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TOURNAMENT: World Rock-Paper-Scissors Society originators Doug and Graham Walker have built an international event to celebrate this centuries-old decision-making process. Steam Whistle Brewing hosts the World Rock-Paper-Scissors Championship this evening, as competitors vie for a total of $13,000 in prize money. The Roundhouse (255 Bremner Boulevard), 8 p.m., $40 (competitors), $12 (spectators).

FILM: War/Dance, winner of the 2007 Hot Docs Audience Award, will be screened tonight at the Bloor Cinema. The documentary follows a children's dance troupe from northern Uganda invited to compete at an annual dance and music festival. The screening is presented in association with GuluWalk and AMREF Canada. Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor Street West), 7 p.m., $10 ($5 for students).

The coolest movie opening this week is Be Kind Rewind, which is a treasure trove of Things White People Like, as it stars Jack Black and his black friend played by Mos Def, and is directed by Michel Gondry, and has lots of irony, seeing as how it is about a couple of people who erase all the videotapes in their video store and then make their own mocking versions of the movies they erased. In all seriousness, though, it looks pretty funny, so possibly people who are not white will like it as well!