MUMBAI: Indian Premier League 2020 title sponsor Dream11 has declared that players from Andhra Pradesh and five other states will not be able to “join” paid contests on India’s leading online fantasy gaming platform.
A notice put out by the company reads: “Due to recent changes to the Gaming Act in the State of Andhra Pradesh, users from Andhra Pradesh will not be able to join paid contests on Dream11. The laws in Assam, Odisha, Telangana, Nagaland and Sikkim are unclear on games of skills may be played for a fee. Hence, residents of these states are also not permitted to play pay-to-play formats of any online games.”
Translated, this means that fantasy players who are based in the six states manetioned will not be able to join contests where they have to pay money to compete. However they can participate in free contests.
It is not clear when Dream 11 put out this notice, but on Tuesday the Gulte website reported that there were users who were finding the same notice in their app. These users were in Andhra Pradesh.
Gulte reported: “From the beginning of the current season of IPL, there were reports in the media that the AP government will also place a ban on the app as Telangana already did a couple of years ago. However, a lot of people started playing fantasy cricket already by loading their wallets with money. This sudden move has now pushed them into a dilemma state, worrying about the money in the wallets.”
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