If your challenge uses Team Leaderboard or Team Virtual Race mode, you’ll see a Teams section on your Challenge Overview page. From here, you can create and manage teams throughout your setup period.
What admins can do (always)
No matter which team creation option you choose during setup — Admins Create Teams or Participants Create Teams — you as the admin can always:
Create new teams
Edit team names
Edit team images
Delete teams
Remove participants from teams
Admins retain full control, even if participants are allowed to create teams on their own inside the app.
How participants join teams
This part is essential for admins to understand and clearly communicate:
Participants must first join the challenge, then join a team.
Team joining happens inside the Stridekick mobile app, not in SuperDash.
Here’s how it works:
1. Participants join the challenge
Using your invite link or challenge code, participants join your challenge through the Stridekick app.
2. If your challenge uses team mode…
They will automatically see a team prompt once — guiding them to join or create a team:
If you selected Admins Create Teams
→ Participants choose from the list of teams you created.
If you selected Participants Create Teams
→ Participants can either
a) join an existing team, or
b) create a new one (with a team name and emoji/icon).
This prompt appears one time, right after joining the challenge.
Participants can also revisit the team-selection page later from the challenge detail screen.
What if participants skip the prompt?
If someone bypasses the initial team join screen, they can still join a team by:
Opening the challenge in the Stridekick app
Selecting the Teams tab (or team prompt banner)
Choosing or creating a team from there
Admins can monitor team membership in SuperDash as participants join.
What participants cannot do
Participants cannot:
Change team settings
Edit team names
Edit team images
Remove teammates
Those abilities remain admin-only.
Coming soon: Assigning participants to teams in SuperDash
Soon, admins will be able to:
Assign participants to teams
Move participants between teams
Rebalance teams after more people join
This will make team management easier and prevent manual workarounds.
Tips for smooth team set-up
Use clear team names so participants know where to join.
If you want structured teams (e.g., “Marketing,” “Engineering,” “HR”), choose Admins Create Teams.
If you want creativity and fun, choose Participants Create Teams.
Share team instructions in your kickoff email: “Join the challenge in the app — then follow the prompt to join your team.”