Henlo

This was the only thing every Moist Talker could agree on, ever!

And then they went ahead and won another ring on the Breath Mints, go figure.

Since we're coming up on one year since Blaseball returned, and I've been posting about all of the testing data that was pulled from the website, I thought it might be fun to talk about when the website accidentally went live prior to launch.

On January 4th, 2023, and flooded by Internal Error:, the Blaseball website briefly went live, showing off the newly-made website, and perhaps more interestingly, a glimpse at games in progress.

Thrown into the middle of an unknown season, we were shown the state of the game as of Day 52, and shown a different-looking overview screen as opposed to what we actually got when the game launched.

Aside from the interesting graphic that showed above the games, we can see that every game was scheduled as occurring underneath Blood Rain, a weather that didn't make the jump into the Blaseball we got to see.

Another fun aspect of this sim that we got to see were the players.

When Blaseball went live, every team was offered four new players, on top of the ten that they received in Fall Ball. Here, the same was true, though the players that each team got were not the same as what we actually got.

In this instance, here are the players each team received as completely new faces.

To join all of these players lost to the sands of testing, there were a number of returning faces that were scattered throughout the league. Be it from Horizon weather or otherwise, some players ended up as scrambled as their former teammates in Beta:

(edit jan 5 2024 - Ayanna Dumpington was also on the Wild Wings)

Ultimately, the website was promptly shut down, and this simulation went quiet until the game actually launched, and all of the players listed out here were either wiped away, or returned to their proper place in the hole.

Happy almost-one year!

--Sources--

Thanks to Astrid for saving the rosters - while some teams like the Georgias, Sunbeams and Crabs were captured by her, Agent Moon, and beiju respectively, not every team had pictures saved, so the files were necessary to see them!

Heyo everyone, it's been a bit (mostly because I forgot), but I'm back with more fun findings from the Blaseball testing data!

During Short Circuit 2, there was a blessing, TASTE THE INFINITE, that allowed for Teams to pledge themselves to a Shelled One, and be remade in their image.

Turns out, in testing? More than a few teams took on this mantle to varying degrees.

Behold, your Charleston Shoe Thieves CHARLESTON PEANUTS.

Being the sole team that underwent a full rebranding under a Shelled One's guise, all of the players on the team don't seem to have any adverse results from such a thing.

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the other teams that they had to play against, or more specifically, the Miami Dale. In this test, two players of the Dale found themselves Shelled: hitters Paco Glacier and Ralfie Specter.

Outside of this team, there were a number of other teams that carried the Honey Roasted distinction - one LA Unlimited Tacos, and two Yellowstone Magics both saw fit to champion the cause, but not enough to change their names.

One seemingly innocuous test sim that could be found in the data was the following league:

On the surface, it looked like a very concentrated test - two leagues, four teams per league, and from what can be found, only a few games were played. In addition, every team only had seven players, split as six lineup players, and a single pitcher.

So why did it stand out?

Saturday Sokol is a emblematic example.

It seemed like this sim was a testing ground for a few different modifications, and for some reason, every player was absolutely filled to the brim with the various mods.

The breakdown per team was as follows:

All members of the Crabs had 47 copies of Walk in the Park.

All members of the Firefighters had 47 copies of Fiery.

All members of the Fridays had 91 copies of The Fourth Strike.

All members of the Tacos had 113 copies of Base Instincts.

All members of the Magic had 5 copies of Charm.

All members of the Tigers were Honey-Roasted.

All members of the Garages had 5 copies of Psychic.

Left out, the members of the Pies had no modifications.

If Cora doesn't get to at least second base when they take a walk, I think there's going to be problems.

The Magic also had an anomoly:

Bobby here was also Reverberating, which was not shared by the other Magic players, meaning that buried in this test, it's likely an extremely rare Reverberating event happened!

One of the funnier things that I discovered when going through the Blaseball testing stuff was already related to a player from Beta, that, for some reason, was hurled through hell.

Enter stage left, Spears Rogers.

Rogers was a middling batter for the Breckenridge Jazz Hands, where they debuted in Season 21, played a bit, got a Fliickerrriiing item, got shot to the Tigers and back to the Jands in the same game, then eventually fell to the Millennials in new Blaseball.

So why were they here?

Too on the nose to be a coincidence, I found that Rogers had the same player ID as Beta, while also being absent from the Jazz Hands, and appearing to be on the Shoe Thieves.

This wasn't the only instance that saw Rogers shoot all over the league, either.

In short, Rogers experienced 36 feedback events within a season and a half, became Unstable twice (more on that when I can put together another post), was shuffled in the Reverb, and eventually, lost their Fliickerrriiing item, settling them on the Breath Mints for three seasons, until tragically...

Rogers was placed onto the Shoe Thieves, and through hellish weather, briefly touched the Sunbeams, Tacos, Spies, and Magic before finally meeting their fate on the Mints.

In the end? It really meant nothing - Rogers fell without any consequence, but it's a neat little addition to the test sims, where we have absolutely no idea why they were selected.

RIV Test Spears Rogers, and long live Silas Sourdough, wherever they ended up.

I figured I'd have some fun posting some of the more interesting stuff that could be found in the API. Also a massive thank you to Astrid for archiving the files.

Behold, the dichotomy of excellence:

Poor Orion was not having a good time (despite being a Credit to the Team, and the Life of the Party)

On the other end?

Guinevere here wouldn't settle for anything but the best, especially in the Postseason.

Players weren't the other things having a Time(tm) - here was a variant of the Moist Talkers.