Hello and welcome to this edition
the first race of the season in the Sand Marble Rally
You may remember in the qualifying round last week
when the first couple of rows for this event were set in a chaotic race down the sand marble hill
Well, they are in the starting blocks
The rest of the field has been randomized back behind them and the marbles are underway
immediately diverging between two tracks
And Blazing Fireball gets caught up in the middle and Blazing Fireball is out of this race
It seems like that happened to him in the qualifier as well
Not a lot of luck for Blazing Fireball
but it's Ghost Plasma out in front
It looks like Pollo Loco is trying to track him down in third
Several marbles taking that overhead line
attempting to catch up as best they can
That solid green marble back behind started in the 19th spot
I believe that's Slimer as I look at the qualifying order
But it's Ghost Plasma out in front of Pollo Loco who is trying to catch up as best he can
through the little kinks farther back
Now the pathway opens up just slightly
Slimer really trying to pressure to get up into second place but is solidly sitting in the podium right now
over, I believe, Big Pearl
who started in fourth and is currently running in fourth
Now nose to tail up at the front there
Pollo Loco takes the lead but for how much longer?
We take a look back through the midfield, several marbles swapping positions
Some good charges up through the field
But it's Pollo Loco out in front of Ghost Plasma and Slimer as the rocks
slams into these marbles as they come down the hill
And we get through another divergent section
Hard to tell who is out in front this time, but it's gonna be Pollo Loco
I'm pretty sure somebody just slingshotted around up into third place
Not sure who that was, that might have been Super Turtle
And you can see Super Turtle's actually taken that spot
A quick glance up to the front and Pollo Loco, who really got off of that, turned pretty well
But I'm not sure if anybody's gonna be able to track him down
The real battle right now appears to be for second place
Now we take a look, it looks like, yes, Ghost Plasma has second place again
and is now gonna see if he can catch Pollo Loco out in front
A pretty quick section here as it opens up onto the boulevard
Look at this! This is a braiding section
We'll see if all the marbles actually make it through this and it appears that they're doing just fine
But Pollo Loco appears to be unchallenged up in front
You see him just off the left hand side of your screen through this teardrop
Ghost Plasma trying desperately to catch up
And it looks like Big Pearl might have slotted into third place as they went through that
Several marbles farther back behind
We take a look here at the bottom part of the section of this course
and it is going to be Pollo Loco crossing the line
Ghost Plasma in second and it's Big Pearl coming in third, there you go!
Dragon's Egg was the one that slingshotted up into that top position
A little bit farther back behind and we see the marbles coming down here
Great finish line camera down to the bottom
And there you have it
Several, actually quite a few marbles we did not see on screen,
get caught up and did not finish this race
But Pollo Loco nets the full 30 points
Over Ghost Plasma's 25 and Big Pearl's 21 after race one of the Sand Marble Rally
