Toronto 2007

[R Cohrs]

Hey all,
  Thanks for the great and memorable weekend!  I'm still reeling from the early loss, but it might just be the beers.  I didn't quite know what to expect on the drive to Canada, but everyone made me feel right at home, and it was my pleasure to meet you all.  As I entered America, the border guard asked me why I was in Canada, and I told him about the tourney.  He didn't know what I was talking about, and asked me what I use scissors for.  I said to cut paper, but paper covers rocks.  I thought it was pretty self-explanatory, but apparently he thought I was just messed up on something, cause he asked me at least 3 times if I had any "substances," "plants," or "pharmaceuticals" in the car.  I didn't, but he wouldn't take my word for it and proceeded to search my car.  He found my rainmaker, which is just beads in a hollow tube used for music, and asked me if I was "smoking drugs with it."  And this whole time I had to pee so bad, because he had already held up our line checking somebody for about half and hour ahead of me, even though they were apparently ok too.  So I'm thinking that this crap is never gonna end and my bladder's just gonna blow, but he finally went through enough stuff to be happy and sent me on.  Maybe he noticed the many RPS souvenirs I had and decided I was legit after all.  At least he let me go just in time to hit the rest area.  I thought I was going to suffer my worst loss of the weekend by pissing myself in front of the border guards. 

  Even though it was a quick defeat at the tourney, I used the free time to learn some more about the sport and the players.  A German couple showed me how the sport works in their native country (2 prime and horizontal scissors), and I was able to beat them in a German-style match.  I met the unofficial "Team Condor," or those 3 crazy Englishmen dressed as knights, and I was also able to pull off a victory against one of the members.  I went up 80 street dollars, but lost it all in a quadruple or nothing match to a guy I saw picking pockets of about everyone.  And I lost it just in time to be out of dollars for a buy back in, but man it was worth it to thug on a thug for a bit.  And I played my first game of tagteam RPS with chuk and Rosh, which was definitely an interesting way to go about the game. 

   I'd have to say of all the matches I won and lost this weekend, one of my favorites was against Johnny Goodtimes.  Beat him twice in a best of 1, and once for street cash.  Playing the rest of the board members was definitely exceptional, and reminded me of playing the family in our yearly Christmas poker all-night games.

   Thanks again to everyone for the great memories.  I hope everyone's having/had safe travels home. 

   

[yanis]

Hey Cohrs,

I am the guy that won on the quadruple or nothing probably. Ended up winning the Street Title and final 8 in the competition. Just wanted to say that I got lucky on that last match we had, I only won by one. Anyways hope you come down again next year!

Great article.

Yanis

[ScissorSista]

My favourite match has to be the strip rps against the yellow-haired Elvis.

Suffice to say that the Sista won, with (suprisingly) her modesty fully intact and as for Elvis...

well what can I say...it was a very cold night.

[Brad Fox]

Hi Yanis,

Welcome to the board!

For those not in the know, Mr. Yanis  (of the hastily/impromptu named "Team Jullian") not only was the ultimate winner of the Street RPS title, in a mainstage all-in throwdown with the ever-powerful Team Shocker - but he also made the final 16 as well... one of the most impressive double-feats I think we've seen since the (unfortunate) introduction of street to the tournament format.

I'm not going to re-open old wounds vis-a-vis street matches, but I thought it was a very nice touch that Yanis and Pete from Team Shocker chose "World Championship Rules" for their final match and, even without a referee, managed to play a very clean and fair final match on the mainstage.


Hope we see some more of you on the board over the year Yanis, and congratulations.

[yanis]

Thank you Mr.Fox

I will be a participating member for years to come, what a great night you guys put together. I would just like to go on record saying that it was top 8 not top 16. I would also like to congratulate team Shockers Pete for the great challenge.

[R Cohrs]

Well Yanis, you played a great game.  I was ready to quit after the first 2, even more after the first 3, but I liked your all-or-nothing spirit, so I figured I'd either walk away with your stack, or you'd do something good with it.  It was down to the last throw there, so nice and epic.  I was wondering if you ended up with the crown, so congrats to you and your team.  Nice finish in the tourney too; I got knocked out in the first round by a girl who lost her next game.