# Unearned badges **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/unearned-badges/29759 "2019-01-27T15:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shannon\_White](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/shannon_white/32/68354_2.png) [@Shannon\_White](https://forums.zwift.com/u/Shannon_White)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/unearned-badges/29759/1 "2019-01-27T15:17:12Z")
Zwift connectivity isn’t working well this morning. Have checked/reset all the things at my end (internet, appletv, and smart trainer) but still I couldn’t calibrate my trainer, my avatar wouldn’t move on the screen, and I received a slew of insanely high wattage badges for some reason. I submitted the issue to zwift support, and am waiting for their reply. Meanwhile I wanted to ask how I go about making them take back those badges I didn’t earn (seriously, they were for wattages I could not possibly have attained in real life). ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Allen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/paul_allen/32/414916_2.png) [@Paul\_Allen](https://forums.zwift.com/u/Paul_Allen)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/unearned-badges/29759/2 "2019-01-27T15:21:35Z")
As far as I know badges cannot be reset or removed. ---
**Author:** ![Shannon\_White](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/shannon_white/32/68354_2.png) [@Shannon\_White](https://forums.zwift.com/u/Shannon_White)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/unearned-badges/29759/3 "2019-01-27T15:41:03Z")
Zwift says my ride this morning was 0 miles, 0 hours, etc., but an average of 1,106 watts? LOL! Yeah, no. ---
**Author:** ![D.M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/d.m/32/431944_2.png) [@D.M](https://forums.zwift.com/u/D.M)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/unearned-badges/29759/4 "2019-01-30T03:00:08Z")
That happened to me a few weeks ago when I was using a hotel gym. I was near 2k watts at one point, not real though. I realized I couldn’t remove, I even trashed the ride to prevent embarrassment, but badges stuck. So now I look like I juiced one ride. The way I see it though is there is enough doping going on in the platform (riders maintaining 8 w/kg for 20 minutes? I’m not saying it’s impossible, but they should be on a pro team), I can’t feel guilty. ---
**Author:** ![Adam\_Cole3209](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/adam_cole3209/32/28898_2.png) [@Adam\_Cole3209](https://forums.zwift.com/u/Adam_Cole3209)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/unearned-badges/29759/5 "2020-09-22T03:11:51Z")
Same problem. My home trainer (Wahoo) was quite generous the other day giving me a brief 1 second peak of 1200+ watts during a 200 watt ride - and so I fully unearned a bunch of power badges. Please let me delete these Zwift - I want to earn them legitimately!!! ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_H3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/joe_h3/32/401758_2.png) [@Joe\_H3](https://forums.zwift.com/u/Joe_H3)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/unearned-badges/29759/6 "2022-02-17T23:14:24Z")
Had a similar glitch on my Kickr Core today (possibly related to the chain popping off and needing to fix it, but it reported a max power of 2000W when the Kickr Core only supports up to 1800W anyway). I kind of figured there was no way to delete them because they’re tied to XP, but it’s still pretty unfortunate. At least I was able to fix it for Strava I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Kothlow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/dan_kothlow/32/48519_2.png) [@Dan\_Kothlow](https://forums.zwift.com/u/Dan_Kothlow)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/unearned-badges/29759/7 "2022-02-18T01:47:43Z")
On a sort of related note, coming down from Radio Tower yesterday, I got the 1100 watt badge by hitting the ramp up to the main road hard. Looking at the ride when done, I was at 1192 watts. 8 more watts and I would have had the 1.21 Gigawatts badge. Must. Try. Harder. . .