McDolphin Marble Racing 2020

McDolphin Marble Racing 2020 is the second MMR championship and is being held over the year 2020, along side the McDolphin Team Cup. It was originally intended to be held over 14 rounds but the Crisp Country Round was cancelled due to a lack of preparation. It started in March in Coral Kingdom and will end at Yo Island's Rainbow Run.

Qualifying
Unlike in 2019, where 20 marbles were selected based on success, distinctiveness and (to an extent) nation, there were qualifiers to help determine the grid for 2020. There were all 20 from 2019-20 as well as 15 rookies hoping to make their debut. The top 10 from 2019 were auto-qualified while the rest were split randomly into groups to determine who would reach the grid for the season. More info can be found in the qualifying section.

Points
Following marbles struggling to score in 2019-20 despite finishing in places like 11th and 12th, the scoring was changed from a "top 10 score" system to a "top 15 score" system to allow more points to be scored. There would still be 25 points for a win but second now got 20, third 18 and going down from fourth to tenth 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 with 11th-15th gaining 1 point. It was done in this way to still advantage top 5 finishes rather than tempting marbles to consistently score low while offering more points than the "25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1 and 0 for 11th-20th" system in 2019-20.

Graphics
For 2020 graphics were improved from race 3 onwards to show data more efficiently using boxes rather than messy titles.

Season Duration
Unlike 2019-20, 2020 would span over the whole of 2020 rather than being held in two years. This is due to the late start of last year's championship that lead to it leaking into 2020, whereas this season started in March rather than November with 14 races planned to span to December.

B-League
In 2020's qualifiers, the B-League was announced, which would contain the 15 non-qualified marbles from 2020. It was initially planned to span the season alongside the A-League but it was decided last minute that it would have 4 races in 4 weeks in late November/Early December in-between MMR's rounds 12 and 13. It was also revealed initially that the champion only would auto qualify but that was changed to 1st and 2nd when the schedule changed. There may also be a guest commentator either joining Phoebe and Zac or replacing one of them.

Qualifying
The top 10 marbles from 2019-20 were automatically qualified and didn't have to race for their spot in the line-up.

The bottom 10 marbles would be split into 5 groups randomly along with 15 new marbles (rookies) who had been invited to the qualifiers. The top 2 from each of the groups would qualify for the MMR 2020 Season with the bottom 3 joining the inaugural B-League.

These were the rookies:


 * Marbly McMarbleface
 * Mellow Yellow
 * Ductape
 * Spinball Whizzer
 * Nemo
 * Emerald
 * Koopa Troopa
 * Flame
 * Rose Petal
 * Crazy Ocean
 * Blue Flame
 * Cat Eye
 * Lightning
 * Cyclone
 * Golden Snitch

These were the groups:

Group 1: Marbly McMarbleface, Mellow Yellow, Ductape, Spinball Whizzer, Fritz

Group 2: Clear-Patra, Nemo, Colgate, Emerald, Koopa Troopa

Group 3: Flame, Rose Petal, Pearl, Octopus, Deep Blue

Group 4: Whippy White, Sky, Crazy Ocean, Blue Flame, Green Jungle

Group 5: Cat Eye, Kit Kat, Lightning, Cyclone, Golden Snitch

From the groups, rookies Mellow Yellow, Spinball Whizzer, Koopa Troopa, Rose Petal, Crazy Ocean and Cyclone qualified for their first season while Colgate, Deep Blue, Sky and Kit Kat returned for their second season. They joined the auto-qualified marbles Shaggy, Red Rallier, Goldfish, Super Scooby, Frankfurter, Creamy, Warning Light, Green Turtle, Jenny and Diamond to make up the MMR 2020 grid

Calendar
This is the official calendar for the McDolphin Marble Racing 2020 Season