Rock...Paper...

**Airencracken** · 10-08-2003, 11:59 AM

Scissors!

Woah there is a society and an international championship? Sweet!

http://www.rpschamps.com/

This is cool! There is even a $7,500 dollar (canadian) prize for first place. Woah.

**cheapie** · 10-08-2003, 12:13 PM

ummmm.....wtf?

**thatonefilipinoguy** · 10-08-2003, 12:16 PM

hmm...rps headquarters is located in canada?
I think the canadians are trying to establish a new national sport.

**attgig** · 10-08-2003, 12:22 PM

learn more about it here.

**RoniMan** · 10-08-2003, 01:05 PM

Originally posted by chosenfool
canadians are weird.

must be the cold.

must be SOMETHING!

wonder if there is a ro-sham-bo society?

**cheapie** · 10-08-2003, 01:08 PM

Originally posted by RoniMan

must be SOMETHING!

wonder if there is a ro-sham-bo society?

aaaaahahahahahaaaa.....joo chust made me laugh out loud with that!

**bachviet** · 10-08-2003, 03:29 PM

Originally posted by chosenfool
canadians are weird.

must be the cold.

I can't believe there is a society for RPS.

**LPMiller** · 10-08-2003, 03:41 PM

Rock...Paper...

...tactical Nuke! I win!!!

**Jabberwocky** · 10-08-2003, 04:26 PM

Actually, there's even a national championship. I saw it on espn a while ago. The prize was pretty big. I don't think it takes any skill at all, unless you cheat. Hmm..maybe I am a world class athlete.

**revil** · 10-08-2003, 06:42 PM

Originally posted by LPMiller

...tactical Nuke! I win!!!

I always went with bulldozer.

**Joshua** · 10-08-2003, 06:45 PM

Wow, we've actually found people with more time on their hands than us! Good find!!

**kei2** · 10-09-2003, 01:16 AM

come on guys you must have seen the seinfeld sketch on what beats what. "rock beats paper." "i thought paper wraps rock." "rock goes right through paper!" "then what beats rock?" "... nothing!" "one two three shoot. rock, rock." "one two three shoot. rock, rock."

**Peachhead** · 10-09-2003, 05:00 AM

Originally posted by Airencracken
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This is cool! There is even a $7,500 dollar (canadian) prize for first place. Woah.

Like I wanna go all the way to canada to win $50?

**nickel** · 10-09-2003, 05:03 AM

Originally posted by Peachhead

Like I wanna go all the way to canada to win $50?

eh, true, eh?
you hoser.

actually i go shopping in Canada all the time for that reason. 'lots more bang for my American buck.

**Dirty Sanchez** · 10-09-2003, 06:07 AM

There's a TV game show in Hawaii that incorporates this called
Jan Ken Po

**cheapie** · 10-09-2003, 06:52 AM

Originally posted by nickelback

eh, true, eh?
you hoser.

actually i go shopping in Canada all the time for that reason. 'lots more bang for my American buck.

you just cross the border for the duty-free alcohol!

**RoniMan** · 10-09-2003, 07:22 AM

Originally posted by nickelback

'lots more bang for my American buck.

i'll bet...

**cheapchinese** · 10-09-2003, 10:58 AM

canadian taxes are a bitch.. 17%...
i'd rather go someplace like oregon. where there's no tax....but i never went to oregon....
and i like canadian wine.. so...

**revil** · 10-09-2003, 11:09 AM

Originally posted by cheapchinese
canadian taxes are a bitch.. 17%...
i'd rather go someplace like oregon. where there's no tax....but i never went to oregon....
and i like canadian wine.. so...

Oregon is the shi*t. Mostly because I'm here.

**gwilks98** · 10-11-2003, 12:54 PM

Did anyone check the rules section?

For those new to the game, the only acceptable throws are Rock, Paper and Scissors. Any use of Dynamite, Bird, Well, Spock, Water, Match, Fire, God, Lightning, Bomb, Texas Longhorn, or other non-sanctioned throws, will result in automatic disqualification.

That's like showing up for a soccer game with a dodgeball.

**RoniMan** · 10-12-2003, 11:49 AM

anyone ever use yahoo msnger? there's a rock/paper/scissor game you can play, it's actually kinda fun.

**attgig** · 10-28-2003, 10:52 AM

CONGRATS ROB!!!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ockpaper_col_1

Canadian Beats World at Rock, Paper, Scissors
Sun Oct 26, 6:45 PM ET

TORONTO (Reuters) - The competitors, in glitzy, off-the-wall costumes, call themselves professional athletes. Some even bring along team doctors to supervise their nutrition and take them through intense warmups.

This, it seems, is serious stuff to the 320 competitors who shook their fists early into Sunday morning at the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships at a nightclub in downtown Toronto.

The man who did win -- and netted himself a purse of C$5,000 ($3,825) -- was Toronto's Rob Krueger, a member of the team "Legion of the Red Fist."

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.

Treading a thin line between silly spectacle and serious sport, the event drew a crowd of about 900, including many bemused spectators who wandered, with drinks in hand, among a slew of local and international media.

Andy Cumming, 28, flew to Canada from London with five other members of the United Kingdom team, as well as their team doctor who counsels them on warmups, diet and practice.

"It's an internationally played game, you know," he said, wearing a pair of worker's coveralls with the red, white and blue of the Union Jack patterned on it.

"It's a complete travesty that not many people take it seriously."

To the uninitiated, taking the playground game seriously is something of a tall order. Many competitors wore crude, homemade costumes, and played with a can of beer in their non-throwing hand.

Douglas Walker, managing director of the Toronto-based, 700-member World RPS Society, is a little more realistic about the so-called sport he promotes.

"We take rock, paper, scissors about as seriously as you take something like rock, paper, scissors. We have a lot of fun with the concept."