February 15, 2008 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Summary: Calvin residence halls will compete in a month-long Rock, Paper,
Scissors tournament.
Full story, including schedule, see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2007-08/rock-paper-scissors.html
A Calvin student organization is sponsoring the college's first-ever official
Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament, beginning on Monday, February 18.
The tournament is organized as a residence hall contest. Participants from
each of the seven Calvin residence halls and the Knollcrest East Apartments
(plus off-campus students) will compete on designated evenings. The final two
contestants from each dorm will throw down—literally—in the finale on
Thursday, March 27.
"We first planned on doing arm wrestling, but that's a pretty select group of
people who would do that," said Kristin Crawford, a first-year student and
member of the Calvin Video Network (CVN), which is hosting the event. "Rock,
Paper, Scissors is easy for anyone to play."
The entire shebang, complete with emcees and referees, will be filmed by CVN
to create a program suitable for showing on Calvin's Channel 4. The student
videographers hope to mimic the format of the World Series of Poker or other
tournament shows for the format of their program.
"Once we've narrowed the field to the top two contestants from each dorm, we
hope to do background and interviews on them as part of the program," said
freshman CVN member Josh Schroyer.
Though both Crawford and Schroyer admit to recently studying Rock, Paper,
Scissors strategy, neither will be playing in the tournament, but both are
happy that CVN has chosen a contest that doesn't require a great deal of skill
and training to play.
"It's not something you have to prepare for and sign up to do," Schroyer said.
"It's just something you have to show up and do. Last night, I was talking
about it with some guys in my dorm, and they started doing it. They had their
own little practice camp to get ready."
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