There's a really fun NPR piece up (for a change) interviewing Jason Simmons, a professional Rock, Scissors, Paper champion — once a world champion, now retired, but who has deigned to be interviewed to school NPR in the finer points of RPS psychology as well as to lambast a strange, mysterious newcomer in the world of professional Rock, Paper, Scissors playing: a masked challenger whose style is "highly derivative of his own."
It's good fun and worth the listen. Simmons claims that a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors is actually a battle of psychological warfare and starts long before your first throw. I'm not sure I buy it, but apparently some people do: the money at these tournaments is huge, going up to a quarter million dollars to the most psychologically devastating thrower.
There's another great article on Jason Simmons from 3 years ago at Newhouse News.
Rock, Paper, Scissors! [NPR] (via MAKE)
