rhizome17
28-10-2003, 08:50:AM
Seriously.
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28.10.2003 3.48 pm
TORONTO - 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 warm-ups.
This is serious stuff for at least some of the 320 competitors who shook their fists at the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships at a nightclub in downtown Toronto.
The winner, who netted $6265 (US$3,825), was Toronto's Rob Krueger, a member of the "Legion of the Red Fist" team. He took the lofty title of World RPS Champion with a combination of rock-paper-paper, defeating his opponent's three rocks.
Treading a thin line between silly spectacle and serious sport, the event drew a crowd of about 900, including a slew of local and international media.
Andy Cumming, 28, flew in from London with five other members of the British team, plus their team doctor who counsels them on warm-ups, 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.
To the uninitiated, taking the playground game seriously is difficult. Many competitors wore crude, homemade costumes, and played with a can of beer in their non-throwing hand.
- REUTERS
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28.10.2003 3.48 pm
TORONTO - 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 warm-ups.
This is serious stuff for at least some of the 320 competitors who shook their fists at the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships at a nightclub in downtown Toronto.
The winner, who netted $6265 (US$3,825), was Toronto's Rob Krueger, a member of the "Legion of the Red Fist" team. He took the lofty title of World RPS Champion with a combination of rock-paper-paper, defeating his opponent's three rocks.
Treading a thin line between silly spectacle and serious sport, the event drew a crowd of about 900, including a slew of local and international media.
Andy Cumming, 28, flew in from London with five other members of the British team, plus their team doctor who counsels them on warm-ups, 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.
To the uninitiated, taking the playground game seriously is difficult. Many competitors wore crude, homemade costumes, and played with a can of beer in their non-throwing hand.
- REUTERS
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