If your challenge includes a Team Leaderboard or Team Virtual Race mode, you’ll configure your team settings during setup. These settings determine how teams are created, how big they can be, and how scoring works.

This article covers each option so you can choose what works best for your group.

When you select Team Leaderboard or Team Virtual Race as one of your challenge modes, a Team Settings section appears in your setup modal.

This is where you’ll choose:

Let’s break it down.

You have two options, and you can choose the one that matches your group’s vibe and management style:

You’ll manually create each team inside SuperDash.

Perfect if you want:

When you choose this option, you’ll:

Participants can create and join teams directly from the Stridekick app.

Perfect if you want:

This option encourages fun, organic team names — and yes, expect at least one punny masterpiece.

If you want teams to remain evenly matched, you can set a maximum team size.

Example:

Max team size: 5 members

Participants won’t be able to join teams that have reached the limit.

This is especially helpful when:

If you don’t set a cap, teams can be any size.

Team scoring in Stridekick is based on the average total activity of all team members — not the combined total.

This means:

Team A (5 members) logs 400,000 total steps → 80,000 average

Team B (3 members) logs 270,000 total steps → 90,000 average

Team B wins, because scoring is based on the average per member.

This scoring method applies to:

For more details, see:

👉 Understanding Team Scoring in Stridekick