The "World Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship" (1 Viewer)

[Danny Tse]

Who cares about the World Series when you have the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship.

Click here at Yahoo for complete details. Are you practicing yet for next year's championship tournment?

 

[Jay H]

Oh darn! I missed it..... Of course, RPS is boring when played by only two, they have yet to experience group RPS competitions. Try playing RPS with groups of 6 or more! Now there is some strategy...

Jay

 

[Frank@N]

I was laughing when I saw this on CNN.

I thought I was watching a SNL bit...

 

[Danny Tse]

In the Yahoo story....

Some even bring along team doctors to supervise their nutrition and take them through intense warmups.

 

[MarkHastings]

What's next? "52 card pickup" in Las Vegas????

I'd win everytime!

 

[MikeH1]

To achieve the lofty title of World RPS Champion, he threw a combination of rock-paper-paper, defeating his opponent's offering of three rocks.

Who would go with 3 rocks in a row? That's just asking to lose. Man, even I could have walked off with the $5000.00 prize money....

 

[Greg_R]

[bart simpson]Good old Rock... nothing beats Rock[/bart simpson]

 

[James T]

What's next? "52 card pickup" in Las Vegas????

Not exactly that 52, but I like to play War at Niagara Falls.

 

[MarkHastings]

James, yes the War thing was an odd site to see, but I guess it makes about as much sense as any other card game...Now imagine if they ever introduced "Slap Jack".

 

[Ralph Summa]

I heard this on the radio last night and all I could think of was Mickey and Kramer playing RPS on Seinfeld.

 

[Kevin P]

Who would go with 3 rocks in a row?

Well, if you are a caveman who lived before paper and scissors were invented... (there was a Far Side cartoon about this once)

 

[MarkHastings]

Who would go with 3 rocks in a row?

If you think about it, it makes sense (at least in my mind it does )

For example sake, let's say I'm playing you and I threw out 2 rocks...

After the 2nd rock I throw, you are going to think that there's no way that I'll throw rock again, so my next choice will either be paper or scissors.

So you're obvious (or safest) choice would be to throw scissors because based on your deduction that I won't throw a rock, if I throw scissors, we tie, but if I choose paper, you win.

So what I do is throw you for a loop and choose rock (again) - crushing your scissors.

It's the old "He'll NEVER do that again!" trick.

 

[Philip Hamm]

Mark,

Thanks for explaining the strategy behind Rock, Paper, Scissors. Makes NFL coaching or world championship backgammon look like a joke.

 

[Alex-C]

Who would go with 3 rocks in a row ?

I believe that in the RPS universe, 3 rocks is a stategy gambit along the lines of Chess strategies.

Now back to your regularly schedule lunacy...