I once lost a whole lot more than that in a HUDless race when I had a brain fade and assumed the finish was on Box Hill summit rather than the standard finish line 
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Oh dear. I noticed that in the Orientation ride. You get the badge on the corner at the end of the first lap but then there is that half buried neon banner a bit further ahead. Turns out (confirmed by watching a youtube stream) that the actual finish is somewhere on the corner. さすが Zwift!
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Lol, you guys warned me and I still messed it up! Given that I was told, I have take a hit for user error.
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Today’s “winner” in the C cat
Seriously, @xflintx, why are you allowing this in a marquee event? Who at ZHQ thought this was a good idea?
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By way of further example in all three of today’s Men’s/Mixed Cat D races combined only two ranked D’s made the podium. They shared accolades with at least three B’s and the remainder were C’s. That’s a pretty poor showing for fair play.
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Was just about to say this morning (UK10am) had to compete with a B rider who took 1st and another rider who clocked just short of 3.8 for his 95% in the D category, yet in the event description it does say riders knowingly racing in the wrong cat will be dq’d.
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Looks like a newbie that’s just starting out.
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True, but I think there was only one newbie, the rest seemed to have history on Zwiftpower. Some even have a long, consistent history of UPGs.
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Yea level 50’s in my event so no
excuse for jumping into the D’s
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I was being facetious. 
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The winner of the C category.
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That’s too funny, but there actually was one person with no race history who may have unknowingly underestimated his potential and meant to follow the rules.
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If only there was some sort of 5th category, maybe we could have called it E cat, for beginners and people unsure of their actual race category. Bit late now though as there was no possible way Zwift could have predicted that people would deliberately drop down to D cat for some easy wins /s.
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I suspect these events do more harm than good in terms of promoting racing on Zwift. It would be interesting for ZHQ to look at numbers on how many non-regular racers do these races then not very much after having been put off.
As much as I try to promote more people to race on Zwift encouraging new riders to jump in a mass start smashfest with no category enforcement is a terrible idea and would be better off waiting until there is some pen enforcement
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Well after today’s half hearted knocked up event I already figured theres little point jumping into the rest of the L39ION events. Great way to promote crit racing.
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After reading this, don’t feel like wasting my time this evening. I love Legion team, but this looks like a big cluster f**k. No thanks.
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Hi all,
Really sorry for the oversight with the results.
I’ve been into all the events so far today and applied standard WKG Classification rules to them. I’ll do the same for any future events.
Really sorry for any frustration that this has caused.
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thanks - probably best to change the event descriptions as well then or you will get complains the other way with people being DQ but had followed the “All races are grouped by how many watts/kilogram (w/kg) Zwifters can average for the duration”
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Yep, we’re looking into the wording too.
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