Period	28.02.2023 - 03.03.2023
Applications	24.02.2023 23:00 - 26.02.2023 19:00
Matches	28.02.2023 20:00 - ?
Prize fund
Grand prize
Participation fee	none
Teams (total/accepted/max)	256 / 256 / 256
Players on the team	7 - 10

Description

To avoid problems and to make sure that players in the tournaments can play without lags, we decided to postpone the start for one more day (i.e. the qualifier will be held on February 28, March 1 and 2).
All tournament participants will receive 500 additional coins and 3 days of a premium account.
Thanks for understanding!

Take your chance to qualify for the $15,000 tournament! Gather a team of 7 clanmates with Tier X vehicles and take part in the Blitz Masters: Winter qualifiers! In addition to the chance to advance to the main tournament, you can earn credits, free XP, coins, and gold.

Participants in this tournament must comply with the "Rules of participating in qualifying tournaments".
These rules can be found in more detail in the game forum, at the link below.

Registration opens 2 days before the tournament and closes an hour before the tournament.
Registration type: clans.

Days and start time (each qualification consists of 3 stages)
Blitz Masters: Winter qualifier #1 | February 18-20, 20:00 CET.
Blitz Masters: Winter qualifier #2 | February 22-24, 20:00 CET.
Blitz Masters: Winter qualifier #3 | February 26-28, 20:00 CET.
Blitz Masters: Winter qualifier #4 | March 2-4, 20:00 CET.

From each qualification, 4 teams will advance to Blitz Masters: Winter. If your team qualified, the players will be checked and automatically registered to the main tournament. This means that your account will not be able to take part in other tournaments until the end of Blitz Masters: Winter. In addition, qualified participants are prohibited from participating in any form in the following qualifiers for the tournament. Teams violating this rule will be disqualified.

Systems: Single Elimination, Double Elimination.
Control type: touch.
Battle type: Supremacy.
Tier: X.
Seeding principle: Strongest-Weakest.

Team requirements
The team should consist of at least 7 regular players and up to 3 reserve players. At least 5 players must press the Ready! button for the battle start.

Battle format
The exact time of each battle is shown in the matches tab after your opponent is determined.
Max approx. duration of the 1st stage: 2 hours 25 minutes.
Max approx. duration of the 2nd stage: 2 hours 50 minutes.
Max approx. duration of the 3rd stage: 3 hours 10 minutes.

Maps for each round are set randomly from the maps list which is presented below:
Rockfield, Desert Sands, Middleburg, Mayan Ruins, Fort Despair, Oasis Palms, Black Goldville, Winter Malinovka, Castilla, Port Bay, Canal, Vineyards, Naval Frontier, Dynasty's Pearl, Alpenstadt, Faust, Normandy, New Bay, Hellas, Yukon.

First stage
Single Elimination: 256 teams, up 8 teams per group. Battle format: Bo5. Top 1 advances to the next stage.

Second stage
Double Elimination: 32 teams, up 4 teams per group. Battle format: Bo3 (1st round) and Bo5. Top 2 advance to the next stage.

Third stage
Double Elimination: 16 teams, up 4 teams per group. Battle format: Bo5. Top 1 goes to Blitz Masters: Winter.
If the first-placed team does not qualify for the main tournament due to a rule violation, opportunity goes to second-place team.

Prize fund

First stage
I place — 8200000 credits, 69000 free experience, 6000 coins per team.
II place — 7200000 credits, 60000 free experience, 5000 coins per team.
III-IV places — 5700000 credits, 3000 coins per team.
V-VIII places — 3200000 credits, 2000 coins per team.

Second stage
I place — 10660000 credits, 90000 free experience per team.
II place — 9360000 credits, 78000 free experience per team.
III place — 8060000 credits per team.
IV place — 6760000 credits per team.

Third stage
I place — 15400000 credits, 130000 free experience, 1500 gold per team.
II place — 13500000 credits, 113000 free experience, 750 gold per team.
III place — 11500000 credits, 97000 free experience per team.
IV place — 9500000 credits, 82000 free experience per team.

The system calculates rewards automatically depending on the contribution of each player (on average, 7 players of the main roster receive the reward). Also the team must play a real match in order to receive prizes (technical victories are not rewarded). Rewards come within a few hours after the end of the tournament.

Follow all the updates in the official discord in the Tournaments channel.
The organizer reserves the right to change the regulations without additional notice to the players.

After the qualifying tournament, the teams that took 1st place in the group of the Third stage will be checked for violations of the rule on the number of foreign players in the team. Teams that exceed the number of foreign players in the team will be disqualified or punished in a different way. The organizer also reserves the right to apply additional punishment and exclude any team at any stage of the tournament.