Man breaks, covers, cuts competition
The winning move (!?!)
Look, y'all; you're playing a children's game. WTF is up with the nutritionists and team doctors? Don't y'all have jobs and families to worry about?
TORONTO, Ontario (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.
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 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.
So what do these misfits do when their season is over? Warm up for the International Snow Angel Championships? Or perhaps the World GI Joe Cup?? It really is true, I suppose; one person's unfathomable time waster is another's life-affirming passion. Hmm...I wonder where the International Snowball-Fighting Smackdown is being held this year? With a few week's training, I just might have a shot....
