Teal inMarble Sort
Teal
Takes the inside line on every choke. It works about half the time.
Teal says“It is the shortest way through. That it is also the busiest is not my problem.”
Every race this season
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Teal is in eight games
Each game gives Teal a different job. Here is what Teal does in each one.
Teal inMarble Sort
Teal inAngry Marble
Teal inTilt
Teal inMarble Jar
Teal inMarbledoku
Teal inMarble Blast
Teal inMarble Survivors
Teal inMarble Spa
The shard
Where Teal comes from
A Trench shard from the narrow part, where the walls come in and the only way through is the middle. Teal learned the middle so thoroughly that it now takes it whether or not the middle is a good idea.
How Teal races
Every funnel, sieve and chicane on the descent, Teal goes for the centreline — the geometrically shortest route through the choke, arrived at with real precision. The centreline is also where every other marble is being funnelled. Teal is either first out of the throat or buried in it, and the two outcomes are about equally likely.
A hard commit to the centre on the approach to any choke, held through the throat.
The voice
Hear Teal
“bip-bip-boop-BIP”
A little helper robot. Precise blips, the last one pleased with itself. Pick a mood and Teal says it that way.
In the race mix: E4, 330 Hz. Two clipped notes on the approach to a choke, like a flag. Then silence for the rest of the section.
Rivalry
The Narrowest and the Widest
Deep Blue teammates with exactly opposite instincts.
Teal takes the centreline through every choke on the descent — the shortest way and the busiest. Azure takes whichever wall is nearer — the longest way and the emptiest. They are the same decision made twice with the sign flipped, on the same team, in the same colours.
In a heavy field Azure is right. In a clean one Teal is right. Neither has ever conceded this.
Not yet met on a gridThe team
Deep Blue, from the Trench
Nothing hurried, nothing lost.