Team Trials and online races
Your team races without you. Four finished careers, one racer per distance, and a nightly result waiting when you come back.
Four ways to race other trainers
| Mode | What it is | When | What I will not invent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team Trials | Four finished racers, Sprint / Mile / Medium / Long, one each. | Every night, even if you are offline. | A prize table. None is published. |
| Weekly Cup | The week’s best meet. The trailer says the top 12. The homepage says the week’s best. | Once a week. | I do not collapse those two lines into one number. |
| Friend races | A code carries your racer and a course. A friend enters it and you both race. | Whenever you share a code. | A public directory of codes. There isn’t one here. |
| Live races | Added in 1.3.0. A quick race or a room code. Others can watch and cheer. | While the room is open. | A spectator count. It is not published. |
Weekly Cup, both wordings
The trailer line is “the week’s top 12 meet in the Weekly Cup.” The homepage does not print 12. The privacy page says the top three trainer names and racers go to the official Discord news channel. I keep the 12 as a trailer claim and the top three as a privacy-page claim. There is no public season calendar, so this page has no season dates.
Setting a squad
- Finish careers until you have four racers you want to keep.
- Assign one to Sprint, one to Mile, one to Medium, one to Long.
- An example from the species grades, not a consensus: Aerodactyl, Arcanine, Dragonite, Lapras. The reasoning is on the picks page.
- League points accumulate from the nightly races. The conversion rate is not published.
- Online play wants a login: Google, Discord, or guest. The trainer ID is 12 characters. Cloud saves follow the account.
Rules that apply online
The rules page sets the age at 13+. Cheating, edited saves, and edited game files are barred. The servers re-run each finished career as a check. A violation can remove results or the account. I am repeating that policy, not describing how the check is implemented.
I do not have a Team Trials screen capture. The pictures on this page are a finish and a results card from career races. They are not the overnight mode.
Questions
Do I have to stay online for Team Trials?
No. The squad races overnight and you read the result later.
What is a Poke Derby friend code?
A code that carries one of your racers and a course, so a friend can race you. Results are recorded.
When did live races arrive?
Version 1.3.0, dated 2 Nov 2026 in the in-game notes.
Keep reading
Sources
- Official site — checked 12 Nov 2026
- Official privacy page — checked 12 Nov 2026
- Official rules — checked 12 Nov 2026
- Official trailer — checked 12 Nov 2026
- Patch notes in the game data — checked 12 Nov 2026