From the website: The purpose of the Northeast MASTER/slave title is to help raise awareness and appreciation within the leather community for the Master/slave relationship, and to provide a titleholder pair who will serve as an educational resource, role models, and champions for the M/s lifestyle for the leather community. In addition, the contest serves as a feeder for the International Master/slave Contest.

Each Contestant pair must have been in a self-identified Master/slave relationship with each other for at least 1 year. (This use of the word “Master” is non-gender specific.)

Each Contestant pair is required to provide a minimum of three to five items for the Travel Fund Auction to be held at the conference.

Each Contestant pair must be willing, should they win, to abide by the expectations set forth in the “Expectations of Titleholders” section below.

All contestants must be at least 21 years of age and reside in one of the 14 Northeastern states that form the contest region (Washington DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine). Canadian contestants living in Eastern Canada (from Toronto towards the east including Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland) qualify to compete in the Northeast Contest.