Posted on 11/19/2002 12:29:58 PM PST by Weimdog
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Toronto Man Becomes 2002 International Rock Paper Scissors Champion
-Rock beat Scissors in the Winning Throw in Toronto Last Night-
Toronto, ON - Nov. 17, 2002...The World Rock Paper Scissors Society is pleased to announce that Pete Lovering from Toronto, Canada is the 2002 International Rock Paper Scissors Champion. Mr. Lovering beat 255 competitors for the Championship trophy, $1,200 in prize money, an Xbox game system, and the gold medal in the International Championships held in Toronto on November 16.
In the final game, Lovering played a combination of Rock, Paper, Rock, Rock to take the Championship title in front of an enthralled and vocal audience. Lovering won three out of five sets against the Silver Medalist as the audience cheered, jeered and chanted the competitors' names.
"For the first time, our experienced, international players competed against unranked players in an open tournament," said Graham Walker, Event Chair. "This made for some tense and exciting tournament play, with some of the more seasoned players knocked out earlier than expected by fresh talent. I hope to see players of this ilk compete in next year's Championships."
Throughout the evening, more than 600 competitors and spectators filtered through the doors to witness or participate in the tournament.
"The key to my win was maintaining a clear mind before each throw, and judging each opponent individually," said Mr. Lovering, 2002 International World Rock Paper Scissors Champion.
As the governing body of the sport of Rock Paper Scissors, the World RPS Society (www.worldrps.com) helps to set the strategic direction of tournaments, conferences, symposiums and retreats across the Globe.
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For more information or to speak to the winner/event organizer, please contact Doug Walker, Media Relations, World RPS Society, (416) 885-2850, www.worldrps.com.
A more interesting variation of the same concept: take three dice, one each of red, green, and blue, each marked with two copies of each of three different numbers:
The The The |
red green blue |
die is marked with 1, 6, and 8. die is marked with 2, 4, and 9. die is marked with 3, 5, and 7. |
Any idea why I called one person the mark and the other the sheister?
I don't need good looks and mountains of money.
I can type snide comments on the internet. That's what the ladies go for. 8-)
Regardless of which of the die that the mark chooses, the sheister can pick either of the other two. That gives him a 5:4 win to loss advantage every time.
If the mark picks the red die, the sheister picks the green one.
If the mark picks the green die, the sheister picks the blue one.
If the mark picks the blue die, the sheister picks the red one.
Pretty clever. (And no, it's not going to be at all obvious to the mark. I had to work through all of the permutations to realize it.)
Except use the internet, obviously, darling. ;)
Love, Ivan
The program, of course, kept score. This was a simple command-line system (pre-graphics on a PDP Unix system) and you could play better than a game a second.
After a few hundred games, the program pretty much got your number and started pulling slowly and inexorably ahead of you.
Unfortunately, that was about twenty computers ago and I fear the source is long lost.
BTW, it's Rock, Scissors, Paper, not Rock, Paper, Scissors. <)B^)
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