Participation in the Competition is strictly prohibited from any jurisdiction restricted by the Operator, applicable law, sanctions programs, regulatory requirements, or third-party service provider restrictions.
Restricted jurisdictions include any country, territory, region, or location identified by relevant third-party service providers as blocked, restricted, frontend-restricted, close-only, sanctioned, unavailable, or otherwise ineligible for related prediction market services.
As of 12 May 2026, participation is prohibited from the following countries and territories:
- —Australia
- —Belgium
- —Belarus
- —Burundi
- —Central African Republic
- —Congo (Kinshasa)
- —Cuba
- —Germany
- —Ethiopia
- —France
- —United Kingdom
- —Iran
- —Iraq
- —Italy
- —North Korea
- —Lebanon
- —Libya
- —Myanmar
- —Nicaragua
- —Netherlands
- —Russia
- —Somalia
- —South Sudan
- —Sudan
- —Syria
- —United States Minor Outlying Islands
- —United States
- —Venezuela
- —Yemen
- —Zimbabwe
- —Any other country, territory, or region designated as blocked, restricted, frontend-restricted, close-only, sanctioned, unavailable, or otherwise ineligible by the Operator or relevant third-party service providers.
Participation is also prohibited from the following restricted regions:
- —Ontario, Canada
- —Crimea, Ukraine
- —Donetsk, Ukraine
- —Luhansk, Ukraine
- —Any other region designated as blocked, restricted, frontend-restricted, close-only, sanctioned, unavailable, or otherwise ineligible by the Operator or relevant third-party service providers.
For operational purposes, the Operator may use the Polymarket geoblock API, internal compliance systems, IP geolocation, KYC information, sanctions screening, device information, and other reasonable controls to determine whether a participant is eligible to enter, participate, trade, remain eligible, or receive a prize.
The Polymarket geoblock API and related platform availability checks may be treated by the Operator as an authoritative operational source for determining whether related prediction market services are available from a participant's detected location. However, passing a geoblock check does not guarantee eligibility, and failing a geoblock check may result in ineligibility, disqualification, account restrictions, or prize forfeiture.
Participants are prohibited from using VPNs, proxies, onion routers, remote desktops, false location data, false identities, or any other method to circumvent geographic restrictions, compliance controls, or platform restrictions.
Participants represent and warrant that they are not:
- —located in any restricted, sanctioned, embargoed, or otherwise prohibited jurisdiction;
- —included on any sanctions or restricted persons list;
- —acting on behalf of any prohibited person or entity; or
- —attempting to circumvent geographic, compliance, platform, or regulatory restrictions.
The Operator reserves the right to update restricted jurisdictions at any time and to make final eligibility determinations based on applicable law, regulatory requirements, third-party service restrictions, sanctions obligations, platform risk controls, and Competition integrity.