Thanks for reporting this, we’ll look into this.
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When it happened to me a couple of weeks ago on a late join, it stayed at the start but after about 5 minutes it “found” me and jumped to the correct position.
I’m reporting a potential bug, but I want to be clear: I know what I was doing, and I’m not in any way upset.
I joined ride 1 late for TdZ in C and completed the final 0.8km using a coffee stop. I got the in game completion screen and credit on the “ultimate challenge”. Immediately after the ride I followed the prompt to move back to my original world before joining the B ride as a late join. Zwift does not show the activity for the C ride, and it was not uploaded to Strava.
I’m assuming it was too short for some things but the run through the banner was enough for ultimate challenge completion.
Has there been any response to this? It seems like a glaring omission.
My wife much prefers the ‘D’ category rides because of the unwanted attention she gets on other rides, and removing these would be a real retrograde step.
(@James_Zwift or anyone else like to comment please? Thanks.
@manda_F the D women’s only rides are missing from the current TdZ events, can you please ask someone to put them back.
Thanks!
I’ve passed this on to our Content Managers responsible for the programme.
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Still no GC league 
Imagine the complaining we’d hear about a GC with late join and coffee stops.
Definitely needs to happen ASAP
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Same 
New to Zwift - I thought each stage was only available for one week and 3/18 was the max you could have by now.
Also, if you miss any rides in a particular week, can you pick them up in the makeup week and still complete the challenge?
To get “credit” for the stage, you have to ride it in the week it is offered, and as a group ride.
You can ride them at any time, free ride, workout, meetup, etc, and get credit for the route itself. That’s part of the Ultimate Challenge. You won’t get credit for the stage if you do them outside of the scheduled group ride events, though.
It’s slightly confusing.
So you can essentially complete the ultimate challenge, but not complete the tour itself if you do it all outside of the group rides?
Is there a cutoff time for how late you can be to the group ride and still have it count for the stage? I didn’t know they had start times, and ended up joining the standard ~13 mins late and it seemed to have still counted the stage.
I believe that you could complete all the rides, but not complete the tour. At least that’s the way it sounds. You have to do at least one group ride for each stage to complete the tour.
I think late join is 30 minutes.
The big unknown is where you would spawn when you late join. There are reports of having late joined the London Flat route and joining a group that’s a few minutes from finishing the route and getting the route badge.
That’s true. I thought I had to do all 3 within the week window, so I switched to London Flat immediately after finishing the long ride this evening, and it started me with less than 2km to go. Not sure if it would have counted for the stage, but it counted it as a course toward the ultimate. I’ll redo it this week to get in the full thing at some point.
You can use this link to see if it counted or not.
If you’re not logged in, when you do log in, it will take you to your activity page.
Why Zwift can’t figure out what page you were on when you clicked Log In and redirect you back to that page, I don’t know. Hundreds of other sites have cracked that nut.
Once you log in, just hit the link again and you’ll see your progress towards the Ultimate Challenge.
As a tip - do Lutscher as a workout or meetup rather than the group ride, avoid having to climb the Innsbruck KOM twice. 
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Well done Twiglet
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The easiest way to see it, is looking as it are two different events.
Tour de Zwift
You have to do 1 of the three routes in an event each of the 6 weeks. If you miss any, there is a make up week indeed. Late join is active so you can join up to 30 min after the event starts and still complete it.
Tour de Zwift Advanced
Same routes but you have to do all 18 of them. But you dont have to do them in an event. If you do a week 6 route it counts. Progress can be seen through the site mentioned above.
There are some tricks on a few of the routes which will save you some km or even a lap when you free ride or do it in a meet up like Petite Douleur, Outer Scotland, Lutscher.
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Thanks for the heads up on racking up routes on the ultimate outside of the tour rides, I rode the petit douleur route the other day and hadn’t noticed it tick the box on the tracker.
Don’t need to do it again now 
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I’m also not seeing category D women’s only races available this year. It’s a shame, I really enjoyed it last year. Curious if anyone has been able to access them or they just aren’t being offered this year?