How Do Changing Group Memberships Affect Challenge Scoring?
Last updated: November 10, 2026
Depending on the selections made when creating the Competition, a Challenge's competitor list may be updated as the Challenge progress, or remain fixed. Continue reading below to learn about the effects of changing Group memberships on Group-vs-Group and Employee-vs-Employee Challenges.
Group-vs-Group Challenges
If the Challenge participant Hierarchy Level is a Group Type, like Role or Team, people added to a competing Group will automatically count toward that Group's overall Competition attainment.
Newly added members' contributions are considered from the date they joined the Group onwards.
People who leave a Group mid-Challenge will not have any future contributions added to the Group's score totals, but the data they earned while in the Group will still in the Competition.
Employee-vs-Employee Challenges
If competitors were chosen with Within or Custom Logic, you'll choose a setting under If employees are added/removed from selected groups during the competition: on the Competitors step.
Add/Remove Competitors: New Group members will join the Challenge, and people who leave the Group will be removed from it.
Maintain Original Competitors: The competitor list will stay as it was when the Challenge started.
Note:
Maintain Original Competitors is useful for a month-long Challenge when a new hire class joins the team during the last week.