The champ will also walk away with a ticket to compete in Beijing in the innaugural International Rock Paper Scissors Federation Championship, where they'll compete against champions from Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, Ireland and Malaysia (the only other countries sad enough to have something like this). Thankfully, it's not an Olympic sport, but it just happens to coincide with the Summer games.

What with it being in America, the event is, naturally, sponsored by Bud Light, aired on Fox Sports Network and full of fit models doing their rock paper and scissors thing. Expect some cracking lines from the commentators, including such beauties as, 'He's obviously highly fatigued. He'd better keep his motor skills under control because there's no margin for erroe her.'

Following political tradition, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama recently faced off against his wife Michelle for a celebratory game of RPS after clinching his nomination, which just proves that its'more than just a sport. We're just hoping that tiddlywinks gets the same treatment soon...