Clubs, Teams and Matchmaking on MyWhoosh

Clubs and Teams: build your community, then race together

Clubs and Teams bring a new and exciting two-tier community structure to MyWhoosh.

Clubs give larger communities a shared home to connect, organise and ride together. Teams now sit within those Clubs and provide a smaller competitive structure for riders who want to train, challenge other squads and race together.

Whether you already manage a MyWhoosh Team or you’re building a community for the first time, the new structure gives you more flexibility over how your riders are organized.

What is a Club?

A Club is the wider community hub and works just like your real life cycling club.

Each Club can support up to 2,000 members and can include riders across Cycling, Running and Rowing, regardless of ability level. Members can gather under one identity, take part in shared activity and join Club events.

Every user can create one Club for free, and creating Teams within that Club is also free. You can add another club slot for a fee of $16.99

Clubs can be Public or Private, giving admins control over how new members join. Club Owners can also assign Club Admins to help manage the community.

A club is not for racing, but members can still join non-competitive club level events, if you want to get competitive this is where the new Teams set up comes in.

What is a Team?

Teams are smaller groups that live within a Club, again a similar set up to many real world cycling clubs/teams.

Each Team can include up to 10 riders and is linked to a single sport, such as Cycling, Running or Rowing.

Teams are the competitive layer of this new system. Team Admins can organise Team Rides, challenge other Teams directly and enter Ranked Challenges through matchmaking. At this time Matchmaking is only available for cycling.

A Club can have multiple Teams, meaning a large community can organize riders into different squads depending on ability, goals or the type of events they want to enter.

Already have a Team? Here’s what changes

If you already use Teams in the MyWhoosh Link App, your existing community will move into the new structure automatically.

Existing Team members will be transferred into a Club. If you currently manage multiple Teams, those memberships will be combined under one Club at no additional cost.

You can then create and organise new Teams within that Club.

Because Teams are now limited to 10 members for competitive events, some existing Team owners may need to reorganise their riders before entering future Team events.The important part is that your existing members stay with you, you simply get a new structure for organising them.

Ride together with Club and Team events

Clubs and Teams support several different ways to organise rides and events.

Club events are designed for the wider community and can be opened to everyone in the Club or selected members. These are intended primarily for social rides and other shared Club activity.

Team Rides are smaller events created specifically for members of an individual Team.

An exciting new part of the new Clubs and Teams is that ability to challenge each other directly through Friendly Challenges, allowing two Teams to set up a casual head-to-head event.

Ranked Challenges and Matchmaking

Ranked Challenges take Team racing a step further. Instead of choosing an opponent yourself, your Team enters matchmaking and is paired with another Team through the MyWhoosh matchmaking system.

These are competitive events, with results contributing towards a Ranked leaderboard that wil be added to the game very soon. A Team needs at least three riders to enter a Ranked Challenge. Friendly Challenges require at least two.

Team Admins manage the lineup and enter the Team into matchmaking, giving smaller squads a regular competitive format without needing to find opponents themselves. Ranked competition also gives Teams something to work towards over time, with dedicated Team rankings and seasonal leaderboard progression.

Try it with 5 free Event Credits

To help riders and Team Admins get started with the new system, MyWhoosh is introducing a free trial package.

Activate the trial and you’ll receive:

5 Event Credits
60 days to use them from activation
Access to create eligible Club and Team events during the trial

Event Credits are used when an event is scheduled, so you can decide how and when you want to use them.

This gives existing Team organizers time to set up their new Club structure, organize their riders and try the new event and matchmaking features before choosing whether they want to continue with a subscription.

How Event Credits work

Event Credits are used to create events within Clubs and Teams.

They can be used by eligible admins to organise Club events, Team events and competitive challenges. An Event Credit is only consumed once the event has actually been scheduled.

Subscription packages will also provide Event Credits and additional community features, while add-on credit bundles will be available for users who need more events.

Club members do not need their own subscription simply to belong to a Club or Team.

Club admins can create club level event and only team admins can create team level events.