Thoughts 20 Oct 2008 09:34 am
Rock-Paper-Scissors for Fun and Profit
In case you missed it:
The U. S. Association of Rock Paper Scissors, held it’s first national play off here in Vegas. The tournament was shown on the A&E Network on June 12, 2006. It was sponsored by Bud Light.
In April 2006, the inaugural USA Rock Paper Scissors League Championship was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Following months of regional qualifying tournaments held across the US, 257 players were flown to Las Vegas for a single-elimination tournament at the House of Blues where the winner received $50,000.
$50k and a free trip to Las Vegas? And their mothers said they’d never amount to anything if all they did was hang around in bars playing silly games.
I don’t know if the USARPS still exists, but the World RPS Society seems to be doing well.
From the World Rock Paper Scissors Society’s website:
After a tournament with extreme amounts of rocks (editors note: Don’t the Norwegian players know that “Rock is for Rookies?”) , the player that never retreated to scissors won - and won big. Vegard Berg will join Team Norway Vikings in next month’s Yahoo! RPS World Championships in Toronto. This will be the fifth year in a row that Norway will compete for the world title, with a well prepared and diverse team with skills in both street, physique, psyche and endurance.Norway has publicly stated that they aim for a Norwegian world champion by 2010.
If you go to the World RPS Society website you will find a link titled “advanced RPS.”
Yup. There’s an advanced method of playing rock-paper-scissors. here’s a quote from that page: “Some players choose to retain the services of a personal trainer.”
I hope it’s all a joke, but somehow it seems too serious to be funny.