If I'm not mistaken, didn't Steam recently make all purchases from specific regions (I suppose where games are much cheaper to buy) region restricted? That might be the problem. In which case, (a) wouldn't work at all.

Yes certain regions are locked into their own region stores now but the giveaway creator seems to be from poland not sure if they have the same restrictions as BranjoHello has.
@BranjoHello add the giveaway creator on steam , find out where he purchased the key from then we can know what sort of restriction it has. And contact steamgifts regarding the matter.

Since the quake 4 giveaway went well i am guessing this is one of those retail keys that works in most regions except those that have local currency steam stores.

Steam gifts allows region restriction giveaways to be made but a proper warning should be provided to mention what region members cannot enter , in this case i am guessing the gifter did not know that it was region restricted.

I request all members from now , if you are doing a giveaway that involves a cd key rather than steam gift please mention the region restrictions in the giveaway like marci here has done.
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/steamgiftscom_gog_gift_club_v3_giveaways/post7867
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Ugg9l/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition

If you do not know if the key is restricted or not just mention in the giveaway where you got it from aka gmg,bundle etc so people entering might have a idea.
Steam gifts rules were broken but i am sure they will sort this out peacefully.

It was stated as a key, not steamgift.
Yes, steamgifts from "non-rich" countries are regionlocked (another thing to me that seems criminal).

Doesn't Steam now warn you every time when you buy a region-locked gift?
Just to be sure.

Steam does but cd keys are a different story

Next giveaway

Shadow Warrior

A great friend gifted me a copy of this for Christmas so I bought one to giveaway too.

If win just accept my friend request on Steam and I'll send you the game.

Good luck all!!

Dead State giveaway, lasts for about a week.

Key is received from the developers so it should be fine?

Interesting, according to this, looks like I'm region-locked if I purchase from Steam.

ya new steam region restrictions , your cd key should be ok if they were given out by the developers

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/0bKA7/claustrophobia-the-downward-struggle
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/mmWTJ/pixeljunk-monsters-ultimate
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/bETKG/meltdown

Winner of State of Decay is Ki11s0n3.

Congrats, buddy. Check your mail for your gift!

Some +1 :)

I managed to get a spare copy of Commando Jack, but is an indiegala link, It has my email associated with it, but the game is not activated, can that link be gifted and activated by other user? If so, I will give it away (will be my first giveaway on SG and don't want to end up with an invalid thing).

If you see it in your Indie Gala account, you should be able to convert that game as a Indie Gala Gift Link with a click over "Gift" or a gift symbol (I can't remember exactly). And is that Gift Link the one you can gift. You only need to copy the link and send it to your friend or person you want to gift it. If it was already used, the name of the Steam User Account who activated the game appears instead (and that's also the way you can confirm who has activated that game).

I'm just came home from my holiday vacation, and I have a small present to one of you.
It's a giveaway of POSTAL 2
I know it's not much, but with this new steam regional restrictions policy I am limited in choices.

Here is how it appears: http://i.imgur.com/slMuzZW.png