Upend: Wake Up & Compete

Upend is a wake-up race between two friends. One of you issues the challenge — twenty squats, a photo from outside the bedroom, a barcode off the milk in the fridge. Each of you sets your own alarm for your own morning. The alarm is the starting gun: the moment you stop it, your clock is running. You are scored on elapsed time from your own alarm-stop, not on who woke first. Waking at 5:40 buys no head start over your rival's 7:15 — the race is from unconscious to done, and it is exactly as long as you make it. WHAT A MORNING LOOKS LIKE • The alarm fires at the time you chose. Stopping it launches straight into the challenge. • Squat challenges are counted by the camera, entirely on your phone. No video is ever recorded, stored, or sent — the app reads angles, not footage. • While the challenge runs you see presence, not numbers: your rival is asleep, up, started, or finished. Their…