This post is a brief repetition of this post from last year detailing results from the 16 person knock out Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock tournament we played the other day.

If you are not familiar with Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock this is a good video that explains it:

Here is how the game went (thanks to Geraint for noting everything down and Saniya for grabbing the pictures!):

Here is a plot of the strategies played during the 1st, 2nd and 3rd rounds:

The overall strategy profile played is here:

Exactly like last year we are not exactly at Nash equilibria. In fact it seems that Scissors and Rock are being played a bit more often, so someone entering in to this game should respond by playing Spock (he vaporises Rock and smashes Scissors).

Here are the strategies that at some point won a duel:

and here are the losing strategies:

Hopefully my class found this interesting and fun.