We decided to introduce the age minimum recently because there’s a lot of logistical and legal work we‘d have to do to allow minors to attend in a way that’s by the book. We’ve only had interest from a handful of minors in the past, so decided this wasn’t worth the trade-off and that we should just not allow U18s to attend for now.
We recognize this is annoying and it wasn’t a decision we were happy about making. I hope one day we’ll have enough capacity to allow minors to attend.
For extra context: the amount of logistical/legal work you need to do depends a lot between jurisdictions, and it’s a lot more work in the UK compared to the US for example.
Was the 18+ requirement recently added? I know a couple under-18s that were at EAGx in previous years
We decided to introduce the age minimum recently because there’s a lot of logistical and legal work we‘d have to do to allow minors to attend in a way that’s by the book. We’ve only had interest from a handful of minors in the past, so decided this wasn’t worth the trade-off and that we should just not allow U18s to attend for now.
We recognize this is annoying and it wasn’t a decision we were happy about making. I hope one day we’ll have enough capacity to allow minors to attend.
For extra context: the amount of logistical/legal work you need to do depends a lot between jurisdictions, and it’s a lot more work in the UK compared to the US for example.