Thanks. Having created contests for my business, I am familiar with the skills exclusion, but always understood the skill in question was required to be that of

Thanks. Having created contests for my business, I am familiar with the skills exclusion, but always understood the skill in question was required to be that of the contest participants. This is somewhat implied by your citation: >...entries must be skill-based and winners must be chosen based on merit. In the scenario above, it takes skill but not the participants' skill, so it is essentially as out of the control of the participants as which number is drawn by a ball machine. Now, if the skill in question is that of picking a winning sports team, then were talking about gambling which, of course, has its own set of rules and would be a stretch to apply here in any case. Overall, it seems this contest would be on shaky legal ground one way or another.