Non race

General Discussion
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Time for my regular gripe , just completed this morning’s volcanoe climb race and 6 of the top 8 seemed to be above the threshold for the race results yet still remain in the race standings ??

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This race doesn’t use category enforcement.

Speak to the event organiser and ask them to turn it on.

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That event didn’t have category enforcement enabled, so you have a winner who is B category and finished two minutes ahead of the nearest C category rider. I recommend not joining races that don’t use category enforcement or you will ride with a lot more sandbaggers. Sometimes they get DQ after the event but that’s not much use. 6th place is also a B.

The others appear to be within the C category limits for the zFTP showing on their profile.

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Nothing to see here …

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To be fair only the winner was above ZP categories.

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The volcano race is my favorite race but since 3R does not use CE I have also stopped racing the event.

I have reached out to 3R many times asking to enable CE but they just ignore the request.

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@Marc_Swatton_R3R

Shall we category enforce all 3R races?

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Hi James, yes I am happy to category enforce all 3R races.

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I was hoping you weren’t going to say that :joy:

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Thanks guys that’s all sorted then . I generally try to join only cat enabled races but I do like the volcano climb.
Stand corrected on 6 of the 8 above threshold for results … apologies

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Wow is that all it took.

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Yep, but I’m not doing it today. Will try to remember to do it on Monday.

Checking 100+ events and enabling CE where needed is probably going to take me a couple of hours.

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You have time to Saturday. LOL

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I need to ride & cremate meat over flames :smiley:

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Priorities. :ride_on:

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Thanks for setting this up. I see the Saturday Volcano is now CE. :ride_on:

@Marc_Swatton_R3R
Another request to have staggered starts, that will be awesome. I would prefer to see only category riders but I know you said that if the event is small then it is not the best way to do it.

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This time of year the numbers are not really high enough to warrant separate categories. It’s something we can look at September/ October time when race entries start to rise again. However I will keep an eye on race numbers, if a race regularly gets 20+ in each category we can look at getting it switched on.

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Thanks Marc.

Staggered starts :thinking: LOL

I am looking forward to the Day when Zwift has dynamic pens so that you as an organizer can set a rule that if a pen has more than X riders then that pen start alone. Or have minimum pen size of X and if there are enough people pen D and C start together and A and B or in huge rides every one start separately.

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I like this idea especially with scoring (results based).

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