1. Each SEPAG member is limited to 2 TB's max.

2. TB's must be at the event to be tagged and bagged.

3. No bribery to move TB's! You may however request that your TB be moved via the motherboard. Any attempt to bribe a cacher to move a TB will be disqualified.

4. TB's can not be moved by the owner or any other SEPAG competitors with the exception of the initial release. Once the racer is released it can only be handled by non-racing SEPAGers or other cachers.

5. SEPAG members must release their own racers.

6. The race is over at the end of March 2009.

7. This Race is open only to participants of the SEPAG forums.

8. All Travel Bugs must be registered on the SEPAG forum by March 26, 2008

9. All Travel Bug Races must have a Groundspeak Tracking Number. TravellerTags.com and other tracking services are prohibited.

10. All Travel Bugs and Geocoins must have 0 miles before the start of the race.

11. All Travel Bugs must be present at "SEPAG's Winter Event on March 30, 2008 - Note that the owners do not have to be present at the event. Please make arrangements to have your Travel bug present at the event.

12. At the event the bug will be tagged as to being in the 2008 SEPAG Travel Bug Race.

13. At the end of the event the owners will collect their own racers and place them in a cache of their choosing as quickly as possible.

14. Once placed, the owner is no longer physically able to move their Travel Bug. Owners may "end their race" by retrieving their Travel Bug. Once the owner has "picked up" their bug they cannot place it in another cache.

15. Participants of this Race may not move or impede the progress of any competitor’s bugs.

16. Participants of this Race may not create sock puppet accounts (fake accounts) in order to move their own bug.

17. There are no hand-offs allowed. Movement of a racer by a participant's spouse, child, parent or co-worker is strictly prohibited. All transportation of the Travel Bug is to occur naturally. Ideally one cacher will move the racer to a cache where another cacher will pick it up and repeat the process.

18. Bouncing of a travel bug from cache to cache by the same cacher is strongly discouraged and will result in a disqualification if it is deemed excessive by the judges. The Travel Bug Racer is required to physically visit geocaches and be hand carried by a cacher. No snail mail. No FedEx. No UPS. TB's can NOT be moved any more then 3 times by a single cacher

19. Due to the difficulty in determining if a Travel Bug has gone missing, the racers are not allowed to be relaunched with a COPY tag or other copy of the tracking number.

20. Violations of these rules will result in a disqualification of the offending owner’s Travel Bug Racer. When a Travel Bug is disqualified by the Judges it is out of the competition. Period. There are no appeals.