**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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There's two contests. One of the contests everybody can participate in.
Off the top of my head, a lot of different regions have laws that require all contest rules and promotional materials be registered with the government significantly ahead of time. Quebec is actually one of those areas, but there were others. Some areas require companies to pay a fee to register contests and sweepstakes, I think Quebec was actually one of those again. Paying that fee in every single country that requires it would be costly. Some had laws that governed contests and sweepstakes differently based on whether random chance was involved, predominant, or non-existent. Random chance isn't limited to just random prizes, qualifying parameters that have random chance (even tie breakers) can trigger completely separate regulations.
There were countries that restricted how you could advertise, when you could advertise, varied the definition of what a "material prize" was, and some even had specific laws that required prize awards to be monitored by a government agency (I believe Italy was one of those).
The problem is the laws can be so complex and byzantine that it is less a question of which countries to exclude, and more a question of which ones you're absolutely certain you aren't breaking the law in. Every single country has to be separately vetted. Even in the EU, laws can vary by country when it comes to this sort of thing.
When you ask what exactly are the laws that restricted which countries and territories can compete, you're asking for a textbook-sized document, with one chapter for each country or region that isn't listed.
India, Brazil, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa (and rest of African continent including Egypt), Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Greece.
And also FYI, even 2 states in the USA (Hawaii and Alaska), in addition I assume to Puerto Rico, and one province of Canada.
Some of these may be dues to remoteness for timely distribution of the needed video equipment, some because of laws pertaining to things like Sweepstakes/Gambling/Contests, or because of Language Requirements in all materials, or even because of State-sanctioned Religious Laws. Or even maybe just the high cost to try and get such a Contest approved in some countries (like the one Lawyer suggested he'd be willing to help in his country).
While I guess it could be unfair to those who can’t partake in the Final Rounds, at least everyone will be able to participate in the early quests for this, even if not eligible to be a finalist.
And really isn’t much different that when Kabam hosts a Live Contest at COMIC CON in New York. Even if you had the money to spend to be able to come to New York Comic Con in person (pre-Pandemic), you might not have been allowed to travel to the USA for a wide range of reasons, whether personally denied a Visa or due to country-wide Travel Bans.
Or in cases where they pitted “selected” you-tubers or other similar Content Creators against each other, that wasn’t opened up to everybody.
Or how about Marvel Insider being limited to certain countries (oops, not appropriate for this forum, lol).
Not everything is gonna be open to everyone when you run a world-wide game.
My point here is, even if all other Africans are exempted from this competition for the reason of they won't have streaming tools on time, Munash doesn't fall into that category. So can he be exempted from this rule? @Kabam Miike @Kabam Zibiit
Just one African player, he already has streaming tools and skills.
Again, why can't you all understand why they exempted the countries they did? They aren't doing it to be mean or anything and I'm sure they'd love for more people to play in it but they couldn't make it happen. What's illegal for an entire continent, will still be illegal for 1 person on that continent.
As for legal issues - isn't the game itself is a contest? We all compete in aw, aq, arenas... Well, not all, but some do. How those things are different? It's still a part of the game