Rosey

Rosey, also known as Moxieball or Cascadian football, is an objective-based team PvP sport played primarily in Cascadia. Rosey is played between two teams of two players who alternate making attempts to score by rushing into the opponent's "Home Zone," located on the ends of the field. During an attempt, the goal of the defending team is to "down" (kill) an attempting player, causing a "takeaway" (turnover) and ending the current attempt, beginning their own. The sport is characterized by its integration of standard Minecraft player-versus-player (PvP) combat (utilizing swords and fishing rods) as a fundamental mechanic for both offense and defense, rather than utilization of a ball, like other major objective-based team sports like association or gridiron football popular on EarthMC.

Governed by the Rosey Federation, the sport is typically played in two innings of four minutes each. The Rosey Federation is responsible for enforcement and adaptation to the rules, and the organization of professional competition. The premier organized league of the sport is the Rosey Federation League (RFL), consisting of 8 teams located entirely in Cascadia, contributing to the sport's foreign nickname of Cascadian football.

Gameplay

Field and equipment

A standard Rosey field is 100 blocks long. The field is divided by several key interval markers, that being the Half-Line in the center, and the 9, 18, and 27 meterlines in both directions. The outer boundaries are largely defined by a rose bush wall on both side, and the scoring area, known as the homezone, is located past the 36 meterline, which is known as the homeline. In the center of the half-line is a beacon, which is where play starts and restarts after stoppages of play.

In the center of the homezone exists a grass triangle known as "the Hole." If, during a try, the scorer enters the Hole, the defending team is awarded one point, and the try concludes as a failure. This acts similarly to a "safety" in gridiron football, penalizing the offense for poor positioning. Also in the homezone is the wicketbox, consisting of a 5-block tall, 3-block wide bamboo fence-post topped by a flowerpot with a rose. This is known as the wicket, and is the final objective of an attempting team!

Players are equipped with non-enchanted leather armor in team colors, a basic diamond sword, and a basic fishing rod. Sustenance is strictly limited to one stack of bread; the use of any other food or enhancements is classified as an "Illicit Substance" violation.

Comparison to Other Sports

Rosey occupies a middle ground between the player-as-ball mechanics of EMC soccer and item-based mechanics of EMC gridiron football by rejecting the concept of the ball entirely, focusing entirely on PvP and "downs" as the mechanism for a change in what is in effect, possession, with the player's body being used to score rather than a ball

The Toss

Matches begin with the Toss, which is a duel between the two designated team captains. The winner of the Toss is awarded the first attempt of the first inning, while the loser is awarded the first attempt of the second inning.

If the score is tied at the end of the second inning, the match is decided by an overtime toss. This is a final winner-take-all deathmatch between captains, worth one point, and the winner is immediately declared the victor of the match.

Scoring

Points are primarily scored through a two-stage process:

• A run, worth 3 points, is awarded when an attempting player crosses the 36m Home Line into the Home Zone.
• Once a run is scored, that player becomes the scorer, and that player begins a try. The scorer is the only player permitted to attack and break the wicket, which is a rose pot on a 5-block tall fence. Successfully breaking the wicket completes the "Try" and resets play to the center. During a try, downing the scorer or their teammate does not result in a takeaway, but downing the scorer ends the try, and by extension the attempt. After a conclusion of a try, the clock stops, and the defending team starts an attempt from the center of the field.

Penalties

In Rosey, penalties serve as both a regulatory measure to ensure fair play and a secondary method of scoring for the non-offending team. Unlike many traditional sports where penalties merely result in a change of field position, certain infractions in Rosey provide an immediate numerical advantage on the scoreboard.

Illicit substance use

The most severe infraction in the sport is the use of "Illicit Substances." Per Federation rules, players are restricted to a single stack of bread for sustenance. The use of any prohibited items, including potions, golden apples, or enchanted equipment, results in the following:

• Immediate Ejection: The offending player is removed from the match by the Umpire.
• Point Award: One (1) point is immediately awarded to the opposing team.
• Resumption: The current play is terminated, and the match restarts at the Beacon.

Hole crossing

While not a penalty in the sense of a rule violation, a hole-crossing is a scoring penalty applied to the attempting team for poor navigation. If the designated scorer enters the triangular grass area known as "The Hole" during a Try, one (1) point is awarded to the defending team. This is most similar to the concept of the safety in Gridiron football.

Timing

A standard match consists of two innings, each with a four-minute running clock. The clock stops for turnovers, penalties, or team timeouts. Each team is permitted two timeouts per inning.

Other rules

9-meter rule

The 9-Meter Rule is a foundational regulation designed to maintain competitive momentum and ensure that all players remain engaged in active play. Unlike traditional "offsides" rules in American football, Rugby, or Association football, the 9-meter rule applies to both the Attempting and Defending teams simultaneously. Essentially, during an attempt, specifically the first attempt following a start or resumption of play, no player from either team is permitted to cross the 9-meter line located on the side opposite the target Home Zone of said attempt.

This rule serves two primary tactical functions. It aims to prevent defensive "camping," by preventing a defending player from sitting deep in their own Home Zone while their teammate attempts to down an attempting player to cause a takeaway, in which the camping player would simply enter the home zone and score. It also prevents attempting players from anticipating a takeaway and sending one of their players to camp the defense's homezone. In general, the rule ensures that if a takeaway occurs, the new attempting team must earn their territory rather than having a player already in position to score, and that the defensive team cannot also obtain an unfair advantage.

If any player crosses the 9m line during the initial attempt of a play, the Umpire rules the play dead. The attempt is ruled a violation, and play is reset at the Beacon.

Out of bounds

When a player exits the rose walls on the sides of the field, the player is determined out of bounds and the play and clock is stopped. The play resumes at the center of the field at one of the various meterlines, depending on the position of the player on the field, and whether the out of bounds player was on the attempting team or defending team.

If the player was on the attempting team, play restarts at the meterline most recently crossed by the defensive player furthest away from their homezone. If the player was on the defending team, play restarts at the meterline closer to the attempting team's homezone from the furthest player on the attempting team, however no play can resume at the homeline.

History

Rosey was invented in late 2025 by SayerQT, who previously served as the 1st president of Cascadia, the 6th chief justice of Cascadia, and a central figure in the formation and development of the Cascadian nation. It was created in order to have a game that is simple, strategic, intuitive to the mechanisms of minecraft, and able to create a sense of Cascadian national unity both in the latter months of Terra Aurora and among the Cascadian diaspora in Terra Nostra.

In early development, the game was known by the names of Cascadian football or Rosary football. It was named "Rosey" following a vote among early players, although many had taken to calling it "Moxieball", after former president and mayor of Victoria Moxicodone, where the first stadium was planned to be built. Some other names considered were Rosebat and Rosebud.

The Rosary Federation was established on January 4, 2026, and SayerQT was appointed as the federation's first Commissioner. The first task of the Rosary Federation became the organizing of a league, which was announced as the Rosary Federation League, or RFL, on the same day. The process for acquiring umpires, clubs, and players began on that day.

RFL

The Rosey Federation League (RFL) is a professional Rosey league in the Republic of Cascadia. Composed of 10 teams, it is divided equally between the Evergreen Division (ED) and the Maple Division (MD). The RFL is the major sports league in Cascadia, the fourth-largest in the world (behind F1, Kings League, and the EFL), and the highest professional level of the sport of Rosey. Each RFL season consists of a regular season, consisting of 7 games for each club, which is followed by a postseason concluding in the Ranger Cup, the ultimate championship of the sport.

The upcoming season of the RFL is Season I, expecting to begin in late January 2026.

Teams

The RFL consists of 10 teams divided into two divisions of 5 teams each. Clubs vary, with some, such as Salish, representing broad regions (the Cascadian Metropolitan region), some such as Arcadia representing historical groups, and some such as Grouse or Oakwood representing cities and towns. Some teams decide to have additional nicknames, such Augusta's nickname of the Terrific Tylenol Sniffers. Each team is administered by a general manager, accountable to club ownership.

Each team plays 7 regular seasons games. Each club plays every other team in their division once, as well as three of the five in the other division once. The top two teams by win-loss record in each division play each other for the divisional pennant, and the divisional champions play each other in the Ranger Cup.

Division	Club	City	First season	Captain	General manager
Evergreen	Salish	Nanaimo, Cascadia	I
	Owyhee	Meridian, Cascadia	I
	Arcadia	Fresno, Cascadia	I
	Manicouagan	Winter Oke City, Cascadia	I
	Frontier	Chaeronea, Cascadia	I
Maple	New York	New York, Cascadia	I
	Grouse	Grouse, Cascadia	I
	Augusta	Augusta, Cascadia	I
	Sandrift	Sandrift, Cascadia	I
	Oakwood	Oakwood, Cascadia	I

Rosey Federation

The Rosey Federation is the highest governing body of the sport of Rosey. It is incorporated as a non-profit corporation in the Republic of Cascadia, and cooperates with The Cascadian Independent in media broadcasts of RFL matches. The federation also regulates and oversees umpires, and can revoke accreditation of umpires.

The leadership of the federation is as follows:

Leadership of the Rosary Federation

Title	Officeholder	Since
Commissioner	SayerQT	January 4, 2026
Counsellor to the Commissioner	mjap04	January 6, 2026

Current registered umpires

LadyEsquimalt	since January 5, 2026
SayerQT	since January 5, 2026
HawaiianDPG	since January 5, 2026
swat907	since January 6, 2026