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Spartan Point Ranking (SPR) System 2012

It’s here!  The 2012 Spartan Race season is under way. We were recently honored to win Outside Magazine's "Best Obstacle Race" for 2012 - which has made us even hungrier to innovate and improve the sport for our athletes this year.

 

Spartan Race is pleased to introduce our NEW Ranking System, based on a myriad of factors and indicators, racers can earn points** and rank through the following (NOTE: points are assigned for that race will be done so at the close of the race):

  • The Spartan Race Event that a racer participates in
  • Course distance
  • Course difficulty
  • Environment and topography

THE BASICS

 

Each race has a points value earned based on your placement and the difficulty of the course. The Super Spartan Race is our baseline event where 5000 points are available for the top elite finisher, then the points go down 1 point per placement (ex., 2nd = 4999, 3rd = 4998 etc.) Age group top 3 placers also receive bonus points of 10, 5 and 3 respectively.

Here's how the rest of the Spartan Race 2012 courses are weighted based on that 5000 point baseline

Sprint - Elite 75%, Open 50% (Elite winner 3750 pts/Open winner 2500 pts)
Super - Elite 100%, Open 75% (Elite winner 5000 pts/Open winner 3750 pts)
Beast - Elite 125%, Open 100% (Elite winner 6250 pts/Open winner 5000 pts)
Ultra Beast - Elite 150% (Elite winner 7500)

Over the course of the 2012 Spartan Race Season, we're going to take your top 4 best races and use them to calculate your points ranking as follows. Your two best races will receive full points based on the calculation above, your 3rd and 4th best races will receive 10% of the full points calculation as bonus points.

 

CASH AND PRIZES

 

Cash and prizes* will be awarded to the top points finishers and we will maintain a listing of our Top 20 male and 20 female competitors. The current cash purse for the top 300 males and females will start by distributing $5,000.00 amongst them and grow throughout the season. As of the completion of Arizona the purse is at a total value of $10,000.00.

 

Awards will be earned for:

  • Age group leaders male and female nationally
  • Age group leaders male and female regionally
  • Age group leaders male and female based on Spartan distance

Prize Money Qualifications:

  • Top 20 male and female point leaders globally
  •  Performance at The Killington Beast, Spartan Race’s World Series Championship
  • This Race will earn double points and participants will also have a chance of winning cash awards for top 3 males and top 3 females participants

Prize Money Distribution:

World Championship Vermont Beast Male/Female:
1st $4,000
2nd $2,000
3rd $1,000

 

Museum Replica will be providing these awards* at races for the top finishers of the "Competitive Heat": Swords at Sprints and Supers, and Helmets at Beasts.

 

TEAM RELATED CHALLENGES

 

Spartan Race fun challenges taking place in 2012:

  • The Fittest Gym - Fittest gym in each market will qualify to win World Class Concept 2 Rowers
  • The Strongest Box - Spartan Race’s Strongest Box winners will receive the best in gear to pimp out their box
  • The Toughest Bar - Spartan Race has partnered with regional favorite Long Trail Brewery and will award the Toughest Bar at each event, as well as the Toughest Bar Regionally and nationally with awards and Toughest Bar bragging rights
  • Biggest Team - We will also be rewarding the LARGEST teams in 2012.  For all the details on that, click HERE 

*We reserve the right to change awards as we deem necessary. **We reserve the right to change the points factors and indicator algorithms used to make our calculations