General Rules

• Participants will be awarded 4 points for a correct win tip, per game and 2 point for a correct draw tip, per game over the 18 regular rounds of the competition from 22 February – 15 July.
• Players that miss their tips for a given week will receive the same number of points as the user that did tip and scored the lowest in that week.
• Users that join the competition after it has started will be allocated default start-up points. The number of points received will be the same as the number of points the player in last place has at that time.
• In the case players or teams are drawn at the end of the regular 18 Rounds, the competition will proceed to the finals which will based on the same points system, plus a precision scoring system.

NOTES

1. A "National Pacific IWRM Team" may be comprised of GEF demonstration project managers and assistants, IWRM focal points and national EU IWRM planning programme staff, and members of national water committees and demonstration project steering committees. Each team must have at least one lady tipper, and the total points for a team will be calculated as the aggregate score of the top three tippers from each team.

2. The winning project team will be expected to report on the results of the study tour and convene a 1 day echo-seminar for members of their GEF demonstration project steering committee following conclusion of the tour. The echo-seminar must inform committee members of key examples of best practice at the study site and how these could assist the IWRM process in their given country.

3. Open category is for everyone, such as friends and colleagues from donor organisations, supporting programmes and projects, and others with an interest in improving water resource management in the Pacific Islands.