How it works

The rules

The world is divided into small hexagonal tiles. Ride through one and it's yours (10 points).
If your ride is a loop (start and end within 500m of each other), you also claim every tile enclosed inside it - not just the ones you rode through.
Points of interest (mountain passes for now, more types to come) are separate landmarks scattered worldwide. Ride within 100m of one to claim it - it's worth its altitude in points, so bigger ones are worth more.
Whoever rode it most recently owns it - always. There's no permanent ownership, so ride back through contested ground to take it.
Everything decays: a tile or POI loses value evenly over 30 days, and after 30 days it's released back to unclaimed automatically. Ride it again to keep it.
Your score is the sum of everything you currently hold, decay included - check the leaderboard anytime.

Each tile is worth 10 points at the moment you capture it. Each POI is worth its altitude in meters, flat - sport doesn't change a POI's value, only a tile's.
A tile's base value is multiplied by how you got there - cycling covers far more ground per hour than walking or swimming, so slower sports are weighted up to stay fair: Cycling 1×, Run 2×, Trail Run 2×, Walk 5×, Hike 5×, Swim 8×, Open Water Swim 8×. Anything else (or a manually-uploaded GPX file, which carries no sport data) defaults to 1×. POIs always score at 1× regardless of sport - otherwise driving most of the way up and hiking the last stretch to a high pass would be wildly overpowered.
Swimming is the one exception: a pool is much smaller than a tile, so a flat per-tile multiplier would score a quick dip the same as a long swim. Swim tiles are valued by distance instead - distance_km × 10 × 8 total, split evenly if a swim ever spans more than one tile.
From there, value decays linearly: value × (1 − days_held / 30) - so a tile captured 15 days ago is worth half what it was on day one, and 0 by day 30.
Your total score is just the sum of every tile and POI you currently hold, decay already applied - nothing else factors in. The leaderboard shows exactly this breakdown for every player.
The multiplier only affects tile value, not ownership - anyone can still steal any tile regardless of sport, including a high-multiplier one. That's a deliberate tradeoff, not an oversight.

Login goes through Strava's own sign-in page - TerritoRide never sees or stores your Strava password.
We only ever request read access to your activities. We can't post, edit, or delete anything on your Strava account.
From each activity we only read its name, start time, and GPS route - nothing else.
Your Strava connection is stored encrypted, not in plain text.
You can delete your account at any time from the profile page.
You can disconnect at any time from Strava's own "My Apps" settings - we're notified immediately and stop storing your access.
This project is open source - see the changelog or view the code on GitHub.