So a few minutes ago, I was checking my hotmail email account, which I barely touch, when I come across a Star Wars newsletter linking me to a contest starwars.com is having regarding the naming of their new Sith Lord. Eagerly, I type in the name that has, in my mind, always been my Sith name, which I won't divulge here, and am thrilled to have entered the contest just before the deadline.

Then I check the terms and conditions, and wouldn't you know it - I'm disqualified. Why? I'm British.

Yes, it seems that Lucasarts have decided not to allow entrants from any country besides the United States, for reasons that escape me - the prize is nothing more than having your Sith name in a book. Hardly a prize that will cost loads of money to ship cross-continent.

So I'm very angry and have sent emails to whomever I can lay my hands on who might have some control over this - which turns out to be very few people indeed.



I'm mad.

CA