Build a team of real short track speed skaters, earn points from actual competition results, and compete for the top of the leaderboard.
Short Track Manager turns the real World Tour into your game. Draft a squad of real speed skaters, and every time one of them podiums in a live competition their result is banked as your points.
Sharper picks and better-timed transfers send you up the global leaderboard. Here's the spec you start with.
Every manager starts with a 100M budget to fill 13 roster slots:
Each athlete and relay team has a price. You must keep your total spend at or under 100M. There is no minimum spend — find the best value to maximise your point haul.
Prices are based on a rolling sum of ranking points across the athlete's four most recent competitions. Prices update after each competition weekend, so strong performances push athletes into higher tiers.
On the Athletes page, each card may display a badge showing the athlete's best international world ranking across all distances they compete in (500m, 1000m, 1500m). This is their standing in the real-world international rankings — not a game rank.
After each competition's results are published — and before the next event goes live — a transfer window opens. You can swap athletes in and out to react to form, injuries, and price shifts.
Window timing: opens when competition results are finalised; locks the moment a competition status changes to "live". Plan ahead!
The winner earns 100,000 pts and each subsequent place earns approximately 85% of the one above — rewards extend all the way down to last place. Both individual and relay events use the same formula.
| Place | Points |
|---|---|
| 1st | 100,000 |
| 2nd | 85,000 |
| 3rd | 72,250 |
| 5th | 52,201 |
| 10th | 23,162 |
| 20th | 4,560 |
| 30th | ~898 |
| 50th | ~35 |
| 68th | 2 |
Every place is worth 85% of the one above it — a single ×0.85 geometric curve from 1st (100,000) on down the field, fading to 0 by around 77th. DNS / DNF / DQ earn 0 points.
Your three relay slots — Women's 3000m Relay, Men's 5000m Relay, and Mixed Relay — score points using the exact same formula as individual athletes. If your chosen country's relay team finishes 1st, you earn 100,000 pts from that slot; 2nd earns 85,000 pts, and so on.
Relay results do not contribute to per-athlete or team bonus thresholds.
On top of placement points, athletes and teams can earn bonus points for exceptional performances in a single competition.
Set a world record — stacks with other bonuses; each WR fires separately
Finish in the top 3 in all three distances (500m, 1000m, 1500m)
Finish top 10 in all three distances (only if Hat Trick is not earned)
4 or more podium finishes (top 3) across your 10 individual athletes
7 or more top-10 finishes across your 10 individual athletes
Both team bonuses can fire in the same competition. Relay teams do not count towards team bonus thresholds.
Compete head-to-head with friends in a private league. Each league has its own independent team, budget, standings, and activity feed — completely separate from your global rank.
Scoring is identical to global. Same international ranking formula, same per-athlete bonuses (Hat Trick +500,000, Top-10 Triple +200,000, World Record +1,000,000), same team bonuses (Team Podium +150,000, Team Top-10 +100,000). Achievement badges apply to the global team only.
Pick order is randomly set once and locked. Even rounds follow the same order; odd rounds reverse it — a classic snake draft.
5 male athletes + 5 female athletes + 3 relay teams — the full standard 13-slot roster, covered in one draft.
Once an athlete is drafted, they cannot be picked by any other manager in the league for the rest of the draft.
Any specific relay team (e.g. Netherlands Men's 5000m) can appear on at most 2 rosters in the same league.
Each turn has a 12-hour window with a push notification at the start and a 1-hour warning. Miss it and the slot is skipped — empty slots can be filled via normal transfers after the draft.
| Feature | Basic | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Join leagues (invite code) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create leagues | — | 1 league |
| Max members per league | — | 15 |
| Transfers per window | 2 | 7 |
Pro is a one-time seasonal subscription.