What? How do you imagine that works? Please explain yourself

by Anonymous 3 days ago

If the whole world participated in a worldwide 1v1 tournament, the winner would have to win 32ish rounds. OP is saying that "rock, paper, scissors, shoot" takes 4 seconds. 32 rounds x 4 seconds is about 2 minutes. If we assume that no one ties and travel time/time in between games is irrelevant, than OP is correct. I finally get to be one of the people explaining it lol I've been waiting for this moment

by Various-Yoghurt 3 days ago

than OP is correct. Than = faster than, slower than, etc.

by WillingnessOk1277 3 days ago

I was so close

by Various-Yoghurt 3 days ago

Bingo

by OneAccountant 3 days ago

There's no way you gotta move all these people around there's no way that happening in 2 mins

by Pleasant_Set 3 days ago

Theoretically

by Weekly-Tap 3 days ago

And so many people would tie no way 2 mins

by Pleasant_Set 3 days ago

What part of "theoretically" did you not understand.

by Weekly-Tap 3 days ago

Zoom or the like. If you lose, it cuts to another breakout room with a live player

by OneAccountant 3 days ago

For those wondering about the math, not the logistics, it would take 33 rounds for ~8.6 billion people to be reduced to one winner in a single elimination tournament. OP is giving each round less than 4 seconds to be completed.

by Bubbly-Blueberry-298 3 days ago

The 4 billion pairs can play at the same time

by Xcorkery 3 days ago

Yes, but then all those sequential pairs down have to go down repeatedly to 2

by Noemywiegand 3 days ago

Yes, yes and yes

by OneAccountant 3 days ago

Rock, paper scissors. But make it Shakespeare.

by OneAccountant 3 days ago

If you could get everyone online, you create a program where you are matched up against an opponent but you don't know who it is. The game says go, you throw. It instantly tells you whether you won, lost, or draw, in which case you throw again when the game says. Next round you are instantly randomly pared with someone who won their last round, and throw again in a few seconds when the game says go, and so on and so forth. All in all the game could theoretically be over in about half an hour provided the technology and connections work flawlessly. This is assuming 1 minute per round, but that's probably even high. Although if someone doesn't show up or loses connection they could just be disqualified and opponent moves to next round. Would be kind of fun to do. You obviously wouldn't get everybody, but if the Olympics or some other organization with a lot of popularity and resources decided to create a global game like this you could probably get many millions of people to do it simultaneously. Lots of tech to figure out, but theoretically possible.

by Quigleyamina 3 days ago

You got it. Online poker games do this at small scale. Would take some doing, but hey, almost anything is possible.

by OneAccountant 3 days ago

I can't even get 5 people together for a game night without scheduling 5 weeks in advance.

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Interesting concept, but it would be a little to a lot longer. You would need 33 rounds of single elimination to go from 8 billion down to a single winner. Each round would probably take a minute or two to account for the inevitable draws that some pairs will have. So you're talking 30-60 minute range. But that also assumes perfect efficiency between rounds. There's no way to coordinate each round starting immediately…so that will sink the theory…

by Jacksonjaskolsk 3 days ago

Pretty wild assumption that there would be no ties. Would absolutely take a lot longer than 2 minutes considering how many ties would occur at each round.

by East_War9564 3 days ago

The only way this would be the case is if there could be no draws. With 8 billion people, it could take decades before you'd get a game without even a single person making it a draw

by Anonymous 3 days ago