Guest32019745 wrote:

Agreed - this seems ridiculous to me as a European player. Why can't it work the same as prize eligibility where you check 'Yes I am eligible for prizes'. Limiting it to US residents seems bizarre to me.

I can't understand what 'midnight_dancer' means. The T+Cs for this promo explicitly state 'You must be a US resident', not 'you must be eligible under your local laws to participate in such promotions'. How can we cheat on where we are resident? If we buy from the Store we use a Credit Card and I have to enter my mailing address... and if I enter a fake mailing address in the states my credit card provider gets mad and phones me to say someone is trying to make fraudulent purchases....

Are we being expected to click 'Yes I am a US resident', when they have our mailing address on file already, and hope that they don't notice and we lose our accounts?

As a contrast, the prize eligibility T+Cs states:

2.1b Eligibility (Non-U.S.).
You are subject to all laws of the state, province, and/or country in which you reside and from which you access the Site, and you are solely responsible for obeying those laws. You agree the Site cannot be held liable if laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit your participation. The Site makes no representations or warranties, implicit or explicit, as to your legal right to participate in any tournament offered on the Site, nor shall any person affiliated with or claiming affiliation with the Site have authority to make any such representations or warranties.
Wizards may require any participant receiving any prize to provide proof that he or she is eligible to participate according to Sections 2.1a and 2.1b. You remain solely responsible for paying all federal and other taxes in accordance with the laws that apply in your state, province, and/or country of residence.

So Non U.S. players are perfectly eligible if their local laws permit them to win prizes. This is completely different from the Player Rewards program T+Cs which doesn't mention Non U.S. players at all.

I dont think that the prize structure will come crashing down if someone clarifies this...someone with authority simply has to say "it's correct as written" or "whoops, it should read like the general prize clause".

bubba0077 wrote:

I'll save you the suspense: it is correct as written. The only reason this program wasn't available MONTHS ago was because of all of the changes they had to make to satisfy legal. Both the terms and Mike's announcement have been reviewed in excruciating detail by legal. The only thing pointing out the discrepancy will do is having the prize conditions reviewed and possibly changed to match.

So were the prize conditiond illegal from the start...I doubt it.