Get ready for the big tournament!

1st Annual PBRPRPSCLCS Consolation Awards

Best Competition Stance

Winner: Pete the Beat (grooves to the music, hypnotizing the opponent with subliminal rock vibes)

Distant Second: The Captain. (exhibits a variation of a the fight stance of the Cobra Kai dojo in karate kid)


Comments overheard when player is selected to face Loomer.


From Loomers first round opponent: "Shit, I've got to play Loomer? That guys like some sort of RPS savant."

Funniest season match-up.

Week 7, Dirty Franks, Paper Tiger vs. Chinchila. Big Tiger versus little Chinchila, with each exhibiting a miniature prime of about 1 inch, the entire match was summed up by Fist of Iron as "a knock, knock joke".

Best Team name.

Obviously, team David Bowie's Package. Little competition though (of course the PCP is exempt from this competition). However, a distant second does go to "Ernie Vanderbilt College of Games and Wagers LLC" prior to their merger with the PCP.

Best Individual Name

This one is tough, so I'll break it down into some subcategories

Smart name: Grim Trigger (I had to wikipedia it to learn it is a game theory role)

Hilarious name: Rowdy Randy Piper (which may be the merging of two names or homage to roddy piper and a nickname)

Aptly named for his profession: Rock Doctor (geologist)

Potential Location: Dance Rock, Saskatchewan (the comma is my punctuation)

Most enjoyable person to lose to.

Paper Tiger. Also, he wins the award for most chanted/chantable name. Pa-Per Ti-Ger. Pa-Per Ti-Ger.

Least chantable name.

J. Martin Hill. I tried, it just wasn't working. Although I heard the creative "climb the mountain Hill" once from Von Damonator.

Best random YouTube video commemerating a Gizmo win.

Season OVER

Well the 2008 PBRPRPSCLCS is over, with only the final championship tournament left, and the papercuts should be happy with their performance. As a new team on the beat, we did well, finishing third in team ranking. We also had 2 people in the top 10, 4 in the top 20, and 8 overall finishing in the top 64. Not bad.

Congrats to the victorious team, the Majestic 12, which claimed all the season prizes. A dominant performance by Loomer and the rest of the team.

Also, congrats to the DBP, for coming on strong at the end. This team beat us out for second in team rankings, with primarily 3 people, all in the top 10, that primarily went to 2 events a week (due to Lost night).

Papercuts show up in force at Franks, sweep top prizes

The Papercuts showed up in force at D. Franks on Tuesday, and pushed an amazing 7 of 9 players into the second round. This mean every second round match included a papercut member (an event unheard of in modern RPS history?). Unfortunately, the second round was not as kind, with Le Tigre the lone PCPer to advance.

Luckily, his recent string of first round losses was over, and he pounced on the competition to win the tournament. The final match was a nail-biter against the worthiest of opponents, the 2007 PBRPRPSCLCS champion Baconshark, of team David Bowie's Package (not to be confused with the online group, David Bowie's CAC).

In addition to Le Tigre's win in the tournament, Fists of Iron took the street cash prize for the night, bringing his season total up to a respectable $137, only 56 behind the leader Posthumyn.

Other notable events at Franks was the first offical win for Sac Agnole and another first round win for Chinchilla, two players who are starting to gain some traction. Sister brother was back in the competition, and has won the team award for intensity so far this season. Also, the Droog and Batholith Bandit made impressive come-from-behind wins to get to the second round.

Mid-season standings for the paper cuts

This week represents the start of the second half of the season, and there are a lot of paper cuts doing well. Here is the synopsis:

Le Tigre
6th place
30 points
$10 street

J. Martin Hill
9th place
23 points
$0 street

Gizmo
10th place
22 points
$0 street

Uncle Mikey
24th place
11 points
$0 street

Fist of Iron
25th place
11 points
$68 street

Harper Lee
35th place
8 points
$0 street

Chinchilla
44th place
6 points
$0 street

Kite-Kate
60th place
3 points
$0 street

The Droog
2 points
$0 street

Scissor brother
2 points
$0 street

Sac Agnole
1 point
$0 street

Batholith Bandit
1 point
$0 street

Tom Bland
1 point
$0 street

The Italian Hammer
1 point
$0 street

Repeat at Franks

Quote from Gizmo following her hard fought wins over the Paper Tiger, R. Randy Piper, Hulk Hoagie, the Zombi Llamma, and "the Coach" Von Damonator, "I just win. I can't divulge any strategy other than that." Win she did at D. Franks for the second time in as many weeks. Another dominate performance from the mogwai, against some excellent competition.

The Paper Cuts came out in force again, although they failed to do much of anything on the street cash scene and only the fist of iron could muster much more than a first round win. FoI won two rounds, a good primer for future endeavors, as his first undefeated evening continues to elude him. Le Tigre predicts it will come next week.

New team members Scissor Brother and the Droog both passed the first round but fell to experienced, veteran players. We hope they will continue building on this strong opening performance.

Le Tigre had yet another disappointing outing, but believes all the losing is behind him. He is hopeful that crossing state lines with a deadly weapon (a rock) will be just what he needs to break out of his slump. Luckily, there is a tournament taking place this weekend across the Delaware in New Jersey at a Camden Rivershaks game.

This Mogwai can play

Wow, can Gizmo throw some RPS. She cleaned up on Tuesday night in the 2008-PBRPRPSCLCS event at D. Franks. So far here competitive record stands at 4-1. When asked to reveal her in-game strategies, she politely declined, but murmered under her breath something about Nick Cage, a prison on the bay, and there being only one person that could show her how to beat the rock, but he was a washed up spy, forgotten by the british MI6 sometime after the fall of soviet Russia But would he help...

She elaborated further, saying that "my main strategy is to win a lot." We all hope to see more victories by this PCP star in the future.

Turning over Rocks: Advanced Strategies

The Paper Cut Posse, as any cutting edge organization should be, is 100% committed to both the development and reclamation of advanced stratagem. (Some were witness to our dedication in this area as PCP member Tom Bland attempted the dangerous "all rock" approach). This endeavor has been aided by the large body of collective work that exists in the field of game theory. Particularly interesting has been the studies into both the successful and unsuccessful algorithms tested in the 1999 and 2000 RoShamBo Programming Competition. From these programs (of which source code is freely available) we have gained insight into some advanced theories. If anyone wants to play 1000 consecutive games we predict a +20 score or better (+/- 10 is within the natural error of randomness). Some new strategies have been devised from these studies and will be tested in open competition play next week. (Hint: many involve attempting to determine patterns of the opponent, such as a proclivity to ascend, descend, or don't change their throws).

Iron Fistory Lesson

The Fist of Iron (FoI) was on hand for the first season event at Dirty Franks on Tuesday night, and took home the top slot for street cash and a nifty final 8 placing. Highlights of his successes include a win vs. a vetran player and doubling up his street cash just before the final bell. Well played FoI, well played. Those long hours of practicing total domination are starting to pay off. Needless to say FoI is one of the many rising stars of Team Paper Cut, so expect to see his name all over the morning papers.

Paper Cut Posse: Looking for a few good throwers.

As the 2008 PBRPRPSCLCS season draws near, the Paper Cut Posse is confident in their chances. While the ranks of the PCP are filled with raw talent, some additional roles and leadership positions are needed. Any interested parties should contact paper_cut_posse@yahoo.com. Some of the positions availible are:

Cagey Vetran
We seek someone familiar with the PBRPRPSCLCS who can aid the team in the delicate social hierarchy that is Philly RPS

Wealthy Benefactor
The key requirement here are deep pockets filled with many dollars and a willingness to buy victory rounds of PBR

Team Statistician
Willing to scout players from additional teams and identify trends/weaknesses in them.

Of course Andre the Giant was in the PCP

Paper Cut Posse sweeps first places in March RPS tournament.

In their first showing as a team, the Paper Cut Posse (PCP) broke onto the Philadelphia RPS circut in rare form, taking both first place in the tournament and the street RPS prize. In their first and final public tune-up for the 2008 PBRPRPSCLCS season they ended with a team record of 7 wins, 5 loses, and would have picked up a whopping 13 points had this been a scored team event. Kite-Kate ended with the most street cash, beating Baconshark by a sizable margin.

The notable individual performers were Kite-Kate and Le Tigre. Kite-Kate also made it to the round of 8, only to be defeated in a close match by Posthumyn. Le tigre, in his second Philadelphia tournament this off-season (contrary to the mainstream media's report), took first prize and built and early lead in the 2008 season standings. Lets hope that these successes are the first of many during the long, grueling season.