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12. Challenges

Challenges are community competitions published by Fastmark: an official format to shoot, open for a period, with a public leaderboard per discipline. Anyone can browse them; playing needs an account and a username.

12.1 Finding the challenges

The menu's "Challenges" entry (gold cup icon, with a "New" badge) opens the challenges page. The entry is shown only while at least one challenge is open to you; when none is, it is absent from the menu — and so are the closed boards.

The page lists one card per challenge, those closing last first:

  • the challenge's icon and title;
  • "Open until " while it is open, "Ended " once closed — the date is the closing day; the exact closing moment is set by Fastmark;
  • a gold line when you lead a board: "You lead " or "You lead {} disciplines"; once closed, "Won by " (with the winning score for a single-discipline challenge);
  • an "OPEN" chip while the challenge is open — gold when you lead, teal otherwise.

A challenge with a single discipline opens straight on its leaderboard (§12.3); one with several opens on its overview (§12.2). With nothing published, the page reads "No challenge at the moment. Come back soon!".

While you cannot take part yet, a gold banner at the top reads "Log in and set a username to participate" — tap it to reach the User page.

12.2 The challenge overview

The overview opens with the challenge's title and its "Open until" / "Ended" date, an introduction, and two facts:

  • who may play — "Open to everyone", or "Restricted — invited shooters only" (a restricted challenge is only listed for, and only ranks, the accounts Fastmark has invited; there is no code to join);
  • the attempt rule — "Unlimited attempts, best score counts", "{} attempts, best score counts" or "One attempt only".

Below, one tile per discipline of the challenge, with its pictogram and name (and a variant subtitle — caliber, series time or stance — when the same discipline appears in several variants), and a three-seat mini board: the first two, then the third — or your own row, in teal, when you rank lower. The leader's row is gold. Tap a tile for its leaderboard.

12.3 The leaderboard

The leaderboard page is titled " - Leaderboard". A podium shows the first three (gold, teal, grey) with their names and scores; under it, the full standings — one row per contestant with the rank, the username, the score and "Attempts: {}". From the fourth rank down, your own row adds "{} pts to the podium": the points separating you from third place. Your row is edged in teal, the leader's in gold. Tapping a row opens that contestant's best session — read-only for anyone else's. An empty board reads "No results yet — be the first to play!".

12.4 Taking part

Playing requires being signed in (chapter 4) with a username of your own — the default name is refused, because the username is what the leaderboard shows to everyone. Pressing play without them opens "Participation requires an account" — "Log in and choose a username — it will appear on the public leaderboard." — with an "Open my account" button that takes you to the User page.

While the challenge is open, the leaderboard page carries a "Play" button:

  1. "Play" creates a new session from the challenge's official template, in a dedicated event bearing the challenge's name, and launches it exactly like a session of your own (§5.3): a single series starts at once on your target; a match opens its session page where the series are shot in order. The usual target requirements apply.
  2. An attempt you leave unfinished is not ranked; the button then reads "Continue" and reopens it — you can also reach it from your home screen, where the challenge event appears as a lavender tile with a cup badge (§1.4). Its sessions cannot be swiped away.
  3. When the attempt rule limits the attempts, the button is disabled once you have completed that many — only your first completed attempts count, even if a later one scores better.

Your entry is the best total of your counted attempts — all scoring series summed, sighting series excluded, malfunction re-shoots folded in as in any match (§7.9). Standings are sorted by total; equal totals share their position. Boards are computed from the data synchronized to your device, so they refresh when the page is opened and the device is online; the attempt itself needs no connection, like any session.

Challenge attempts are ordinary sessions of your account: they appear in your history under the challenge's event and count in your statistics (chapter 8).