Zwift Games [February 2026]

Yes, at Zwiftpower. But Companion App for Advanced only!

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I hate how the Zwift dot com Zwift Games table filter shows racer times according to their ZRS before the race…

For example, the current ZRS 100-200 “leader” with 28min1sec was boosted to ZRS 276 from hitting 5mins ~3.5W/Kg during the stage 1 race after finishing 13th. :clown_face:

Couple of questions regarding categories: I moved up in category, racing score was 450 and now is 556. I might end up in 570+ during Zwift games.

How will my account show up in GC? Is it always the highest racing score or category (on Zwiftpower) that counts? In case I will stay “between” A and B, ie. can freely choose to join either, will my races be counted towards the A and B category separately?

Will I be able to race Kaze Kicker in category A in makeup week?

Zwift Games is a great way to compete and challenge us cyclists. But such short distances, and I’m looking at Stage 4, a 300-meter climb, right? Is that it? These stages are for beginner cyclists. I don’t remember competing in races over such short distances. Real races require at least three hours of riding. Do such short distances even make sense? I wanted to have as much fun on Zwift in the winter as I do outside in the summer. Wake up, Zwift!

Those of us who are interested in racing for more than an hour seem to be a small minority of a small minority of Zwift users who race at all. Most racers I know go for 30-45 min in the evening, often after putting children to bed. It’s a different world.

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Zwift racing is more like IRL crit racing than IRL road races.

Other races are available

Quite a few got purged because not enough people showed up regularly, or turned into mass start events, which can be interesting but offer a very different experience

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The kilo (1 km) is a real race, isn’t it?

Zwiftpower is showing the route profile for stage 3 on Cobbled Crown, but live tracking of the first race that started at 1610 GMT isn’t showing rider positions.

That Crit Cade race was without a doubt the least enjoyable experience I’ve had on Zwift.

To think that you’ve devoted development resources to that while ignoring so much else is insulting to your users.

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@Tom_Shelton You’re making me feel a teensy bit better for not having access to that race - it sounded fun!

Plus, Zwift aren’t making it easy for those of us who need to do the TT option. Why on earth are there not TTs scheduled every hour?

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it TT under ZRS= sand bagging? 330zrs here i come. stage 6A ?

Because they want to drive engagement to their Steering enabled/gamified race, to show that “we” want more Dev cycles spent on stuff like that, instead of what the community has been asking for on their forum.

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It was great. A bunch of people got mad and quit then the rest got on with it.

Auto-steer and bumping could do with some tweaks but it adds another variation to racing and working out.

pretty sure the dev work was 3years ago so you didn’t lose out

What aren’t they building that you want? How did you find stages 4 and 5?

Me personally, garage cleanup/sorting and customizable HUD, but there is a very long list of feature requests that have been on other’s wish-lists for years.

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Oh, so Stage 6 has to be done in an event, with no Free Ride possible.

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On the spare of the moment, I joined the 1710 GMT Zwift Games TT stage… Now that was a field, 286 finishers in pen D! :heart_eyes:

I would have no problem having ZwiftHQ TTs used in ZRS when I am being compared to such huge numbers, in an event where drafting doesn’t happen, where times are compared for ZRS processing at the end of the stage rather than the handful that turned up to a specific running.

The “full” results page from 1710 GMT on Tuesday 24th March…