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Teams explained

We recently released the teams functionality and in this article you will understand how it works.

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Written by Bubbles
Updated over 2 weeks ago

What is a Team at TryHackMe?

Team is a group of users that connect to perform team-oriented rooms together and conquer points as a team. Currently, they are mostly used in CTF events and by being part of a team and joining one of these rooms, there are some different logics on how the scoreboard behave. We will explain it below.

Who can create a team?

Any user can create teams.

How to create a team?

To create a team, you need to go to your manage account > teams tab and click in create a team as the image below:

  • Users can only be part of one team at the time

  • There is not a max. limit for users in a team

  • Only Team Owner can remove other users from a team

  • Any user can leave a team at any moment

  • If the Team Owner leaves, ownership is randomly assigned to another team member

What is a team-based room?

By creating a room, under the General Settings tab, it's possible to enable a normal room to become a team-based room, as the image below:

By creating a team-based room:

  • Users that do not belong to a team will still be able to join and complete the room, but the scores won't be visible in the room leaderboard.

Important: We strongly recommend not changing a room from solo to team-based after users have already answered questions.

While in a competition

  • If one team member reset the progress, all the team members will have the progress reset

    • Points earned won't change after the reset progress

  • When a user in a team answers a question, the page gets updated and the previous or current questions answered from other team members get updated and visible to this user

  • If a user joins a room and is part of a team, other team members still need to join the room

  • If a user leaves a room and is part of a team, other team members still stay in the room

  • Solo user joining team-based rooms can make the questions, complete the room and see the team-based scores, but their accomplishments won't appear in the scoreboard and chart.

    • Points earned as solo user gets to the personal account as any other room (if the room is public only.)

Tie breaks

The team that completes the final challenge/task first (regardless of the order of the challenges) wins.

Example:

Team A and B are in a tie, with both 240 points. The challenge has 3 tasks.

Team A completed 1º task at 2pm, 2º task at 3pm (last challenge to be completed), 3º task at 2:30 pm.

Team B completed 1º task at 1:50pm, 2º task at 2:30, 3º task at 2:55pm (last challenge to be completed.

Since team B completed the last remaining task 5 min sooner, it's the winner.

Important: It's strongly recommended not to change points system after users already answered questions.


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