In the department of unnecessary narcissistic trinkets, I would like it if Zwift would consider handing out orange verified ticks to riders who have participated in official live in-person events and thus verified their power numbers on a stage. Like at national championships, for example. Or like Danish national championships to throw out a completely random example of an event that Zwift has recently hosted and supported.
I know none of us are influencers and YouTubers, but we’ve had the gall to do an official weigh-in and get in front of an audience on neutral equipment with people from the cycling federation present. Seems hard to think of something more verified than that. Should be a relatively small administrative exercise to pinpoint the events that tick those kinds of boxes and have them trigger a tick in return.
Are you serious?
I would say that being able to compare your home efforts with your efforts on a completely different (and federation verified) setup is just about the most certainty you can achieve in this jungle of chronic uncertainty and faulty trainers.
That’s a valid point. I thought the ticks were for verification since they’re handing them out to all of us who have participated in a certain number of ZWS events.
The second part of your post I would argue is a bit naff. Having done verified events shows what kind of range you’ve proven to be in weight-wise and power-wise. It’s not like putting on or losing a few kg is going to impact that assessment once it’s been made. Of course if you exceed your verified numbers by a large margin, then it’s fair to raise doubts and ask for another verification
Yes, I’m serious. In theory you might have achieved a certain performance on that neutral equipment level but then can, say, achieve the same performance at a slightly easier effort level on your home equipment, allowing you to make small but important extra efforts on that home setup more easily.
I thought it was for anyone who had been through the Zwift verification tests, where you film yourself on your home setup riding a hard effort on a set route (is it Four Horsemen? I can’t remember for sure) along with a filmed weigh-in etc. At least, that’s what it used to be for. A member of my IRL club has a tick and that’s what he did.
With those kinds of theories nobody’s getting verified.
If jumping through all the ZWS hoops from Home and then replicating power and weight at a verified event on neutral equipment isn’t enough I’m not sure there’s much left for anyone to do
All of them. On-camera power test with weigh-in and dual recording, and also doing ZWS races (and not having results annulled).
Even so, your hypothetical scenario would entail that someone never goes all out at home, and then they enter an in-person event in which they then do go all out. Which seems pretty unlikely to me. If someone has shown numbers on neutral equipment I feel good about trusting them when it comes to doing approx. those same numbers at home.
‘Simply’ is doing a lot of work here. They are ZWS events. For which you’ve gone through a whole pre-verification process, and where Zwift and a third party then look at your data post-race and decide if they’re trustworthy.
That’s a very old post though. I thought they had changed to use it for those going through performance verification, and that’s certainly what one of my club members got it for (more recently than that post). But I don’t have any proof that that’s what it’s for these days.
Before I was referring to your efforts on neutral equipment, which as I said I didn’t think verified your performance. But with this new information about verification on your home setup then I’d say that yes, that would seem to qualify you for a tick.
However, as per other replies the whole question of what that tick is currently used for seems to be an open one.
Looks like your World Series races, these past few months, satisfy the criteria for verification recognition. Link below suggests you should receive your