Win a trip to BlizzCon from Steelseries
by Mathew McCurley 
Sep 21st 2011 at 8:00PM
Even if you don't win the grand prize trip, there is still over $2,500 in prizes up for grabs, including gift certificates to Jinx, WoW Legendary gaming mice from Steelseries, game guides, a WoW atlas, and WoW TCG class starter decks from Cryptozoic. Free prizes! Who doesn't love potential free stuff?
Check out the contest over at Steelseries. The contest ends on Sept. 30, 2011, so get your entries in soon.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
A2Z Sep 21st 2011 9:24PM
Me!
lazymangaka Sep 21st 2011 9:39PM
I won one of the prize packages in the Blizzard/SteelSeries anniversary contest a few weeks ago. Maybe lightning will strike twice for me this year...
lazymangaka Sep 21st 2011 9:43PM
And, I was just perusing the official rules, and I found this little gem:
"If a Canadian citizen wins a prize they will be required to answer, unaided, a mathematical skill-testing question."
lolwhut?
Koraya Sep 21st 2011 9:57PM
LOL. I saw that too. Any Canadians here willing to comment on 'why' they must go through such testing?
Tanddori Sep 21st 2011 10:27PM
Metric system, duh.
Molly Sep 21st 2011 10:52PM
So I ended up searching for an answer to this.... I found:
Canadians Use a Different Method to Avoid Illegal Lotteries
Canadian sweepstakes law, unlike American law, requires that the third component, "winners are chosen by luck," is removed. Sponsors cannot use pure luck to determine who wins a sweepstake. There must be at least some element of skill involved.
In order remove the element of pure chance, sponsors narrow the field of potential winners by requiring a skill testing question to enter their contests. Every entrant does not have the same chance to win; only those who at least pass the skill testing question are eligible to win prizes. Of course, this is only a technicality. Most people can pass the skill testing questions without difficulty, although sponsors are required to make the test somewhat challenging.
What Constitutes a Skill-Testing Question?
The courts have agreed that a four-part mathematical test such as "155 plus 33 divided by 2 minus 12" is enough to qualify as a skill-testing question.
lazymangaka Sep 21st 2011 10:55PM
Thanks, Molly. That's rather interesting.
Brian! Sep 22nd 2011 12:48AM
Molly, that is just the surface story.
The real reason is that many Canadians are actually mathematical geniuses. The general scientific community will submit a few mathematical questions, one being the mathematical answer to the Unified Theory that we still hope to find to solve the relationship between the strong and weak forces of physics.
In 2006 a twelve year old girl from Calgary nearly solved the Unified Theory, but alas that day she was introduced to beer. If there is one thing that Canadians do better than math, it's drink beer. And once they go down that path they will always find the shortest path to the next brew.
One day though, the Canadian government is going to get a few of those mathematical answers and they'll hold it over the worlds head and politely gloat - with a microbrew in the other hand.
Patgamer Sep 21st 2011 11:02PM
So uh.. It's only open to Canada and America?
Cheapskates!
emberdione Sep 22nd 2011 12:25PM
It actually has to do with Tax laws.
Deathknighty Sep 22nd 2011 2:48AM
Thanks for mentioning that it was only open to NA guys, I'm sure I was the only one who read the article, clicked through the link, and was met with a list of American states and Canadian provinces having entered in all my details.
Shamio Sep 22nd 2011 4:28AM
Same. I was amazed that this time there were no limitations only to find out that my country is not in the list. So maybe you could write with big red letters, that only NA can take part? As we know... no other country exists according to them >.< (Yea, I'm a bit pissed off.)
tomas Sep 22nd 2011 10:14AM
I agree. They should mention that in big letters.
Lir Sep 22nd 2011 4:25AM
I have tried to enter now 15 times with 2 seperate browsers and it just errors and sais try again.
evil imp Sep 22nd 2011 5:55AM
Error!
Error: Something went wrong. Please try to register once again or reload the page. like Lir, tried with both firefox and ie.
Revnah Sep 22nd 2011 6:09AM
Would have been nice to mention that it is a competition only for two countries.
Hoffa Sep 22nd 2011 7:24AM
Also getting an error, I guess they found who they wanted already?
Eranwolf Sep 22nd 2011 9:18AM
Error!!
thunder Sep 22nd 2011 10:00AM
This contest does not work. There are a few errors went you try to enter you try to enter. Not to mention they leave out Alaska and Hawaii. Sorry this contest is an epic FAIL!
Arcia Sep 22nd 2011 10:03AM
Next time, mention the contest is only open to two countries before giving such an announcement.
As always, no other country exists for this kind of sweepstakes.
"What? Are there other places in the world?"
"Win a trip to BlizzCon from Steelseries, only if you live in USA and Canada", the rest of you, whole America continent included, are excluded just so.
(Yeah, I'm pissed of too)