Corporate Cup 2024 Categories - onsite or virtual

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The Corporate Cup is designed for people of all ages to improve their fitness over a period of 14 weeks. Operating once a fortnight, participants choose to walk or run courses in the Adelaide CBD, Mawson Lakes or Semaphore. For those who can’t commit to the seven rounds at a specific location and require more flexibility, the KM Tracker category is available.

Great for team building, personal fitness and developing an active lifestyle, this iconic Adelaide event was established in 1981 and has been running every year since!

The Corporate Cup has three categories your team can choose from: Most Improved, Fastest or KM Tracker.

Not sure what category to compete in? Check out the table below to see which one suits you best! Each team can only enter into 1 category.

The Competition

	Fastest	Most Improved	KM Tracker
Aim	To run your fastest time	To gradually improve your walk or run time each round	To run/walk as far as you can – Track your KMs using a GPS device and aim for the fortnightly targets.
Distance	Must do the distance you nominated every week 2.2km, 4.5km or 7.2km (CBD only)	Must do the distance you nominated every week 2.2km, 4.5km or 7.2km (CBD only)	Can do whatever distance you want
Location	Adelaide CBD, Mawson Lakes or Semaphore (must be the same location each round).	Adelaide CBD, Mawson Lakes or Semaphore (must be the same location each round).	Anywhere – attend different Corporate Cup locations or walk/run some place else which is closer to work/home.
Award Categories	For each location there are awards for: Fastest Team (each distance) Fastest 4.5km Masters Team (50+) Fastest Individuals – Male & Female (each distance) Fastest Masters (50+) Individual – Male & Female (each distance)	For each location there are awards for: Most Improved Team (each distance) Most Improved Masters Team (50+) Each participant in this category is also eligible for the fastest individual prizes.	Bronze, Silver & Gold fortnightly certificates Random awards each round Highest Team KMs – work and social/running club sub-categories Highest Individual KMs (male and female) – work and social/running club sub-categories Please note, to enter into the work sub-category, you must have at least 4 people from the same organisation.
Timing/Results For full explanation on how results are calculated, visit the Competition page.	Each round: An average time is calculated by using the fastest 5 participants in the team. Final time: The team’s final time will be the average of the 5 fastest rounds. Please note, to qualify, teams need at least 5 runners to complete at least 5 rounds	Each round: Participants receives 0-40 points depending on their improvement. The top 5 scores are totalled for the weekly team score (maximum of 200 points). Final score: The team’s 5 highest rounds are added together (maximum of 1000 points). If there are 5 or less participants in the team, all the points will be counted each round.	Participants will use GPS running application to record kilometres and submit to the Corporate Cup portal for inclusion into the results system. Each round – The Total KMs each round are calculated from the 5 team members who achieve the highest KM distance in the round. Final score – The team’s KMs from all 5 rounds are calculated to final score.

The Corporate Cup has three categories your team can choose from: Most Improved, Fastest or KM Tracker.

Category 1: Most Improved Team

Nominating your team in the Most Improved Team category will exclude your team from appearing in the Fastest Team and KM Tracker category.
By selecting this category your team wishes to compete for the Most Improved Team. At the end of each round, the best 5 scores in your team will go towards your round total.
All team members must walk or run at the location they have registered for at the day specified on the Locations tab.
Your most improved points are based on your genuine improvement. Improve by too much or by too little, you will see your points decrease. Improvements points are between 20 and 40 points. By not improving your points will decrease from 20 to 5 the further away you are from your best time.
At the end of the program, the best 5 totals (highest points) out of your 7 rounds will determine the team’s final position.
Individuals in this category will still be eligible in the Fastest Runner category.

Category 2: Fastest Team/Individual

Nominating your team in the Fastest Team category will exclude your team from appearing in the Most Improved and KM Tracker categories.
By selecting this category your team wishes to compete for the Fastest Team awards. After each round, the best 5 times in your team will be averaged and this time will appear in the fastest teams list.
At the end of the program, your teams’ fastest 5 average rounds are averaged together giving your team an overall average time.
You will not receive Most Improved or KM Tracker category points.

Category 3: KM Tracker

Corporate Cup’s KM Tracker category is a flexible version of the traditional categories. Are you working from home? Unable to attend one of our 3 locations? Or needing a kick-start back into regular exercise? This is the category for you.
The KM Tracker category enables participants to do their run/walk anytime, anywhere. Teams that sign up for this category are required to download a GPS running app (there is no need to pay for one – the Apple and Android/Samsung health app are free and already on your phone).
There are 2 subcategories of the KM tracker: Work team and social/running group team. To be eligible to participate in the work team subcategory, you need at least 4 team members from the same organisation.
You may choose to run once a fortnight as usual or you can choose to incorporate additional walks/runs in the fortnight, it’s up to you. The more you do, the higher your KMs will be.
Each team member tracks their own walk or run using the app and then uploads their kms daily or at the end of each fortnight. By doing so, your team will be in the running to win fortnightly prizes.
Each round, there are 3 target categories – Bronze, Silver and Gold. Teams work together to try and complete the minimum requirements to reach their desired goal. Individuals may also try and reach the minimum kms of each category.
The km targets change each round as the Corporate Cup progresses. Bronze is the easiest target, then Silver, then Gold. Targets will be emailed to participants at the start of each round, as well as viewable on your Corporate Cup profile.
The team with the most KMs accumulated at the end of the Corporate Cup will win the KM Tracker perpetual trophy.