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TechPowerUp x Fractal Giveaway: Bring Home a Refine Gaming Chair or a North XL Case!

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TechPowerUp partners with Fractal to bring our readers from the US and Canada a chance to bring home one of Fractal's best pieces of engineering and industrial design. We have two prizes—the first one is a Fractal Refine gaming chair. The winner gets to choose the trim they want—dark or light mesh; or dark or light fabric. The prize is valued at $550. The second winner gets a Fractal North XL spacious gaming PC case, and choose from its various trims—Charcoal and Walnut or White and Oak, TG or Mesh side panel. The case is valued at $180. To participate, simply fill up a short form to help us get back to you, if you've won. We will not share your data otherwise. You can increase your chances of winning by sharing the Giveaway on your social media accounts. The winners are chosen at random.

For more information, and to participate, visit this page.



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Nooooo, not World-Wide. :*(
 
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The north is a very nice case. Anyway good luck to anyone - I'm not allowed to participate.
 

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The Era 2 looks pretty cool!

This chair looks super sweet though, my back would love it.
 
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Have the Fractal meshify XL , hope for the chair !
 
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That case is HUGE!! :laugh:
Or is it a chair for ants?
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I clicked it once
That's once too much for you! :roll:

I like the look of the North, but I don't see anything XL about it. The regular North should be called the North Compact and the North XL just North.
The Meshify 2 XL dwarfs the North XL
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I AM DISAPPOINT!

(with Fractal being a Swedish company and all)
 
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While I can't speak for TechPowerUp, Anandtech always cited legal and regularity reasons for not making available in more countries, never mind worldwide.
It requires so consideration but other giveaways were available. In practice noone is going to enforce. For example the netherlands, only thing you really have to consider with giveaways is people under 18 need permission from their parents, which can be a simple disclaimer. giveaways above 4.5k euros bit more consideration but those are rare.

Most likely just a choice by fractal
 
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Thanks for nothing Fractal, too cheap to make this global.
 
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