The Anime Marble Race: Difference between revisions

Two Twitch channel point goals were created: "Start the race" for five hundred million [[Monocoins]], and "Buy a marble for the race" for one million Monocoins. "Start the race" was a collective channel point goal, meaning that all viewers could contribute Monocoins towards the goal. "Buy a marble for the race" wasn't, meaning that one viewer would have to save up one million Monocoins to be able to activate it, by winning enough channel point bets. If a viewer activated "Buy a marble for the race", they would be able to specify the name of an anime, and then one marble named after that anime would be added to the race. If a different viewer had already bought a marble for the same anime, then the price would be two million. If two users had already bought marbles for it then it would be four million, and so on. If "Start the race" was activated, then Joe would stream the game Marbles on Stream (taking inspiration from [[The Voting Game]]), which is a game that lets you simulate marble runs where you can name each marble and see which one makes it to the end first, as a way of randomly choosing between things. He would then start a race containing marbles named after the anime that viewers had specified when they activated "Buy a marble for the race". Then for whichever anime's marble won the race, Joe would watch it on stream.<ref>https://youtu.be/JYLm4FZUI40?t=6549</ref>

* '''20th June 2022''': Joe added the rules that if someone buys a marble, the cost of that marble is deducted from the cost of starting the race, and if someone buys [[Monocoins|Weeb Absolution]], the cost of it is ''added'' to the cost of starting the race.<ref>https://peertube.nodja.com/w/4KPqGsbd9LQ9bdSYY5jYng?start=3m12s&autoplay=1</ref> This rule retroactively applied to the previously purchased marbles, but not either of the previously purchased weeb absolutions.

* '''31st December 2022''': Joe announced that as a Christmas gift, he would be deducting an additional 100 million Monocoins from the cost of starting the race.<ref>https://peertube.nodja.com/w/qPz5wGVEdMKZsM8Eba6vkM?start=10m4s&autoplay=1</ref>

* '''1st February 2023''': Joe accidentally ended the Start the Race challenge instead of extending it, which refunded everyone all of the Monocoins that they had ever paid towards it, which is impossible to undo.<ref>https://peertube.nodja.com/w/h6PsttRNA7KCYxay5cp83L?start=53m18s&autoplay=1</ref> Everyone got to keep the extra coins they received, and Joe recreated the challenge, but this time with 346 million Monocoins as the goal. He calculated this new goal based off the coins that had been contributed directly before, as well as each 1 million that needed to be deducted because of each marble, and the 100 million for Christmas. (500,000,000 - 36,905,735 (paid) - 17 * 1,000,000 (marbles) - 100,000,000 (Christmas) = 346, 094,265, rounded down to 346 million).

* '''23rd March 2023''': During Joe's 100,000 Twitch follower special where he ranked every stream he'd ever done in a tierlist, he gave chat a challenge: He said that his two favourite stream series were Outer Wilds and Persona 4 Golden, and he told everyone to guess which of the two was his favourite in a poll, and if the correct answer won then he'd deduct 100 million Monocoins from the total. The winner of the poll was Persona 4 Golden, and it was correct.<ref>https://peertube.nodja.com/w/4V39MZR5Bct3aiBYkuaqky?start=5h16m20s&autoplay=1</ref>

* '''4th April 2023''': Joe intentionally ended and refunded the Start the Race challenge, so that he could incorporate the newly purchased marbles into the total. But this time, he realised that the last time that he calculated the new total, he had deducted 1 million for each of the gifted marbles, rather than just for the purchased ones, which he didn't want to do. So the new total was: 346,000,000 (old total) - 19,387,123 (paid since 1st February) - 6 * 1,000,000 (non-gift marbles since 1st February) + 2 * 1,000,000 (gifted marbles from before 1st February) - 100,000,000 (follower milestone stream) - 24,000,000 (April fools' day) = 198,612,877, rounded up to 200,000,000.<ref>https://peertube.nodja.com/w/bSHCRVrd1aKgCXVBziVv93?start=3m36s&autoplay=1</ref>

* '''29th June 2023''': Joe made the ruling that if someone receives a marble as a gift from him, then they can pick an anime that has already been chosen, even though a duplicate anime marble would normally cost double if they were paying for it.<ref>https://youtu.be/SsgRxQEayqQ?t=323</ref> Had this been stated earlier, then in both the JADS Christmas 2022 anime marble contest and the JADS 2023 anime marble vote, there would have been no need for the rule stating that you can't pick an anime that already has a marble for it.

* '''23rd January 2025''': Joe made the ruling that gifted marbles don't double the cost of purchased marbles for the same anime.<ref>https://youtu.be/1x9KIABsT54?t=21732</ref>

 

'''Current "Start the race" total: 200 million Monocoins'''

'''Progress towards completing "Start the race": 60%'''

 

| 47 || 11th August 2023 || eliasua55 || Samurai Champloo || style="background-color: #FBDF6B;" | Gifted || Joe read a chat message from ali_g8er suggesting a new way of giving away a marble to a random viewer, where people could pay 100,000 Monocoins to have their names put on [[Eric and The Wheel|the wheel]] which Joe would then spin to choose one of them. After coming up with some more rules to make it more interesting, he opened up a channel point reward limited to 10 total purchases for people to pay their entry fee and then ran the contest, and the winner was eliasua55. || https://youtu.be/WFrKagjdj8w?t=4395 https://youtu.be/WFrKagjdj8w?t=4748 https://youtu.be/WFrKagjdj8w?t=6037

| 79 || Sfayne || Eric || style="background-color: #7BCF5C;" | Purchased || "[[Eric and The Wheel|Eric]]" is not the name of an anime, likely meaning that if this marble wins, then Joe won't have to watch an anime. ||

| 106 || rowspan="3" | 3rd January 2025 || rowspan="3" | u/Number333 (a.k.a [[Quote-chan]]) || Delicious in Dungeon || rowspan="3" style="background-color: #FBDF6B;" | Gifted || rowspan="3" | On the 23rd of February 2024, u/Number333 started making daily posts on the official Joseph Anderson subreddit, each titled "Posting a Joseph Anderson quote every day until the Witcher 3 video drops Day X", followed by a Joe quote from somewhere. These posts continued until Joe returned from his stream hiatus and acknowledged the phenomenon, on day 300 of the streak. In their 300th post, u/Number333 declared their demands which they said would need to be met in order for them to stop posting. After negotiating these demands back and forth with Joe, it was decided that one of the conditions was for them to be given 3 marbles. || rowspan="3" | [https://www.reddit.com/r/josephanderson/comments/1hh197i/posting_a_joseph_anderson_quote_every_day_until 300th Reddit post], https://youtu.be/gB0P8Tpmwv4?t=962

| 118 || 23rd January 2025 || Sciembe || (Half of) Legend of the Galactic Heroes || style="background-color: #FE979B;" | Half-Purchased || Since there is already a purchased marble for Legend of the Galactic Heroes, a second one should cost 2 Million Monocoins. However Sciembe only paid 1 Million Monocoins, and asked if they could purchase half of this marble now and the other half later, which Joe agreed to. He also declared that a different user could purchase the other half instead if they wanted to. || https://youtu.be/1x9KIABsT54?t=21629

| 134 || 12th March 2025 || Masterelia1 || Pluto || style="background-color: #FBDF6B;" | Gifted || As a reward for reading Umineko on stream with him, Joe gave [[Jelly]] a marble. Jelly then decided to give it away in a competition to whoever could solve their riddle, in a style similar to the portrait epitaph from Umineko. The winner was Masterelia1. ||