Competitions & achievement records

Competitions are hosted Kingpin events with a theme, timeline, and winner criteria. They may be decided by most likes, host selected, randomly drawn, or reviewed by Kingpin depending on the event format.

1. Choose a clear theme such as best trick or setup-of-the-month.
2. Set entry dates, voting or judging windows, and prize details.
3. Publish the event and share it with riders, shops, or followers.

Hosts open competitions for free from the Start a competition page. Riders enter by attaching one of their eligible drops on the competition detail page once the entry window is live.

Hosts pick how the winner is decided when they create the competition. The mechanic locks at creation so entrants always know how they'll be judged.

Every field on the create form maps directly to how the competition runs. Here's what each one controls.

• Competition name

  The public title shown on the hub and detail page. Pick something specific so riders can scan the lane fast.

• Prompt or rules

  The brief riders read before entering. Spell out the obstacle, trick, theme, or eligibility cutoffs.

• Format

  Best trick, community jam, or setup showdown. Format is a soft tag — it sets visitor expectations and helps surface the jam in the right lane.

• Timeline

  Pick a preset for the entry window plus the result window. Most-likes can vote after entries close or use rolling voting during entries.

• Winner selection

  Locks the mechanic above. You can't change this after creation, so think about how you want to call the winner before posting.

• Voting schedule

  Most-likes only. Choose a dedicated post-entry voting window or open voting as soon as the competition starts.

• Free entries

  Cap on free submissions per competition. The default is 100 free entries, then 1 credit per accepted entry after the free slots are used.

• Let me enter my own competition

  Only flip this on for showcase jams where you want to post a seed clip alongside community entries.

• Allow entrants to vote for themselves

  Only used by most-likes jams. Off by default so community voting stays cleaner.

Each preset sets two windows — an entry window followed by a result window. Most-likes uses the result window for community voting, host-pick uses it for review, and random-draw uses it for the draw to settle.

Most-likes competitions can also use rolling voting, which opens voting when entries open and keeps voting available through the result window. That lets early entries collect likes while the rest of the field is still coming in.

• Quick jam

  24 hours entries · 24 hours result

  Best for fast turnarounds — local sessions, weekend trick calls.

• Weekend session

  48 hours entries · 48 hours result

  Default. Two days to enter, two days for the floor to settle the result.

• Weekly challenge

  7 days entries · 3 days result

  Bigger jams with more time to film and submit, then a shorter result window.

• Read the rules before submitting.
• Make sure your drop matches the theme and deadline.
• Follow the event page for voting, review, and result updates.

From the competition page, riders can either tap the visual selector to pick one of their recent eligible drops or hit Create a new drop for this competition to open Story Builder pre-tagged for the jam. Each competition has a free-entry cap. Early entries use those free slots first; after the cap is reached, the entry page shows the configured paid entry cost before riders submit.

Competition entries must use a drop created within the last 3 days. The selector on the competition page already filters to the same window, and the join action rejects stale drops with a friendly error if a hand-rolled submission slips through.

Why: jams are about what riders are making for the brief. The 3-day window keeps the floor current and stops back-catalog material from competing against fresh work.

If you don't have an eligible recent drop, the join card surfaces a create-new path that opens Story Builder with the competition context pre-loaded. The drop you make there is a normal durable drop that can later be attached to the entry.

• The drop must be one of yours and posted within the entry window.
• The drop must have been created within the last 3 days.
• The drop should match the prompt or rules listed on the brief.
• One drop can only be entered into one competition at a time.

Kingpin competitions are designed to keep prizes exciting while making sure events can stay fair, moderated, and available years from now.

For early competitions, our default pool split is:

That means 70% of the pool is directed toward winners and the people helping make the event happen. The remaining portion keeps competitions reviewed, protected from abuse, archived, and available long-term.

As the competition system grows and we have 3-6 months of real operating data, our target is to move toward:

Splits may improve over time as competition volume and operating costs become more predictable.

Brands may fund a prize directly, attach an eligible marketplace listing item, or provide a manual prize record where needed. Sponsored events can support best trick contests, setup-of-the-month, video part challenges, local shop challenges, product review challenges, and sponsor-selected honorable mentions.

When the main prize is fully sponsor-funded, any connected support pool can use a more community-forward split because the prize itself is already covered.

Finalized competition results may be preserved as public achievement records. These snapshots are designed so winners can reference a result later, even if usernames, images, sponsor details, or listing titles change over time.

Public result pages are designed to show rider, placement, competition, prize, sponsor, host or judge context where available, and a verified-by-Kingpin indicator without exposing private payout, fraud, legal, or internal review metadata.

Payouts and rewards may go through review before becoming claimable or withdrawable. Under-18 users may need guardian handling for withdrawals where eligible and where allowed, while public achievements can still be preserved.

Kingpin may hold, void, or reverse rewards for abuse, fraud, duplicate accounts, rule violations, or other issues subject to review.

• Follow the brief closely.
• Share clear photos or clips that make judging easier.
• Submit early so you have time to fix anything before deadline.