This is a tangent to my post from a few days ago on having fewer races during TdZ ( Fewer Other Races During TdZ ) that I thought warranted a separate discussion. Sometimes browsing the Zwift events feed feels a little like walking through a half abandoned shopping mall. You can tell there used to be…

Only reason I mentioned it was that a while ago I set up an ill-fated race series and the process at that time for submitting and amending the events was absolutely laughable (it used Google Sheets!). One of the events chaps unexpectedly quit around that time and I wouldn’t be amazed if it was becau…

I promise not to update 30,000 events using Google Sheets. The process we use has changed considerably since then. I used to use the same spreadsheet format as an event organiser, which would be fine (ish) if there were only a small number of organisers creating events. Now weekly events are autom…

Good stuff, sorry for going off-topic.

[image] James_Zwift: Send me a link (or Event ID) to the event and I’ll have a look. Here’s the link: NCNCA Gold Rush - Race 1 - The at Home Cycling & Running Virtual Training App And for the record, I hope that its not dead because I would really like to participate. It seems like a really …

Thanks. Totally understood and appreciated. You are very much not alone. I would disagree with your comments about Zwift not needing event organisers (I run Herd Racing and its approx 30 events weekly). There are Zwift sanctioned events/series as well as Community ones and both play a part in our c…

[image] John_Bowers: I hope that Zwift is using at least some of the money I (and others like me) are spending with it to work specifically on developing racing features, because racing is the only reason I’m paying Zwift money in the first place and its time to get some more advanced features o…

[image] James_Zwift: I would disagree with your comments about Zwift not needing event organisers (I run Herd Racing and its approx 30 events weekly). I definitely did not mean to say that I don’t see a place for community / volunteer managed events like Herd. I especially see the value of th…

Fair enough, sorry for the misunderstanding :slight_smile: Automated races (there’s quite a few that we put on) is one thing, but automated series are a bit different because of the manual interaction required in ZwiftPower.

[image] Anti sandbagging and other areas that need development and communication You mean like the Midweek winter series by SZR? This is exactly the issue I have with Clubs and events not on the public calendar. This look like a nice race series but it is so hard to find. Not SZR’s fault.

[image] Gerrie_Delport_ODZ: This is exactly the issue I have with Clubs and events not on the public calendar. This look like a nice race series but it is so hard to find. Not SZR’s fault. FWIW there’s about 3 series that do this (SZR, RWB, TFC) and the findability has, to an extent, to do wi…

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If you haven’t done so already, you should probably check out the - ahem - quite lengthy thread on improving racing at Anti sandbagging and other areas that need development and communication

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