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Announcing Fitocracy Duels - Challenge Someone Now!

Fitocracy Duels Now Available! Go and Do Battle!

Arguing about whose turn it is to do the washing up?
He left the toilet seat up again?
Ben from accounts drank the last of the coffee and didn’t make a new batch?
Felicia keeps mocking your K/D ratio in Modern Warfare 3?
Been watching a few too many episodes of Game of Thrones? 

Finally, Fitocracy Duels gives you a way to settle all of these important issues. As the good folks at HBO like to say, War is Coming!

(Pssst, if you don’t feel like reading, just go to Fitocracy.com right now to start engaging in battle!)

So, what are Duels and how do you use them to become even more awesome?

If you’ve already used Fitocracy, you’re probably familiar with Group Challenges. A group owner issues a challenge, say, for most points earned in a weekend, and everyone in that group then competes for their position on the podium. It keeps people motivated and lets them flex their competitive muscles (literally). Duels take the concept of challenges a step further, and this time it’s personal.

Borrowing liberally from the perennially popular concept of Player vs. Player games, a Fitocracy Hero can issue a Duel to any other user* to take place on a date of their choosing. If that user accepts, the duelists compete head to head until the bitter end. Remember, Kids… There Can Be Only One! (unless it’s a draw). There are ten duel-types including “Most Points Earned,” “Heaviest Bench Press” and “Most Distance Run.” Now, of course, a Duel wouldn’t be a Duel unless your blood thirsty prop-friendly friends are forced to pick sides and and root for a team.

Let’s Take a Closer Look

Challenging Someone: If you’re a Hero, you will now see a Duel Button on other Fitocrats’ profiles on the site. Have they insulted your family? Challenge them to a Duel!

Not Started: The brand new mini-dash (click on “See More” to expand it) contains a list of all the upcoming Duel events. Will you choose to (bravely) Run Away, or Fight?

In Progress: We let you know whether you’re winning or losing.

A Duel Page: You can see the Duel type, Win Rate for previous duels against the opponent, Fan Support, and Points. The faces directly beneath each duelist indicate the first people to join your team. They’re your super-friends. Underneath that, you’ll see tabs for Shout Outs, Activities and Duel Histories.

In the Feed: You’ll see a few variations of this. All are designed to keep you updated on the current lay of the land. Who has been challenged? Who won? Only time will tell.

It’s time to throw down the gauntlet and show Simon that he can’t keep stealing your protein cookies from the break room. Your good name, and your snacks, are yours to protect. 

In the words of Shakespeare:

“I will bite my thumb at them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.”

- Sampson, Act 1. Scene I, Romeo and Juliet

Go forth and do battle!

*Duels is a site-only feature for now. Coming Soon to iOS.

**Only Heroes can issue a Duel. Any user, including non-Heroes, can accept them.

Via Fitocracy

Fitocracy Exclusive Interview with "FitJerk"

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He has over 16,000 followers on Fitocracy, and you know him endearingly as “FitJerk”. Fitocracy sits down with its most famous jerk to ask him a few questions pertaining to his e-book release.

Fitocracy Blog: Fitocracy for iPhone and iPod Touch 1.03 is now on the App Store!

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Fitocracy for iPhone and iPod Touch 1.03 is now on the App Store!

Rejoice! The issues that were affecting iOS 4 users and logging in via RunKeeper with the previous update have been fixed! If you haven’t done so already, go grab the latest version right here!

"Android is suddenly in a lot of trouble"

First, read the linked article.

Okay, good. So this probably isn’t news to anyone, but recently I made the switch from agency-side (What’s up, Wonderfactory!), to product-side (What’s up, Fitocracy!). It’s been a hugely enjoyable move, but that’s for a later post. One thing has been consistent across both: development always starts for iOS before Android.

“But Android has a bigger marketshare than iOS!!” We hear that a lot at Fitocracy, and we love Android (more than half the team has Android devices). So, why iOS first? 

I never understood why you ‘couldn’t’ like the Rolling Stones and The Beatles. Blur and Oasis. It always comes down to economics. If you’re an 11 year old kid whose saved up all their pennies from mowing lawns to buy one album, you’re going to spend some time evaluating both records.   

The reality is a little more complex than simple activation numbers on devices (The metric that gets thrown round a lot in favour of Android). Back at The Wonderfactory we built apps for some of the biggest brands in the world. Our clients weren’t stupid (quite the opposite). They weren’t randomly deciding to develop for iOS because they were ‘fanbois’ . Every budget decision they make is based on calculated data. Site metrics. Testing. If they mess up, it’s on their shoulders and will be bad for their career and fortune of the company (same thing goes at Fitocracy). Obviously, people aren’t that cavalier. Informed decisions are made from data that suggests that people aren’t as willing to spend money on the Android platform as they are on iOS and that a large number of Android users might just be using their device as a replacement, non-smart, phone.

Hopefully, I don’t need to repeat all of the other reasons cited in the linked article. Businesses have limited budgets; you have to make decisions based on projected returns. 

In short: you get to the other platforms as soon as it makes viable business sense.