Elite Competitions

Most of the information of the business is visible and can be found, although the actual name of the business is hidden in the terms. Maybe this is because the real company name doesn’t sound as ‘sexy’ or roll of the tongue like Elite Competitions does, but regardless of the reason, the competition is owned and run by Hydro Solutions Fylde Ltd (a wild guess being, that the limited company originally wasn’t used for this purpose hence the name – plumbing related?).

Even though the majority of the information about the prizes and how everything works can be found quite easily… The information about the amount of available tickets is only shown as a percentage on the main page(s), but also if you were to select a specific competition. And I am not a big fan of this, as it doesn’t give the full picture of your potential odds of winning.

As an example, their main draw for 1 million just says “51% sold” … But what does that mean?

If you scroll down to the text that includes all the terms of the competition, you are able to see that it’s out of a total of 9,999,999 tickets. For transparency, I would prefer to see the actual amount of tickets available and sold. At the time of writing this review, I visited 7days Performance‘s website (as they have set the standard for transparency), and for comparison you are able to see instantly how many tickets are sold, and out of how many:

The ‘Winner’s Podium’ on Elite Competition’s website is one of the more polished ones that I have seen. You are able to easily browse previous winners, and all of the Live Draws are also linked to their YouTube page so you are able to actually see how the draw was performed. Very nice.

That being said, the winners of the Instant Wins cannot be checked here (but you are able to at least see the winning ticket numbers on your own account for the draws you have entered).

Much like with 7days Performance and Rev Comps, Elite Competitions uses lottery machines for their live draws.

I am personally a big fan of these styles of draws, as it is extremely unlikely for you to be able to fix the results of the draw (as long as you are able to clearly see that each tumbler has all the numbers, etc.). Additionally, it’ll make the whole draw a bit more entertaining as well!

The exception of course (as with many other competitions) is, the Instant Wins – where you are unable to gain much insight to how the ticket numbers were allocated and who won.

Although this process looks now quite polished and they appear to be giving out the prices out on time, it doesn’t look like this was always the case… Which makes you wonder.

Much like with other competitions, Elite Competitions runs as a ‘free prize draw’. This means that they should offer a free entry method to their competition.

In a way, it’s also refreshing to see that a competition isn’t trying to pretend to fall under the ‘skill-based’ competitions by asking silly questions (much like every other competition does currently, with the exception of BOTB and their spot the ball game that is genuinely skill-based as far as the legalities go).

The free entry method is highlighted enough to be noticeable, albeit not ‘on the same level’ as the real game is – which is a legal requirement as well.

However, once you click on the link you are taken to their terms and conditions page, which is just a lot of text and will be off-putting to most.

But in addition to this, the terms are somewhat… Interesting.

In addition to the usual terms that other competitions have, Elite Competitions stipulates that they must be sent open postcards with your details (which I’m sure is off-putting for people wanting to enter, albeit probably more practical for them).

But not only that, they reserve the right to disqualify entries (not just free entries) based on whether they feel like someone’s conduct has been contrary to the “spirit or the intention” of the competition? And also, if the entrant is “likely to post” something defamatory (as in, haven’t done the thing that will disqualify you for entering, but is likely to do it… Like an Orwellian thought-crime done by the Ghost of Christmas Past I guess?)

While this sounds very strange, the most logical explanation is that they’ve had some less-than-pleasant people to deal with – and they’ve included these kind of sentences in the terms as a way to tell such customers to go and… Well, do one.

But then again… This does give them vague rights to disqualify any entrant or winner… Which is a bit worrying. But realistically if someone were to do something dodgy, would they do it as blatantly as this? Doubt it.

Anyhoot, apart from the slightly weird terms that I pointed out – everything is pretty standard. And it does look like they should acknowledge your free entries by you being able to see them on your account, or by receiving an email. Although, in case the competitions are ‘sold out’, tough luck. (Unlike with 7days Performance‘s free entries where you get credit to use on other draws)

Elite Competitions and their improved website does provide a good track record of the winners, and they have been operating for a long time so there is indeed a track record of sorts.

Although, if we are talking generally of ‘track record’…. Having a track record with the ASA and their rulings isn’t exactly one that is favourable. 

The above ruling that was held on 3 accounts was from 2020 against Elite Competitions, but it looks like there has been further complaints even in 2025… That have been ‘informally resolved’.

While it may be the case that people sometimes complain about seemingly ‘nothing’, and especially if these reports might be prompted by the competitors… I don’t think there’s any good reason to have that many complaints brought against you that have been upheld by the officials – unless there was something wrong.