
HEATING UP
PREPARE FOR PLAY
THE REVIEW BEGINS MONDAY

Season 1 Report

Towards the end of the Offseason, the Beat Reporter posted a summary of Season 1.

THE SEASON 1 REPORT
Season 1 is in the Books! Let’s take a look at what happened in Blaseball’s return:
HEADLINES

• The Charleston Shoe Thieves beat the powerhouse Mexico City Wild Wings to steal the Season 1 Championship!
• Fans voted to open the Forbidden Book (again?), resulting in chaos and the arrival of a menacing Crew of Umpires.
• The Umpires arrived and heralded a coming Tournament of Champions. Who will be crowned the new Ace of Blaseball at the Coronation Era’s end?

SPORTS UPDATE

• The Wild Wings had a historic Season 1, going 78-12, but they couldn’t quite close it out.
• In addition to the Wings, the Mints, the Georgias, and the Sunbeams won their Divisions in the first opportunity since the new League formed.
• Anastasia Isarobot of the Wild Wings led the League in Pitching Strikeouts, with 207. Anastasia Isarobot dominated the pitching leaderboards all Season—until their untimely death following the opening of the Forbidden Book.

WEATHER BEAT

• In Horizon Weather, the Black Hole burped out Players from Blaseball’s past.
• Some falling Players crashed into the Field, seeming to disappear as quickly as they’d arrived.
• Other Players were unexpectedly knocked out of their Team’s Lineup and replaced when falling Players crashed into them.
• Nine Players fell and crashed into others: Kaj Murphy, Carter O’connor, Malik Destiny, Mindy Salad, Siobhan Chark, Badgerson Stromboli, Bees Gorczyca, Jefferson de la Cruz, and Yusef Puddles.
• Fifty-eight Players fell in total.

ELECTION SECTION

• The Black Hole burped out a handful of NEW Decree options for Fans to Vote on. The three options were echoes of the original Discipline Era’s Season 1 Decrees but with NEW spins.
• The Fans voted to Open the Forbidden Book with 62% of the Vote, resulting in a handful of chaotic events, including the incineration of star Pitcher Anastasia Isarobot.
• Also a result of the Book opening, Breckenridge broke! Much like the Hellmouth that gave us the Hellmouth Sunbeams, Breckenridge buckled and the Team relocated. Now, say hello to the Broken Ridge Jazz Hands!
• After the Book was opened, a Crew of Umpires appeared and heralded a coming Tournament of Champions. They stated that the Tournament was instated to name a new Ace, to fill the Power Vacuum left behind following the previous Era’s conclusion.
• The Umpires also announced the name of the new Blaseball Era: the Coronation Era.

 @beat_reporter

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