#evelton mcblase ii

[voxisour]

Her

[zayphora]

devil’s interval

or; welcome to the broken ridge. doesn’t get more tower than this

ID: A digital drawing of a view of a chasm in the earth. You can see various parts of buildings and musical instruments and a ski lift along the walls. It is snowing. Through the crack in the center there is a glowing infinitely tall tower. A yellow and blue supervillain character, Eve McBlase, with black hair and a mask, stands on a platform looking at the Tower.

[waveridden]

i haven't gotten to do a deep dive blaseball numbers question in a while. so when @leonstamatis asked a question and i realized i was curious, i got excited.

how common/likely is it for a blb player to have a completely unique name that they do not share with anyone. a first and last name, neither of which has been given to anyone else yet.

TLDR: 5.5% of all randomly-generated names are fully unique, and 7% of randomly-generated names of beta players are fully unique within the beta.

but let's break it down a little more.

so first thing's first: i needed a list of players. a quick check with sibr and i ended up using astrology to get two lists: one of all the players from the beta/gamma teams, and one of all the players on delta/coronation teams. i merged the lists and made a note of when players first appeared: beta, coronation, coffee cup, prehistory, the forbidden short circuits teams that didn't make it onto the website, you get the idea.

final list: 5,072 names. boy howdy.

next: nonrandom names! a lot of names were generated in nonrandom ways, like replicas (which are all named after the original player), coffee cup teams (where the artists/data witches/real game band were all manually named), and even things like evelton mcblase ii and bontgomery mullock, where the name is based on another randomly generated name.

list of random names: 4,876. if that's not 3.8% more manageable then i don't know what is!

from there the steps were pretty simple. separate the names into first/given names and last/surnames, see how many of each of those was unique, and then see how many names were not shared with anyone else.

so looking at all of the 4,876 players randomly generated ever at all:

752 have unique first names (15.4%)

926 have unique surnames (19%)

259 have completely unique names (5.3%)

most of the 259 unique names come from prehistory, with an overwhelming 51%, followed by 26% from beta and 13% from the coronation era.

of course, most of us are here primarily for the beta, so how does that stack up? there are 973 names generated that were on beta teams, either in active play or in the shadows. of those 973 names,

227 have unique first names (23%)

250 have unique last names (25.7%)

68 have completely unique names (7%)

for me, this all naturally leads to another question: what are the most common names? across all 4,876 players the most common first names are:

dimi (12)

sebastian (12)

chandra (10)

ruth (10)

bennett (10)

bernie (10)

dagmar (10)

dominic (10)

eliot (10)

wyatt (10, although 4 of these are due to the wyatt masoning)

and the most common surnames are:

murphy (12)

davis (11)

caster (10)

highway (10)

horne (10)

schofield (10)

based on these numbers, which names are the least unique - that is to say, who has the most other players that match either their first or last name?

juan murphy (6 other juans, 11 other murphys)

eliot schofield (8 other eliots, 9 other schofields)

sebastian owens (11 other sebastians, 6 other owenses)

dimi santana (11 other sebastians, 6 other santanas)

and the final question: what full names have been randomly generated more than once? there are 8, and all of them happened in short circuits:

bees manhattan

candy finnegan

copernicus biscuits

layla pork

levar shoemaker

sancho thrower

tall everts

worf hatchler

and notably, the pairs of candy finnegan and layla pork were within the same short circuit! every other pair was across two different circuits.

if you're interested in name uniqueness, here's my spreadsheet - i did the legwork so you don't have to! please drop me a line if you notice anything weird (sooooooo many nonrandom names have snuck into my random names tab) and if you do any other name number crunching, let me know about that too!

[thebaltimorecrab]

This might actually be our first "hydrogen bomb vs. coughing baby" poll.

Player info:

Evelton McBlase II has been on plenty of teams, which allows them to travel for their acting career. They were on the Crabs for three-ish seasons.

Jessica Telephone also travelled a lot, because literally everyone wants her! Now she sucks at Blaseball, and I want her even more.

[bread--quest]

hi I would like your thoughts on eve mcblase

oh yeah i still have a bunch of those "say the name of a character and i'll tell you a bunch of stuff i just made up about them" asks in my inbox. welp! best time to answer an ask is when you get it, second best time is.....weeks later

eve mcblase hours!!!

-clone. created by...the spies?? the league? not sure. the spies never told eve where she came from and she never asked.

-not a very....good clone. epic cloning attempt fail. came out kind of goopy and not exactly human. human shaped at least but for a while she couldn't even maintain that shape all the time.

-puts up a front of being evil and mean and not caring what other people think most of the time. it's...somewhat effective. almost no one has ever actually been intimidated by her but she's definitely made people not want to be around her! which unfortunately creates this self-fulfilling prophecy of "people don't like me -> pretend i don't care and be evil -> this makes people not like me -> continue acting like i don't care". :(

-however!! if she is in a place or with someone where she doesn't feel like she has to put on that front, eve is actually very enthusiastic and bubbly (although she'd probably resent being called bubbly). very much like that tumblr post that's like "ehehe!!! i giggle and kick my legs while thinking of violence" and "girl writing in her diary with a pink glitter gel pen but she's just writing 'violence and killing and killing and violence' over and over again". but like the violence is cartoon violence? filled with joyous whimsy even if the joyous whimsy is mostly about explosions

-peridot stevenuniverse energy. like a lot.

-did Not like being on the spies. doesn't really like to think about her time on the spies at all. doesn't hold a grudge against any of the players (anymore), but still gets twitchy even if they're just going to houston for an away game

-not really sure what evelton the original thought of her. thinks of her? she never really talked to him. tried to avoid it as much as she could, actually. only kind of regrets it now

-loved the mechanics, a lot. made friends, built all sorts of rube goldberg contraptions, became wanted for numerous counts of osha violation, felt wanted for the first time in maybe her whole life. (aside from being wanted for the crimes. that's a different thing.) however at the end of season 17 the mechanics had the worst record in the league and eve felt like she was dragging them down and she didn't want to do that. so she left.

-while on the lift evelton mcblase ii got swept elsewhere for i think the first time ever? except for one incident where she returned in the same game. anyway they were swept and flipped negative and during their time Elsewhere they had a lot of time to think. and the thought they emerged with was "hmm. what if i was a girl."

-(it is important to Me Personally that eve is like "yeah i was a boy at one point but maybe not really and then later i was a girl". however she is very insistent that gender aside she has never been evelton mcblase)

-the mills are the first team since the mechanics that she stays with for multiple seasons :,) they are important to her because they make her deal with the consequences of her actions but also make it clear that those consequences will not be "we stop wanting you around". if you put eels in the hudson river we will force you to learn about the ecosystem of the hudson river and work to correct the damage you have done but you will still have a room in the apartment and we will still want you to be here. excuse me i made myself cat crying emoji

-likes brecken broken ridge a lot, is taking surprisingly well to being a theater kid. has complicated feelings about there now being no evelton mcblase around for anyone to compare her to. she got her wish: she's just eve, and there's no other her. and that's...good, right?

-final and most important thing: during her time on the mills eve regularly goes down to wall street and does this. with the voice and everything

[doctorwhoisadhd]

so i went through a bunch of stuff and. players that are still eligible for Falling:

two replicas (uncle plasma ii and uncle plasma ix)

one receiver (sixpack dogwalker)

two out of the three peanuts (peanutiel duffy and peanut bong)

parker macmillan, who ended s24 on the tigers

five other prehistory players (abbott wright, ronan vargas, rosales darkness, james nolan, and agan espinoza), only one of whom (agan) is formerly dead

two debted players (niq nyong'o, who was necromanced, and silvaire roadhouse, who was not)

several players with weird circumstances of creation — wyatt mason x, baby pitchems of the mills, evelton mcblase ii, and bontgomery mullock (evelton mcblase and montgomery bullock are also eligible)

a bunch of former wyatt masons, including baldwin breadwinner and aly leaf

other miscellaneous players: sutton bishop, winnie hess, beck whitney, polkadot patterson, neerie mccloud, dunlap figueroa, kelvin drumsolo, thomas dracaena

players that are NOT eligible to Fall (as far as we know):

peanut holloway (incinerated during s24)

castillo turner (ended s24 on the dallas cows)

anyone redacted during s24 (mike townsend, christian combs, bees taswell, oliver mueller, ziwa mueller, herring winfield)

anyone in the vault, including jaylen hotdogfingers, tillman henderson, don mitchell, collins melon (all vaulted during the semi-centennial), and glabe moon (vaulted via blessing in the s23 election)

[polkadotpatterson]

Assorted blaseball players as text posts, part 3! Art by HetreaSky!

[burningcrab]

🌻 max :)

close your eyes and count down from ten, in which magi ruiz and max stay in new york after the first underbracket wild card game of season 22. why? eve mcblase ii has just faxed out of the shadows and may or may not have left some (evil) science experiments on the sound system unfinished. two psychoacoustics experts! eve! science buddies! all this and more

MaX could see Eve chewing her lip where the mask had been pushed up a bit. “I’d never turn down a — a loyal pair of minions, even if we’re on different teams, but… don’t you need to get back for tomorrow’s game?” she asked xem.

Magi shrugged; MaX echoed the motion. “Nah,” xe said. “Magi can email me back in the morning.”

“Email you?”

“Do it all the time,” Magi said. “Xe says it tickles.”

Eve nodded. Confusion, acceptance, then amazement. An excited little laugh, half giggle, half cackle, spilled from behind the mask. “E-mail… after we complete my magnet opus, you’re showing me how to use this ‘evil mail’ on people.” Then she ducked her head, just a little, looking at MaX sidelong. “… right?”

MaX laughed. “Yeah! Magi can evil-mail me back to you. And then you can evil-mail me somewhere. Evil-mail… eve-mail…” Xer hands flapped a bit, seeing the happy reaction that little joke got. Names were important like that.

[artistnamedlg]

I love eve dearly

[qaisdogwalker]

(eviltwin voice) SHALLOW breaths, alto, SHALLOW, SHALLOW breaths

[beelijah]

dottie + the mechs for the 3 sentence prompts?

She's supposed to be the careful one, it's the one thing she's supposed to be better at, but she still gets lost in the Core sometimes. She'd brush it off as being paranoid, but she knows in her gut that it doesn't like her. That the vast labyrinth of pipes and wires and machinery is just as upset to have her here as everyone else is.

"I don't wanna be here either!" they shout into the empty hallway. It echoes down the corridor before it fades, and they're left with the ambient hum of the Pillars. It's too quiet and too loud all at the same time. Dottie knows she's going insane, because she actually misses Missouri for once.

"This place doesn't like newcomers," a voice says from behind her.

When she's done screaming out if surprise, she turns around to find Evelton clambering out of a panel on the side of the wall, cackling at her. She sighs, and tries to frown at him, even though her heart is still racing.

"I thought you were in Chicago," they say, just to make him stop laughing at them.

The statement seems to actually catch him off guard. "They want to make me fight fires! And help people! It's disgusting. I had to do anything in my power to escape that hellhole!"

"It can't be worse than the Core. This place still hates people like us." they respond. The Core hates everyone, of course, but certain people—people like Evelton, people like Dottie, intrusions on the very universe—gain a special level of ire.

"Yes, well, but no one expects me to be here!" He exclaims, "And, my uh, friends," Evelton's voice drops to a near whisper, like he's ashamed of what he's admitting, "all live here."

Dottie quirks an eyebrow at him, earning more sputtering and a flustered "Shut up!" in response.

"What are you doing here, then, Evelton?" they ask, just to give him an out.

"I'm lost" he says, matter of factly. There's no shame in getting lost in the Core, at least among newcomers. Not even Evelton pretends he knows his way around.

"Well then," Dottie smiles at him, "how about we be lost together?"

[hawaii-fridays]

The Hawaii Fridays acquired Houston Spies player Evelton McBlase II in a move that is sure to confuse nobody.

Comic and caption by Traci @truejudd, who can also be found on Twitter!

[zayphora]

the phantom of broken ridge…🎭

ID: A watercolor of Eve Mcblase. Eve is a trans woman with long black hair and pale skin, wearing a base-shaped mask with stylized eyes on it. She is wearing a vampire-like outfit with a big cape, which she is holding out to the side, a white ruffled shirt, black pants and tall shiny black boots. The background is a dark stage with a spotlight on Eve.

(bonus: she’s sparkly!)

ID: Detail of the above watercolor drawing that shows sparkly glitter on the gold and silver accents of the lighting.

[waveridden]

PolkaDot folds her arms. “Call me Dottie,” she says curtly. “This place is a maze, you have to have a swimming pool somewhere.”

PolkaDot, Eviltwin, the Core, and alternate realities. 4k.

[thebaltimorecrab]

Round 3 notable moments & Round 4 matches

Notable Round 3 moments:

First and foremost, because I was obsessing over this: Juke lost against Declan by 9% (Juke got 45.5%, Declan got 54.5%). I stg I checked this match every couple of hours, and it was INTENSE. Juke started out winning (because there were, like, two votes, lol), then Declan, then Juke, etc etc etc until Declan won.

The closest match was Luis Acevedo vs. Nagomi McDaniel, with a difference of 4.4%. Luis got 47.8% of the vote, and Nagomi got 52.2% of the vote.

The second closest match was Forrest Best vs. Finn James, which was DEFINITELY the most intense. Lots of propaganda for those guys. In the end, Forrest Best won with 52.7% of the vote. Finn James got 47.3%.

Logan Horseman vs. Pedro Davids had the biggest difference between votes, with Logan getting 18.8% of the vote, and Pedro getting 81.3%

The biggest upset was Axel Campbell vs. Bentley Finnegan. Axel got 45% and Bentley got 55%. Axel was seeded as 68 out of 90, while Bentley was seeded at 36. HOWEVER, Bentley was added to the popularity poll a few hours after it was posted, because for some reason, Bentley and Nico were not on the list of Every Baltimore Crabs Player Ever.

Also, I was right: Trinity beat Flattery's ass. In fact, the only new epoch Crab left in this bracket is Declan, who was the highest seed, at 90.

Just realized that I never said how many rounds there will be: There's 7 rounds total, including semi-finals and finals.

Now, for the matches! They're below the cut, and I'll add links after the polls are posted. They'll be scheduled to post around 1:30 pm tomorrow (CST).

Combs Duende vs. Nagomi McDaniel

Silvaire Roadhouse vs. Pedro Davids

Bentley Finnegan vs. Brock Forbes

Evelton "Eviltwin" "Eve" McBlase II vs. Valentine Games

Trinity Smaht vs. Adalberto Tosser

Declan Suzanne vs. Sutton Dreamy

Lorcan Smaht vs. Forrest Best

Jon Halifax vs. Kennedy Loser

[doctorwhoisadhd]

was just running some numbers and of the current 216 Fallen players

137 are original players (63.4%), 74 originally on active rosters (34.3%) and 63 originally shadowed (29.2%)

43 are postseason births (20.0%)

68 have never seen active play (31.5%)

30 are replacements for incinerated players (13.9%)

4 are replacements for Hall Stars (Sebastian Sunshine -> Juice Collins / Dominic Marijuana -> Charlatan Seabright / Boyfriend Monreal -> Pudge Nakamoto / Yazmin Mason -> Mummy Melcon)

also, not only has Pudge fallen, but BOTH of Pudge's replacements have fallen as well (Donna Milicic and Scoobert Toast) (sadly not on the same team as either each other or Pudge though)

18 have been incinerated at least once (8.3%) and 1 (Pudge Nakamoto) was incinerated TWICE

11 were on the Rising Stars 💫 (5.1%) and 2 were on THE SHELLED ONE'S PODS 🥜 (0.9%): Jessica Telephone and Peanutiel Duffy

3 are originally from pre-history (1.4%): Archie Lampman, Abner Pothos, and Abbott Wright

114 have been around since the Return of Blaseball aka s1 (52.8%)

29 were created during the Discipline Era aka s2–s10 (13.4%)

70 were created during the Expansion Era aka s11–s24 (32.4%)

14 have been on 5 or more teams (6.5%), and 3 have been on 10+ teams (1.4%). NaN is the record-holder with 13 lifetime, followed by Jessica Telephone with 11 and Evelton McBlase II with 10

5 have only ever been on one team, including the team they Fell to (2.3%): Annick Throgmorten 🏝, Blimp Hardison 💋, Elip Dean 🐅, Sixpack Santiago 🚤, and Vernon Cotterpin 🏋️

18 fell to teams they had already been on previously (8.3%)

4 are original players falling to their original team (1.9%), and 3 of those are original active roster players (1.4%): Inky Rutledge ✨, Howell Franklin 🕵️, and Elijah Valenzuela 🏝

only ONE has been on the same team since the Return of Blaseball, and it is Elip Dean, a Tigers original shadow who fell to the Tigers but has never actually seen play.