Hi APAC Community,
We are excited to announce that the MTE Up challenge in your region will begin on February 10th! 
The challenge will run for 8 weeks and end on April 6th.
Why join your region’s challenge? MTEs help keep users in your community informed about road closures and events. By submitting MTEs you’re not only helping your community but you’ll also get great recognition amongst fellow editors for your efforts!
To share ideas, ask questions and chat with other editors in your region about the challenge feel free to join this discord channel.
If you don’t have permission to create closures or MTEs and would like to participate in this challenge, MTE Marshals and Community Coordinators will be working together to temporarily grant you these permissions. Please fill out this form to request the closures permissions and someone will reach out to you through private direct message in the forum with next steps.
Join the MTE Up Challenge webinar
Next week (Wednesday 5th) we will hold a webinar to kick off the challenge, go over its rules and answer any doubts before the launch date. Register here.
You can find the challenge FAQs here.
What’s the MTE Up Challenge? The MTE Up Challenge is an event to encourage active and new editors to use the MTE & closures features in order to improve local experiences.
Sound familiar to the 2017 Awazeing Race? It is! The main difference is that in 2020 the event will run at different points throughout the year with separate events for each region (five events total). During these events the communities come together, joining forces in a mapraid-like challenge.
What’s so special about this event? There will be a leaderboard to show which countries and editors are leading in the challenge, there are rumors of some awesome badges or swag for winners, and you’ll get a whole lot of love from your community!
The first two challenges will kick off in February for the APAC and Brazil communities and will run for 8 weeks. We are aiming to run each challenge during a region’s warmer months when events season tends to pick up!
We will announce the dates for the NA, LATAM and EMEA MTE Up challenges once the APAC and Brazil challenges wrap up.
Don’t have closure permissions? Don’t worry! MTE Marshals will be available to mentor you and we will be introducing a process to provide temporary closure permissions to editors who are mentored. We will share a form to submit your request for temporary permissions a few weeks before your communities challenge launches.
Rules of the race
- All editors who submit events in regions that are live throughout the race will automatically be included.
- Not sure which region the country you edit in belongs to? Checkout the breakdown on this sheet.
Questions? Comments? Ideas? Let us know below!
Good luck!
Danny & Mauro
