Facilitating event implementation in an online game

An online game system configured to host an online game that is presented to individual client devices, the system comprising one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:

• store, in electronic storage, award handlers as blocks of executable code, wherein individual ones of the award handlers correspond to individual types of in-game awards, the individual ones of the award handlers being configured to distribute instances of in-game awards of corresponding types to the players, wherein the award handlers include a first award handler and a second award handler, wherein the first award handler is configured to distribute instances of in-game awards of a first award type, wherein the second award handler is different from the first award handler, and wherein the second award handler is configured to distribute instances of in-game awards of a second award type;
• store, in the electronic storage, a first event handler, wherein the first event handler includes machine-readable instructions to implement a first event in the online game, wherein the first event handler includes information indicating the first event is available for participation only by players that meet a first player requirement, wherein the first player requirement includes a user age requirement;
• and
• implement, by the one or more physical processors, the first event handler, wherein implementing the first event handler in the online game includes:
• invoking, by the one or more physical processors, the first award handler to distribute the one or more instances of in-game awards of the first award type as first event awards in accordance with a result of the first event.