Though they are one of the newest teams in the Marble League, the Raspberry Racers competed for years in the now-defunct Fruit Circuit. The Fruit Circuit was an untelevised marble sports series that ran until 2016, when the Marble League rose to fame. The Raspberry Racers competed alongside infamous marble teams such as O’rangers, Mellow Yellow, and Limers, developing a tense rivalry with the latter team.

The Bakker brothers reserved three spots for the circuit’s teams to compete for when the Fruit Circuit shut down. In the final event of the Fruit Circuit, which was an outdoor race through a winery in southern Europe, Raspberry Racers were in second overall when they overshot a curve and went out of bounds. Their DNF allowed both Mellow Yellow and the O’rangers to slot into second and third place, respectively, behind the Limers in first, shutting out Raspberry Racers from competing in the 2016 Marble League.

The team was understandably disappointed. After firing Barry, the racer who did not finish the last Fruit Circuit race, the remaining four members of the team took a trip to Rubow, the raspberry capital of the world, to visit their families, drink some raspberry syrup, and overall to get away from the Marble League. The Raspberry Racers ended up disbanding sometime during this period, but its former members began taking interest in the Hubelino Tournament, which was slated to air after the Marble League.

Razzy and Rozzy joined the Bluefastics while Rezzy and Rizzy joined the Valiant Violets. The two teams performed modestly throughout the tournament, which originally ran for eight events but was extended to twelve, running before and after the 2017 Marble League. In the original eight events, both teams scored at least one gold medal and made the podium at least one other time, but did not perform well overall. The Valiant Violets placed last overall and the Bluefastics placed sixth.