IRL Arena™

How IRL Arena Works: Arenas, Points, and the Race Chart

IRL Arena is a scoreboard for real-life competition. Here’s the whole loop, start to finish.

1. Create an arena

An arena is a group that competes together — your family, your riding crew, your extended-family walking challenge. Name it and you’re in.

2. Set the points rules

This is where your arena becomes yours. Pick which activities count — biking, running, swimming, walking, hiking, strength training — and set how many points one unit earns. A classic setup from our own family challenge:

  • Biking: 1 point per mile
  • Running: 3 points per mile
  • Swimming: 10 points per mile

Why the spread? Because a mile is not a mile. Weighting harder activities higher keeps the race fair between the cyclist knocking out 60-mile weekends and the swimmer grinding laps. Only admins can change the rules, so the exchange rate is settled before the arguing starts.

3. Invite your people

Every arena has a 6-character invite code. Share it and anyone can join. For kids without accounts (or grandparents without patience), add a managed member — a profile on the leaderboard that a guardian logs activities for.

4. Log what you do

Pick the activity, enter the miles or minutes, add a note if you like, done — about ten seconds. And here’s the clever part: an activity belongs to you, not to a group. Log one bike ride and it scores in your family arena, your crew’s arena, and every other arena you’re in that counts biking. No double entry, ever.

5. Watch the race

Every arena has The Board: standings with 🥇🥈🥉 and a cumulative-points race chart — one line per member, climbing through the period. Switch between week, month, year, and all-time. The chart is where the magic is: you don’t just see who’s ahead, you see the exact day your brother-in-law’s line crossed yours.

What’s next

On the roadmap: automatic imports from Strava and Garmin, team vs. team battles, weekly mini-team pairings, and badges for feats like most climbing in a week.

That’s the whole game. Start your arena and set your exchange rates.