Organization profile
WRPSA is the worldwide authority for professional Rock Paper Scissors: publishing a competition ruleset, recording eligible competitive results, maintaining the associated rankings, and building tools for players and event organizers.
WRPSA was founded in 2015 by Wyatt Baldwin. Independent profiles from Inverse and TIME for Kids identify Baldwin as WRPSA's founder or president and document the association's competitive RPS work.
This website is operated as the WRPSA tenant in BizDash by Baldwin Industries. WRPSA's authority is deliberately scoped: “official” means official for WRPSA-sanctioned competition, and its rankings describe results accepted by the WRPSA platform. WRPSA does not claim exclusive jurisdiction over every informal game, independent event, or other RPS organization.
A versioned rules document for events that adopt WRPSA rules, including simultaneous reveal, valid throws, match formats, officiating, and disputes.
A public leaderboard sourced from completed, eligible matches. Empty places are not filled with sample players or invented scores.
Tools for organizers to publish eligible events, capture results, and preserve public archives when the information-quality threshold is met.
Rules, history, probability, research, classroom resources, and practical play tools with source and correction standards.
2015
WRPSA is founded. The date and founding role were reported by Inverse in 2020 and TIME for Kids in 2021.
2018
ESPN Radio interviews WRPSA world champion Ken “Whitey” Watson for ESPN8: The Ocho coverage.
2020
WRPSA works with Pepsi Japan on a Japan Cola campaign featuring world champion Ken Watson and footballer Keisuke Honda. Inverse also interviews Wyatt Baldwin about competitive strategy and WRPSA competitions.
2021
TIME for Kids profiles Baldwin and WRPSA in “Play to Win.”
Current
WRPSA operates its public rules, play, ranking, event, membership, and reference platform at wrpsa.com.
Named leadership, governance scope, editorial controls, corrections, research citations, and translation standards are published separately so each can be reviewed and updated without changing this profile.
