Elite Dangerous competition puts £10,000 up for grabs

Frontier has announced it is offering a £1,000 cash prize to the first Elite Dangerous player who attains Elite status for each of combat, trading and exploration, and a further £10,000 prize for the first player to attain Triple Elite status.

Any player choosing to claim one of the £1,000 cash prizes will make them ineligible for the triple prize, though one player is eligible to earn more than one of the £1,000 prizes.

In order to compete you’ll need to start a new game with the release version of Elite: Dangerous, beginning with Sidewinder and 1,000 CR, and use Open Play multiplayer mode only. You will be allowed to use the slight advantage of the Eagle starship offered as part of Elite: Dangerous’ Mercenary Edition, but otherwise it should be a level playing field.

Frontier also has the option to disallow entries that it deems to have been made using cheats.

Here’s the small print:

a. Start on or after release of the full game (for some this will mean you will have to voluntarily clear you save on or after the release)

b. Start with the Sidewinder start position and 1000 CR.

c. Not cheat. We will manually look at the save files of the potential winners to verify this. The winners will be determined in our sole opinion and our decision is final.

d. If you choose to claim one or more of the £1,000 prizes you are ineligible for the £10,000 prize.

e. Play wholly in Open Play mode (not solo or friends groups)

f. Participation is subject to the payment of any prize not being prohibited under or contrary to applicable law in your country.

f. Not be an employee of Frontier Developments, or family members or direct associates. Ambassadors are OK.

Source: Frontier