The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Wednesday announced it would streamline more than a dozen proceedings involving disputes between Canada’s largest telecom companies by ordering them to settle their disputes with a series of Rock Paper Scissors games.

“Our existing processes, which include final offer arbitration, tariff sheets, forbearance, disaggregated wholesale access and a bunch of other terms only you policy nerds really understand, has become too cumbersome due to the large number of complaints and proceedings started by these big four companies,” the CRTC wrote in its decision implementing the order.

Bilateral disagreements over things like TV channel carriage, access to utility poles, third-party internet access and telephone interconnection will be settled by a best-of-three Rock Paper Scissors tournament between the two organizations’ regulatory affairs directors, the CRTC said. (The commission received 148 interventions commenting on the number of games that would have to be played, with Bell arguing for one and others arguing for more.)

Disagreements involving three parties would be solved using the three-player variant of Rock Paper Scissors.

“The Commission has determined this would free up its resources to focus on more OLMC consultations and other pressing matters,” it said.

Bell has reportedly already hired an RPS consultant to train its vice-president of regulatory affairs on best techniques.