Team Option for Challenges

[PureEvil]

Create a team option for challenges such as the Workweek Hustle.  The team with the highest average wins.  Suppose you want to set up three teams such as:

• (You) Captain Kirk, Bones, Spock
• Captain Stubing, Julie, Gopher
• Captain Dallas, Ripley, Kane

First, you invite the other captains (as captains), then you (and the other captains) invite your teammates (as teammates) like such:

Once everyone has been added, the leaderboard will sort the rank of teams first, then within teams, shows the rank among the teammates like this:

The chatter can be designated within the team or for the entire challenge.  The limits can be expanded to say 3 teams and 10 members within each team.

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[joffscarborough]

I'd love to be able to compete as a team. I like it that we would be able
to message each other and tell each other to get some steps in!

[TrainerJ]

I totally love this idea !!! I would support it

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@PureEvil wrote:

Create a team option for challenges such as the Workweek Hustle.  The team with the highest average wins.  Suppose you want to set up three teams such as:

• (You) Captain Kirk, Bones, Spock
• Captain Stubing, Julie, Gopher
• Captain Dallas, Ripley, Kane

First, you invite the other captains (as captains), then you (and the other captains) invite your teammates (as teammates) like such:

Once everyone has been added, the leaderboard will sort the rank of teams first, then within teams, shows the rank among the teammates like this:

The chatter can be designated within the team or for the entire challenge.  The limits can be expanded to say 3 teams and 10 members within each team.

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[Konakat25]

Hi! My fitbit friends and I have just completed a trial teams challenge. We had such a great time and I thought maybe you could help create these challenges so it's easy to communicate with members of each team. I had to open 4 different challenges to accommodate all my friends and one huge problem I had was that I couldn't explain rules just once but 4 times. Even then when I did that, I had a few friends join the other groups instead of selecting just one because of the way I invited them in. (I invited the same members into all 4 challenges thinking they would understand to just select one.) I would like to be able to post notices in ONE area for all groups of teams to see. secondly is the option to group the teams. We did 4 groups, teams of 2. (So in the trial, it was 4 challenges I had to combine) We'd like the option to change that up to teams of any number up to 8...maybe 10. Thirdly, as the coordinator of the game, it was difficult for me to communicate to all players at once and my stress was having to be in every group challenge, otherwise I wasn't able to keep track of score/steps. Having to repeat myself 4 times so all 4 groups challenges had updates and/or game results, winners, etc was a huge pain in the ***. It is so tedious! Pls pls pls, can you create something for us? Thank u.

[candbkort]

I really like the team challenges.  It happened quite by accident but this past weekend warrior challenge was 5 people from Pennsylvannia and 5 people from Illinois.  I kept track of everyone's team total throughout the weekend and posted it a couple times throughout the weekend.  PA vs IL.  PA won this time but we are already planning a rematch.  People could select a state vs state or country vs country challenge.  I live in the United States and have competed with folks in Australia and China, all over Europe and Mexico and Canada.  For the badges, you could use the state flag or the country flag. 

[SunsetRunner]

This is a great idea! Teams would make the challanges more exciting. There can be an option to make team names and to "cheer" on teammates and "taunt" the competition. 

[Pabis81]

It would great if you can enhance the use of FitBit challenges by moving from individual competition to team challenges. Perhaps a feature where a group of individuals can create a team and compete against another team (other teams can be in network or public teams willing to compete across the country). Individual steps would be added to one team data point. The team with the most steps would win.

[SonnyLouie]

My friends and family love the challenges and use them as a great way to group chat throughout the week. Over the last few months, we've been making ad hoc group challenges where we split up in teams of five and track the steps in a separate Google doc to tally up the team totals, trash talking the whole way. I would love to see this type of group challenge feature built into the app.

[gpitman]

Although this seems to have been suggested before there seems to have been no movement on it.

Team chalenges would allow for work chalenges as well as family challenges.

An example is I have family on both sides of the atlantic and would be great to ahve something like a cross atlantic challenge.

Derek

[CamilleC]

I would love to see the option to form teams for challenges (like 2 vs. 2, where team members contribute to their team's step total). On days when my best friend and I are going all of the same places together, it doesn't make sense to do a challenge since we'll tie for steps. But this way we could still have motivation to be active and get in a lot of steps! It could also be a great option for couples.

[Joannemt]

Why why why isn't this an option????

[Joannemt]

Please make an option for team challenges (multiple people form a team to challenge other teams) for weekly challenge or weekend challenge, etc. PLEASE!!!

[mommyisinit2win]

what a wonderful idea. Come on now....

[Konakat25]

I've invited fitbit to peek in at my team challenges. Placing members in teams according to their daily averages...a pain, and keeping scores...tedious. Pls create something so we can have some fun!

[Mslizz2000]

Hello. I would like to suggest a challenge where one group will go against another. This way a team mentality will be built and not just everyone vying for the top spot. I find that now if someone jumps way ahead early in the challenge some of the group will give up. This way every step will always count since it will be towards a group and the concept to motivate will be greater. Please consider this. Thx!

[Mslizz2000]

Please add a feature where one group can challenge another. This will foster better team building and make every step count.

[pamike6]

On the challenges - Make it so you can do team challenges. For example: My husband and I can team up and challenge other couples or make so that you can choose your teamate and your steps count together against other paired teamates.

[willrod29]

Fitbit should incorporate team challenges to make stepping even more fun! Let's say 2 teams (5 vs 5 or 10 vs 10) to see which team gets the most steps in a day or even week. Also showing how much each player is contributing to their team.

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[Jaysonbills5]

It would be absolutely incredible to have the extra motivation of competing in TEAMS! My wife and I regularly challenge our couple friends to challenges, but instead of being 1v1v1v1, it would be an awesome feature to select your team and got head to head! "May the best couple win!" Nothing would get me more motivated than my wife barking at me for being a couch potato and not pulling my weight for the team!

Please, FitBit!! Bring couples closer together with NEW challenge modes!

[Melymel6]

I think it would be fun to have the option of teams to compete against each other with! This could be as small as 2 vs 2 or larger teams. It can also be great for work competitions!

[SunsetRunner]

Fab

[AliB86]

I want to team up with one or more of my friends to compete in a step challenge.

[Johnyboylittler]

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone had considered creating challenges that allow teams / groups of people to compete against each other with the total team steps deciding the winners?

[Johnyboylittler]

Had the same idea. Would great to compete one group of friends etc against another

[Rich_Laue]

An excellent idea come it's also a duplicate, I recommend that you add future comments and voted to this post. This way there is less confusion.
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Requests/Team-Option-for-Challenges/idi-p/822439

[Rich_Laue]

Sounds like a great idea, but it is a duplicate, i advise adding your comments and votes to this thread. if only to keep the confusion down and not split the votes.
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/Team-Option-for-Challenges/idi-p/822439