The cheering squad doesn’t affect the rules, but has been part of this every time I’ve been in one of these team building exercises because of, well, team building.
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.
The cheering squad doesn’t affect the rules, but has been part of this every time I’ve been in one of these team building exercises because of, well, team building.
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.