The purpose of this paper is to examine a group rent seeking contest in which rent seeking activities take place in two stages. 1 In the first stage, two groups compete for a single rent, which may but need not be divisible among the groups. In the second stage, members of each group compete for the rent won by their group, which once again may but need not be divisible. Indeed, in the absence of risk aversion, the results derived in this paper apply whether or not the rent is divisible between and/or within groups. And, while our verbal analysis will, on the whole, be couched in terms of a rent that is not divisible, this is solely in the interests of expositional simplicity. The results for divisible rents are identical.