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Rocball tournaments have been an annual event on Saipan,Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (C.N.M.I.) U.S.A. since 1983. Rocball tournaments, which last between four to six months a year, are made up from as many as twenty teams representing high school, college, and community athletes.
In April of 1996, Rocball celebrated it's tenth Anniversary International Cup game with a high school out of Yokohama, Japan. In May of 1996 Rocball was introduced to the representatives of sports associations and the Asia Pacific and Oceania Sports Assembly in Tokyo, Japan as the indigenous sports of the CNMI.
Rocball has been covered by the media in the local, regional, and international newspapers and cable TV stations. Rocball news releases appear in the CNMI's local newspapers, the Pacific Daily News serving Guam, the CNMI, and Micronesia, and the Japan Times, out of Tokyo Japan. Rocball play action has been and is viewed on the CNMI's and Guam's cable TV stations. In 1993 and 1994, Ralph Wenge abd Octavia Nasr of CNN's world report introduced Rocball to over two hundred and ten countries and territories around the world.
Rocball has been a registered copyrighted since 1981. However, Rocball handbooks have been mailed out to various international associations as early as 1980. The International Olympic committee, International volleyball federation, Asia volleyball Confederation, general association of International Sports Federation, United States Olympic Committee, United States Volleyball Association, and the intellectual property organization are some of the many sports and other associations in the receipt of Rocball rules of play. In addition to these, private businesses in the sports, games, and entertainment world have been sent information on Rocball. And, more than ninety colleges and universities in over forty countries on every continent around the world have received Rocball handbooks.
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