BadgeGen Belts

Belt system

The Belt system is based on a points: points are awarded based on various criteria and the sum of all points determines the user's overall belt level. There are 36 possible belts.

• If the user have less than 30 points, they will receive the White belt.
• At 30 points, a Yellow belt will be awarded.
• Every ten/twelve points after that will give the user an extra stripe on their belt.
  • After 220 points, 12 points are required per level
• After 4 stripes, the user will be awarded a new color belt.
  • With the exception of the black belt.
• At 400 points, the Golden Black Belt (the highest ranking) is awarded.

Points

Points are awarded based on the following conditions.

• 1 point per 100 caches found.
• 2 points per event hosted, maximum of 30 points.
• 0.5 points per difficulty/terrain combination found in excess of 40 combinations.
• 10 points for completing the Difficulty/Terrain matrix.
• 20 points for either finding caches in 15 distinct states or 5 distinct countries. 40 points are not awarded if both conditions are satisfied.
• 10 points per 50 caches found on day with most finds, maximum of 40 points.
• 0.5 points per 7 consecutive days with finds in largest streak. 10 point bonus at 366 days.
• 0.1 points per favorite point on owned caches.
• 2 points per distinct cache type on day with most distinct types found.
• 2 points per distinct cache type hidden.
• 2 points per distinct cache size hidden.
• 0.5 points per FTF, maximum of 30 points.
• 1 point per 5/5 Difficulty/Terrain cache found, maximum 5 points.
• 1 point per gemstone badge (excluding country badges).
• 2 points for every year since the user's first cache find.
• 0.08 points per calendar day cached on. No points awarded if distinct days is less than 100. The year is negligible.
• 0.05 points per Trackable moved/discovered (maximum 25 points).
• 0.1 points per photo uploaded to found logs (maximum 25 points).

Belts

0-30	30-40	40-50	50-60
60-70	70-80	80-90	90-100
100-110	110-120	120-130	130-140
140-150	150-160	160-170	170-180
180-190	190-200	200-210	210-220
220-232	232-244	244-256	256-268
268-280	280-292	292-304	304-316
316-328	328-340	340-352	352-364
364-376	376-388	388-400	400+

• A point total equal to an upper bound will result in the higher level belt (for example, if the user have 292.00 points, they will receive a black belt - not a brown belt).
• The Golden Black-Belt is only awarded if the point total is greater than or equal to 400.00 points.