Spring is off to a mellow start—the sun coming out again in the Northern Hemisphere is, strangely, convincing people to go outside and touch grass. Here's an example.
Customs Roll Call
Fittingly, April’s entry of Customs Roll Call features a dozen levels that lean into said outdoors. August prefers to keep up the illusion otherwise, claiming a third of the catalogue for this month’s video.
If you still happen to be unfamiliar with this event, Customs Roll Call is a year-long speedrunning event where twelve levels are announced at the beginning of every month. Players spend the month grinding for the best times, which are then compiled into a video released with the next group of levels.
Here is the video for April! May’s levels are found at the end of the post.
Custom Levels
April continues a relatively easy-going year of level building, but there will always be a few standouts! Icarus released the sequel level inspired by a LeBron meme seven years after the original, Eguy released a wild first Blender creation, and Jaxx made an apology for “Icy Tightrope Battlecube Finale”.
- “Sprite Cranberry 2: Lebron's Revenge” (Icarus)
- "Pipeline Punch" (redz0ne)
- "Red Trilogy" (All4Vols98)
- "Funkyard" (Eguy)
- "Ice Colossus" (Connie)
- “Colorful Twist” (Jaxx)
HappyTreeX1 followed in Connie’s footsteps and released a pack of his own, “HTX’s Stylized Level Pack”, a set of 24 Blender-made levels featuring some tutorial-style courses, his signature swirly pipes, and raw-platforming challenges that he’s become known for.
Speedrunning
The high-level singleplayer scene remains relatively quieter compared to earlier months—earlier years, even—the community channel didn’t see any new uploads after the last Customs Roll Call entry, and all of a sudden, the number of new world records achieved this month took a drastic drop to… seven levels. That includes both standard singleplayer and Easter Eggs.
Marble Blast Gold:
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Marbletris – 4.487 (HappyTreeX1) – prev. 4.514 (HappyTreeX1)
Marble Blast Platinum:
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Astroflight – 15.200 (August) – prev. 15.255 (berserk)
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Winding Steps – 10.624 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 12.393 (Powerjohn25)
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Morph – 15.606 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 15.667 (Powerjohn)
PlatinumQuest:
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Deep Space Morphway – 4.346 (Powerjohn25) – prev. 4.387 (Xedron)
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Terrace Tundra – 6.515 (Jog) – prev. 6.551 (Powerjohn25)
And remarkably, not a single Easter Egg record in April. m2k seems to have gone back into hibernation. Someone give Stormson a call.
FFA Palooza
Frostfire debuted the FFA Palooza on April 19th, another single-day Gem Hunt event aimed at more casual play compared to the annual winter or summer competitions, and the first to feature matches with more than two players since the 1v1(v1) tournament in 2014. Every match was a free-for-all in groups of four players, spread across two different phases of the tournament, the Main Schedule and the Knockout Rounds.
The Main Schedule consisted of five rounds of two-game matches, where all 16 participants faced every other opponent exactly once. Players earned five, three, two, or one point depending on their placement at the end of each game, meaning up to 10 points would be attainable each round and up to 50 points in total. In the event two players tying in a single game, they would share the total points available from their placements.
ShadowVisions led the standings at the end of the Main Schedule, with 47 points after four perfect rounds and only dropping points to Frostfire and a 1st-place tie with Eguy in Round 4. Connie cemented her first-ever finals appearance by securing second place with 44 points, Frostfire and ShadowVisions the only players to score more in any games with her. Ggjakub had to drop out of the tournament last-minute, so one match in each round featured only three players where points were awarded for 1st-3rd place as usual.
The Knockout Rounds began with the four players at the bottom of the standings after the Main Schedule: serjG, A-Game, Malaren, and Kalle—Wilchz finished third-to-last, but forfeited out of the tournament following Round 4. The top two players after one game played the next two players up the standing in the following game. The system repeated until four players remained, who then continued under the same 5-3-2-1 scoring system until a player won a game outright after earning nine points and entering “check”.
Through the first three rounds, the two added players advanced every time and bowed out in the following round. However, this streak was broken by Eguy, who not only survived Round 4 but Round 5 as well, triumphing over MBOUltimate and Frostfire to make the finals. Icarus, who finished fourth after the Main Schedule and earned only three points after the first two games of the final, capitalized in Game 5 on “All Angles” to take home his first-ever tournament victory. ShadowVisions, despite a perfect start, couldn’t capitalize and even finished with more points than Icarus.
Miscellaneous
Jean and ShadowVisions announced the 2026 Summer Premier, which will feature a new format with the Contender and Open Divisions during the Swiss Rounds.
Following March’s trend, another Connections puzzle from your writer, this time themed around Marble Blast Gold levels.
“Somewhere Else” by Nockess
May Preview
That wraps up April!
Marble Blast Gold celebrates its 23rd birthday on May 9th, and Yoshicraft224 hosts the Marble Blast Gold Anniversary Event yet again, this time a two-part celebration with a RTA Race taking place the day after the usual Co-op Run. However, as of the time of publishing, both events have already happened, as they were planned a week earlier so as not to interfere with Mother’s Day.
And of course, the next set of levels for Customs Roll Call:
- “Hitting the Edge” (Andrew Sears)
- “Flipsie Doodles” (ninJa-conen.)
- “Lumpy Road” (Homsar Walker)
- “Tube Ascent” (nathan)
- “Jumpin' Around” (Steven)
- “High Hopes” (Buzzmusic)
- “Rooster's Funhouse” (Silentrooster)
- “Sky course 1” (Arnie Gape)
- “Twist, Turn, and Flip” (Lamp47)
- “Revealing the Diamond” (James Colsey)
- “Challange Per Island” (Brixar)
- “Test of skills: Balance and control” (CyberFox & Flared)