Strategy Guide
Master the forest. Draft your squad and conquer the leaderboards.
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The core of Strat-O is building your fantasy team for each event. The requirements change based on the event type:
- Individual Events: Your team must consist of exactly 6 athletes: 3 male and 3 female.
- Relay Events: Instead of a general pool, you will assign a specific athlete to each leg of the men's and women's relays.
Each athlete has a "star" rating based on their skill, and you have a limited budget for your team. This applies to both individual and relay events.
- Discipline-Specific Stars: An athlete's star rating depends on the event's discipline (Forest or Sprint).
- Total Event Budget: Your entire team (all 6 athletes in individual, or all leg assignments in a relay) must not exceed the event's total star budget (e.g., 20 stars).
- Gender Budget (Individual Events): For individual events, your 3 male athletes have their own budget (e.g., 12 stars), and your 3 female athletes have a separate budget of the same amount. You must stay within all three budgets!
To reflect the real-world significance of different orienteering competitions, Strat-O uses four distinct "Event Levels". Every point earned by your athletes or from bonus questions is multiplied by the event factor and rounded down to the nearest digit.
The pinnacle of the sport. Includes World Orienteering Championships (WOC), European Championships (EOC), and World Cup rounds. Also includes major international relays such as Tiomila and Jukola.
High-level national competition. Includes National Championships in major orienteering countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Czech Republic, and Switzerland).
Standard World Ranking Events (WRE) in major countries, as well as National Championships in all other countries.
Small-scale World Ranking Events (WRE) or high-level regional invitationals.
Individual Events
Your team earns points based on how your chosen athletes perform in the real-world event. Points are awarded for top 10 finishes:
Relay Events
CRITICAL RELAY RULE
Relay scoring is multi-faceted. Your score is based on individual leg performances and the overall success of the real-world teams your athletes were on.
Individual Leg Performance
Points are awarded for athletes who achieve a top 6 time on their specific leg (subject to the correct leg assignment rule above).
Team Finish Bonus
You receive a significant point bonus if one of your selected athletes is part of a real-world team that finishes on the overall podium.
Note: This bonus is awarded only once per podium team, even if you have multiple athletes from that same team.
Before an event, you'll have the chance to answer one or more yes/no bonus questions. A correct answer adds a significant number of points to your event score.
Locked Questions
Some questions may be linked to specific athletes. If your Strat-O user profile is linked to one of those athletes, you won't be able to answer that question to ensure fair play.
Your performance is tracked on two types of leaderboards.
- Event Leaderboards: See how you stacked up against others for a specific event.
- Global Leaderboard: Your total score from all events contributes to your global rank for the season.
Visibility & Scouting
Leaderboards show the Top 3 players to everyone. If you link your athlete profile, you unlock the ability to see the Top 10. You will also always see yourself and your immediate neighbors, plus any "Elite" athletes (those whose linked pro profile has 3+ stars).
Joining or founding a club unlocks the Club Ranking tab on all leaderboards. This is where the social strategy of Strat-O truly shines.
- Top-3 Sum Scoring: A club's total score is the sum of its best three members for that specific ranking period. This means a club of 3 elite members can beat a club of 30!
- Club Tags: Your club tag (e.g. [TAG]) will appear next to your name on all rankings.
- Club Limits: You can be a member of up to 3 clubs, and each club can have up to 30 members.
If you are an orienteering athlete yourself, you can link your Strat-O account to your official athlete profile on your Profile page. This gives you several perks:
- A special highlight on leaderboards and other views, marking you as a real-world competitor.
- A 1-star discount when you pick yourself for your own fantasy team.
- Access to view the Top 10 on the global leaderboard (instead of just the Top 3).