Competitions are an excellent and fun way of leveraging the competitive nature of your users to drive up the performance of certain business behaviours.
Competitions:
Contain Leaderboards - which rank the participant's Points attained within that competition
Require a defined start and finish date and time
All participants should be added before the Competition starts - to have an equal opportunity to compete
Are most effective when they are publicised (via the Start Notifications)
Work best when running for a relatively short period of time
Consider setting a 'win score' as an alternative to setting an end date to help avoid 'sandbagging'. When reached the competition will end
Should be used where all the Players are operating on equal terms
It is possible to reward Winners (any number of top place finishes) with a special Badge and additional points that highlight their achievements