- September points based on individual riding (up to 200 points available)
- Tournament details
- Tournament match scoring
- Points for team participation (up to 65 points additional available)
- Limit on credit for E-assist, trainer, and manual rides
- September Team Tournament match schedule, match statuses, and teams list
Welcome to the 2026 September Team Tournament!
Welcome to the 2026 September Team Tournament! This year will feature a true round-robin 8-team tournament. Each team will face every other team once over the course of three rounds. Each round will consist of six riding days (Tuesday through Sunday). Teams will be formed automatically by the Club’s software, using riders’ 2026 GOGO stats to try to make them evenly matched. The tournament starts on September 8th and concludes on September 27th. Keep in mind that Mondays will be rest days to review results and get ready for the next match; only rides Tuesday through Sunday count each week.
Also, keep in mind that individual riding GOGO points can still be accumulated from September 1st through September 6th, and also Sept 29th and Sept 30th.
Tournament details:
Each team will play 7 matches and will be opposing two or three teams as dual matches simultaneously during each round. Matches will be spread over the three weekly rounds as follows:
- Round 1: 3 concurrent dual matches (Sept 8 – Sept 13)
- Round 2: 2 concurrent dual matches (Sept 15 – Sept 20)
- Round 3: 2 concurrent dual matches (Sept 22- Sept 27)
At the end of the three rounds, each team will have a win-loss record, anywhere from 7-0 to 0-7.
The champion will be determined using the following tie-break system hierarchy:
- Overall record (if no ties)
- Head-to-head (if a two-way tie)
- Record against teams with winning records, if more than a two-way tie*
- Lowest aggregate sum of category points across all seven matches*
- Most team mileage over the 18 competition days (based on match scoring results)
*Only teams that remain tied after this tier advance to the next tier
Match scoring
All matches have 3 categories: miles, elevation, and days. For each match, the winning team will be the one that wins the most categories. Each category will be scored similarly to how cross-country running meets are scored. In particular,
- First, calculate each individual rider’s sum total (distance, elevation, or days) for the week.
- Then, take the top 9 riders from each team in that category and rank them 1 through 18.
- Finally, add the ranks of the top 6 riders of each team together to yield the team score in that category.
- The team with the lower score wins the category. If two teams have the same score in the category, neither team wins the category.
In this system, there are potential match ties: 1) each team wins one category and neither win the third, or 2) no team wins a category. In the event of a match tie, we will add the scores from each category together and the lowest aggregate score (adding together the distance, elevation, and days categories) wins. If there is again a tie, all category results will be recomputed by scoring the top 7 riders per team and repeating the process. This will continue up to adding riders 8 and 9 from each team until a clear match winner is revealed. Should there still be a tie after recomputing scores and tie breaker with 9 riders per team, the team with the most mileage (using 9 riders per team) will be declared the match winner.
Important rules:
- Rides must be uploaded to Strava before 4AM (4 in the morning) California time of the following day in order to get credit.
- To get credit for a day, a rider must total at least two miles.
- Manually entered rides are not permitted.
- All rides must start and finish on the same day. The Strava end time of the ride must be before midnight in the local time zone of the ride.
September GOGO points for team participation:
In addition to individual riding points (see here), team members receive additional points
as follows:
- 10 points for being a team member
- 5 points for each match win
- 10 points for a winning record (excludes champion team)
- 20 points for being on the champion team
The Eagle Trophy:
The Champion team will be recognized on the front of the Eagle Trophy. In addition, the teams with the most overall distance, elevation gain, and days during the first 3 weeks of the competition will be recognized on the side panels of the trophy.
September GOGO points based on individual riding:
- 25 points for riding 80 miles or 4,000 feet
- 50 points for riding 160 miles or 8,000 feet
- 75 points for riding 240 miles or 12,000 feet
- 100 points for riding 320 miles or 16,000 feet
- 150 points for riding 400 miles or 20,000 feet
- 200 points for riding 480 miles or 24,000 feet
Whether participating on a team or not, only rides on Tuesdays through Sundays (Sept. 1-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27, 29-30) count toward the GOGO point levels above. Mondays do not count toward September GOGO points.
Limits on credit for E-assist, trainer, and manual rides
E-Assist: For all riders, whether on a team or not, the use of ElliptiGOs outfitted with E-Assist is permitted but limited in September. E-assist rides will be credited no more than 12.5 miles per hour of moving time, and no more than 750 feet of elevation gain per hour of moving time. Thus, an E-assist ride posted to Strava that covered 30 miles and gained 3000 feet in two hours of moving time would be credited with 25 miles and 1500 feet of elevation.
Trainers: Properly measured trainer rides are permitted, but will be credited with no more than 12.5 miles per hour of moving time and no elevation.
Manual rides: No credit will be given for manual rides.