Prizes for the North Americans: Just makes me want it, even if I normally would not.
Or, tempts me into wanting of making my own community contest, for everybody *but* those from the Northern Part of America. Then I realise, that would be cruel, like the 'mega-corp' Joystiq is :)

Um, they're made in Pakistan. Now get back to work and serve my poutine.

The weird thing is that on rare occasions, we get BETTER competitions. There was one xbox one a few months back for some new game (maybe gears 2) where the american contest has a prize of a few thousand bucks and a TV whereas ours had more money, a tv and a car. Thats the good kind of discrimination but, to quote bender, this is the worst kind of discrimination, the kind that affects me!
Well except that I don't want the game anyway so I don't really care, especially with semi-regular contests on GOG that members have a far higher chance of winning because of less exposure...