Pick a team. Score points from real IPF results. Compete on the leaderboard. Here's every rule, in detail.
Before a competition begins, you pick a squad of 8 powerlifters from the entry list. Each lifter has a price in £m set by us based on their strength and ranking. You have a £100m salary cap to spend across all 8 picks.
Assign one of your 8 picks as captain. Their total score is multiplied by 2×. Pick the lifter you're most confident will score highly.
Teams lock at midnight before the first day of lifting. After that, no changes can be made. You can edit your team as many times as you like before the lock.
Every lifter earns a score from their performance. The formula is:
Score = GL + Attempt + Placement + Record + Beat-Prediction
Captain score = Score × 2
If a lifter fails to record a valid total (DNF), they score 0 points regardless of other values.
IPF Goodlift (GL) points measure how strong a lift is relative to the lifter's bodyweight. A heavier total at a lighter bodyweight scores more. Ranges from ~50 to 130+ for elite lifters.
Bonus points for going perfect (or close to it) across all 9 competition attempts (3 squat, 3 bench, 3 deadlift).
| Successful Lifts | Bonus |
|---|---|
| 9/9 | 15 pts |
| 8/9 | 8 pts |
| 7/9 | 3 pts |
| 6/9 or fewer | 0 pts |
Bonus points for finishing in the top 8 of their weight class.
| Place | Bonus |
|---|---|
| 1st | 20 pts |
| 2nd | 14 pts |
| 3rd | 10 pts |
| 4th | 7 pts |
| 5th | 5 pts |
| 6th | 3 pts |
| 7th | 2 pts |
| 8th | 1 pts |
| Outside top 8 | 0 pts |
If a lifter breaks a record during the competition, they earn a flat 30 point bonus. The type of record (world, national, junior, etc.) is defined by the admins for each event. The bonus goes to whoever finishes the competition holding the record: if a lifter breaks a record and a later lifter then breaks the same record again, only the lifter who ends the competition with the record earns the bonus. Even if a lifter breaks multiple records, this bonus is only awarded once, so the most a lifter can earn for records is 30 points.
Each lifter has a predicted total based on their previous performances and personal bests. If they lift more than their predicted total, they earn 15 bonus points. Rewards overperformance.
When you submit, you also enter a GL prediction: your guess for the highest overall GL score among men and among women.
If two or more teams tie on total score, the closest combined GL prediction (men's + women's) wins. Smaller difference wins.
If two users submit identical predictions, the team that was submitted earliest wins.
Your lifter scores 105.3 GL points, goes 8/9 on attempts, finishes 2nd in their class, and beats their predicted total. No record broken.
Mini-leagues are private leaderboards within a competition. Compete against just the friends you invite, using the same teams, scores, and tiebreakers as the main leaderboard. Open any competition's leaderboard and tap Mini-leagues to get started.
Create a league and you'll get a short code (and a shareable invite link) to send to friends. Anyone who enters the code joins, and the creator's team is added automatically. You need a team in the competition before you can create or join.
A mini-league's table is the main leaderboard filtered to its members, scored and ranked in exactly the same way. Being in a mini-league never changes your score on the main board.
The creator can rename the league, regenerate the join code (which stops the old one working), remove members, or delete the league. Everyone else can leave at any time and rejoin with the code.
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