Goals and Challenges - How To Create a Virtual Race Challenge

Introduction

This article offers information that will help you learn how to set up a Virtual Race challenge from the Goals & Challenges admin center and choose a realistic challenge goal. This information is useful to client admins when setting up a race.

What Is a Virtual Race Challenge?

A Virtual Race challenge allows you to set a distance goal for each participant to reach by the challenge end. As participants move in real life, they progress through a racetrack in the app. Along the way, they’ll unlock new map scenes and fun milestones.

Virtual Race also ranks individual users from high-to-low based on their total distance moved over the course of the challenge. This data is then shown on a leaderboard for all participants to view. This module is especially great for promoting individual motivation and increased competitiveness within your challenge.

Please note: Virtual Race is a distance-based challenge mode only. You cannot set a step or active minute goal for Virtual Race.

Creating a Virtual Race Challenge

1. Go to the Goals & Challenges Admin Center in Reward Manager and select the Challenges tab from the side navigation menu.

2 Select the blue + Create challenge button

3. Enter your challenge details and select Next

4. Scroll down and select Virtual Race

5. From here, you will be able to choose your theme and select your goal. See below for guidance on selecting a theme and goal.

Selecting a Theme for a Virtual Race Challenge

When creating a Virtual Race challenge, you will need to select a theme for your racetrack. Each theme includes its own set of milestones that unlock as you progress through the map. You can then choose to go with one of our preset racetracks.

Setting a Goal for a Virtual Race Challenge

After you select a theme, you will need to select your Virtual Race distance goal. There are 2 things you'll need to take into account when selecting your goal:

• Average individual activity per day*
• Duration of challenge (in days)

To set a goal for your Virtual Race challenge, we recommend using the following equation:

Average individual activity per day x Duration of challenge (in days)

Examples:

• 2 miles per day x 25 days = 50 miles
• 3 miles per day x 25 days = 75 miles
• 3 kilometers per day x 25 days = 75 km
• 5 kilometers per day x 25 days = 125 km

Once you’ve entered your goal during challenge creation, select the green Save button to save your goal:

Finishing Your Challenge

Once your challenge selections are complete, select Save and Continue to review your challenge details and select Finish to create your challenge:

Editing a Virtual Race Goal

If needed, you can edit your Virtual Race goal after it's been set up from your challenge dashboard in the admin center. If you need to adjust your goal after your challenge has started.