# Giveaway and Contest Rules

> The rules for every Wilderack giveaway and build contest, including who can enter, how winners are picked, what the prizes are and how to claim one.

Version 0.1, last updated 2026-11-14. Draft awaiting legal review.

## The short version

- Entering is free. All you need is a free Wilderack account. Buying something never gives you an entry or better chances.
- You must be 13 or older and live in a country where the event is open. The list is on this page.
- In a giveaway, you press Enter once and we pick winners at random after it closes. In a build contest, judges pick the best builds using rules we publish first.
- Prizes are Wilderack credit that comes off your bills. They're never cash.
- If you win, we email you and you have 14 days to claim. If you're under 18, a parent or guardian has to agree before you get the prize.
- We never ask for a payment, a password or card details to claim a prize. We never show the name of a winner who is under 18.

These rules cover every giveaway and build contest that Wilderack Inc. ("Wilderack", "we", "us"), a Delaware corporation in the United States, runs for its community. Wilderack is the sponsor and promoter of every event, at 112 Capitol Trail, Newark, DE 19711, United States. These rules add to our [Terms of Service](https://wilderack.com/legal/terms/), which still apply to your account. Where the two disagree about an event, these rules win.

Each event has its own page on wilderack.com or in your panel (the "event page"). It gives the event's name, its kind, when it opens and closes, when the winners are picked, each prize with its value and how many there are, and, for a build contest, the theme and the judging criteria. If an event is open in fewer places than the lists below, its page says so. **The details on an event page form part of these rules for that event.** An event page can make an event narrower than these rules, never wider.

Void where prohibited or restricted by law.

## No purchase necessary

- **No purchase or payment of any kind is needed to enter or to win.** All you need is a free Wilderack account. Paying never improves your chances.
- Nothing you buy comes with an entry: not a server plan, an add-on, a 3-day pass or the [Valhalla Pass](https://wilderack.com/valhalla-pass/).
- You never get an entry for writing a review (see our [review policy](https://wilderack.com/company/review-policy/)), for bringing a friend, for joining our Discord, for following or sharing anything on social media, or for anything else not described under [How to enter](#how-to-enter).

## The two kinds of event

- **Giveaway (a free prize draw).** You enter by pressing **Enter** on the event page. After the event closes, the winners are drawn at random from all eligible entries.
- **Build contest.** You enter by sharing a screenshot of something you built in the build showcase, chosen for the contest. After the contest closes, a panel of judges scores every eligible build against the criteria on the event page, and the highest scores win. Chance plays no part.

## Who can enter

You can enter if all of these are true, both when you enter and when you claim a prize:

1. **You're 13 or older** and have a Wilderack account. If you're under 18, read [If you're under 18](#if-youre-under-18).
2. **You live in a place where that kind of event is open** (see the table below). What counts is where you live, not where you are when you enter.
3. **Your account isn't suspended or closed** for breaking our terms.
4. **You're not an excluded person.** That means employees, contractors and founders of Wilderack, the judges of the event, anyone who helps run it, and the immediate family (spouse or partner, parents, children, brothers and sisters) and the household of any of them.
5. **You're not barred by law from receiving a prize from a US company,** including by US sanctions.

One person, one account. Entries from more than one account count once at most, and may be disqualified.

### Where events are open

| Kind of event | Open to people who live in |
|---|---|
| Giveaway | The 50 United States and the District of Columbia; Canada, except Quebec; the United Kingdom; Ireland; France; Germany; Austria; Sweden; Denmark |
| Build contest | Everywhere a giveaway is open, and also the Netherlands and Spain |

Every event is void everywhere else. That includes Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Quebec, Puerto Rico and the other US territories, and every country or region under comprehensive US sanctions. Giveaways are also void in the Netherlands and Spain. We may add places once we've checked their rules, and the list on this page is always the current one.

## If you're under 18

- **You can enter and win if you're 13 to 17.** Ask your parent or guardian before you enter, because they have to agree before you can get a prize.
- **A parent or guardian agrees for you.** If you win while you're under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must agree to these rules for you and accept the prize on your behalf before we award it. We ask for this for anyone under 18, anyone under 19 in Alabama, Nebraska or Canada, and anyone under 21 in Mississippi.
- **How it works.** When you claim, we email your parent or guardian a link. We use the parent or guardian already confirmed in your parental controls, if you have one, or an email address you give us. They confirm they're your parent or guardian and say yes, within the same 14 days you have to claim. We record who agreed and when.
- **Where the credit goes.** If a parent or guardian pays for your plan, the credit goes on the account they pay with, so it comes off the bill they pay.
- **Your name stays private.** We never show the name or picture of a winner under 18, never use them in publicity, and only ever say which state, province or country they live in.
- **Parents and guardians** can say no, and can ask us to remove their child's entry at any time by emailing support@wilderack.com.

## When events run

- Each event page gives the time the event opens and closes. For a giveaway it also gives when the winners are drawn, and for a build contest the date the results are announced by.
- **All times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).** The event page also shows them in your local time.
- An entry counts only if our system records it after the event opens and before it closes.

## How to enter

### Giveaways

1. Sign in to your Wilderack account and open the event page.
2. Press **Enter** once while the event is open. The page then shows that you're entered, with your entry code.

- **One entry per person per giveaway.** Pressing **Enter** again, or entering from another account, doesn't add an entry.
- Entries made by bots, scripts or any other automated means are void.

### Build contests

1. Build something in any game on our games list, on any server or in single player. You don't need a Wilderack server.
2. While the contest is open, share a screenshot of it in the build showcase in your panel.
3. Open the contest's page in your panel, choose that build and press **Enter**. You can enter a build while it waits to be checked.
4. Every build in the showcase is checked by a person before it appears. A build turned down for breaking the showcase rules can't be entered, or is taken out. Every build that's approved is judged.

- **One build per person per contest,** so you can win only one prize per contest.
- Your build must be your own work, or made with friends who agree to you entering it. Only you can win the prize for it.
- The screenshot must show the build as it really is in the game. Cropping and resizing are fine. Edited or generated pictures aren't.
- A build that won a prize in an earlier Wilderack contest can't be entered again.

### If you can't use the button

If a disability or a technical problem stops you entering on the event page, email support@wilderack.com from your account's email address before the event closes. We'll enter you the same way, with the same chance.

## How winners are picked

### Giveaways

- After the giveaway closes, winners are drawn at random from all eligible entries. **Your odds depend on how many eligible entries there are,** and every entry has the same chance. The event page shows the number of entries once the giveaway closes.
- **Anyone can check the draw.** When the giveaway closes, we publish the list of entry codes, a fingerprint of that list (a SHA-256 hash) and the number of a future round of drand, a public randomness beacon run by a group of independent organizations called the League of Entropy. When that round is published, its random value ranks the entries, by a method we publish with the result. Nobody, including us, can know or choose that value in advance. Your entry code is in your panel, so you can check that your entry is on the list.
- We draw the winners first, then up to two alternates for each prize, in order.
- One person can win only one prize per giveaway. A person drawn a second time is skipped.

### Build contests

- **At least three judges score every eligible build,** and at least one of them is independent: they don't work for Wilderack and aren't paid by us.
- **Judges score builds without seeing who made them.** Each judge scores each build from 1 to 10 on each criterion on the event page. Each criterion has a weight, and the weights add up to 100. A build's score is the average of the judges' weighted scores, and the highest scores win, in order.
- **Ties** are broken by the higher score on the first criterion listed on the event page, then by the independent judge's score, then by the build that was shared first.
- We give the judges' full names to anyone who asks at support@wilderack.com.
- The judges' scores are final, unless these rules weren't followed.

## Prizes

- **Every prize is Wilderack credit** on your account. The event page names each prize, gives its amount in US dollars, euros and pounds and its approximate retail value (ARV) in US dollars, and says how many there are.
- Some prizes are **credit worth one month of a named plan,** at that plan's monthly price. It's credit, not a plan, so nothing renews and no card is needed.
- **How credit works.** You get the amount in the currency your account pays in, or, if you haven't paid for anything yet, the currency you choose when you claim. It comes off your next Wilderack bills, including any tax on them, until it's used up. It waits on your account until you have a bill, and it doesn't expire while your account is open. If you delete your account, any unused credit goes with it.
- **Credit isn't money.** It can't be paid out, swapped for cash, sold or moved to another account. There's no cash alternative.
- If we can't give a prize as described, we give credit of the same or greater value instead.
- **Limits.** One prize per person per event. No single prize has an ARV over US$50. The prizes in all events that close in the same calendar month add up to no more than US$300 ARV. One person can win no more than US$200 ARV of prizes in a calendar year. If a win would take you past that, the prize goes to the next alternate or the next-highest build.

## If you win

- **We tell you within 3 days** after the draw or the judging, by email to your account's email address and with a notice in your panel.
- **To claim, open the notice in your panel and finish the claim within 14 days.** You confirm that you meet these rules and that you're not an excluded person, and give your full name, your country, and your state or province if you live in the US or Canada. If you live outside the US, we also ask for your postal address, which US tax law requires us to report (see [Taxes](#taxes)).
- **In Canada,** winners must correctly answer a math skill-testing question, without help, before we can award the prize.
- **If you're under 18,** your parent or guardian has to agree within the same 14 days (see [If you're under 18](#if-youre-under-18)).
- We may ask for reasonable proof that you meet these rules, such as your age or where you live. Once we've checked it, we delete it and keep only a note that we checked.
- **We apply your prize within 7 days** after your claim is complete.
- **We never ask you to pay, or for a password or card details, to claim a prize.** A message that does isn't from us. Please report it to support@wilderack.com.
- **If a prize isn't claimed,** because you don't finish your claim within 14 days, you aren't eligible, you broke these rules or a parent or guardian didn't agree in time, the prize is forfeited. It goes to the next alternate (in a giveaway) or the next-highest build (in a contest), who then has 14 days to claim. We do this up to two times for each prize. After that, the prize isn't awarded. A prize that passes to someone else may arrive more than 30 days after the event closes.
- You can turn down a prize. It then goes to the next alternate or the next-highest build.

## Winners and publicity

- **After each event, the event page shows** how many entries or builds there were and, for each winner, the state, province or country they live in. Adult winners who agree are also shown by their display name. Winning builds stay in the showcase with the credit their builder chose, which can be no name at all.
- **To show that prizes were really awarded,** anyone who asks within 3 months after an event closes can have the surname and the county, state or province of each adult winner. If you'd rather we didn't share yours, tell us when you claim or by email. We then give it only to a regulator, such as the UK's Advertising Standards Authority, if it asks. For a winner under 18, we only ever give the state, province or country.
- We never use a winner's name, picture or words in advertising without asking first, and for a winner under 18, without their parent's or guardian's agreement as well.

## Your build

- **You keep ownership** of your build and your screenshot.
- When you enter a contest, you allow Wilderack to show your build, with the credit you chose, in the showcase and in posts about the contest on our site, in the panel, on our Discord and on our social media, without payment. This lasts while your build is in the showcase. If you delete it, we take it off the showcase, though posts already made may stay up.
- You confirm that your build and screenshot are yours to share, don't break anyone else's rights, and follow our [Acceptable Use Policy](https://wilderack.com/legal/acceptable-use/) and the showcase rules.

## Fair play

We may disqualify an entry or a person, and take back a prize that hasn't been used, if someone:

- uses more than one account, bots, scripts or false details;
- tries to interfere with the draw, the judging or our service;
- buys, sells or trades entries or prizes;
- offers or asks for entries in return for a purchase, a review, an invite or anything else;
- harasses the judges, our staff or other players; or
- otherwise breaks these rules or our [Acceptable Use Policy](https://wilderack.com/legal/acceptable-use/).

Creators and players are welcome to share an event, but may never promise entries, extra chances or prizes in return for anything.

## If something goes wrong

- If fraud, a technical fault or something else outside our control stops an event running fairly, we may pause, extend or end it. We then post a notice on the event page and award the prizes by drawing or judging from the eligible entries made before the problem. If the law changes, we may end an event where it's no longer allowed.
- **We don't change an event's details once it opens,** except to fix a mistake or to follow the law, and never in a way that's worse for people who already entered. A change to these rules applies to events that open after the change.
- We aren't responsible for an entry lost because of a problem with your device or your connection.
- Nothing in these rules limits any rights you have under the law where you live.

## Taxes

- A prize may count as income where you live. You're responsible for any tax on it there.
- **In the US,** we send a tax form (Form 1099) only if what we give you in a calendar year reaches the threshold the IRS sets ($2,000 for 2026). The US$200 yearly limit on prizes keeps every winner well below it.
- **Outside the US,** US law treats a prize from a US company as US income and asks us to hold back tax on it. We pay that tax ourselves, so it never comes off your prize. We report it to the IRS with your name and address on Form 1042-S, and send you your copy by March 15 of the following year.

## Your data

- **What we use:** your account and display name, the birth year and month we already hold, your entries or builds and the judges' scores, and what you give us when you claim (your full name, country, state or province, and, outside the US, your postal address). For a winner under 18, we also use their parent's or guardian's email address and their answer.
- **Why:** to run the event, check who can enter, award prizes, stop cheating, and meet our legal duties, such as tax reports and requests for the winners list.
- Entering never signs you up for marketing email. We don't sell any of it. We share it only with Stripe, to put credit on your account, with the IRS for the tax report on winners outside the US, and with a regulator if the law requires.
- **How long:** we keep event records for 2 years after the event closes, then delete them, except tax records, which we keep for as long as US tax law requires.
- Our [Privacy Policy](https://wilderack.com/legal/privacy/) explains your rights. Questions about your data: privacy@wilderack.com.

## Complaints and the law

- Questions or complaints about an event: support@wilderack.com. We answer every one. If you live in the UK, you can also complain to the Advertising Standards Authority.
- These rules are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and of the United States. If you live in the EU, the UK or Canada, you keep the protection of your own country's consumer laws and can bring a claim in your local courts.

## Contact

Wilderack Inc., a Delaware corporation in the United States.

- Events and prizes: support@wilderack.com
- Your data: privacy@wilderack.com
- Legal questions: legal@wilderack.com
- Address: 112 Capitol Trail, Newark, DE 19711, United States

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