Thank you Youmukon for taking your time to answer and clear this up for us a bit!

Quote Originally Posted by Youmukon View Post
Some of you may be wondering “How come Garuda’s contest was open to everyone and not this one”. As Garuda’s contest was based on something that took place solely in-game (the necessary time to defeat Garuda), we were able to open it to all countries. As the nature of this contest is different (forum based only), we had no other choice to restrict it to countries my colleague Sasunaich listed earlier.
For me it seems the simplest solution to this would be to add some kind of an in game element to all forum contests so that everyone would be able to take part in them. Using the current contest as an example, players could take an in game screenshot related to their "wish" and post it in the contest thread.

I still don't quite understand how the Garuda contest took place in game though...