Non GamStop Casino UK Sites That Sit Outside the Scheme

A non GamStop casino in the UK is an online casino with no Gambling Commission licence, so it is not connected to GamStop Online and its players are not covered by British protections. A GamStop exclusion runs for its full term and then stays in place until the person contacts GamStop to remove it. Offshore sites are a separate market, not an exit.

The phrase sounds like a loophole. It is not. It is a description of a licensing fact, and the licensing fact is the whole story.

There are 614,738 people on the GamStop register as of 16 July 2026, and more than one in two of them chose the maximum five-year exclusion. That is a large, deliberate, financially painful decision, taken by people who mostly meant it. And every one of them will, sooner or later, see an advert for a casino that proudly is not on GamStop.

I have spent years reading the paperwork behind those adverts: the licence certificates that turn out to be another operator's, the withdrawal terms that only appear when the money is ready to leave, the "no UK licence required" reassurance that lifts a clause straight out of a regulator's warning notice. Some of these operators are competent businesses running a legal trade in jurisdictions that permit it. Others are not, and the difference is visible to anyone who knows which four or five checks to run before depositing.

This page is about that difference. It is about the size of the offshore share of British online casino play, what the Gambling Commission is doing about it, where a self-exclusion really ends, and how a careful player reads a licence seal, a payout clause and a bonus term without needing to trust a review site. No brands, no affiliate links, no nonsense.

Non GamStop Casinos UK What They Are and What They Are Not

The term describes every operator that is not in the national online self-exclusion scheme because it holds no Gambling Commission licence. Two things follow automatically, and both are worth saying slowly.

The first is that the Commission's remit stops at the border. The Gambling Commission states plainly that it is illegal for anyone to offer commercial gambling services to consumers in Great Britain without a Commission licence, and that this applies even where the operator holds a licence in another jurisdiction. Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 carries up to 51 weeks' imprisonment, a fine at level 5, or both. That is a duty on the operator. It is not a rule that puts a British player in the dock for opening an account.

The second is that offshore sites that hold no UK licence are not connected to GamStop and are not covered by it, since the scheme's obligations apply only to UKGC-licensed operators. That statement is reported by trade and press sources rather than a single primary regulator page, though it follows directly from GamStop's own terms of use. So: the scheme, which the industry generally types "gamestop", reaches the licensed half of the market and nothing else.

Who is actually licensed in Great Britain

A British-licensed casino must be part of the multi-operator self-exclusion scheme as a condition of its licence, under Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice social responsibility code provision 3.5.5. That has been true since 31 March 2020, and the Commission proved it meant it in April 2020 by suspending the licences of two operators that missed the deadline.

That one condition is the reason a non GamStop casino cannot also be a British-licensed casino. Participation in the scheme is mandatory, not optional, and a licence condition is not a marketing preference. When a site advertises its absence from the scheme as a feature, it is simultaneously advertising the absence of a Gambling Commission licence.

What British licensing adds

British licence conditions are unusually specific, and they show up in the two places players feel most: money and disputes.

• Licence condition 17.1.1 says a withdrawal request must not trigger a demand for extra information if the licensee could reasonably have asked earlier.
• Reverse withdrawals have been banned outright since 31 October 2021 under remote technical standard 14B: once a withdrawal is requested, the customer must not be offered the chance to deposit those funds back.
• Licence condition 4.1.1 requires customer funds to be held in a separate client bank account, with one of three published insolvency ratings disclosed in the terms.
• Licence condition 7.1.1 requires terms to be fair within the meaning of the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
• Social responsibility code 5.1.1 caps wagering requirements on bonus funds at ten times, since 19 January 2026, and bans promotions that mix two or more product types.

None of that travels with the player. An offshore operator is bound by its own terms and by whatever the licensing authority in its jurisdiction actually enforces, which is a very different standard of scrutiny.

The size of the offshore market

Nobody has a clean number, and anyone claiming one should be treated carefully. The Commission's own estimate, published 5 November 2026, is that 0.6 per cent of the whole population including non-gamblers engaged with an illegal gambling website in the previous four weeks, rising to 2.5 per cent among those who had gambled online in that period. H2 Gambling Capital puts the amount staked with illegal operators in the UK at £16.6 billion in 2025, up from about £5 billion in 2019.

Those two figures do not have to agree. They measure different things by different methods, and the Commission's October 2024 methodology openly admits it cannot see activity hidden behind a VPN. What both say is that the offshore market is not a fringe curiosity. It is a few per cent of a very large number, and a few per cent of British gambling is a great deal of money.

Best Non GamStop Casinos UK, Read by Licence Rather Than Brand

There is no ranking here, because ranking by brand is what affiliate sites do and it tells a reader nothing about risk. The honest way to compare a non GamStop online casino is by the licence behind it and the enforcement that licence attracts. Here is the same comparison, by jurisdiction.

Read the table down, not across. The first row is the only one where a British player has a regulator, a statutory scheme and an ombudsman-adjacent dispute route. The Curaçao row is the one I would linger on: the annual B2C cost of EUR 47,450 is affordable for a serious operation and trivial for a fly-by-night one, and the regulator's own notice of 7 October 2026 says its previous online portal will not return to service and that the digital licence seal may be affected by the transition. A licence certificate that cannot be verified from a working register is not much of a certificate.

The Anjouan row deserves the same frankness. Anjouan Gaming says a licence is not a universal authorisation to operate anywhere, and no licensing authority can exempt an operator from local law. That is a refreshingly honest sentence — and it is, read properly, an admission that the licence does nothing for a British consumer.

Payout terms worth timing before you deposit. Offshore conditions that build in delay are legal there and common. A term permitting one withdrawal at a time, manual review of every fifth or tenth request, or an internal "pending" window before funds leave are all standard-issue friction. The Commission's own position is that friction belongs at deposit, not at withdrawal, and that where there are no regulatory concerns there is no valid reason to delay a payout. That position binds licensed operators. It binds nobody else.

Evaluating Casino Performance and Withdrawal Data

Here is the checkable benchmark. The Commission's data covering June to September 2024, cited in a speech on 6 November 2025, records 44.2 million withdrawals by customers of large online operators. Of those, 96.3 per cent cleared automatically, 3.5 per cent cleared within 24 hours, and 0.1 per cent took up to 48 hours.

Now set that against the complaint record. Withdrawals were the number one topic raised by consumers with the Commission's contact centre, and by July 2024 the Commission was still receiving around 2,000 complaints a year about withdrawal delays. Complaints coded "Withdrawals and/or financial transactions" fell from 2,416 in the year to December 2022 to 1,791 in the year to December 2025 — a real improvement, and still 1,791 people angry enough to write to a regulator.

Both things are true at once: the system pays fast nearly all the time, and the tail is where the trouble lives.

Turn that tail into numbers and it stops being abstract. Second-line disputes reached the ADR providers as follows.

Note the last column. A deposit-and-withdrawal dispute that reaches ADR in the British system is decided in the consumer's favour somewhere between one time in eight and one time in six. That is not a damning figure; it is the honest one, and it reflects that most disputes are about terms the player did not read.

And note what makes a dispute admissible at all. Of 499 invalid eCOGRA disputes, 361 — 72.3 per cent — had not been through the operator's own complaints procedure first. A player who shouts on social media instead of opening a formal ticket has, in effect, thrown the case away.

There is no equivalent scoreboard offshore. When Anjouan lists its approved ADR providers — EGIS ADR, Axion ADR, iGaming ADR and an operator — it is at least pointing somewhere. When Curaçao's verification portal is offline and Costa Rica offers no regime at all, there is nowhere to point.

Five tips, and what each one actually buys

Tips are cheap. Here is what the ordinary ones are worth.

1. Check the licence register, not the footer badge. Go to the regulator's own register and confirm the entity, the licence type and the exact domain. This buys certainty. A seal is a picture; a register entry is a record.
2. Read the withdrawal section before the bonus section. Look for caps, one-at-a-time rules, review triggers and a stated processing window. This buys the number that decides whether the money is really yours.
3. Time a small withdrawal first. Make the first cash-out modest. This buys evidence: how long the pending state lasts, and whether documents are suddenly requested at that point.
4. Decide whether British protections matter to you. Segregated funds with a published insolvency rating, the ten-times wagering cap and ADR access exist only under a Gambling Commission licence. This buys an honest comparison rather than a hopeful one.
5. Read the terms as a contract, because that is what they are. The CMA's position is that consumers are entitled to deposited money, winnings from money deposited and gambled, and bonus winnings where conditions are met. Offshore, that principle is a term in a document, not a right you can enforce from Britain.

The fourth tip is the one people skip, and it is the one that decides everything else. A player who has chosen an offshore operator has chosen the absence of a complaints route, on purpose or by accident. The Commission itself is clear that it is a regulator and not an ombudsman: it cannot resolve individual complaints or get anyone's money back.

How Long a Self-Exclusion Holds, and Why It Cannot Be Undone Early

This is the section I would read twice.

Registration takes a few minutes. It can take up to 24 hours for the block to become effective — a window that catches a surprising number of people who register at midnight. The exclusion is set for six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal. The block itself covers every online gambling company licensed in Great Britain, and operators must check their entire customer base against the register at least every 24 hours, a requirement introduced in April 2020 which also stopped registered people receiving direct marketing.

Then comes the part that surprises almost everyone who did not read the terms.

Once registered, you cannot cancel or deactivate during the exclusion period. The exclusion stays in place after the end of the chosen period unless you contact GamStop to remove it. Not "usually". Not "in practice". That is the design, and the scheme's 2025 annual report devotes a whole section to its refusal to remove registrations before the chosen term ends. Auto-renewal can only be switched off during the final six months of a five-year term, and it can otherwise continue for up to four further five-year periods. If a person never deactivates, GamStop holds the data through a further automatic seven-year self-exclusion period during which operators are told the individual was previously excluded.

Set that against the choices people actually make. In 2025, 29 per cent chose six months, 24 per cent chose a year, 25 per cent chose five years and 22 per cent chose auto-renewal. As of July 2026, more than one in two of the 614,738 people on the register had opted for the maximum five-year exclusion. A 29 per cent minority pick the shortest term and then discover that the shortest term is still a term.

The first time, and every time after

The mechanics do not change. The register is checked at sign-up and at login, continuously, by every licensed operator. There is no useful distinction between a first attempt and a fiftieth: the check is the same check.

Which is precisely why the offshore pitch sounds like relief. It is not. An offshore casino does not have a magic exemption from knowing who its customers are; it has no obligation to ask GamStop at all. The exclusion term runs its course regardless of where the person plays, and the register entry stays in place until they contact GamStop. Nothing an offshore site does changes that, and no offshore site can shorten it.

Warning signs in the pitch itself

• Advertising the absence of a licence as an advantage, rather than discussing which licence the operator holds.
• A seal that does not redirect to the regulator's own verification page, or that resolves to a different domain name from the one being visited. The Curaçao Gaming Authority is blunt on this: a mismatched certificate behind a seal should be treated as unauthorised or fraudulent.
• Deposit incentives aimed at a specific group of people who are trying not to gamble.
• Terms collecting every complaint, wagering restriction and "abuse" definition into one discretionary clause — the opposite of what British guidance requires.
• Any suggestion, explicit or implied, that playing offshore is a way round a self-exclusion. In Kahnawà:ke's rules, a player who breaches a self-exclusion prohibition forfeits funds deposited or won to a third-party charity. Offshore regulators are not uniformly laissez-faire about this; they are simply not yours.

Questions About Well Known Casino Brand Statistics

Every so often a site gets a search surge from people looking for specific operator statistics alongside the words "non GamStop". The two names that show up most in this cluster are All British Casino, which is among the seven websites operated by one licensee, and Betfair. Both statistics questions really have one answer, and it is a structural one: a well-known casino brand is a licensed brand, and a licensed brand cannot be non GamStop.

So the name-plus-"statistics" search is a category error. The useful statistic is not the operator's, it is the regulator's.

L & L Europe is the clearest illustration. On 21 October 2026 the Commission announced that the company would pay £900,000 in a regulatory settlement for failures including unnecessarily delaying consumer withdrawals. The withdrawal-specific failures included a term stating customers could request only one withdrawal at a time and could not request another until the original was authorised — found unfair under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 — and manual review of every fifth or tenth withdrawal for some customers, which led to extra information being demanded before processing.

Every element of that is a clause an offshore site could carry tomorrow without any regulator raising an eyebrow. The reason it cost £900,000 is that a British licence makes such a clause actionable. That is the statistic worth remembering: enforcement is the product you buy with a licence.

The same logic applies to bonus terms. One licensee was fined £170,000 in July 2025 for failures including a term giving the operator sole discretion to close accounts or forfeit winnings. The Commission consulted on wagering requirements of 1, 5 or 10 times and settled on 10, noting that some licensees were applying up to 60 times. Offshore multipliers typically run higher still — 35x to 50x on welcome offers and 40x to 60x on no-deposit offers, with cashout caps of €50 to €100 — and there is no cap to appeal to.

One more number, because it reframes the whole subject. Across April 2025 to March 2026, the Commission commenced one prosecution in the entire year. Enforcement against unlicensed operators is overwhelmingly administrative: cease and desist notices, registrar referrals, search removals, and reporting payment transaction data to the Visa Operator Scheme. Since April 2024 the Illegal Markets team issued 3,140 cease and desist and disruption notices and secured 287,961 URL removals. That is disruption, not prosecution — and disruption is slower, messier and less satisfying than a penalty notice.

Five Signs an Offshore Operator Can Be Trusted

Trust here is not a feeling. It is a set of observable facts, and each one has a quick check.

A licence you can verify in the regulator's own register

The single most useful test. The Curaçao Gaming Authority issues a Certificate of Operation Seal only to B2C operators and only for an approved, registered player-facing domain, and clicking that seal must redirect to cert.cga.cw. If the seal differs in design, colour or format, the site is not authorised. If the certificate behind it names a different domain, the site is displaying another operator's certificate. Anjouan certificates carry a unique licence number and a QR code linking to the public register, and Anjouan Gaming says plainly that certificates which cannot be verified through that register should not be relied on.

Quick check: click the seal and read where you land and what it names.

A company name and a real registered office

A licence is issued to a legal entity, not to a website. Find the entity in the terms, then match it to the licence register. An operator that will not name the licence-holder, or that names one entity in the footer and another in the terms, has told you something useful.

Quick check: search the terms page for "licensed by" and confirm the company appears on the register.

Withdrawal terms with no delay built in

The best predictor of a bad payout experience is a bad payout clause. Look for per-withdrawal caps, one-at-a-time restrictions, discretionary review triggers, a stated pending period and a maximum processing window. On the British side, licence condition 17.1.1 forbids demanding documents at withdrawal that could reasonably have been requested earlier, and maximum withdrawal limits on a deposit balance are prohibited outright — the Commission's own example of a banned term is "You may withdraw up to £50 per day and up to £500 per week".

Quick check: search the terms for "withdraw", "limit" and "processing" and count the restrictions.

Bonus terms that state the number, in the document

A wagering requirement should be a figure, attached to a base, with a stated game-contribution table and a time limit. Under social responsibility code 5.1.1 a British licensee cannot exceed ten times, cannot mix product types in one incentive, and must make significant conditions transparently and prominently available — for online ads, in full and no further than one click away. Offshore, Ignition's published chart gives slots 100 per cent, table games 20 per cent, video poker and blackjack 10 per cent, roulette and baccarat 5 per cent and craps, Hot Drop Jackpots and live dealer 0 per cent. That chart is honest and it is not generous. A site with no such chart has no contribution rule, which means the rule is whatever suits it later.

Quick check: find the contribution table and the maximum bet during wagering before claiming anything.

A named dispute route with published outcomes

A real dispute process has a name, a free route for the consumer and a track record. ADR providers will not accept complaints about customer service, and a consumer must usually have gone through the operator's own procedure first. Some offshore regimes do require this: Anjouan requires licensees to designate an approved ADR provider, to publish its details, and to resolve complaints within 30 days before escalation, with EGIS ADR, Axion ADR, iGaming ADR and an operator currently approved. Kahnawà:ke employs a full-time Dispute Resolution Officer.

Quick check: find the ADR or dispute provider named in the terms, then confirm it appears on the regulator's own list.

How to Check an Offshore Casino in Six Steps

Ordinary checks, done in the order that saves the most time.

1. Establish the licensing status and confirm it in the regulator's register. Do this before anything else, because a licence that fails this test makes every later step pointless. The Gambling Commission's advice to consumers is to click through to the public register and check that the site's activities and domain names match what is recorded.
2. Confirm the licence-holding entity and that the domain is covered. A licence certificate is not interchangeable with a certificate of operation, and each is issued for a purpose. A licence held by a company that does not operate the site you are looking at is the oldest trick in the book, and the Curaçao authority now treats the mismatched-domain case as evidence of a fraudulent site.
3. Read the withdrawal clause against the payment method. Payments often move faster than terms suggest: Faster Payments clears over 90 per cent of transactions in under 2 seconds, Visa Direct's Fast Funds is real time with funds typically available within 30 minutes, and Jeton's UK local bank transfer withdrawal is quoted at 0 to 30 minutes with limits of £10 to £10,000. None of that helps if the operator's own pending window sits in the way. Card withdrawals through the Visa or Mastercard rails are quoted at 0 to 7.5 per cent by Neteller, and Skrill and Neteller both charge 2.80 per cent for a bank withdrawal with a minimum of around EUR 3.50.
4. Check the customer-funds statement. A remote operator holding customer funds must keep them in a separate client bank account or accounts, separate from its own business accounts, and must disclose one of three ratings — not protected, medium protection or high protection — in its terms. Being in a client account is not a guarantee of recovery if the business fails, and operators are legally allowed to hold customer money in overseas bank accounts. Read the rating, not the reassurance.
5. Read the bonus clause as a whole document rather than a headline number. A 25× requirement means nothing without the base it multiplies, the contribution table, the maximum bet during wagering, the cashout cap and the time limit. BlueChip Casino, for example, states that a deposit bonus turns on the bonus amount alone, that winnings from bonus funds are capped at 300 per cent of the credited bonus amount with the excess voided, and that bets above €5 are rejected while wagering. Every one of those clauses can cost more than the bonus is worth.
6. Decide, deliberately, what you are giving up. Segregated funds, the ten-times wagering cap, ADR access, the ban on reverse withdrawals and the identity-check timing rules are British licence conditions. They are not universal consumer rights. If the operator is not licensed in Great Britain, the Commission says it is illegal for them to offer gambling services here, and its remit covers only websites that hold a Commission licence. That is the trade being made, and it should be made knowingly.

Where to Get Help, and Why the Excluded Are Targeted

The Gambling Commission issued an industry warning notice on 20 January 2025 about casino games supplied by licensed operators appearing on unlicensed websites available to British consumers, noting that such sites often target customers who have self-excluded via GamStop. That sentence is worth re-reading. The Commission is not guessing at the motive; it is describing a pattern it has observed and warned the licensed industry about.

The protections that would normally catch this sit at the licensed end. Under the LCCP, a licensee must close any customer account of an individual who has entered a self-exclusion agreement and return any funds held — and the Commission states it is not sufficient merely to prevent the individual from withdrawing funds while still accepting wagers. That rule covers the licensed market. It reaches nothing else.

If gambling is causing harm, or a self-exclusion needs support, the routes are free and the people on them are not shocked by anything. The National Gambling Helpline, run by GamCare, is on 0808 8020 133, available 24 hours a day every day of the year, via phone, live chat and WhatsApp. It is not a crisis line — callers at immediate risk of harm should use emergency services — but it is staffed around the clock. In Wales the number given is 0808 2819 265. BeGambleAware, the public-facing brand of the charity GambleAware, points to the same helpline and an online chat. GamFam, a registered charity set up by people affected by the gambling of family members, runs the GRA5P peer-support programme remotely via Zoom. Gamblers Anonymous England, Wales and Ulster can be reached on 0330 094 0322, with around 250 meeting locations and no appointment needed. The NHS National Gambling Clinic at 69 Warwick Road, London SW5 9HB can be reached on 020 7381 7722, and NHS England has opened 15 specialist gambling clinics since 2019, with integrated care boards commissioning eight regional services that receive almost 5,000 referrals a year — well above the 3,000 they were targeted to handle.

Blocking software is the other half of the answer, and it is cheaper than it used to be. GamStop signposts Gamban and BetBlocker. BetBlocker is a non-profit that states it blocks over 1,368,000 gambling websites and 3,100 apps, requires no registration and is free worldwide. Gamban blocks licensed and unlicensed sites and is designed to be as difficult to remove as possible, and it is free for residents of Wales — elsewhere in the UK it is £4.99 a month or £29.99 a year after a seven-day trial, following the end of TalkBanStop funding on 31 March 2026. Eleven banks also offer gambling blocks, per the Commission's list last updated 16 October 2026 — Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds, MBNA, Monzo, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Starling. They work by declining payments to merchants categorised under gambling merchant codes and must be activated card by card; most apply a 48 or 72-hour cooling-off before gambling transactions are allowed again, and they do not affect a credit score.

Blocking software and bank blocks are the only tools that follow the person rather than the licence. That is their value and their point.

### Is a non GamStop casino legal in the UK?

The operator is the one at risk, not the player. It is illegal under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 for anyone to provide gambling facilities in Great Britain without a Commission licence, with maximum penalties of 51 weeks' imprisonment, a level 5 fine, or both; in Scotland the term is six months. The Commission states this applies even where the operator holds a licence in another jurisdiction. A British player who opens an account and loses money has no offence to answer for — and also no British regulator to turn to.

## Frequently Asked Questions

Are there any non GamStop casinos in the UK that hold a UK licence?

No, and the licence condition is why. Participation in the national multi-operator self-exclusion scheme is compulsory under LCCP social responsibility code provision 3.5.5, in force since 31 March 2020. A British-licensed casino is by definition on the scheme. So the phrase describes offshore operators only, even though it is written as though it described a type of British casino.

How long does a GamStop exclusion last, and can it be cut short?

It runs for the chosen term — six months, one year, five years or five years auto-renewing — and cannot be cancelled during that period. The exclusion then stays in place after the term ends unless the person contacts GamStop to remove it. Auto-renewal can only be switched off in the final six months of a five-year term, and if nobody deactivates, GamStop holds the data through a further automatic seven-year self-exclusion period during which operators are told the person was previously excluded.

Can a person on the register just play offshore instead?

They can open an account, because an operator with no British licence has no obligation to check the register. That does not shorten or suspend the exclusion. The term continues and the entry remains until GamStop is contacted to remove it. Offshore sites cannot change a register record in any way, and the Commission has warned the licensed industry that unlicensed sites often target self-excluded customers specifically.

Do non GamStop casinos have to keep customer money safe?

Not to British standards. Under licence condition 4.1.1 a remote operator holding customer funds must keep them in a separate client bank account and must disclose one of three insolvency ratings in its terms, and operators may hold customer money in overseas accounts. Offshore, fund segregation is a rule in some regimes — Anjouan requires it, as does Kahnawà:ke — and an aspiration in others. Whether anyone checks is the open question.

Which payment methods do offshore sites accept, and are they slower?

Crypto and e-wallets dominate alongside cards. Speed is usually a function of the operator's internal pending window rather than the rail: USDT on TRON moves in minutes, Litecoin's first confirmation averages about 2.5 minutes, Faster Payments clears over 90 per cent of transactions in under 2 seconds and Visa's Fast Funds is real time. The delay that matters is the one written into the terms, not the one in the network.

Are new non GamStop casinos riskier than established ones?

Usually, yes, for an unglamorous reason: terms get written before they get tested. Mass-market e-wallets make the point. Skrill, Neteller, Jeton and MiFinity all charge for inactivity — EUR 5.00 monthly at Skrill, USD 5.00 at Neteller, €1 monthly at MiFinity after 12 months, $5 monthly at MuchBetter. A site that will not tell you what happens to a dormant balance is not a site with a considered rulebook.

The Twenty-Four-Hour Window Nobody Talks About

For all the noise about which casino sits outside which scheme, the most consequential line in this whole subject is the dullest: after registering with GamStop it can take up to 24 hours for the block to become effective. That window is where resolve meets a browser tab, and no licence, no seal and no blocking app closes it on its own.

Everything else follows from a single fact, plainly stated. Offshore sites are not licensed in Great Britain, so British protections do not apply to them, and a self-exclusion holds for its full term and then stays until the person contacts GamStop to remove it. Nobody sells a way round that, because there isn't one — the register does not care where the money went.

If any of this is closer to home than it should be, the National Gambling Helpline is free on 0808 8020 133, 24 hours a day, and 614,738 people were on the register as of July 2026 with more than half of them having chosen five years. That is not a small, unusual or shameful group. It is a queue, and it is long enough that joining it costs nothing but a few minutes.