Hot competition, new faces, and beer

Last night the 2008 PBRPRPSCLCS really heated up with some very exciting competition at the Khyber. The night’s final match between myself (Baconshark) and El Toro Papaya was one of the best matches thus far in the season.

The final four finished up with Toro beating Zombie Llama to nullify an all-Package final, and afterwards Toro and I decided to split a delicious PBR for the final round and fight over the last 1/4 of the beer that remained. We entered the final stanza of competition as respectful adversaries, and then launched headlong into a duel that brought us down to the final throw. Tactics changed more than once through the event. I don’t remember us tying more than twice consecutively, which I credit to keen strategy on both our parts. We traded victories, stayed focused, and brought it down to the final throw. After tying with paper once to bring the anticipation to a boil, the match was decided with Toro’s paper covering my rock, giving Team Feed the Pony a sweep on the night as Mr. Strawberry took the street competition despite his best efforts to come in second place.

In all, Team David Bowie’s Package had a very strong evening. First of all, we all made it into the second round, which rarely happens. In the first round PJ Rhymeswithsausage calmly dispatched season points-leader Loomer, losing only one throw. Zombie Llama won in four throws against The Captain, and I humiliated The Banker by defeating him with four consecutive Rocks. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen that done, let alone bring that much Rock to the table myself. But you can’t argue with its crushing result.

Continuing into the second round, PJ lost his match to J Martin Hill, and Grim Trigger randomly selected Zombie Llama and myself for a bye in the round. I guess the Majestic 12 is good for something.

The evening was filled with new faces. Three friends of the Package made their RPS debut, Yannaconda, Chocolate Schraedle and Lisa (forget her RPS name). They all lost their first matches, but I’m sure they’ll be back to claim victory soon. Another group showed up late to take the evening by storm. We’ve also unofficially dubbed them the Meat Squad, and they brought in a kind of theatrical competitive style that was an instant crowd favorite. Their first match put them up against each other, Nosila Meat vs. Kennedy. Their style of play was part interpretive dance, part unbridled excitement, or what may even have even been an elaborate mating ritual. Well, maybe not. Anyway, they brought the match to a final throw that brought the crowd at the Khyber to their feet as Kennedy beat Nosila Meat and moved on to the second round. David Bowie’s Package fully supports these new competitors and hope that they return for more RPS!

3rd round action placed Zombie Llama against one of those new competitors, Kennedy. Hopefully there’s no relation to 1990’s MTV VJ Kennedy, who was pretty lame. But the Kennedy was not lame, no sir. Using all of her skill and advantages against him, Kennedy made for a worthy adversary, but Zombie Llama won it in the end. I defeated a poorly groomed upstart from the Majestic 12 to move on to the final four. In that round I defeated new player Joe Crockett to move on to the finals, and Zombie Llama lost to El Toro Papaya to narrowly avoid an All-Package Final, which may come yet one day.