Team Competition
Team fitness competition combining functional workouts across global events, with divisions designed for every ability level.
Format
Team Functional Competition
Duration
~4–6 hours
Difficulty
Beginner
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Advanced
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Environment
Mixed
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Turf Games is a global team fitness competition running events in more than 12 cities each season, from London and Glasgow to Dubai, Sydney, and Singapore. The flagship format — Fittest in the City (FITC) — brings teams together for a series of back-to-back workouts across a single day, testing strength, power, endurance, and cooperation. Teams of five compete in male, female, or mixed configurations, with divisions from Everyday Athlete through to Elite.
The competition runs on a waterfall format: heats begin at staggered times throughout the day, with every team completing four workouts. Scoring is rank-based — teams are positioned relative to others in their division rather than against a fixed time or rep target. The competition window from the first heat to the end of the final workout is approximately 95 minutes, though athletes are typically on site for the full day.
Events take place across a range of venues. The London Summer Festival is held outdoors at Grasshoppers Rugby Club in West London; city series events in other locations include outdoor stadiums and sports complexes. Environment varies by event — check the specific event page before committing. Workouts and loading are updated each season — current details are in the Event Breakdown.
Turf Games is accessible by design. The Everyday Athlete division is built for people who train regularly but have never competed before — no qualifying standard or prior competition experience is required to enter.
You don't need a competition background to take on Turf Games. You do need a baseline for your chosen division:
Mixed team entry is available across all divisions, which makes Turf Games one of the more inclusive events on the competition calendar — you don't need a full same-sex team to take part.
Turf Games has grown from a UK-based event series into a global competition circuit. The 2025/26 Fittest in the City season spans more than 12 cities — London, Glasgow, Dubai, Malaga, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, and Singapore among them — with approximately 15,000 athletes competing across the season. World Champions are now crowned in each division at the end of every season, giving the competition calendar a clear endpoint worth aiming at.
The organiser has extended the format in two directions beyond the main event. ENGINE — an endurance race combining ski, row, bike, running, and burpee broad jumps — runs alongside the main festival in London, Dubai, and on the Gold Coast, with solo, pairs, and triples entry. An online training platform, Turf Training, delivers event-specific programming via app and connects athletes with coaches and a training community ahead of events.
For an athlete deciding whether to commit, the trajectory is consistent: an event series actively expanding its geography, growing its competition infrastructure, and building accessible routes into the sport for athletes at every level. The community is broadening, and the calendar is becoming more defined.
Turf Games earns its place on the platform through operational consistency and genuine accessibility. Events run to time, the competition structure is clearly communicated, and the waterfall format keeps the day moving without unnecessary downtime. The Everyday Athlete division is not an afterthought — it functions as a proper entry route into competitive functional fitness, with standards that are challenging without being exclusionary. Evaluated against the same criteria as every event on this platform, the case was made on both counts.
The Pursuit team has attended Turf Games events across multiple years and both the summer and winter seasons. The experience has been consistent: strong organiser presence throughout, well-marked competition arenas, proper athlete registration, and an event that delivers exactly what it describes. The operational standard has held across multiple seasons and locations.
