About OpenContest, the app for sports contests and records

OpenContest is a social app built around what people can physically do. You pick a contest, film one take on your phone, and your result is ranked on many boards at once, from your gym to the world. Video is the proof, and the higher you rank, the stricter the check. It is made by My Social Sports in Lisbon.

The idea

Think of it as a mix of Instagram, Strava and a book of world records, open to every kind of physical activity. Your physical achievements are your identity on the app, and the contests are what people post.

It is not a workout tracker. It does not log your sets or plan your week. It is a place for what you can do: your best number of strict pull ups, your fastest 5K, your longest handstand, with the video to show it.

Three ideas sit underneath everything:

• Anyone can enter, from beginners to professionals.
• Every take is ranked on several boards at once, so everyone is first somewhere. Read more in everyone is first somewhere.
• Video is the proof. The higher you rank, the stricter the check.

What you can do on it

Official contests have strict, written rules, required video and full verification, and they hold the record boards. Anyone can also create a community contest with its own rules; one that gains traction can be reviewed and promoted to official. Gyms run their own contests for their members.

Your profile shows your records, each with its current rank at your gym, in your city, in your country and in the world, and how your results have changed over time. You can call out a friend to beat your result by a deadline, answer someone’s take with your own side by side, and share a clip of a take.

Badges are only for real achievements, like a held record or a verified first place. There are no streaks, and nothing resets to zero.

How contests stay fair

Every take is one continuous video, filmed in the app with no cuts or edits for official contests. Then it climbs a ladder of checks:

1. An automatic check on every take: an unbroken video, reps counted, form checked.
2. Anyone can flag a take. Anonymous flags against friends are limited, so people cannot attack each other.
3. A referee reviews every take in a top 10 and every new record.
4. Appeals go to a different referee.

Videos on ranked boards stay public, so anyone can check them. Repeat cheating earns strikes, and a banned account’s takes are removed from the boards. How referees check takes goes through each step.

Who makes it

OpenContest is made by My Social Sports. We write the contest rules, check every take, and build the app. It is open worldwide, in the App Store and on Google Play. If you run a gym, see OpenContest for gyms.