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dAnceguy117 · 07-31-2020, 08:37 PM

Blaseball is defined by its own Patreon page as "an absurdist, player-driven, online baseball league".

It is a simulated baseball league of 20 teams, playing an entire season and postseason in a single week. Some team names are "Yellowstone Magic" and "New York Millennials". All the "day's" games play at once, with (usually) no outside input.

The website's users get in-game money to bet on the winners of games. Bet, watch, bet again. Collect enough money, and you can buy a vote on the future of the league, such as rule changes or "blessings", positive changes that are raffled off to the user's favorite team.

The game simulation is pretty minimal: a rotation of 9 batters against a pitcher and otherwise unnamed fielders. The rules are the same as normal baseball, except that when the home team scores enough points to win the game in the last inning, the game does not end; instead the away team is "shamed" and must play out the rest of the inning.

At the end of the first season (last week), the league voted to "Open the Forbidden Book", ushering in a season of constant solar eclipse, random incineration of players by rogue umpires, and The Discipline Era. Nearly a dozen players have been incinerated this season.

This week's decrees up for vote are:

- Relegate the last team in the league
- The team with the most fans will Evolve (no context provided)
- The bottom four teams obtain a "fourth strike" for the entire third season
- Enhanced Shame, where a shamed team is penalized the runs scored against them during the shame period in the next game
- Peanuts

There is a Discord server, where people are essentially inventing the entire lore of the league from scratch, as internet communities tend to do. And much like the real thing, players pick a team at the start of their experience and generally stay loyal to them, no matter their record.

07-31-2020, 08:37 PM	#28
dAnceguy117 new hand moves = dab Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: he/they Age: 33 Posts: 10,094	Re: TWG 196 - Survivor - Wolves Blaseball is defined by its own Patreon page as "an absurdist, player-driven, online baseball league". It is a simulated baseball league of 20 teams, playing an entire season and postseason in a single week. Some team names are "Yellowstone Magic" and "New York Millennials". All the "day's" games play at once, with (usually) no outside input. The website's users get in-game money to bet on the winners of games. Bet, watch, bet again. Collect enough money, and you can buy a vote on the future of the league, such as rule changes or "blessings", positive changes that are raffled off to the user's favorite team. The game simulation is pretty minimal: a rotation of 9 batters against a pitcher and otherwise unnamed fielders. The rules are the same as normal baseball, except that when the home team scores enough points to win the game in the last inning, the game does not end; instead the away team is "shamed" and must play out the rest of the inning. At the end of the first season (last week), the league voted to "Open the Forbidden Book", ushering in a season of constant solar eclipse, random incineration of players by rogue umpires, and The Discipline Era. Nearly a dozen players have been incinerated this season. This week's decrees up for vote are: - Relegate the last team in the league - The team with the most fans will Evolve (no context provided) - The bottom four teams obtain a "fourth strike" for the entire third season - Enhanced Shame, where a shamed team is penalized the runs scored against them during the shame period in the next game - Peanuts There is a Discord server, where people are essentially inventing the entire lore of the league from scratch, as internet communities tend to do. And much like the real thing, players pick a team at the start of their experience and generally stay loyal to them, no matter their record.