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title: "Regions and Circuits"
url: https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/
description: "How regional circuits are commonly delimited and why the boundaries move."
---

# Regions and Circuits

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Regional circuits are drawn along licensing lines more often than geographical ones. A single market with its own regulator will frequently be treated as a circuit in its own right, while several smaller neighbouring markets are grouped together. The entries below set out the groupings most often seen, and note what tends to unsettle them.

[A](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-a)

B

[C](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-c)

[D](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-d)

[E](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-e)

F

G

H

[I](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-i)

[J](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-j)

K

[L](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-l)

M

[N](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-n)

[O](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-o)

[P](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-p)

Q

[R](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-r)

[S](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-s)

[T](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-t)

U

[V](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-v)

[W](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-w)

X

Y

Z

## Entries in this branch (4)

- European circuitA dense set of separately licensed markets, which is why European slates so often carry per-market divisions on top of the general ones.
- North American circuitOrganised state by state and province by province, so circuit membership tends to be described by jurisdiction rather than by country.
- Asia-Pacific circuitA wide grouping spanning very different regulatory positions, from established venue markets to jurisdictions with no licensed online channel.
- Latin American circuitA grouping that has been redrawn repeatedly as individual markets moved from unregulated activity to formal licensing.

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- [Award Categories](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/) (6)
- [Judging and Criteria](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/) (6)
- [Industry Sectors](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/) (6)
- [Terminology and Process](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/) (15)

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