Sean Sears, an amateur player won $50,000 as champion of the 2008 Bud Light/USA Rock Paper Scissors League Championship in Las Vegas.

There are, supposedly, opportunities for skillful play in RPS: knowing what people tend to use and how they tend to repeat or pick patterns over several hundred plays. So for an amateur like Sean to sweep to victory must be a setback for those, such as the World RPS Society, who trumpet RPS as a game of skill.

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