Remember F1 compo Kenny ? With the ASUS MARS cards, the Americans claimed it was a paper launch and only the happy few got cards to bench on. We provided a link from a few euro shops that had the cards really in stock in their warehouse...
And if released limited availability is what ? 20pcs 5 pcs ? 1pc ?
Talk about faking cards on shelves... Didn't eVGA played the ball with putting their classified cards available for sale a few hours before the end of that particular stage ? Didn't see any card in stock in any online shop...
Loopholes will be part of any competitive hobby, sad but true... Also limited hardware like Expander can easily be avoided as there are plenty of quad SLI boards out. Without adding the extra difficulty of a daughter card.
Specific Region launch also seems far too hard to lay down in rules.
Who decides if a particular product is really worth al the pain and aggrevation ? Is it required to set world records scores ?
It's already pretty complex to define all this. Adding more rules will make it even more complex and even then people will find "legal" ways of circumventing them...