Editing Competition (section)

== Consumer competitions – games of luck or skill ==
{{Further|Game of chance}}
In Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, competitions or lotto are the equivalent of what are commonly known as [[sweepstakes]] in the United States. The correct technical name for Australian consumer competitions is a trade promotion lottery or lotto.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trade promotion lotteries |url=http://www.olgr.nsw.gov.au/promos_trade_promos.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729002216/http://www.olgr.nsw.gov.au/promos_trade_promos.asp |archive-date=2013-07-29 |access-date=2013-08-02 |website=Trade & Investment |publisher=NSW Government Office of Liquor, Gaming & Racing}}</ref>

People that enjoy entering competitions are known as compers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sear |first=Cynthia |date=2022-08-25 |title=On Becoming Unstuck: Teleoaffective Tactics, Thrills, and the Serial Entrants of Promotional Competitions in Australia |journal=Ethnos |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=573–592 |doi=10.1080/00141844.2022.2114517 |s2cid=251873459 |issn=0014-1844|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sear |first=Cynthia |date=2022-11-20 |title=It's such a rush: the secret lives of compers |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/20/its-such-a-rush-the-secret-lives-of-compers}}</ref>