Just raced a bunch of A and B riders in a ‘category enforced’ C race. I have only just returned to Zwift from the road season. What has happened???
Read up about racing score
Riders in those events are still prevented from joining pens below their racing score, but category doesn’t mean anything anymore so don’t bother looking at that.
If you’ve just returned after a long break, then you’re an honorary A rider until you’ve done a couple of rides for Zwift to reset what band you really should be in. So you were possible in an A/B version of a race despite signing up to the C version. Your ranking is now based on your best performances in the last 90-days and assumed to be A if there is no data for that.
Also be aware that that system is being replaced by a Zwift Racing Score (ZRS) system for some races, which scores you between 1 and 1000 based on you finishing position in previous races.
So long short, do a couple of ride and by then you should be back to C.
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He’s in C pen, so I assume he’s looking at other riders in the event, seeing they are CE A/B and wondering why they are in C. So the answer is it’s racing score and those A/B riders have no sprint so they are ranked down. Their CE category is no longer relevant.
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Seems to me that Zwift is going more and more in the wrong direction. I want to race my peers. Now I get beat by a rider who averages 4.5 w/kg in a 40 minute race. How is that ‘category enforced’? I do not get it.
As you keep riding your proper ranking or category for each system will become established.
I suspect we will get this at the start of every winter as people return to Zwift.
Seems like an easy problem to solve. Just use more than 90 days of history. Or lock the score between races. Plenty different ways to do it, and it’s not like this was an unanticipated problem
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