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A group competition pits two or more teams against each other on a shared activity metric. NexRex totals every entrant’s qualifying activities within the competition dates and ranks the teams. Athletes see the same official standings in the app. Use a group competition when you want to motivate a club or squad with friendly rivalry, for example a monthly distance battle between training groups.

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Before you start

  • Create at least two groups. Each selected group becomes a team.
  • Only active members of your organization can be entrants.

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Create a competition

Open Challenges and click New Challenge. The wizard has four steps: Type, Basics & Rules, Groups & Registration, and Review & Publish. Enter a name at any point to save your progress with Save Draft.
1

Choose the type

Select Group Battle.
2

Set the basics and rules

Enter a name, an optional description, and the start and end dates. The start and end date can be the same day.Pick the Battle Metric and Scoring Method. See Metrics and Scoring below.Optionally, set the Competition timezone using a timezone name such as Asia/Taipei. Activities count by their completion date in this timezone. Leave it blank to use your organization’s timezone.
3

Select the teams

Select at least two groups to compete.
4

Review the roster and publish

When you continue to Review & Publish, NexRex saves the competition as a draft and freezes the team roster from the current group members. Review the team assignments, then click Publish Challenge.

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How the roster is frozen

The competition roster is separate from your club groups:
  • Each team starts with the members of its group at the moment you reach the review step.
  • If an athlete belongs to more than one selected group, they stay on the first selected team.
  • Later changes to the groups themselves don’t change the competition roster. To move, add, or remove entrants, edit the competition.
If the draft changed in another browser tab, NexRex asks you to click Reload latest draft before saving. Your inputs stay visible until you reload.

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Metrics

Every entrant’s qualifying activities are summed for the chosen metric: Only activities completed between the start and end dates, inclusive, in the competition timezone count.

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Scoring

Choose how teams are ranked:
  • Team Total: teams are ranked by the sum of all their entrants’ values.
  • Team Average (per member): teams are ranked by their total divided by the team’s size. Use it when team sizes differ.

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How per-member scoring works

NexRex divides the team total by the full roster count for that team. The count includes entrants with no qualifying activities. NexRex rounds the result to two decimals. For example, a team of four runs 10 km, 8 km, 7 km, and 0 km. Its per-member score is 25 km ÷ 4 = 6.25 km.

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Ranks and ties

  • Teams with the same score share a rank. The next team skips ranks accordingly, so two teams tied for first are followed by a team in third.
  • Teams with a score of zero are still ranked.
  • Teams with no entrants appear in the standings but are left unranked.

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Edit a published competition

Open the competition from Challenges and click Edit competition. You can change:
  • The name and description.
  • The metric and scoring method.
  • The start date, end date, and competition timezone.
  • The teams in the competition. At least two teams must remain. Removing a team also removes its entrants.
  • The roster. Move an entrant to another team, remove an entrant, or add an active organization member to a team.
When you change the roster, teams, metric, scoring, dates, or timezone, the save button reads Save and recalculate. NexRex recalculates the entire competition period. Each entrant’s activities count only for their current team. When you change only the name or description, the button reads Save details. The current results stay as they are.

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Resolve an edit conflict

If another coach saved changes after you opened the editor, your save fails with a conflict. Your edits stay on screen. Click Reload latest rules, review the latest version, then reapply your changes and save again.

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How results refresh

NexRex calculates official standings:
  • When you publish the competition.
  • Automatically as new activities sync, including corrected or removed activities.
  • When a coach who manages the competition requests a rebuild.
NexRex also checks active competitions on a regular schedule, so results catch up even if an update was missed. Click Check for updates below the standings to load the latest results. The standings show when they were last updated and one of these states: While an update runs or after it fails, NexRex keeps showing the last completed standings when they still match the competition’s rules.