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Checkpoint Tracker’s ranking system depends on the accuracy of underlying data about Racers, Teams and Events. For this reason only Teams that have been setup in advance of an Event, added that Event to their Team Schedule, and had their Registration Status marked “Confirmed” by the Event Promoter can be granted points or be ranked.

While each is simple, there are several steps required to get your Team ready to race and be ranked in 2010:

1. Sign Up
2. Complete your Racer Profile
3. Create a Team
4. Get team-mates to Sign Up and complete their Racer profiles
5. Add team-mates to your Team
6. Add Events to your Team Schedule
7. Add Racers from your Team Roster to each Squad for each Event

Whether you ultimately register (and pay) for an Event through Checkpoint Tracker (this feature will launch next week) or off-site, we will track the Registration Status of each Squad your Team is sending to each Event as a way of confirming, via both parties (the Team and the Promoter), that your Team is in fact competing at a given Event.

By default, when you add an Event to your Team Schedule the Registration Status of the Squad that is created is set to “Pending”. The Event Promoter can edit this value and change it to “Confirmed” when they’ve received payment for your entry.

We’ll be continuing to provide detailed information about new features and requirements as they’re finalized, implemented and rolled out.

In the meantime the important thing for you to be focusing on is getting your Team set up and getting your Team Schedule dialed in.

If you have questions, suggestions, smart remarks or recipes…please feel free to contact us at admin@checkpointtracker.com.

We had several folks report that their Racer profiles weren’t showing up on the Racers page. We finally got to the bottom of the problem and just rolled out a fix.

In order to receive points for any Checkpoint Tracker Event your Team MUST create a Team profile at CheckpointTracker.com and add that Event to your Team Schedule BEFORE the official Start time as listed on the Event’s Checkpoint Tracker profile.

If you have not created a Team profile and added a given Event that your Team is competing in before that Event starts…your Team WILL NOT be granted points for that Event.

You will not be allowed to add an Event to your Team Schedule after the Event has started and we will not make adjustments to the distribution of points after the Event Promoter has entered final results into Checkpoint Tracker.

More information coming soon

In the sprint leading up to launching the site and in the weeks since we’ve been focusing on site functionality, including the soon to be released Event Registration module, and have not done as good a job as we would have liked explaining such things as:

• How many Racers can be on a Team?
• How are points allocated if my Team competes in more then one Division?
• Exactly how does a Team qualify for the Checkpoint Tracker National Championship?

These and myriad other questions will be answered in detail when we post the final Rules which we are working hard to finalize now.

For the time being you should focus on what we’ve stated above:

In order to receive points for any Checkpoint Tracker Event your Team MUST create a Team profile and add that Event to your Team Schedule BEFORE the official Start time as listed on the Event’s Checkpoint Tracker profile.

If you have a burning question that can’t wait until the final Rules are published please feel free to email us at admin@checkpointtracker.com at any time…we’d love to hear from you and we’ll do our best to give you whatever information we can.

Thanks again for you interest in our efforts to revolutionize competitive adventure racing in the United States. We look forward to seeing you at Nationals next November.

We’re still 63 days away from the North Georgia Adventure Race, the first event in the 2010 Checkpoint Tracker adventure racing season, and nearly 300 racers have signed up and created more than 100 Team profiles.

What makes a good Team profile?

1. A team logo or photo
2. Your teammates’ Racer profiles
3. A completed Team Schedule
4. A Twitter widget
5. An RSS feed of your Team blog

Many of you are already using it. Many more are thinking you should or are planning to. Well, we’re going to be leveraging it extensively in 2010…even more than we already are…so you might want to give it a serious look.

Right now we’re displaying Twitter feeds for Teams and Promoters:

We’ve just created a Checkpoint Tracker Twitter List that pulls together all Checkpoint Tracker Promoters and Sponsors:

We’ll have more on our plans for using Twitter when we roll out the next big update to the site.