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BG5150
06-17-2006, 05:13 PM
Anyone see this? Last week, ON TELEVISION, was the "2006 World RPS Championships." That is RPS as in, you guessed it, Rock Paper Scissors.

Jesus! People will make a competition out of anything! What makes it worse is that people get paid to win this. And, on top of that, there are companies who bought ad time when this whole friggin' thing was televised!

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RussianRocket
06-17-2006, 05:16 PM
this "sport" has been around for a while now. One of my buddies designed their website, last time he was trying to get tickets or entry for four of us. There is actually some strategy to the game, there is atleast one book i know that has them and is in print.
Spiderman
06-17-2006, 05:20 PM
That's worse than the championship dominoes tournament ESPN2 has been playing after world cup soccer the past 2 weeks.
Margin Of Error
06-17-2006, 05:30 PM
There is actually some strategy to the game


Luck is not a strategy.
sCaRz*Of*PaiN
06-17-2006, 05:56 PM
Luck is not a strategy.:withstupi

This is ridiculous.
getfit
06-17-2006, 06:01 PM
:withstupi

This is ridiculous.
off topic, i'm digging the tar'
sCaRz*Of*PaiN
06-17-2006, 06:09 PM
off topic, i'm digging the tar'Thanks. It's uh..."different". :thumbup:

Random image:

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/6085/scissorsrock7oa.jpg
RussianRocket
06-17-2006, 06:45 PM
Luck is not a strategy.

no less than poker.
sCaRz*Of*PaiN
06-17-2006, 07:41 PM
There's a bit more involved with poker than rock, paper, scissors.
RussianRocket
06-17-2006, 07:46 PM
There's a bit more involved with poker than rock, paper, scissors.

there are odds in poker, there are also odds in RPS
There are tells in poker, there are also tells in RPS.

there are more simalarities between the two than one thinks.
sCaRz*Of*PaiN
06-17-2006, 07:50 PM
o_0

You have fun with that.
RussianRocket
06-17-2006, 07:58 PM
o_0

You have fun with that.

do you have a personal vandetta for RPS. Do you want to talk about it?

:windup:
sCaRz*Of*PaiN
06-17-2006, 08:09 PM
I'm just messing with you. :thumbup:
BG5150
06-17-2006, 08:52 PM
there are odds in poker, there are also odds in RPS
There are tells in poker, there are also tells in RPS.

there are more simalarities between the two than one thinks.
Very (very) simply:

cards: 1 in 52
rps: 1 in 3
BG5150
06-17-2006, 08:53 PM
At least this show was on Bravo (or A&E) and not ESPN like the spelling bee...
KingJustin
06-18-2006, 12:06 AM
There is definite and significant strategy in poker. RPS doesn't have a whole lot. To some extent you can guess what the other players are going for, but that's about it.
CrazyK
06-18-2006, 12:17 AM
Might as well play flip a coin.
RickTheDestroyer
06-18-2006, 02:27 PM
Might as well play flip a coin.
HOLY **** DUDE I AM THE KING OF "FLIP A COIN!"

Seriously though, there's not going to be anything truly random coming from humans- in all likelihood everyone will have tendencies to go with certain patterns, or to always play X after Y occurs, or to open with scissors (or whatever) 60% of the time. Because we're not really random, if you're familiar with your opponents and dissect their games, it's still a game of playing the odds, but you can tip them in your favor.
KevinStarke
06-18-2006, 02:31 PM
I won 4 straight rolls in dice the other day, won 10 bucks! Does this make me a skilled strategist?
sCaRz*Of*PaiN
06-18-2006, 02:34 PM
Yes. You are THE MAN.
Bruise Brubaker
06-18-2006, 03:53 PM
Everybody knows the rock always win.
sCaRz*Of*PaiN
06-18-2006, 04:01 PM
You're forgetting about good ol' paper.
Sensei
06-18-2006, 04:49 PM
There are dozens of variations of rock, paper, scissors and YES! there is a way to win consistently... I'd tell you, but then it would be spread all over cyberdom and then I'd lose my edge...
Brian O
06-18-2006, 05:02 PM
I currently live in a town that boasts the latest American representatives for Curling which looks like shuffleboard on ice.
RussianRocket
06-18-2006, 06:54 PM
I won 4 straight rolls in dice the other day, won 10 bucks! Does this make me a skilled strategist?

there is actually a proper way to roll, the tenchnique takes a hell of a long time to get down. With proper technique one can roll with very good odds. There have been a couple of guys that have been banned from Casinos in Nevada for doing just that.
Rock
06-18-2006, 06:58 PM
I dont get it....you got 3 options....its like a lottery..
KingJustin
06-18-2006, 07:17 PM
There's some strategy.

Meatheads usually go rock.*
Most other guys go scissors.
Tricky guys go paper.

So then you pick which one off that.


*Exception: Viking warriors
sCaRz*Of*PaiN
06-18-2006, 08:17 PM
there is actually a proper way to roll, the tenchnique takes a hell of a long time to get down. With proper technique one can roll with very good odds. There have been a couple of guys that have been banned from Casinos in Nevada for doing just that.Or they could've been using weighted dice...
BG5150
06-19-2006, 11:17 AM
I currently live in a town that boasts the latest American representatives for Curling which looks like shuffleboard on ice.
Curling is da bomb, yo. I watched it all the time during the Olympics.
-TIM-
06-19-2006, 01:01 PM
That's worse than the championship dominoes tournament ESPN2 has been playing after world cup soccer the past 2 weeks.Dear god! I caught that too. First the Nat'l Spelling Bee, and now dominoes. These aren't even freakin' sports!
RussianRocket
06-19-2006, 07:16 PM
Or they could've been using weighted dice...

they didnt roll the same numbers over and over again. They picked numbers they wanted to roll, than rolled. So unless they have like a crap load of dice i can't see how they could do it. Doesnt casino uasually gets new dices half way into games or anything of that sort? kinda like black jack and a new deck of cards.