Thursday, February 01, 2007

The Sweet Wine of Victory



I went all the way and took the victory at the single elimination Rock, Paper, Scissors Costa Rican Schoolkids Benefit.

Rochambeau is a worldwide game with many different names.

In Japan, instead of the traditional elements, there is apparently a variation involving the chief of a village, a tiger, and the mother of the chief of a village (not surprisingly, the mother of the chief beats the chief). One of the most humorous variations comes from Indonesia and involves an elephant, a person, and an ant. The elephant can crush the person, the person can crush the ant, but how can the ant win against the elephant? It crawls in the elephant's ear and drives it crazy. (straight dope)

The World RPS Society [1] has been holding the world championships in Canada for the past 5 years. Hundreds of competitors from all over the world come to compete in these championships and during the first 4 years, home grown Canadian talent won the coveted trophy.
The latest winner is Bob 'The Rock' Cooper, from London, UK. He defeated 496 competitors to take the title, winning with a pair of scissors. (wikipedia)

In the final and semifinal games my competitors and I hit the same sign consecutively many times. I really didn't have a strategy, i just played it instinctually. This bottle of wine was the top prize (from the roshambo winery).

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