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I mean, if you want to organize a non-profit charity and get communities involved in it, and have P99 as your base of operations, then go for it and post your own links on these forums after talking to the staff about it.

When you complete the paperwork that Extra Life has done for tax breaks for participants etc, sure, I think the staff will legitimize your raffle.

Though, I think if you defraud the community in the process and/or rig the raffle, you will end up banned and you won't get anything out of it anyways. There's proceedings you have to go through to do a raffle; you can't just post on the forums saying "I'm giving out items to those who donate to my cause". It's a lot more complicated and the staff has to be given notice and reasonable cause to support your goals.

If it's going to your personal paypal and then to a charity, you can bet there's no chance in hell that it will be approved. That's why this Extra Life thing is so great; norova didn't see any money directly, only on his charity page where he can approve it. He can't physically touch the funds.

I'm sure if you make your own raffle with items to give away, and notify the staff ahead of time, they'd approve it. Extra Life operates year round. Example, If TMO wants to raffle their guild bank off for charity, and their guild leaders approve it, I don't see anything stopping it provided they go ahead and mention it to staff and their guild members beforehand.

Actually, I think it'd be cool if every guild on the server raffled off half of their guild banks. It'd be pretty neat.