Count.It is the challenge tracking platform. Use Count.It’s join/setup instructions here and enter Outdoorable referral code 0f94 when prompted. Make sure your phone or connected wearable is connected and syncing correctly throughout Outdoorable. Studio Strong’s official contest results are based on our nightly locked records, not necessarily on a total that appears later after a delayed sync.

No. Your registration becomes official only after Studio Strong receives your $45 buy-in. New registrations close at 5:00 PM CT on September 1, and payment must be received by September 2. People who register but do not pay by the deadline are not included in the official challenger roster or eligible for Outdoorable prizes or completion credit.

Use the payment instructions provided on the Outdoorable Welcome page after registration. Available options include Venmo, CashApp, PayPal, and cash or check for local participants.

Refer another Outdoorable participant who registers, names you on their registration, and completes the $45 buy-in by September 2. Earn $10 back for 1 paid referral, $20 for 2, $30 for 3, and your full $45 buy-in back for 4 or more paid referrals. The referral is one-directional: only the participant named as the referrer gets credit for that signup. Two participants cannot refer each other and both receive credit for the same pair; if that happens, only the first valid referral recorded counts.

No. Referral savings are specifically for participant-to-participant recruiting. Doreen, Studio Strong advertising, social media, and general promotions do not qualify for referral credit.

The prize pool is based on the final number of paid challengers. Studio Strong will confirm the paid roster after the challenge begins — typically around Day 2 or Day 3 — and then announce the exact cash prize amounts.

No. Your final 7-day total automatically places you into the next fixed target above your steps.

No. You are eligible in one weekly category only.

You stay in Outdoorable, but you cannot win that week’s six-category cash prize. You begin the next weekly round with a clean slate.

Yes. The 3,000-step daily minimum controls weekly category prize eligibility. The completion credit is based on reaching 280,000 total steps across the full 28-day challenge.

Yes. They stack.

You move into the next category based on your final weekly total. Example: 44,050 is over Comfortable’s 44,000 ceiling, so that total falls into Capable, whose target is 54,000.

You are above the six fixed weekly category targets for that round. If you opted into Immeasurable, those steps still matter toward that separate no-ceiling challenge-long contest.

Yes. Immeasurable is a separate challenge-long contest. Opting in does not remove you from the six weekly categories, and your weekly totals are scored normally. You can win a weekly category and still remain in the Immeasurable contest.

No. The 3,000-step daily minimum is the eligibility rule for the six weekly category prizes. Each Outdoorable Five announcement will state its own same-day rules.

The unpaired participant will be assigned a Studio Strong staff member as their partner for that day.

At exactly 12:00 AM Central Time each night, Studio Strong takes an automated snapshot of Count.It for the calendar day that just ended. Whatever Count.It has synced for you when that snapshot runs is your official and final Outdoorable total for that day. Example: Tuesday is locked by the snapshot taken at 12:00 AM Wednesday. Make sure your device has synced to Count.It before midnight.

That can happen when a phone, watch, or connected health app syncs after midnight. Count.It may later backfill those additional steps onto the previous date, but Outdoorable results will not be changed retroactively. The 12:00 AM CT snapshot is the official contest record.

Those steps may appear in Count.It under the previous date, but they will not change your official Outdoorable total for that day. The automated snapshot was already taken at 12:00 AM CT, and that recorded number is final. Participants are responsible for making sure their phone, watch, or connected health app has synced to Count.It before midnight.

Yes. The 3,000-step minimum is based on the official 12:00 AM CT snapshot for the day that just ended. If that snapshot records 2,999 steps or fewer, you are ineligible for that week’s category prize even if Count.It later backfills enough steps to put that date over 3,000.

If two or more eligible participants finish equally close to the same weekly target, priority goes to a tied participant who has not already won a weekly Outdoorable category cash prize during this year’s challenge. If the tied participants have the same previous-winner status — either none have won before or all have won before — the winner is selected at random. With two tied participants, we’ll use a coin flip; with three or more, we’ll use a random drawing.

No. Only a previous win in one of the six weekly Outdoorable category cash prizes affects the first tiebreaker. Pop-up prizes, Immeasurable, and the $45 Studio Strong completion credit are separate.

No. It applies only to a true tie. If one eligible participant is even one step closer to the target without going over, that participant wins.

All challenge cutoffs and announcements use Central Time (CT).