RPS Championships
Has anyone seen that there was some international rock paper scissors championship recently? I was reading about this and supposedly there were “ranked professionals and unranked amateurs” from around the world competing. Can anyone tell me what the difference is between a ranked professional and an unranked amateur in a game of guessing and blind luck? So, now I am trying to think of some things that are comparably compelling to a rock paper scissors championship. (Some are real and some are made up.)
5. Thumb War Championships
4. Air Guitar Competition
3. Yodeling Contests
2. The International Coinflipping Championship
1. The Card Game War: a Tournament
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There’s a certain psychological aspect to Rock/Paper/Scissors. Will he throw paper for the third straight time? IS HE THAT MAD?!
Still ridiculous, though.
They have war at casinos. That still cracks me up.
Actually, I read the following article a while ago and have to disagree that rock paper sissors is a game of blind guessing. Yes, a bunch of geeks actually playing is pretty lame, but game theory can be applied to just about anything. If this were not the case the same Rock Paper Sissors program would not have won so consistently.
Before you flame me read the link I posted below:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsb-results1.html
I already heard all this about game theory. I don’t buy it. Sure you can throw various combinations, or whatever and you can take it all psychological if you wish, but ultimately it is just a wee bit harder than guessing which hand.
That’s why the same algorithm won every single time? Like I said, geeks doing it for real, dumb. Computers using prediction algorithms, cool.
Incidentally, I think I would be pretty highly ranked in the Thumb War Championships.
As long as you don’t use “sneak attacks” which are completely cheap. 1-2-3-4, I declare a thumb war.
I think they should have a mercy championship as well.