If you’ve been eagerly awaiting your big chance to prove your off-road skills against other BMW riders, now is your big chance… as long as you have some vacation time left, and you’re free in mid-October, and you have a few hundred bucks for the entry fees. BMW’s sign-up webpage for the GS Trophy Qualifier for US riders is now open.

According to the details there, this year’s GS Trophy Qualifier runs October 12-15 in Spartansburg, South Carolina. Booking for the event is now open; below, see what BMW tells you to expect this year:

2024 GS TROPHY QUALIFIER PARTICIPANT
449美元

Includes Qualifier entry fee, competition jersey, personalized parking stall, and all meals, snacks and water beginning with dinner Thursday evening through dinner on Saturday evening.

The only location for the national qualifier will be here at the BMW Performance Center.

Dates:
Thursday, October 12 2023 – Check-in and Welcome Competition Friday, October 13 and Saturday, October 14 – Competition

On Saturday evening, October 14th, the three male finalists that will represent the U.S. at the final event in Namibia in 2024 will be announced.

Two female finalists will also be selected to advance to the female International Qualifier Event. More details about the Women’s International Qualifier date and location will be announced soon.

Please note that we do not rent bikes for the competition. You must bring your own.

Camping is available at surrounding campgrounds or at the MOA Headquarters, located just three miles from the Performance Center.

There are also three practice runs (or at least, that’s what they look like) scheduled for riders who want to prep for the Trophy qualifier; the dates in May and July are over, but there’s a third one coming on September 20-21, if you still want to prep ahead of the competition Find more detailshere.

What’s the GS Trophy?

None of this makes any sense if you don’t know what the GS Trophy is.

The GS Trophy is BMW’s in-house skills competition for non-professional riders. During the international competition, riders from all over the world convene on a remote location to ride the range, so to speak, but also face off in trials-style competition and other challenges based on survival, camping and other adventure skills. The next international challenge will happen in Namibia in 2024.

To get to Namibia, riders must first qualify for their home country’s team. The US qualifier event gives riders the chance to get on the American team, as BMW’s PR lays out above.

To book a spot at the US qualifier,click here. For ADVrider inmates’ previous experience at these events, seehere,here,here.