Timeline
Season A
The First Day, 1st Edition
On the first known Gods' Day, prior to the start of the season, Sun 1 was Forged by Namerifeht, Five Bases were Placed, and 30 teams joined Ultra League Blaseball. Following this, an Umpire appeared, and, on March 1st, 1983, Day 1 of the first known Regular Season of Blaseball began, lasting until Day 162 at which point Leaders and MVPs were named prior to the commencement of the Postseason.[1][2]
Season C
Incineration of the Alaskan Immortals
Due to the movement of the Firewalker Parker MacMillan during the Season B Election, the Alaskan Immortals were Unstable going into the first week of Season C. In the bottom of the 7th inning on Day 8, during a Solar Eclipse game against the Phoenix Trunks, Immortals batter Blossom LaBelle stepped up to the plate, only for a Rogue Umpire to incinerate the Unstable Immortals, relegating the team and its players to the Hall of Flame, and chaining the Instability to the Trunks. The Immortals were replaced by the Downward Dogs, who went on to lose the game against the Trunks 0 to 4. These events are chronicled by Lōotcrates in the Library volume "An Eclipse".[3]
Season D
Incineration of the Canada Artists
In the Season C Election, Parker MacMillan left the Canada Artists, which, due to MacMillan's Firewalker modification, caused the team to become Unstable going into the first week of Season D.
On Day 3, the Canada Artists were playing against the Maryland Squirrels under a Solar Eclipse. In the top of the first inning, shortly after Artists batter Slosh Eckhardt stepped up to the plate, a Rogue Umpire incinerated the Artists, increasing Sun 1's pressure to 26.86%. However, unlike in the case of the Immortals the previous season, one of the Artists' players – Agan Espinoza – had the Fire Protector modification, allowing Espinoza to save their teammates from the incineration. As a result, Espinoza was the only player to be incinerated with the team – the other Artists players instead being transferred over to the Artists' replacement team, the Topeka Moist Talkers. The Moist Talkers went on to lose the game against the Squirrels 3 to 9.
These events were chronicled by Lōotcrates in the Library volume "A Save".[4]
Season E
An Alternate
On Day 13, the Minneapolis Truckers – who were Unstable at the time for an unknown reason – were facing off against the New York Millennials under a Solar Eclipse. During the game, a Rogue Umpire incinerated the Truckers, sending the team to the Hall of Flame and replacing them with the Boulders Bay Birds.
Truckers player Megan Ito was, at the time, in possession of the Legendary Item known as The Force Field. This item bestowed upon them the Force modification, preventing them from leaving any Location. As a result of this, when the incineration of their team occurred, their item attempted to Force them to stay both on their Team and in the League – impossible due to their team no longer being in the ILB – catching them in a state of Superposition. Ito then Echoed with themselves 99 times, before finally Echoing out into Static, dropping The Force Field. They were replaced by a newly-Called Alternate named New Megan Ito, who joined the Birds.
Following the incineration and incident with Megan Ito, the Truckers' Instability chained to the New York Millennials, and the Birds went on to lose the game against the Millennials 4 to 5.
These events were chronicled by Lōotcrates in the Library volume "An Alternate".[5]
Season AA
The First Day, 2nd Edition
During Season AA's Gods' Day – the first since the ILB's retirement in the late 1980s – Sun 1 was Refilled by Namerifeht, Four Bases were Placed, and the 30 remaining teams from Season E joined the second iteration of Internet League Blaseball. Following this, an Umpire appeared, "They" Awoke, and, on January 2nd, 2000, Day 1 of the first season of the Pre-History II era began.[6]
Coffee Cup
The Cup took place over four weeks. One round of the tournament ran each Tuesday during the Cup, culminating with a final championship series on December 8th, 2020. Each round consisted of a first-to-three-wins format. Following the tournament, all members of winning team Inter Xpresso received the Perk modification.
Season 1
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[7]) 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.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]
BELCH DETECTED
STARS CHARTER
[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:
PLEASE WAIT
PLEASE WAIT...........
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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:
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.P....
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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.
Season 2
Beginning
As the season began the Crew of Umpires appeared to deliver a brief message and reveal decrees to be voted on.
THE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS IS COMING
THE REVIEW BEGINS NOW
MAKE YOUR APPEALS
NAME YOUR CREW CHIEF
AWAIT JUDGEMENT
THE RULES MUST BE ENFORCED
WAKE UP PLAY BALL!
Horizon Burps
During Horizon weather, players have a chance of falling out of the Black Hole (Black Hole) and can either become buried on The Field or fall on an active player. Players who have been landed on are replaced by the fallen player and move to the Shadows. Buried players are assigned to one of the teams, but are not visible on the team page and do not play.
Buried Players
Crashed Players
Day | Player Fallen | Player Hit | Team |
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3 | Ayanna Dumpington | Mindy Kugel | Kansas City Breath Mints |
10 | Erin Beanbag | Donia Bailey | LA Unlimited Tacos |
40 | Basilio Fig | Mags Highlife | Hawai'i Fridays |
Crew of Umpires and Solar Eclipses
With the league under Official Review and the Forbidden Book reopened, four kinds of Solar Eclipse are in play, Blue, Red, Gold, and Silver. These appear to correspond to the four Umpires on the Crew of Umpires, which are able to cause different effects under the different Solar Eclipses.
Known actions so far:
Red Solar Eclipse (Mage Umpire)
Silver Solar Eclipse (Knight Umpire)
Day | Player Affected | Effect | Team |
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6 | Winnie Hess | Hess parried a Knight Umpire's swear | Ohio Worms |
10 | Badgerson Stromboli | Stromboli parried a Knight Umpire's swear | Ohio Worms |
12 | Letitia Diop | A Knight swore at Diop, who then embarked on a Side Quest. Rocket Hadji clocked in. | Mexico City Wild Wings |
19 | Agan Espinoza | Ruled in Espinoza's favor, boosting their attributes | Dallas Steaks |
20 | Yosh Carpenter | Carpenter parried a Knight Umpire's swear | Chicago Firefighters |
35 | Sevgi Gore | A Knight swore at Gore, who then embarked on a Side Quest. Scratch Deleuze clocked in. | Houston Spies |
40 | Muna Sichantha | A Knight swore at Sichantha, who then embarked on a Side Quest. No players clocked in. | San Francisco Lovers |
50 | Chambers Simmons | A Knight swore at Simmons, who then embarked on a Side Quest. No players clocked in. | Seattle Garages |
58 | Ajax Murphy | Murphy parried a Knight Umpire's swear | Ohio Worms |
61 | Tahini Poinsettia | Poinsettia parried a Knight Umpire's swear | Miami Dale |
82 | Flan Prince | A Knight swore at Prince, who then embarked on a Side Quest. No players clocked in. | Charleston Shoe Thieves |
88 | Tad Seeth | Seeth parried a Knight Umpire's swear | Canada Moist Talkers |
Gold Solar Eclipse (Bard Umpire)
Day | Player Affected | Effect | Team |
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10 | Tiana Takahashi | Takahashi dodged the Bard Umpire's curse | Tokyo Lift |
14 | Anathema Elemefayo | Elemefayo dodged the Bard Umpire's curse | Hawai'i Fridays |
19 | Jenkins Good | Ruled in Good's favor, boosting their attributes | LA Unlimited Tacos |
26 | Jenkins Ingram | Cursed Ingram with Can't Lose | Boston Flowers |
30 | Tad Seeth | Seeth dodged the Bard Umpire's curse | Canada Moist Talkers |
49 | Winnie Hess | Hess dodged the Bard Umpire's curse | Ohio Worms |
53 | Özlem Suttner | Cursed Suttner with Can't Lose | Tokyo Lift |
57 | Stephanie Donaldson | Donaldson dodged the Bard Umpire's curse | Broken Ridge Jazz Hands |
66 | Sherbet Baek | Ruled in Baek's favor, boosting their attributes | San Francisco Lovers |
81 | Sigmund Castillo | Cursed Castillo with Can't Lose | Broken Ridge Jazz Hands |
81 | Faye Melange | Ruled in Melange's favor, boosting their attributes | Houston Spies |
Blue Solar Eclipse (Rogue Umpire)
Siesta
Following Day 65, Blaseball was put into a Siesta in order to resolve slowdown issues with the games, after Day 65 resulted in another set of multiple spillovers. This resulted in an announcement.
A few minutes later games returned for Day 65 only to be put back on Siesta again after that to resolve stabillity issues.The Ticker was updated to reflect this and the website was changed to read "PLEASE WAIT" again. Around an hour later the site returned to games with Day 66. As a response to this the UBI for that day was given out 4 times.EMERGENCY ALERT
INTERNAL ERROR
EXCESSIVE CHANGE DETECTED
TIME DENSITY HIGH
NORMALIZATION INCOMING
Questing Results
As a result of their Knighted Modification, which was given during Solar Eclipse (Silver) Weather. Chambers Simmons "found a Heart and [felt] renewed", on Day 71. The result of this was an overall boost to their Attributes, which resulted in their batting reaching 5.5 stars.
On Day 91, Flan Prince "retreated from sounds of scuttling". This resulted in a decrease to their Attributes, that was less than Simmons increase.
Postseason Switch
After round 1 of the Postseason, the Yellowstone Magic and Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams swapped places in the Postseason. This resulted in the Yellowstone Magic playing in the Good Conference and the Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams playing in the Evil Conference. As a result of this the Sunbeams managed to become the Evil Conference winners despite being in the Good Conference. The reason for the switch was ascribed by Facts Machine (in a message) and the Commissioner (on twitter) as being due to "INTERNAL ERROR".- ↑ "The First Day, 1st Edition" (Library, Pre-History I)
- ↑ "Season A" (Library, Pre-History I)
- ↑ "An Eclipse" (Library, Pre-History I)
- ↑ "A Save", Pre-History I
- ↑ "An Alternate", Pre-History I
- ↑ "The First Day, 2nd Edition" (Library, Pre-History II)
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdI-dDQ4k4&t=5699s
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