Yes ... Not to mention the:"you have to share your room with another sponsored participant" and "sorry extra-european winners but we realized there's too many of you so we have no cash to sponsor your flights and we have to approve your super-mega-giga-economic-nocheckedinluggages-coach-journeys and handover sponsorship to Linux Foundation" and "may my "partner of life" share my same room given she's paying for her flight and any extra fees for the room?" - "Yes you can, you need to pay 2 extra nights" (which is reasonable and sharable BTW and IMHO) - "Why did you register a not-sponsored guest in your room" - "Because you told me!" - "Oh sorry, you are right, disregard our complaint" and My bank is gonna charge me extra costs if I receive payments/reimburse from abroad (>30Euro) Surely not a valuable medal for your image here my dear sPONSORS NOT!