The Totem Rally is a time-speed-distance (TSD) rally. It is the final round for two championship series: the “Yokohama BC Rally Championship” and the “Pacific Coast Challenge”. This rally follows the BC Rally Regulations, which are posted at http://www.rallybc.com/html/regional_regs.htm, and are available from the BC Rally Director, Paul Westwick (paul@rallybc.com) by calling (604) 682 3296. The rally runs on straightforward instructions. In addition to the route instructions, maps will be provided. The rally will be about 850km long, entirely within the province of BC, and will start with an odometer check section of about 15km. Roads will be about 30% clear pavement, 70% gravel, mud and snow (depending on weather conditions). Instructions are provided in both kilometers and miles, but the official measurements and calculations are based on the kilometer figures

Winter Timing: Scoring is one point per second early or late, from a grace period that depends on your time at the immediately previous control, but is always at least one second each way. At the first control in a leg, the grace period is one second each way. At each subsequent control in the leg, the grace period is extended to 10 seconds closer to perfect time than your immediately previous time. In other words, you never need to make up more than 10 seconds between any two controls. If you are late x seconds at one control, the grace period at the next control will be from one second early to (x - 10) seconds late, or one second late, whichever is greater. If you are early x seconds at a control, the grace period at the next control will be from one second late to (x - 10) seconds early, or one second early, whichever is greater. In every case, the grace period depends only on the immediately previous control. As long as you are running close to perfect time, this is effectively a perfect time event. If you have a problem, however, and lose some time (e.g. stuck in a snow bank) you don't need to make up all of your time immediately, but you are encouraged to work your way gradually back towards perfect time.