>A Competitor is not eligible for this Competition if he/she is a resident of the Quebec province of Canada, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan or Syria. >Quebec? Why? >Basically, the contest organizer must give a certain percentage of the winnings to the Quebec government. So for a $30,000 prize, the government might ask for 5%, so the organizers would need to pay out $31,500 if a Quebecois wins. I live in Quebec, and I am really ticked off by this, because I can't enter TopCoder, Google Code Jam, or any number of interesting contests.