Is there a flag in Zwifthacks/Events filtering that shows which group rides have rubber-banding? Eg. I was surprised last week to discover a group ride had started this, and had to drop (Seattle Baby Steps). I’m guessing it’s set that way again this week? Some rides have this in their description…

The Rules tab now has ‘With rubberband’ and ‘Without rubberband’ options.

But I guess they are… fwiw, I didn’t notice it working badly, just wasn’t what I wanted, partly because it stops making possible doing any of the sprint segments.

I tagged along for a few miles to verify today. yup the Seattle BabySteps ride had rubber banding. Is Zwift testing the waters on this for greater rollout to organizers who want it? [2022-05-15_1151190_clean]

Paging @James_Zwift (once you’re back at work in the week).

I’ll try and check on ZwiftHacks tomorrow but I have a pretty packed schedule.

Thanks, if you get a chance! It strikes me that if these types of rides start proliferating, in combo with the boost in PPs, there’ll be a huge change in ability for anyone to ride at anytime, with a lot of people, and at whatever pace they feel like. Is this the steadiest group leader I’ve ever s…

I have a rule which identifies these rides, I think: Look for the ‘Test - rubberbanded?’ button in the ‘Rules’ tab Right now these are the events: [image] A saved search: Events See, filter, and search events (group rides, races, and workouts) on Zwift with the ZwiftHacks event lis…

Thanks Jesper. I’ve removed Rubberbanding from all those events.

Hmm… do I want to ask why? I was going to ask Jesper to consider if adding a Rule that is the inverse (“No Rubberbanding”) was possible. A number of those events do seem to intentionally want rubber-banding (eg Team CLS ‘This n That’ and the ZHCC Stay Together) as it’s specifically mentioned in th…

Rubberbanding doesn’t work well for group events and should never have been implemented in the first place. About half of them were workouts, which would have had no impact anyway.

How to identify Rubber-Banded group rides?

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Steve_Hammatt (Steve) May 15, 2022, 2:28pm 2

Group rides aren’t supposed to use rubberbanding, because it’s very broken there.

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