On December 21 2013 00:18 Salmacis wrote:
This bugs me quite a bit:
2. Restricted Sponsor Categories –The following sponsor categories will not be
allowed:
[...]
e) Gambling websites; or
Millenium is sponsored by Winamax, a poker website.
So ForGG can't wear his team jersey in WCS events?
This bugs me quite a bit:
2. Restricted Sponsor Categories –The following sponsor categories will not be
allowed:
[...]
e) Gambling websites; or
Millenium is sponsored by Winamax, a poker website.
So ForGG can't wear his team jersey in WCS events?
AFAIK in some courts in U.S. poker was considered as a game of skill, not chance (hence not gambling). Some lucky countries (like mine) even treat it as a sport.
EDIT: apparently federal court decided that it doesn't matter if it's a game of skill, similar reasoning could be used for sc2 as well though, haven't read much U.S. pokers news since it was shut down there. Still given stracraft ties to poker, it should be excluded from that handbook, especially since it's in grey area in U.S.