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Since the first Summer Olympic Games in 1896 were held in Athens, humans did not expect that the “sacred flame” symbolizing the Olympic spirit would one day be passed on to a pinball the size of a thumb cap.

Received the pinball ball of the Olympic flame from humans, and passed by in front of the LEGO podium carefully stacked. Many people see this picture and think that it is the Lego shooting assignments assigned by an aristocratic elementary school, or a play house for children.

But this is actually the live broadcast of the Pinball Olympics. This is the world’s smallest and shortest-established Olympic Games. Only its fifth edition has attracted the attention of millions of people around the world.

In 2019, as the International Olympic Committee does not authorize JMR to transportThe game was held with the word “Olympics”. ESPN did not want to be sued by the International Olympic Committee when broadcasting the JMR 2019 Pinball Olympics. JMR finally decided to change the name of “Marblelympic” to “Marble League”.

The YouTube channel of Jelle’s Marble Runs, the organizer of the Pinball Olympics, now has 1.26 million followers. This is the new channel data created after the main creator Jelle accidentally deleted the channel in 2018.

Before the old channel was deleted, it had accumulated more than 620,000 subscribers and 160 million views. Not counting their data on other platforms.

Being able to quickly become popular all over the world in such a short period of time is definitely not because there are too many boring people on the earth, but because the Pinball Olympics are so wonderful.

The original intention of the Pinball League was not to replace human sports events, but today it has this trend. Because the competition items are too rich, the viewing experience is extremely strong.

It can be said that most of human sports events can be completed by marbles. If this development continues, everyone will watch the marble game, and future athletes may lose their jobs.