Budapest hosted the Hungarian Rock Paper Scissors Championship on September 7, 2019, and the result was exactly what regional RPS championships are supposed to produce: one person who walked out as the documented Hungarian champion, which is a title that belongs to exactly one person and cannot be argued with.
That sounds simple, but it matters. In any sport, the national championship is the formal confirmation that within that country, in that format, on a specific day, you were the best. Rock Paper Scissors doesn't change that logic just because the individual matches are short. The bracket was real, the referee was real, the stakes were whatever the players decided they were, and the winner was determined by the same competitive process that determines every champion in every sanctioned RPS event.
The Hungarian championship followed the standard WRPSA-compatible format: single elimination, best of three or five per match, qualified referees watching simultaneous throws. The entry requirement was the same as every RPS tournament: show up, know three gestures, compete. That's the thing that distinguishes RPS championships from most sports at the national level. The barrier to entry is zero. There's no fitness test, no licensing requirement, no equipment cost, no age limit. If you can form a fist and open your hand, you're eligible.
What makes a national championship meaningful isn't the complexity of the qualification process. It's the competitive infrastructure around the event — the commitment to fair play, proper officiating, and documented results that connect to the larger competitive hierarchy. The Hungarian championship contributed a bracket and a champion to the WRPSA's record of national events, which is how the competitive network that eventually feeds world-level competition gets built. One official event at a time, one national champion at a time.
Whether the championship continued in subsequent years depends on the organizing committee and the circumstances of 2020 and after, which disrupted regional events across every sport globally. But September 7, 2019 happened. Budapest hosted. Someone won. That part of the record is permanent.