After a long break, we're back. The Marble Rally continues with race #5.
Hey everybody, I'm Greg woods.
Beautiful conditions, a lovely sky, and great sand in front of us today.
Blizzard Blaster, El Capitan, and Superball tied atop the standings,
after jumping Red Number 3, who is just two points back.
Several of those contenders up front,
down the ball bearing comes, and...
...never mind.
Okay, I guess the the gate did not open there,
so we're gonna try it again.
That's a little bit better, down they go.
Good thing was nobody was released early, so then they expend that energy,
they were just all bunched up.
I can tell you: the field overall, not bunching up at all,
Red Number 3 darting off into the distance.
That lead seemingly growing with every single corner,
a train developing behind Crazy Cat's Eye, Reflektor, and Superball, Cool Moody up there,
and then a little bit of a gap back, that might be Quicksilver close behind.
Red number three completely off the screen, now let's look at the rest of the field,
jostling as they work through the slalom.
Superball trying to get up close to Reflektor and force a mistake,
Cool Moody staying cool back behind, now into fifth, El Capitan jumps up.
Which path is the better one to take, the high line or the low line?
That's kind of an over-under, and we do not know which Red Number 3 took,
and obviously it didn't lose him very much time at all.
Reflector up into second, Superball,
Ghost Plasma nearly got high up there and careened off the course, he keeps going.
Superball fends off a challenge from Cool Moody for third place,
and Cool Moody now up into third, possibly into second, yes indeed,
right by on a slick little move past Reflektor.
High off the walls they go, and now loses out. Reflektor back up in the second place,
Red Number 3 still nowhere to be seen.
The first of what could be a couple of little speed boosters there,
those green platforms, if you go across them you're gonna be getting a lot more speed
than if you're rolling across the sand.
Cool Moody taking advantage and building that second-place lead over third.
That's Crazy Cat's Eye, Reflektor close behind,
Ghost Plasma I thought was going to mount a challenge,
instead loses several spots and holds up a train of marbles.
In the meantime Red Number 3, this could be one of the biggest margins of victory
that he's ever had, there across the line, that's huge!
Oh, look at everybody getting caught up here, slow again,
three of them get stuck, four of them gets stuck.
Cool moody, in the meantime, has taken second place,
and I hear that the ghost marble has knocked three of them loose.
Cool Moody, eight seconds behind Red Number 3. Oh look at this, Quicksilver also getting stuck,
And you notice, a goose egg for the number of lead changes, that may be the first time that's happened,
No lead changes at all in this race, there were a couple of near misses.
Ooh, that was Ghost Plasma getting out of sorts, maybe couple of marbles close behind,
I don't know if that was Cobra, that might have helped him stay within the bounds of the course.
Either way, there could have been easily four DNFs just in this part right here,
but instead the ghost marble cleans them up a little bit, lucky they are.
8.07, the margin of victory,
for Cool Moody, Crazy Cat's Eye, Ghost Plasma, and Dragon's Egg rounding out the top five.
Red Number 3, jubilant atop the podium, Cool Moody smiling a little bit more than usual,
Crazy Cat's Eye getting third place to round out our podium.
Red Number 3, jumping three spots to first with two golds on the year,
now nine points clear of Blizzard Blaster, Superball in third, and Ghost Plasma in fourth.
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