The Red Bull Roshambull is a Recognized Unofficial event by the World RPS which takes place over the Facebook application "Red Bull Roshambull". Although originally an unrecognized event, in January 2011 it was given a Official Recognized event status due to the number of people who regularly take part in the World Championships and other recognized leagues starting to compete. However the event is still seen as a non-ranking event and any awards or titles given in the tournament are not officially recognized outside the event.
The World Series is a multiple-tournament contest in which a player's performance in each separate tournament is scored, and after a number of tournaments within the event have taken place, a triple-elimination playoff takes place to decide a overall championship. Over the last few seasons, extra events have been added to the series, the most popular of them being the "Hidden Stars" (a tournament for novice players on the application who may not know
about the event being given a chance to compete without any regulars taking part) and the World Series Blitz (where all the events take place over one day rather than once a week like in the main event).
The key feature of this event is the number of players who are not known as people who play in real-life tournaments who show a lot of ambition to try to compete with those who play in the most recognized events on a regular basis. This has created a small community of players as well as a small rivalry between both sets of players to prove who is better.
The Tournament was wound up in 2012 after Red Bull's support for the application was withdrawn, and Facebook's change of coding meant that the application was forced to be removed. The World RPS along with the Hardcore fans of the game have started discussing with the people who helped Red Bull run the game about recreating the application under a new name due to the games popular demand from the regular users of the game.
Season Overall result League phase Hidden Stars World Series Blitz
World Team Challenge
Summer 2009 1ST Alan Giles 2nd Mark Thomas 3rd Frances Anne Ricketts 1ST Mark Thomas 2nd Monika Hjelmas 3rd Dave Dungan
Not Competed in This season
Winter 2009/10 1ST Frances Anne Ricketts 2nd Mark Thomas 3rd Roman P 1ST Frances Anne Ricketts 2nd Clayton Dwyer 3rd Andrew Lampman
Not Competed in This season
Summer 2010 1ST Brett McFarlane 2nd Tom Bussineau 3rd Dave Dungan 1ST Andrew Lampman 2nd Brett McFarlane 3rd Mark Tuden 1ST Lex Harrison 2nd Jaden Urquhart 3rd Aaron Huehn Not Competed in this season
1ST Norway Erik Westnes, Anna Kvalheim, Monika Hjelmas
2nd African Nations Mac Anamourlis, Craig Von Hagen, Jakqui Krobo
3rd England James Heyes,Sarah Dixon, Andy Mills
Winter 2010/11 1ST Richard Morgan 2nd Andrew Lampman 3rd Carol Lampman 1ST Carol Lampman 2nd Andrew Lampman 3rd Richard Morgan 1ST Amanda Parsons 2nd Leona Colton 3rd Braxton R. Rodgers 1ST Andrew Lampman 2nd Carol Lampman 3rd Mark Tuden
Not competed in this season
2011 (Changed to calendar year seasons)
Not yet started 1ST Andrew Lampman 2nd Nikki Montoya 3rd Carol Lampman
Not Held this year 1ST Andrew Lampman 2nd Carol Lampman 3rd Anthony Argyou
1ST USA Tom Bussineau, Mark Thomas, Mark Tuden
2nd Norway Erik Westnes, Anna Kvalheim, Monika Hjelmas
3rd Australia Brett McFarlane, Clayton Dwyer, Frances Anne Ricketts
In December 2010, a player called Maxamillion Air became one of the first online-only players from the World Series to play in an official event.
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External links
• USA Rock Paper Scissors League (http://www.usarps.com/)
• World Rock Paper Scissors Society (http://www.worldrps.com/)
• UK Rock Paper Scissors Championships (http://www.wackynation.com/)
• The official RPS movie (http://www.flyingscissors.com/)
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• Etymological origin of Janken (http://web.archive.org/web/20070718033840/http://gogensanpo.hp. infoseek.co.jp/main2.html) (Japanese)
• About Ken games (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RP9H-TKHS/dg_ken.htm) (Japanese)
• Origins of Janken (http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/yasuaki/misc/cult/cultc4.htm) (Japanese) • Janken in the world (http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~tokyo3/janken.html#起源/) (Japanese)
• A biological example of rock-paper-scissors: Interview with biologist Barry Sinervo on the 7th Avenue Project Radio Show (http://7thavenueproject.com/post/451026680/barry-sinervo-lizards-and-evolution/)