Hallo Füsters and willkommen to Winterfüste 2021, the one where we try to reverse an entire year of bad karma . . .

As you should already know, game play starts tomorrow morning, Jan. 2nd, at 5am. After that, for ten weeks, you’re going to be responsible to yourself and accountable to GG and hopefully that’ll be enough to get the hot mess you became in 2020 back under control for the New Year!

So, a couple of things to know and review coming out of the gate:

You just got a text with a link to your Daily Reporting Tool. It should be titled “Smartsheet Forms”. You’ll want to save this link to your phone’s homepage as a bookmarked app thingie. This is incredibly important. For instructions on how to do this, go HERE. If you have a pre-existing Smartsheet account for work or because you’re a weirdo who likes spreadsheets or whatever (no judgement, weirdo), this link will place the Daily Reporting Tool in your Smartsheet main folder and there it shall live until March 13th.
Did you sign the Waiver of Liability? No? Go HERE now and get it done.
Did you pay the game fee of $100? No? Either hit up GG on Venmo (@ggrolar) or go HERE for the pay portal.
If you want to aggressively stay in the know and preplan your obsessive game play, you can down load the WF2021 Calendar to your own device by clicking HERE.

And now for some stuff happening this weekend:

Complete your personal assessment. You received the link to the Startenfüste Assessment sheet in your Totemfüste assignment email but here it is again: LINK. Please get this done by EBD Monday as this will give GG a better understanding of who you are physically (this will come into play later for both challenges and homework). You will receive your first +1p individual bonus when this is done!
Your second chance for a bonus this weekend it to complete the wicked Eisschmerz Challenge! You know it, you love it, a long standing Füste tradition to welcome the New Year. Go find an unheated body of water and (safely) wade in. Water goes over your head. NO DIVING or jumping in shallow areas! No wet or dry suits. Just you and the cold, unforgiving gaze of the sea, lake, stream or your neighbor’s backyard pool. You must send GG video proof of your accomplishment to earn a +3p individual bonus. You have till next Friday, Jan. 8th to get this done and claim your bonuspunkte. This is your first test and first taste of what Winterfüste has in store for you. Yes, it’s brutal. But like most things in the Füste, you’ll be happy you did it and happier with your +3p!

Remember, push yourself hard this first weekend and first week. There just might be a bonus waiting for anyone who earns the full +3 daily punkte (food, drink and exercise) for each of the first seven days of game play. Week 1 is intentionally light on extra and bonus game play specifically so you can focus on the basics of Füsting and ease yourself into your new reality. We’ll get crazy starting Week 2, don’t worry.

That’s it for now. Remember, load up the Daily Reporting Tool to your phone and click on it Sunday morning to place your first report for Day 1’s activity (and then every morning after that for next 70 days). GG expects everyone to earn +3p Saturday and you don’t want to disappoint the Geschäftsführer on the Startenfüste cause that goes no where good.

Happy New Year and again, willkommen to the Füste!