Do you definitely get a route badge if you select the route in a Meetup? I’ve scheduled a Meetup that starts in about an hour to conquer Four Horsemen, mainly because I want the badge. Does it matter if you Keep Everyone Together?
Yes you still get badges in a meetup, I got dust in the wind the other day while in a meetup with keep everyone together enabled.
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Thanks @Mike_Rowe_PBR!!!
Well, it depends on how lucky you feel on the day. I have just completed a meetup where we did Big Foot Hills, yet, I did not get the route badge. But, I stopped just as I past the finish banner of the meetup.
DOES THE MEETUP DISTANCE NOT INCLUDE THE LEAD-IN OF THE ROUTE???
If this is the case then I think it is a SERIOUS flaw in the system. Imagine you did Uber Pretzel in a meetup and you fell off you bike before you completed that final 500m of the lead-in like I just did with Big Foot Hills!
The best advice is to study the route beforehand, make sure what the lead-in is and ride until you see the route completed banner.
The route badge is for completing routes. It has nothing to do with meetups specifically. So if your meetup was for a fixed distance then that distance needs to include the lead-in and a complete lap, or you at least keep riding until you get there.
So the finish banner for a meetup is irrelevant. It’s the start/finish banner of the route that you need to pass twice to receive the route badge.
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There are issues with meetups and route badges. Just read the forum posts on this.
If I arrange a meetup and select a route, not a time, I expect to have completed the route when I have completed the meetup. Therefore, the start and finish of the route should coincide with that of the meetup. I don’t think this is an unreasonable expectation. Especially when you consider that when you select distance as the goal, you can’t specify the distance, i.e. it is tied to the route. Yet, complete the meetup and sometimes you HAVE completed the route and sometimes you have not.
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But you can change the distance. Just press on the distance figure that it suggests and change it.
Gerhard has a valid complaint and it is the inconsistency, which is not just annoying, but demonstrates a lack of quality control and discipline within Zwift programming. It is a shame (on Zwift) that we have to rely on third party information and learning through failure to find these inconsistencies.
Zwift is an amazing platform and I hope Eric and the team start to focus a little more on the missing detail and user requests now that the extra demands from Covid 19 are starting to settle.
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Just fallen fowl of this last week on a group ride I lead. I chose the Surrey hills which was to be a real challenge for some in my group. 1hr 50 mins later when we reached the banner in the group ride where I had selected the route rather than time, we reached the banner by which time many were at their limit, so 3km short of the top of Leigh Hill were the route ended. Very disappointing for everyone who pushed themselves beyond their comfort zone, for no end reward. So I would repeat what has already been said Zwift, make it so that if you choose a meet up and select a route you get the badge (with lead-in ride) you set our from the start to achieve, thanks
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Same issue today. Very disappointing.
Yup, I held a meet up to get the Kappa Quest route badge on a day when the Neokyo world wasn’t part of the world rotations and when we completed the meet up we didn’t get the Route Badge. Very disappointing.
Please fix this.
This route starts at the top of the KOM, you need to climb it twice to get the badge, you stopped and turned around before finishing it.
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I had the same issue. I created a meetup for the Tire Bouchon Route recently. When i passed the finish banner, there was no route complete message. I kept riding some more and never got the route complete message. I ended the ride disappointed.
Then today, I ran a 4.9 km route. I passed the banner waiting to get the route complete message but never got it. I ran some more for a total of 5.36 km and never got the credit for finishing the route. This wasn’t a meetup though, but it was run and not a ride. Maybe there’s a bug that needs investigating. I ended the run disappointed, but it’s only 4.9 km, so it’s easy to do again.
If its the one on 14 Feb NZT, then you didnt pass under the last banner - you were short by about 1km (the banner is at the top of that first climb and you stopped about half way up).
I circled where you stopped (blue) vs where you should have finished (purple) below
You can checkout the complete route here
I’m not a runner but thought you could only get running badges for routes that are specifically for runners and Duchy Estate, which is your last running activity I can see, is a cycling route.
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Thanks. That sucks though. I was watching the progress bar for the meetup and it already ended after i passed up a banner. I guess that was the wrong banner and i shouldn’t trust the meetup progress bar and just keep riding until i get the route complete.
I just started running and i picked a route. I assumed all routes i can choose to run have badges too.
Thanks again for your help.
Yeah not fun when when that happens on et bigger rides. Its odd for the progress bar not to be correct, but Zwift has a few glitches now and then. I would suggest that whenever you are getting after a new route badge, you jump on Zwiftinsider.com and make sure you understand the start and end points and adjust length to include the lead-ins as well.
I’ll dig around for the running badge routes and post back if if I find them.
EDIT: found this article which list the run only routes. Might be slightly outdated but someone might chime in with a better reference site
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Just came a cropper from the same issue. We past the banner. No route badge, so did an extra half a km but turns out we stopped 0.9km short. Terrible experience on zwift.