How Do Challenge Prizes Work?
Last updated: November 13, 2026
Awarding prizes for an Ambition is optional, but will appear on a Challenge Competition's page so that employees will know what's at stake. Ambition doesn't award the prizes, but it tracks which employee earned each prize so you don't have to manually identify the winners.
Required permissions:
The Competitions: All Access or Competitions: Create Challenges permission is required to add prizes to a Challenge.
Add a Prize
On the Prizes (Optional) step, click on Add Prize, or Add Another Prize if one already exists.
Select Rank or Threshold from the Type drop-down menu.
Rank: Awarded to the competitor who finishes in a specific place, from 1st to 25th.
Threshold: Awarded to every competitor whose overall score reaches a value you set.
Select a place from the Place drop-down menu, or enter a score in the Value field for a threshold prize.
Describe the reward in the Prize field.
Note:
You can mix rank and threshold prizes in the same Challenge. Thresholds apply to the overall score, so check expected scores carefully if the Challenge uses several metrics or averages.
See Who Earned Each Prize
On the Challenge page, each threshold prize will show how many competitors have reached it. Click on the prize to see their names and the date each person crossed the threshold. For a full list of every prize winner, export the Challenge.