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No Cash Prizes for Hanover

By ManaNation.com ⋅ March 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Print This Post

Wiz­ards pub­lished this news blurb on their site this morning:

Local author­i­ties in Hanover requested that Wiz­ards of the Coast cease pay­ing cash prizes at Grand Prix–Hanover, and we are com­ply­ing with this request. The top 64 com­peti­tors will instead receive credit for goods from Wiz­ards of the Coast and/or our part­ners. In addi­tion, we are reduc­ing the entry fee to €15. We apol­o­gize for any incon­ve­nience caused by this change.

A few things to note:

Grand Prixes are run by regional tour­na­ment orga­niz­ers, and so it isn’t Wiz­ards of the Coast run­ning the tour­na­ment, how­ever they are the ones pro­vid­ing the prize. It is most likely the tour­na­ment orga­niz­ers who were con­tacted by local offi­cials con­cern­ing the prize payout.

This is also a com­mon issue for the smaller tour­na­ments in regions. Stores can be con­cerned run­ning cash tour­na­ments as, in most regions, Magic the Gath­er­ing is con­sid­ered a game of chance rather than skill. Stores will usu­ally run tour­na­ments with cash prizes as they are too small for the author­i­ties to con­cern them­selves over. Oth­ers will have got­ten the proper autho­riza­tion and paper­work together to avoid any issue with the law.

This also is tied to the sit­u­a­tion with Magic Online as some regions are unable to exchange their com­plete sets, as Wiz­ards will not mail them to their address as doing so may be con­sid­ered “gam­bling” due to the inex­act let­ter of the gov­ern­ing laws.

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