Golden Black-Belt

There are 36 possible belts. Points are awarded based on various criteria (listed below).

• If you have less than 30 points, you will receive the White belt.
• At 30 points, a Yellow belt will be awarded.
• Every ten/twelve* points after that will give you an extra stripe on your belt.
• After 4 stripes**, you will be awarded a new colour belt.
• At 400 points, the Golden Black Belt (the highest ranking) is awarded.
  

* after 220 points, 12 points are required per level
** with the exception of the black belt

Criteria:
points are awarded based on the following conditions (may be changed and altered at some point).

• One point per 100 caches found.
• 2 points per event hosted, maximum of 30 points
• 30 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 disctinct 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 your 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)

 

All Available 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+

BadgeGen calculates all points to two decimal points.
Values above can be assumed to be exact (ie: 292=292.00)

A point total equal to an upper bound will result in the higher level belt (for example, if you have 292.00 points, you 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.