Yeah, my team and I were pretty much going crazy earlier when it was updated, haha.
It turns out that it's part of an all-inclusive package (flight, hotel, etc.) for those in Japan. So, basically, if you're not flying from/live in Japan, you're pretty much out of luck for this. We were pretty disappointed about that. It's a little unfair that they're not even offering it to us in the US when the event is taking place here.
And it seems like it is true that you can meet the band, but they're still terribly vague with what the "fan meeting tour" is and still have not explained it at all. These are the main perks of this package:
1. A welcome lei greeting & handshakes from SCANDAL
2. Super rare! Fan meeting invitation!
-SCANDAL acoustic live, game + talk (dinner included)
3. Fan meeting tour in Hawaii limited to participants! Official goods present!
4. You can participate in the Ekiden with other SCANDAL fans as part of SCANDAL team!
-something about matching fans together
It's limited to 120 people, and it seems like they select them through a lottery. You sign up online and they announce the results later, so it looks like even if you were to sign up, it's not guaranteed that you'd be able to do this.
Before they updated the page tonight, my friend Neil and I were reaching out to both H.I.S. USA and the Honolulu Ekiden Foundation for more information about it. Unfortunately, both were clueless about it, but the Ekiden did direct me to a contact for H.I.S. Japan. I e-mailed them about it, although they've yet to reply back. I'll be going to an H.I.S. branch in LA tomorrow to try and see if we could possibly participate in this--you know, without having to resort to flying to Japan, then flying to Hawaii. haha.
Edit: H.I.S. Japan e-mailed me back and, as of right now, those outside of Japan cannot participate in this at all. Pretty disappointing. I'm tired of us always getting the short end of the stick. .wew.