From Urs Muller's blog, I discovered that a Swiss web site is holding a programming contest to see who can develop the best Rock-Paper-Scissors web service. The web services will compete head-to-head, until only one web service remains as the winner. Wow, computer programming can be considered a sport. Olympics 2008 here we come!

(For those of you who missed this important part of childhood, here's how you play Rock-Paper-Scissors. It's a lot simpler than the Official Rules make it sound.)

Always looking for a small programming challenge, I decided to write a small ASP.NET Web Service. In a couple of hours, I had one done; I think I will enter it into the contest being held in June. There are some cool prizes -- so it would be nice to win. ;)

The Rock-Paper-Scissors Web Service I developed is here: http://www.mydemos.com/DemoSoftware/RPS/ScottRPS.asmx Of course, once the contest is over I will post the code here.

The first time I ran it against the test machine, I won 9 to 7. The second time, I won 9 to 8. Third time, I won 9-7 again.