No. The Open division is designed to be accessible yet challenging for athletes from all fitness backgrounds.

The Earn Your Stripes™ system rewards athlete progression. Performance benchmarks during each event determine the stripe level earned.

Yes. Teams may strategically share the workload at strength stations while completing the course together.

You will receive your assigned heat time 24 hours before event day.

Earn Your Stripes is Apex Games’ official athlete progression system designed to reward repeat participation and continuous performance improvement. Click here to learn more.

Doubles - each team member must complete all the run blocks, whilst all the fitness blocks can be allocated in any form to the 2 x athletes.  For the team's event, all athletes must run the full run  blocks, but in each fitness section, each athlete takes one of the 3 fitness stations to complete on their own.  Once all 3 are completed, the team can move onto the next run block.

For Doubles regardless of the gender mix, the weighted exercises will be undertaken using the males assigned weights.

For Teams the workload is divided by gender. The male team member(s) use men’s Open weights and the female team member(s) use female Open weights.

Age Groups for the Open division are structured as follows:

16-29
30-39
40-49
50-50+

Podium places are awarded in each Age Group category.

Saturday’s event will feature all Solo categories (Pro and Open) in the morning and Teams will compete in the afternoon.
Sunday’s event will feature all the Doubles categories (Pro and Open).

All times are a guide only and are subject to change depending on demand in each category. Final start times will be sent to racers 24–48 hours before event day.

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