Jusr my two cents, this is a COUNTRY cup, and then any HW that's allowed should be available in most countries that participate. I haven't checked all other countries, if it's totally random whether these can be bought I'd say it's more fair for the competition to not allow 1155. if it's just Norway... then it's our problem.
Looks like there are some chips available in Germany, but not 2600k according to idealo.de. Had a quick look at a couple of UK webshops as well, no 2600k in the price lists (but a few other chips). Kinda lame, as it's the only chip that's useful... It's rather unfair if the results are dependant on release dates rather than skill. One compromise could be to allow any other chips in that series, that's fair enough right? Those are at least available in more countries.