Canadian Champions

SpeCies · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:26 pm Post subject: Canadian Champions

If it's not the beautiful landscapes, Hockey, now canada is holding the title as being the world champs in Rock, Paper, Scissors

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.

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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."
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Stevo · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject:

Team doctors for rock paper scissors?
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SpeCies · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:08 pm Post subject:

It's a tough sport especially when you get smashed by a rock, slashed with scissors, catch a paper cut.

America has some of the craziest events also, take those fools who sit in a ring at the rodeo playing poker as a bull is set free, the last one to stand wins. Give me PRS any day

Replica · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject:

so i heard this on howard stern as we rode to school this morning....

he "avalanched" LOL
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SpeCies · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:48 pm Post subject:

Do you like WMMR 93.3 or WYSP 94.1 up there in philly ? I remember when HS was a newb

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