2026 Challenge Rules and Bugs

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I have created this thread specifically for questions relating to the 2026 Challenge rules and also to report bugs in the Challenge software. We think we’re pretty well there with the bug fixes, but hey it’s software :wink:

Please only post questions regarding the rules, questions regarding scoring or possible bug reports. This is so we can more easily track problems. I’m terrible for causing thread wandering but please note carefully, any out of context or posts not about rules or bugs WILL BE DELETED.

You can continue general chat about the challenge or specific issues not related to rules or bugs in the existing 2026 SOTA Challenge (Part X) threads.

Thank you for your cooperation.

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Hi Andy, thanks for this post. Is there a way to see the points off all regions?

How is the total score caculated? Whe I add up all the individual distances, I get a differetn value. Is it calculated internally with more precision than KM?

Thanks for your replay

73, Michael

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Yes, the actual distance is calculated using Haversine method, then stored with 64-bit floating point precision.

No, this would put too much load on the database as it makes some calculations on the fly.

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