Is Turf Games a race?

No. It is a team competition scored workout by workout rather than one effort against the clock. A festival gives you four scored workouts with 45 to 75 minutes of recovery between them, and your team is ranked against the other teams in its division.

How many people are in a Turf Games team?

Festivals run mixed teams of six, three men and three women, and some events also sell male and female teams of four. Fittest in the City is teams of four. Engine is entered as an individual, a pair or a team of three, though a given event may sell only one of those.

Do you need gymnastics skills for Turf Games?

No. Muscle-ups, handstand push-ups and handstand walks appear in no division, and the organisers state plainly that they do not programme technical Olympic lifting or gymnastic styles of workout. Rope climbs are Elite only, and toes to bar need at least one athlete who can do them on a team of four, or one man and one woman in a mixed team of six, at Intermediate and Elite.

Are the Turf Games workouts published in advance?

Not as a fixed test you can rehearse. The organisers publish an archive of past workouts with their loads and scoring and tell teams to train on those, while saying that each event's programming differs from the last.

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Turf Games

Turf Games UK Winter Festival 2026

14-15 February 2026Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre, Farnborough, United Kingdom

Photo: don cload / CC BY-SA 2.0

Format

Team event

teams of 4 or 6

Workouts

4 scored

45 to 75 min apart

Divisions

Everyday to Elite

Scored on

Per workout

not a finish time

Altitude

211 m

Outside in Feb

8°C

for warm-up and travel

Outdoor humidity

86%

high

StatusPast

What is Turf Games?

Turf Games is a team functional fitness competition rather than a solo timed race, and every other fact about it follows from that. You enter as a team of four or six, work through four separately scored workouts with real rest between them, and finish ranked against the other teams in your division instead of holding a finish time. The workouts change from event to event, so there is no fixed test to rehearse.

Read the full Turf Games guide →See all Turf Games races →

What to expect at Turf Games UK Winter Festival 2026

A festival day splits into a morning and an afternoon session, and your team races four workouts inside one of them with 45 to 75 minutes between each.
Teams start on different workouts and flow through all four in different orders, so the team beside you is never on the same running order as you.
The kit stays consistent even though the programming does not: ergs and running, dumbbells, kettlebells, barbells, D balls, sleds, plyo boxes, wall balls and sandbags, with rope climbs at Elite only.
Workouts are scored for time, for total reps, for metres covered, for points across two simultaneous tasks, or for the whole team's total weight lifted.
Team mechanics are written into the standards rather than left to tactics: some reps must be done in synchro, some can be split freely, and some allow only one athlete to work at a time.

Every event runs Everyday, Intermediate and Elite, and they change the loads and the movement standards rather than the workouts themselves. The published guidance is that you should be able to perform five to eight reps at your division's listed weight, which is a much higher bar than touching it once. Entry is policed rather than suggested: an Everyday team may carry at most one athlete who has competed at Intermediate and nobody who has competed at Elite, and coaches, personal trainers and gym owners are asked to enter Intermediate or Elite. No muscle-ups, handstand push-ups or handstand walks appear in any division.