They just going to give slots to anybody who's still alive and have money to pay fee and travel expenses. And what they're going to do with remaining slots? I don't know, probably they'll have to run a smaller race.

I'm sure that some of the 'lost' slots are being allocated through their new virtual race series.

However, there is a huge question as to if we will be back to international travel by then. NZ has just gone into full national lockdown for the next 4 weeks minimum. One of the reasons we've done this so early ('only' 205 cases nationally) is because almost all these cases (201) are from people flying into NZ with it having caught overseas. I don't want to be too much of a doom and gloom monger, but I'd be shocked if the border policy changed to be open to tourist visitors before a vaccine was available, and that's not likely to be by November.

Don't get me wrong, train hard, get race ready for the qualifier, but I'd not spend too much time planning your pre/post race sightseeing just yet. May need to be thinking about the 70.3 worlds in NZ in 2022 (2021 already allocated)....