Organisers of The Gathering 2010 decided to give 4 playoffs slots to the 4 finalists of an online tournament. This online qualifier is organised by ESL, which is a good thing to make it a success thanks to their experience. These slots allow players to compete directly in playoffs stage in Hamar between the 31st of march and the 4th of april 2010, without qualifying by the BYOC, and who will give a shot to win the 2,700 Euro cash prize announced by the big Norwegian event.

Online qualifications will be held on the next couple of sundays and thursdays (7/3, 11/3, 14/3 and 18/3 at 17:30CET) and will consist of 2 different stages. Time Attack: All players will have to play a 5 x 3 minutes session of Time Attack, and the 16 first drivers will go on for next stage. playoffs: Qualified players will fight through a single elimination bracket to keep only the best four. (Informations about the format will be release soon)

Important

• Registrations will open soon, just follow this Link.
• Every players must join the IRC channel #tg.game.tm @ Quakenet at 17H CET for each days of qualifications.
• "Players must have an existing TG-ticket or buy one if they qualify for the compo. You MUST have a ticket to play at TG. Tickets can be bought from www.partyticket.net. Both foreigner and progamer-tickets are still available for those who qualify." Beast
• Tournament admins are Beast, Thobzter and ESL staff helping out for qualifications system.
• Servers will be provided for the whole tournament by TrackMania.se.
• Packmap can be downloaded HERE.

Source: TrackMania.se