Just to inform you all: there’s a cool contest going on the official Spore page:

Create a milestone creature and win cool Spore™ prizes!
We just love all the creatures our community are sharing on Sporepedia. As a reward, we’re going to give cool Spore prizes to the authors of ‘milestone’ numbered creations all the way up to our 4 Millionth Sporepedia creation.

Spore bumper stickers for every 50,000th creation
Exclusive Spore t-shirt for every 100,000th creation
Grand prize for the 4 Millionth creation - a PC and monitor
So fire up your imagination and Share more awesome creatures. You could be the next winner!

Sounds cool doesn’t it?

However:

Eligibility. This Sweepstakes is only open to residents of the 50 United States (excluding Rhode Island), the District of Columbia, and Canada (except residents of Quebec) who are 13 years of age or older at time Sweepstakes begins and who had Internet access as of August 1st 2008.

Sigh: EA, what was the biggest gaming market again where most money’s being made?

UPDATE: Editor in Chief Gil made a very astute observation. According to the rules, Spore itself cannot be used to enter creatures into the contest:

To create and share creatures in the Spore Milestone Creature promotion (the “Sweepstakes”), you will need Spore™ Creature Creator or the Spore™ Creature Creator Trial Edition free demo (hereinafter, “Software”).

Notice that Spore itself isn’t in there, even though the contest runs:

between 12:01 am (PT) August 14, 2008 and 11:59 pm (PT) November 30, 2008 or until four (4) million creatures have been Shared, whichever comes first