I'm glad I missed the whole countdown timer, but also happy to see that they sincerely apologized after something like this. Looking forward to an international Bazaar event! It would be cool to get something from one of those.

How does that logic work?
There are plenty of people who don't understand simple tort law, or adverse dispossession rules. People have trouble with leases, wills, contracts of all sorts--that's why we have people who go to school for a really long time to figure out laws.
Sometimes, even then, we have to have arbitrators come in and explain why two people took the same legal text and found ways to interpret it and argue it in opposing ways.
It's why here in the U.S. we have a bicameral body that often takes umbrage at the way one group interprets the same documents, policies, people and lobbies.
Laws aren't simple no matter where you are--especially if they're in French.

Here in New Zealand all Legislation both pariliamentry and subordinate is easily aceesible online. The application of these laws by judges is also accessable online (except routine cases like those in district court).
Thus a member of a company can get a good idea of how a competition could be created and be within the laws of their area. As bioware is part of EA they would have access to a massive legal department, thus could get them to focus on particulars of the competition.
As their are so many countries I understand that competitions cannot apply to all. but considering Bioware is a Canadian company and even before the aqcuisition a rather large one, they would have had competitions before in Canada and therefore would likely know these laws.