Ah, I’d never seen this at a conference, and I _have_ played in real-money rock-paper-scissors tournaments (which were strict single-elimination, with random assignment), so I figured it was some proposed mechanism for actually deciding something.
As a team-building excercise, there’s an additional complication in that the definition of “win” is debatable. If there’s no prize and no consequences of early or late elimination, I suspect my utility would be improved by simply not trying to optimize anything, or perhaps by just using https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoorPredictableRock and being “out” as soon as people realized I was serious.
Ah, I’d never seen this at a conference, and I _have_ played in real-money rock-paper-scissors tournaments (which were strict single-elimination, with random assignment), so I figured it was some proposed mechanism for actually deciding something.
As a team-building excercise, there’s an additional complication in that the definition of “win” is debatable. If there’s no prize and no consequences of early or late elimination, I suspect my utility would be improved by simply not trying to optimize anything, or perhaps by just using https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoorPredictableRock and being “out” as soon as people realized I was serious.