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The first Limited entry competitions

Unlike most competitions that try to pack as many entries as possible, Spotit competitions are “Public Limited Entry Competitions”. This means that every competition has a maximum number of entries. That limited number, the Max Entry level is public. Every competition displays the Max number of entries as well as the real time entries in each competition.
We believe in giving as much value to entrants as possible, giving transparency and honesty in the way we operate our competitions making Spotit competitions some of the easiest to win.

No more: “You could win” or “Have a chance to win”

Know exactly the max number of entries in every competition.

How does a competition work?

With each entry the player is presented with a football image. The ball has been digitally removed. The player using his skill and judgement must determine the most logical place for the centre of the ball. This in turn produces a set of X & Y coordinates for his ball placement. When all entries for that specific competition are sold out. All the players results are compared to that of our professional football referee. The referee has followed the exact same process as the players; the player with the closest coordinates to that of our referee is the winner of that competition. The winning spot is determined by our professional football referee, the process is supervised by an independent auditor, with 3 witnesses which have all signed non disclosure and confidentiality agreements with strong liability clauses.

Competitions Legal framework

Spotit legal competition structure

In order to be a Skill based competition, rules and guidelines apply in how the winner is determined and the significant proportion of entries and people it prevents from receiving a prize. Spotit is audited not only against competition and lotteries law, but gaming and betting laws as well .
This total legal complianceensures that Spotit remains a competitions based website that is void of statutory regulations and can operate as a standard online leisure / entertainment website.

Legal criteria for competition compliance:
Extract from 2005 UK gaming Act

Article 2.3. In prize competitions, success depends, at least in part, on the exercise of skill, judgment or knowledge by the participants. This distinguishes them from lotteries, where either success depends wholly on chance or, in a complex lottery, the first stage relies wholly on chance.

Article 3.1 As stated in paragraph 2.3 above, a prize competition is one where success depends on the exercise of skill, judgment or knowledge by the participants and does not, as it does in a lottery, rely wholly on chance. However, section 14(5) qualifies this distinction by defining the circumstances in which arrangements which do require participants to exercise a degree of skill or judgment, or to display knowledge, are nevertheless to be treated as relying wholly on chance, and therefore fall within the definition of a lottery provided the other elements of the definition (that is of involving payment to participate and the allocation of prizes) are satisfied.
Article 3.2 Hence, addressing that question, section 14(5) says that ‘a process which requires persons to exercise skill or judgment or to display knowledge shall be treated for the purposes of this section as relying wholly on chance if:

(a) the requirement cannot reasonably be expected to prevent a significant proportion of persons who participate in the arrangement of which the process forms part from receiving a prize; and

(b) the requirement cannot reasonably be expected to prevent a significant proportion of persons who wish to participate in that arrangement from doing so.’

Article 3.3 It follows from this that a genuine prize competition is one which contains a requirement to exercise skill or judgment or to display knowledge and where it can reasonably be expected that that requirement will either:

(a) prevent a significant proportion of people who wish to participate from doing so (section 14(5)(b) of the 2005 Act); or

(b) prevent a significant proportion of people who participate from receiving a prize (section14(5)(a)).

If either one of these barriers to entry or success can be shown, the process will not be deemed to rely wholly upon chance, and the arrangement will not be a lottery.