March Madness 2023 (a.k.a the annual Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament)

I’m guessing everyone’s all caught up now, and with that last game in the books the Final Four is now set!!
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First of all, let’s have a round of applause for the players in the Final Four!

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Already each of these worthy competitors (Klaymen, Kid_Rock, OutdoormanNowActuary, Echo) have already earned title rights for their Region next year, along with a guaranteed #1 seed in next year’s tournament!! :tada:

But while those are nice prizes (very nice, if I do say so myself!), they are not the Ultimate Prize - the chance to Legendary RPS Champion!! :astonished:

So let the battle for the :crown: begin - good luck to all of our competitors! (And who knows? Maybe we’ll even get this wrapped up by the end of March!! :+1:)

Final Four - All Matches Best of 7

Klaymen     0
Kid_Rock    0

OutdoorAct  0
Echo        0

Key: * indicates throws submitted

Note: Completed Region details found in Post 3

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:popcorn:

Ooh…Sunday night is pizza night.
:pizza:

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… and the Final Four is underway!!

And naturally we start off with a multi-throw game - we wouldn’t expect anything less from these battle-tested competitors! :+1:

Keep those throws coming! I’ll try to update whenever I have a completed game and have a moment to update, so with a little luck we could make a lot of progress the next couple of days! :crossed_fingers:

Final Four - All Matches Best of 7

Kid_Rock defeats Klaymen in Game 1, Kid_Rock leads (1-0)
P-R Klaymen
P-P Kid_Rock

Klaymen     0
Kid_Rock    1

OutdoorAct* 0
Echo        0

Key: * indicates throws submitted

Note: Completed Region details found in Post 3

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:popcorn: :peanuts: :rice_cracker: :jack_o_lantern:

:thinking:

:doh:

Sorry, but you were defeated (but now in a noted manner).

… and now back to the matches!! :tada:

Well, I guess it’s welcome back to the match - we’re still waiting for @Echo to make an appearance (apparently Echo’s still celebrating making the Final Four - can’t blame a :dog: for that!). But for the active match we do have going, things are knotted up at 1-1, just as we expected!

Keep those throws coming! :+1:

Final Four - All Matches Best of 7

Klaymen defeats Kid_Rock in Game 2, series tied (1-1)
R Klaymen
S Kid_Rock

Klaymen     1
Kid_Rock    1

OutdoorAct* 0
Echo        0

Key: * indicates throws submitted

Note: Completed Region details found in Post 3

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Those squirrels aren’t going to chase themselves.

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:popcorn: :poultry_leg:

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Okay, you caught me - I was stalling a bit, hoping that Echo would pop up, but so far no Echo yet.

But we have yet another multi-throw game for Game 3! We had to go 3 throws to determine the winner of this game. At this rate we’ll need… :calculating: … :counting_on_fingers: a lot of throws for Game 7!!

Final Four - All Matches Best of 7

Klaymen defeats Kid_Rock in Game 3, Klaymen leads (2-1)
S-S-P Klaymen
S-S-R Kid_Rock

Klaymen     2
Kid_Rock    1

OutdoorAct* 0
Echo        0

Key: * indicates throws submitted

Note: Completed Region details found in Post 3

Maybe today was a dog holiday that us humans didn’t have marked on the calendar :person_shrugging:

Happy Tuesday!!

And I bring good news - Echo has made an appearance! So now we can really get going!

I would say :oh_noes:, and you-know-who is down 3-1. Again. But that seems to be Kid_Rock’s go-to move, so I wouldn’t call this match over just yet!

Stay tuned, and keep those throws/cheers/jeers coming! :+1:

Final Four - All Matches Best of 7

Klaymen defeats Kid_Rock in Game 4, Klaymen leads (3-1)
S-P Klaymen
S-R Kid_Rock

OutdoorAct defeats Echo in Game 1, OutdoorAct leads (1-0)
S OutdoorAct
P Echo

Klaymen     3
Kid_Rock    1

OutdoorAct  1
Echo        0

Key: * indicates throws submitted

Note: Completed Region details found in Post 3

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:thinking:

:grumble:

That’ll learn me for trying to be fast with the updates. Proper credit noted in all places now. :+1:

15 wins, 5 losses thus far.

The 95% confidence interval of my chance to win a round is
75.0% +/- 1.96 x Sqrt(0.5x0.5/20) = (53.1%,96.9%)

:pancakes: :beverage_box:

I think my time is running out. I am 8-0 in elimination games. My college golf coach once said a man chasing pars is like a dog chasing cars, sooner or later…

Bad Squirrel!

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In our last update, Kid_Rock was down 3-1, which normally would cause some concern, but Kid_Rock has come back from being down 3-1 multiples times this tournament, so what’s one more time, right?

Or did Klaymen figure out how to break through?

You didn’t really think it would be that easy, did you?

Well, it wasn’t… again - Kid_Rock is still alive!

Meanwhile,. Echo has evened up the match against OutdoorMan - it’s setting up to be a back-and-forth match in the other semi-final!

Stay tuned, and keep those throws coming! :+1:

Final Four - All Matches Best of 7

Kid_Rock defeats Klaymen in Game 5, Klaymen leads (3-2)
S Klaymen
R Kid_Rock

Echo defeats OutdoorAct in Game 2, series tied (1-1)
S OutdoorAct
R Echo

Klaymen     3
Kid_Rock    2

OutdoorAct  1
Echo        1

Key: * indicates throws submitted

Note: Completed Region details found in Post 3