XTERRA Team Competition Overview and Rules

Cody Waite's EPC Squad and the new "Mel's Rad Racing Team", a collection of 20-some amateurs racing under the wings of Melanie McQuaid, inspired XTERRA to create a team competition for the eight XTERRA Cup Series races and National Championship in 2009.

If you are saying to yourself, "what is the team competition", it's easy.  Make up a team from your XTERRA friends.  Enter races - you enter just as always, there are no extra fees to be part of the team competition and you still race for individual honors.

Scoring: Teams can enter up to six athletes but just the top four athlete scores will count.  Teams must count scores from amateur athletes representing at least three different divisions (all men, all women, co-ed, it doesn't matter so long as you don't have more than two scorers in the 30-34 men's division, as an example).

Teams can enter as many 4-person teams as they wish (ex. Melrad 1, Melrad 2, etc..). Teams must hand Dave Nicholas (or the race director) the names and age groups of your six designated racers prior to the race start.

Each of the teams designated racers will be scored on their finishing position in their division with points as follows: 1st (100), 2nd (90), 3rd (82), 4th (75), 5th (69), 6th (63), 7th (58), 8th (53), 9th (49), 10th (45), 11th (41), 12th (37), 13th (34), 14th (31), 15th (28).

In addition, each member will receive an additional point for every finisher in their division (example ... Joe Schmo finishes 1st in the 35-39 age group = 100pts, and there were 15 finishers in the 35-39 division, so Joe's score is 100 + 15 = 115).

Add together the four highest scores from each team and the squad with the most points wins.

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There's no money, no pot of gold - only pride and bragging rights.  As such, XTERRA is encouraging individuals to join forces as a team with friends and family, other racers in their region, triathlon club, mountain bike group, facebook page, or whatever.

To register a team, the group leader or captain needs to email XTERRA communications director Ann Mickey at info@xterraplanet.com with the following:

1. name of team (keep it clean!)
2. name of team members (with age group)
3. what race or races your team will compete at

Note: You can have as many individuals on a team as you want.

There are no major rules, aside from signing up your team with Ann Mickey at least one week prior to the race in question, and handing Dave Nicholas (or the race director) the names and age groups of your 4-to-6 designated racers prior to the race start.  Of course, it would be cool if teams had unique jerseys, shirts, hats, outfits or something that unified the group - but for this first year that won't be mandatory.

The ultimate goal of the team competition is to a) have some fun and b) create and expand on local networks of racers so groups across the country have friends they can swim, ride, run, and train with all year round.

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