Pursuits FAQ

A Pursuit is a group competition with 3-20 friends. You pick a game mode, share an invite code, and compete over a season. Every workout you log in Axis Echo automatically counts toward your active Pursuits - no extra steps needed.

Tap "Create Pursuit" in the Social Hub, pick your game mode and settings, then share the invite code with your group. Once enough players have joined, you pick a start date and kick it off. Seasons always start on a Monday.

Tap the invite link from your friend or enter the invite code manually. You'll see a preview of the rules and who has already joined before committing. Once you tap "Join", you're in.

Yes. A single workout counts toward all your active Pursuits simultaneously. There is no limit on how many you can join.

No. Rosters are locked when the season begins. New players can be invited between seasons, when the next season is set up with the same group.

Survivor is an elimination format. Each round, the player with the lowest score becomes a spectator - they can still watch and follow the standings, they just can't score. The last player standing wins. Each player gets one Freeze to use at any point in the season to avoid elimination. Freezes are disabled in the final round.

Rivals is a head-to-head format. Each round, players are paired up in matchups. Win your matchup to earn 3 points, draw for 1, lose for 0. The player with the most accumulated points at the end of all rounds wins. The creator chooses whether matchups are open (you can see your opponent's progress during the week) or blind (hidden until the Sunday reveal).

Summit is a classic cumulative points league. Everyone scores every week and the player with the most total points at the end of the season wins. Consistency across all rounds matters more than single big weeks. Seasons run for 8 or 16 weeks.

The Chase is cooperative. The whole group works toward a shared weekly target. Hit it together and you're all good. Miss it and the group takes a strike. Reach the end with fewer than 3 strikes and everyone is a co-champion. One player per day gets a Relay Boost, earning bonus points to help cover for teammates.

Workouts need to be at least 25 minutes long and include at least 2 different exercises with completed sets. This prevents short or incomplete workouts from counting.

In Survivor and Rivals, each round has a hidden bonus metric that is revealed on Sunday when results come in. The creator doesn't know the metric in advance either - it rotates automatically through a fixed set of six. This prevents gaming a single stat all season. In Rivals, the creator can also choose a fixed metric instead of the mystery rotation.

Sessions Completed (total qualifying workouts that round), Unique Exercises (different exercises where you completed 2+ sets), Muscles Trained (distinct muscle groups hit across exercises with 2+ sets), Total Sets (all valid sets across all sessions, with rapid-fire duplicates filtered out), Longest Session (duration of your biggest workout with 4+ exercises, capped at 120 minutes), and Consistency Spread (how many unique days you trained in the round). They rotate in that order - round 1 is Sessions Completed, round 2 is Unique Exercises, and so on. After all six have been used, it cycles back.

Up to 20 bonus points per round, awarded by ranking. The player with the best result on the mystery metric gets the full 20, and it scales down to 0 for last place. Tied players share the same rank and bonus. These points are added on top of your compound workout score, so the mystery metric can swing a close matchup but won't overpower someone who trained significantly more.

Every Sunday at 20:00 in the league timezone. Standings, mystery metric bonuses, and eliminations (Survivor) all happen at the same time. You get a push notification when results are in.

Ties are broken by a cascade: best result on the remaining metrics, then most recent workout timestamp, then alphabetical by username. Someone is always eliminated (unless multiple players have all used their Freeze, in which case nobody is eliminated that round).

Each player gets one Freeze per season. Activate it before a round ends to protect yourself from elimination that round. Everyone in the Pursuit can see when you've used it. Freezes cannot be used in the final round between the last two players.

Yes. All round boundaries (Monday start, Sunday 20:00 reveal) run on the timezone the creator set when they created the Pursuit. Your local time might differ. Check the Pursuit settings to see the timezone.

You score 0 for that round. In Survivor, scoring 0 puts you at serious risk of elimination unless others also score low. In Summit and Rivals, a 0 hurts your cumulative standing but doesn't remove you from the competition.

Results are finalised and everyone gets a recap. You'll see a "Run It Back?" option to start a new season with the same group, potentially in a different mode. The group stays together between seasons.