Preliminary Championship Rules

• Qualifiers will begin Monday, September 6 th .
• There will be 5 qualifier races for each corporation. Each contestant will race in only one qualifier.
• The top 2 contestants from each qualifier race will make it to that corporation's Final ten-man team. Thus, at the end of the qualifier period, the number of contestants will have been whittled down to 80.
• These 80 will then go on to participate, in teams of 10, in the final climactic marathon race. This race will be somewhere between 120 and 150 jumps, spanning several different regions, with no restrictions placed on tactics, ships or modules.
• The race's organizers will not intervene in terms of preventing PvP unless it is deemed absolutely necessary. This is and will be a free-for-all for those involved.

Qualifier-Specific Rules:

•  Each qualifier will have its own channel set up in-game, with passwords given out only to the qualifier's respective contestants. Channel names for each qualifier will be advertised later.

•  Qualifier channels will open up thirty minutes before the qualifier's scheduled starting time (if a qualifier begins at 21:00 GMT, its channel will open at 20:30 GMT).

•  If a contestant is not in the qualifier channel ten minutes before the qualifier's scheduled start, he or she will be disqualified.

•  Five minutes before the qualifier's scheduled start, contestants in the channel will be transported to the starting lines and given the official route for the qualifier.

•  Contestants who for some reason are unable to race at their scheduled time may attempt to swap with another player, advertising their current slot and their desired slot on the EVE Online Events forum. When two contestants have reached a consensus regarding a slot swap, they can send mail to story@eve-aurora.com expressing both parties' consent, and the schedule will be changed accordingly. If two contestants swap slots and one of the two does not show up for their race, he or she will be disqualified as per normal. The contestant with which he or she swapped may still race in his or her new time slot.

•  In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the race organizers and CCP reserve the right to make modifications to these rules and/or add new ones as they see fit.