Competitions Pro

You can view the list of competitions and the leaderboards without Pro. Joining and creating challenges requires Pro.

With competitions you can measure yourself against other shooters. Create your own challenges, join official monthly challenges and compare yourself on the leaderboard. What a challenge of your own is good for is shown in the blog post Online challenges in Ring Reader.

Overview

You reach the competitions page via the trophy icon in the navigation. There you’ll find:

• “Monthly Challenges”: Official competitions that change every month and are open to all participants.
• Monthly matches: Official match competitions that combine several series into one match — 3 series for supported (Auflage) disciplines, 4 series for standing.
• “Monthly Decimal Digits”: An official challenge for all disciplines, where only the tenths count.
• “My Challenges”: Challenges you’ve joined or created.

In “My Challenges”, running competitions come first and not-yet-started ones after. Finished competitions collect in the collapsed “Completed” section at the bottom of the page — the number next to it tells you how many there are, and one tap opens them. Tap the “Filters” button below the search field to open the “Discipline” picker and show only competitions of a particular discipline; the number on the button tells you how many disciplines are currently selected. The search field above finds competitions by name, discipline, invite code and participant; several words narrow it down further, and a minus in front of a word excludes it.

Taking part in a competition

1. Tap “Join” and enter the invite code you received — or open the link someone sent you, and Ring Reader opens the competition directly.
2. Set a username if you don’t have one yet. Your name appears on the leaderboard.
3. That’s it — just shoot as usual.

Your results count automatically in every competition you’ve joined. There’s no manual submitting; your best matching result is always the one scored. Matching means: discipline, shot count and time window have to fit the competition — and series that were heavily edited afterwards don’t count. If a particular series shouldn’t count — say, a test shoot with someone else’s weapon — take it out of scoring: on the result page of every series (and, for matches, on the group page) you’ll find the “Do not submit to challenges” switch. If a series can’t be scored, it reads “Not counted in challenges” there instead, with the reason: too many manual corrections, manually entered results can’t compete, or this import type can’t compete.

If a new result fits a running challenge, the result page shows a card “You’d be rank #… of … in …” with “Join challenge”. If you’re already in and had excluded the result, the button reads “Include result”. “No thanks” hides the card for this challenge permanently.

Competition types

• “Best Series”: Whoever achieves the highest total score wins.
• “Best Deviation”: Whoever achieves the smallest Teiler (distance of the best shot to the target center) wins.
• “Best Match”: Several series are combined into one match; the highest match result wins.
• “Target Deviation”: A target Teiler is set in advance — whoever gets closest to it with a shot wins. A handicap format where the strongest shooter isn’t automatically in front.
• “Decimal digits”: Only the tenths count: 10.9 and 6.9 are both 9 points. The only format that can be set up across all disciplines.
• “DSB minus scoring”: 100 minus rings plus best Teiler; the lowest total wins.

Matches

Match competitions score series groups instead of individual series:

• Monthly matches combine 3 series (supported) or 4 series (standing) into one result.
• A matching series group counts automatically — just like individual series, there’s nothing extra to submit. The chapter Creating Groups shows how to create groups.
• With Pro you create your own match competitions with a freely chosen series count (2–10).

Leaderboard & results

• The leaderboard refreshes every 30 seconds.
• Your position is highlighted in blue.
• The top 3 are marked in gold, silver and bronze.
• All participants are visible — anyone without a result yet still appears in the list.
• Ties are decided by the next-best result; equal performances share the same rank.
• Each entry shows the date of the series and, on a tie, the deciding next-best result.

Tap your own submission to jump straight to the underlying series or match. Via “Share Results” you create a result card with your rank, shot pattern and result, and send it on.

The “Details” bar collapses the upper part of the competition page so the leaderboard moves up; the arrows next to it jump to the previous or next competition in the list.

Sharing your own shot pattern

With the “Others may view my shots” switch on the competition page, the other participants can tap your row on the leaderboard and open your series with the full shot pattern. Series name, notes and equipment stay private; the page carries your username and the name of the competition. For official challenges, “Remember for all public challenges” keeps your decision for the next ones.

Push notifications

Ring Reader can optionally notify you on rank changes — when you take 1st place, the podium changes or you drop back.

• After joining, the competition shows a prompt “Get notified when your rank changes?” — tap “Enable”.
• Alternatively, turn on “Push alerts for challenge rank changes” in Settings.
• On iPhone, push notifications only work with the app installed — see Install the App.

Creating your own competition (Pro)

1. Tap “Create Challenge”.
2. Give it a name, choose the type (Best Series, Best Deviation, Best Match, Target Deviation, Decimal digits or DSB minus scoring) and the discipline; for Decimal digits, “All disciplines” is available too.
3. For a match competition, also set “Series per match” (2–10); for a Target Deviation competition, the target Teiler.
4. Set a start and end date.
5. Optional: limit the number of participants.
6. After creating it, you receive an invite code that you can pass on to friends or club mates.

Inviting friends

• Open your competition and copy the “Invite Code” or the link.
• Share the code via WhatsApp, Telegram or directly at the club.
• Invited shooters can join with the code, even without a link.

Requirements

• Taking part: Pro required.
• Creating: Pro required.
• A public username must be set in the settings.