Rock Paper Scissors - The Documentary

The Walker brothers wanted to turn a child's game into a good-natured competitive sport, but when Rock Paper Scissors fanatics converge on the World RPS Championships, they're caught between big business, talk show pundits, Playmate mascots, and a battle of good versus evil that asks the question, "Can purity beat commerce?"

Rock Paper Scissors is a verité style documentary that follows the story of the Walker brothers and the evolution of RPS into a legitimate sport of skill and strategy, worthy of training and competition. Starting from humble beginnings with only the love of the game as their motivation, the Walker brothers reach a crossroads during the film as they're approached by corporate sporting giants Fox Sports and ESPN to back the sport with an official world circuit culminating with the annual world championships. The story is a classic Greek tragedy waiting to unfold.

As we navigate our way through outrageous characters, hilarious strategies and heated competition, one thing becomes absolutely clear -- RPS is much more than a game, it's a lifestyle. While it may sound like a mockumentary, these people are definitely real.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• rock
• paper
• scissors
• documentary
• world
• rps
• CIFF
• douglas
• graham
• walker
• C.
• Urbanus
• Master
• Roshabollah

[McRibJuice]

rubbish

[wizardhat]

Afraid not. Truth is stranger than fiction. This is for real

[cautherley]

awesome! more please!

[forbesmh]

What's wrong with you Canadians? :) j/k.

[NeronThe]

rock always wins 

[Sternsinger09]

rock♥

[somekid120]

omg i love america! we would be, have been, and will keep doing things like this!

[sjsawyer]

Did you even read my post?

[wizardhat]

@sjsawyer A random strategy (were humans actually capable of such a thing) would also give you no advantage over your opponent. Your mathematical expectation is zero. By using power of suggestion, trash-taliking and just plain old intimidation, you can definitely increase your odds.

[sjsawyer]

Well, it can be. You could simply create a random sequence of rock, paper, scissors and play that against your opponent the entire time. Then what advantage does your opponent have over you? None.

[leGoomba]

haha silly child, only noobs thinks RPS is about luck. Everyone knows how big is the Psychological dimension.

Football is more about luck than RPS

[H3Serpent]

Champions? It's about LUCK.

[pembietube]

looks great - can't wait to see it!