Ruleset: 30 Minute Battle, Minimum Dice 3, Maximum Dice 5, Character HP 20, Shared HP

On 6/2-6/4 at 22:00-1:00 JP time, there will be 4 ships called G-1 GP/PRE01~04.
These ships will have special tournaments on them which, when won, will raise your Gather Points, or Gather. While you are on a Gather ship, you will be able to see your Gather Rank above your name, same as you would normally check you rank on regular ships.

Gather gained from each tournament round
1st round win 100
2nd round win 200
3rd round win 500
Finals win 1000

Tournaments start every half an hour, so there are 7 possibilities to enter.

Gather points gained are not changed regardless of facing a human or CPU opponent, so CPU bashing (in the tournament of course) is perfectly acceptable for gaining points.

On 6/5, at 1 AM JP Time, the tournament preliminaries will be over. the top 32 players will be announced on the JP Episode 3 Web Site by 10 AM JP time, and will be able to send their information to be qualified for the finals.

If you are in the top 16 according to Sega's list, you will be allowed entry into the special G-1 GP/ENTRY ship on 6/5 from 13:00-15:00 and from 21:00-
23:00 JP time.

If you are in the top 16, you are to go to the ship, and give Sonic Team your Guild Card Info, your Partner's Guild Card Info, and your Team Name to be used for the tournament. You're done after that point until the finals.

If you make the Top 32, head to the ship from 23:00-24:00 JP time. You may still get an entry. The way this works is this:
Lets say the first place player chooses the third place player as his partner. Rather than having the Top 16 people pick their partners for the 32 player finals, there are now only 15 teams. So 17 then gets to choose his partner to make up that last team. So, if you're not in the top 16, but close, you still stand a good chance, given that most high ranks will be playing in pairs.

Then we have the finals. On 6/6, from 17:30-17:50 JP time, the 32 players will be able to enter the special G-1 GP/FINAL ship. The tournament will begin at 18:00 JP time. At that point, any prospective spectators may then enter the ships and do their thing.

And now we come to the prizes...

The winning team will recieve for each player:
A years subscription to Game Gather
An award certificate in the form of your favorite card
3000 yen in Webmoney
An exclusive Episode 3 Quo card
A mystery prize

And the runners up will recieve
An award certificate in the form of your favorite card
1500 yen in Webmoney
An exclusive Episode 3 Quo card
A mystery prize

That about covers it! Good luck, and have fun!