Fair Luck Challenge

2026 isn't about simply reaching Bern. It's about how you get there… and how much control you're willing to surrender on the way.

Your mission looks simple on paper:

• Visit 5 Entry Points scattered across Switzerland
• From each EP, ride 5 mandatory segments assigned by Chance
• Connect each destination of the mandatory segment to the next EP in a pure free-route style
• Let the Jokers help you to strategically plan your route through the mandatory cantons.
• Finish on Bundesplatz, on time!

Reality, of course, will be far less simple. And that's exactly the point.

Each Entry Point catapults you onto a fixed mandatory route that leads you into a specific Swiss region.

At every Entry Point, you will draw one of two predefined routes:

• A little shorter one spiked with elevation
• A little longer one with calmer gradients

Luck decides. You follow whatever the draw delivers. Until the end of the mandatory segment, your fate is sealed.

Once an EP has spat you out on the far side of Switzerland: freedom returns.

No predefined path. No imposed detours. You choose your line, your climbs, your rhythm.

Your only objective: navigate across Switzerland to reach your next EP, while keeping your long-term goals intact:

• plan your canton strategy
• think ahead
• manage distance vs elevation
• anticipate the next forced segment
• pray Luck doesn't ruin everything (it will)

Your route is free. Your destiny… significantly less.

To complete this Challenge, you must validate all the mandatory cantons, while taking the following rules into account:

A. Canton-Joker: four cantons are optional this year:
GE, SH, UR, TI : Skip them if you want. (If you ride them anyway, please enjoy them on our behalf.)

B. Half-Canton Joker: choose only one per pair

• Obwalden or Nidwalden
• Appenzell Innerrhoden or Appenzell Ausserrhoden
• Basel-Stadt or Basel-Landschaft

Pick one per duo. No second chances. Every choice has consequences—not all of them immediately obvious.

C. The Real Task
Integrate all canton visits while juggling:

• the 5 EP
• the 5 mandatory fate-routes
• the free-route segments between each
• your energy
• your optimism
• and your occasionally questionable decision-making

This is the strategic heart of SUCH.

Whatever chaos, beauty, exhaustion, luck and misfortune you gather across Switzerland, everything ends in Bern— on or near the Place Fédérale, beneath the Parliament, under the last watchful eyes of the Challenge.

Reach it, and the game is yours. Fail, and the game wins instead.