Team vs. individual races
Learn the key differences between Individual and Team race formats, including setup requirements, scoring logic, and team management rules.
RaceTeam supports two competition formats: individual and team-based. In individual races, the results are based on each participant's individual performance. In the team-based events, participants compete as members of a team, and the team's result is calculated by aggregating the individual times of its members.
Let's take a look at how to set up an event for competition between teams.
Creating a team-based event
The competition format - individual or team - is selected when creating a new event. Choose "The competition is scored based on the results of the teams" switch in the new event dialog before confirming. This setting is permanent. Once an event is created, its competition format cannot be changed from individual to team and vice versa.
Teams and categories
Every team belongs to a single participant category. All members of a team must be registered in the same category. It is not possible to have a team with members from different categories.
On the results sheet, teams are grouped and ranked within their respective categories.
Creating and managing teams
Creating a team
Teams are created during participant registration. When registering, participants see a Team/club field with an autocomplete dropdown.
Join an existing team: Start typing and select a team from the dropdown list.
Create a new team: Type a new team that does not match any existing team. You will be asked to confirm, and the new team will be created.
This works uniformly wether participants are registering yourself in Spots or organisers add a participant manually.
Team names are case-sensitive. For example, "Red Dragons" and "Red dragons" would be different teams.
You may also notice that individual events allow you to enter the name of the team or club associated with a participant. However, this is for informational purposes only. They are completely optional and can be used across different categories.
Deleting/updating a team
To update/delete the team, click on the pencil icon in its the team header in the participant list.
Only the person who created a team can delete it. If you need to remove a team, make sure its members are reassigned or removed first.
Team scoring
The team result is delivered from the individual results of its members. The aggregation methods are available:
Total time
Sum of all team members' finish times.
Average time
Mean of all team members' finish times.
Longest time
The slowest (longest) finish time among team members.
The default scoring type is Total time.
The scoring type can be changed at any time in the event Settings screen under Team scoring type. Changing the scoring type immediately recalculates team standings.
Results
Team-based events provide two views of the results:
Team results - Teams ranked by their aggregated time within each category.
Individual results - Individual participant times. This is an additional control view. It also allows individual actions to be taken against participants, such as rollback or disqualification.
Participant list
In a team-based event, the participant list is grouped by team. This makes it easy to see which participants belong to which team and to manage team composition.
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