A maximum of 48 DRR club members can enter (first come, first serve).
Entrants must provide a mobile number on entry to be added to a WhatsApp group.
Once entries have been filled (or on the evening of Monday 8th June, 3 days before the first game, if we don’t get 48 participants) each entrant will be given a country that is taking part in the World Cup 2026, via a random draw. The country each participant has been allocated will be their country for the whole tournament.
You should not reveal your country to anyone.
During the tournament, your team will play at least 3 fixtures, or more if they qualify beyond the group stage.
1 goal = 1 mile!
For any goals your team concede, you will need to complete an activity of at least that many miles, but without going over the next mile marker, e.g. if your team concede 3 goals, you must complete a run between 3.00 and 3.99 miles. Yes miles, not Kilometres - Sorry Steve Brooks. The distance is what I can see, so if you run exactly 3 miles on your watch, but it shows as 2.99 on Strava, it does not count! ADVICE: better to be safe than sorry, aim comfortably within the parameters. You must complete these before your team kicks off again, or within 5 days/120 hours (after Kick Off) if it is your team's last fixture.
Members must be part of the DRR Strava Club for the duration of the competition. Activities must be recorded as a RUN, so that they appear on the activity feed, but can be completed at any speed (run, jog, or walked), but must be done on foot/no bicycles allowed! Activities and Strava profiles must be public, so that they show on feed, but you can hide starts and finishes, as this will not affect the activity distance. Activities must have at least one of the following emojis in the name ⚽️🌍🏆, to be an included.
Any goals your team score can be allocated by you to another nation. You'll have 24 hours (from your kick off time) to choose a nation to allocate your miles to, and let me know. A nation can only be allocated miles once in a round of fixtures, so I will contact you back if the nation you have selected has already been chosen, for you to re-select. You also cannot allocate them to the opponent that they were scored against. You will have 5 days/120 hours to run these from notification.
If you do not complete the correct distance within the time limits, you will finish bottom in the final standings, as a did not complete.
6 days after the World Cup has ended, you will have the opportunity to guess each participant's nation. You get 1 point for each one you get correct, but lose 1 point for every person who guesses your nation.
Oh, and you can do decoy runs, feel free to do as many other runs as you like to throw others off. Still add the emojis, and run whatever distance you like to try and hide what your country is.
Note: I will be competing, but will know everyone’s nations, so my aim will be just to be guessed by as few people as possible and avoid finishing last!
