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Norway Open is cancelled because of legal issues

Posted By: Havard Raddum
Date: Tuesday, 17 May 2011, at 8:19 p.m.

In Response To: Norway Open is cancelled because of legal issues (Rich Munitz)

If there are no prizes there is no problem with the law here in Norway. The law is constructed such that all of the following conditions must be met to be a 'lottery':

a) You have to pay an entry fee to participate. b) There are prizes awarded, either as money or something else of (substantial) value. c) The winner(s) of the event is/are determined by a process whose outcome is, wholly or in part, random.

They say the outcome of a backgammon match is partly random, because there are dice that dictate how you can move. Hence holding a traditional backgammon tournament is not allowed according to the law, unless you have a license or permit.

In practice, holding weekly tournaments with a small entry fee is not really a problem, because no one is going to make a fuss about small stakes. Earlier, larger tournaments has also been held without a problem. The focus of this gaming/lottery commission has been on poker, whereas the backgammon community has been left alone. That time seems now to be over, and currently there is a lot of debate within the Norwegian Backgammon Federation of how to adapt and proceed.

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