What happened to all the races on Zwift? There used to be all kinds of races put on by different groups. Some are still around like 3R, but not nearly as many events by them. Seems like 50% of the races have disappeared. And I am asking this in the most negative way possible because I want more races, not group rides, for me.
I did a “race” yesterday, only two competitors…. I was faster so ended up doing a solo time-trial !
It’s really sad to see all the races these days with <10 participants in the A-category. I think the best race I was doing got cancelled in that clean up. It was a great Friday race with perfect amount of participants doing two laps of Sand and Sequoias.
It’s had the exact opposite effect than the intent Zwift had, if that was their genuine intent. It seems the races that are left, have fewer participants than past races, combined with less available time slots. I used to be able to find a race within half a hour of when I could get on, not anymore. It appears from the low turnouts that people like me are just abandoning the race feature, which was my primary driver for the platform. I can get ERG workouts on a dozen other applications for free. It’s pretty disappointing.
I think part of the issue is also that zwift themselves are hosting more races under their name than they did previously, it used to be a few big main events every few months such as the Tour of Watopia or the Tour du Zwift but now you have events pretty much running all year which is killing the community events, we noticed last year that our races were being participated by fewer riders as it was up against larger zwift events
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Many of the community ‘busy’ races are off calendar now aren’t they? Ecro & FRR?
Perhaps zwift should be bringing these back to the calendar as they are not progressing ZRS so no point continuing to force these events off calendar for not using ZRS