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EA makes pro FIFA players settle match with rock, paper, scissors

In somewhat of a strange move, EA recently forced two professional FIFA players to settle their match with a good old-fashioned game of rock, paper, scissors.

The person who had their rock smothered in hand paper, pro FIFA player Shaun Galea, recently shared his nightmare story on Twitter.

"I cannot believe it," Galea wrote. "We literally had to play a rock paper scissors because we couldn't find each other to invite in an EA licensed qualifier. WTF!" The issue arose due to problems with the FIFA servers.

"All that hard work from Phase 1 for absolutely nothing," Galea posted in a second tweet. "Phase II comes and I lose a rock paper scissors game to decide my Swiss record. What else can I say? My head's completely gone. From 2-0 to 2-3 ."

Over on Reddit, people are wondering why the players even went through with such a fiasco in the first place. "The thing is that if one refuses, the other one will almost certainly take the opportunity to 'win' rather than protesting too," points out Redditor FriezaAndHoushi. "For some, this is their livelihood. It's easy to say when you don't have the pressure that comes with it."

The victor, Hasan Eker, also commented on the match.

A quick Google translate roughly puts this as, "Stand 3-1 because I was able to successfully prevail in the Rock Paper Scissors!" Frankly, it's a bit absurd to read, but this is the sort of quick thinking EA displayed when it sought to remedy the situation. Our servers are down? Not our problem. Flip a coin, or play rock, paper, scissors, or something.

It seems as if professional leagues are a bit of an afterthought over at EA. If a football match is postponed due to weather conditions, the ref doesn't call up the managers and say, "alright, pick a number between 1 and 10."

The EA Sports FIFA Twitter page has yet to comment on the situation. It's looking unlikely they will.

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Cian Maher worked at a wide variety of video games media outlets, with his work appearing in TheGamer, Techradar, VICE, Wired, the Verge, Ars Technica, Eurogamer, Polygon, Gamespot, and of course VG247 - as well as a variety of newspapers. Cian has a First Class Honours BA in English Studies from Trinity College Dublin. Cian has left games media, and now works on The Witcher franchise at CD Projekt RED.

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