When you run more than one event under a single banner (a weekend with 200 km, 100 km and 50 km distances, say, or a one-day gravel day with several distances), you group them together so athletes and spectators see them as one thing. In the app this grouping is called a festival: a day or weekend bundling several events.
Above festivals sits a series: a calendar of festivals over a season. It's the level you use when the same festival returns each year, or when a championship runs across several festivals.
Create a festival and add events
- Create the festival with a name, description and header image.
- Add your events to it. When you create each event, choose Part of a festival in the naming step and pick an existing festival or name a new one. You can also add an existing event later from the festival's manage screen.
- The festival gets its own public page listing every event, sorted by distance, with each event's start time, categories, wave times and live registration counts. Athletes can register for an event and category straight from that page.
You manage the festival and its events as their organiser, and you can move an event in or out of the festival at any time.
Group festivals into a series
On a festival's manage screen, the Part of a series? control links that festival to a series: a calendar of festivals over a season, so spectators can follow the whole calendar in one place. Add the festival to an existing series you manage, or create a new series by name; you can remove it again at any time. The series link is stored on the festival, never on the individual events.
Share a course across races
If several races run on the same roads (common at a festival), build a course once (its shape, its start/finish lines and its feed-stop locations) and apply it to every race in one go, with a preview before you commit. Edit the course in one place and push the changes to all linked races, instead of re-uploading a GPX for each. A single race can keep its own version of a piece (its own feed stops, say) if it needs to differ. See Routes, start and finish lines.
Festival-wide drafting check
For a competitive festival, you can run a drafting scan across all its events at once. It catches riders sitting on a wheel even when they're in different events on shared road, which a single-event check can't see. It surfaces flagged pairs for you to review, and to clear, penalise or disqualify. Disqualifying a rider asks you to confirm first.
Good to know
- The festival page only shows events a viewer is allowed to see; private events stay hidden from anyone who doesn't manage the festival.
- Registration counts and category spots on the page update live as athletes sign up.
- A festival, and the series above it, can each carry their own sponsor strip, separate from any sponsors on the individual events inside them. See Your organiser profile, sponsors and audience report.