Jun 9, 2011 Posted by urbanus

Sir Faust Wins First Tournament of the Season in All-RPS Speedwagon Final at the Raven Lounge

2010 total points champion Sir Faust hadn’t been able to rekindle the RPS magic of last year so far this season.  But maybe things are starting to turn around for him after winning his first tournament this year in the last week at the Raven.  He made it to the finals where he met his Teammate Dr. Hambone (soon to possibly be Mr. Hambone, CPA). It was the first finals appearance this season for the... read more

Jun 2, 2011 Posted by urbanus

Mr. Is is a Champion Again – But This Time Just at the Raven Lounge and not All of Philadelphia!

2008 PBRPRPSCLCS Champion Mr. Is (top of that picture over there) is back from spending most of her year where very few want to spend most of their year and she made the most of it last night at the Raven! She made it to the finals against a fine new player Some Guy Awesome and the former Champ really strutted her RPS stuff, beating the new fella kind of handily by a count of 3 matches to 1.  It was the... read more

May 26, 2011 Posted by urbanus

Silly Putty Stretches Her Season Win Total To Three With a Win at the Raven Lounge!

Silly Putty from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly took home her third tournament win so far in 2011, and if not for a few final throw losses at the beginning of the season would be threatening the tournament win record for the year (there are still two weeks left).  This time her victim was Joe McB from Blacksmith’s Apron at a jam packed Raven Lounge.  This was the first time Joe McB made it to the... read more

May 19, 2011 Posted by urbanus

Slanted Scissors Has Her Revenge on RPS Speedwagon at the Raven Lounge!

Slanted Scissors made her first appearance of the year after taking a break upon learning that she’d been kicked off her former team, the still active RPS Speedwagon.  She swore to make RPS Speedwagon pay (this is a guess) and make them pay she did at The Raven Lounge! She made it all the way to the finals after her old team all lost in the 1st or 2nd round (in fact she eliminated the last... read more

May 12, 2011 Posted by urbanus

Sweetji Breaks the Code at the Raven for All of England to See!

The crew from a new BBC show The Code was on hand for a packed house at the Raven Lounge in week 4 (PBR and Yelp Philly were there too!).  They even entered The Professor into the competition, who is Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and was attempting to use math to do well at RPS (you can wait to see the show to find out what his... read more