As Peter stated, no, they haven’t removed the floor. But in the context of what I was saying, a returning racer who was a legitimate 600 ZRS racer 9 months prior isn’t likely to have fallen off so much that a 510 ZRS is a huge burden to them. And even if they had injuries or illness, their first couple of races will establish a much lower seed score for them and so they’ll be able to drop even further if it’s necessary.
And as a last resort if this process isn’t fast enough they can contact Zwift support just as they would in case of injury/illness today.
Ah I see, I wasn’t aware the seed score would recalculate after a couple of races, I thought the seed score was set unless the power fell outside the time window.
Since around March, my own fitness has dropped a bit, but I could live with my seed score being higher than based off the last 90 days. But then I think I’d still be in the same ZwiftHQ pen.
I think there will be an awful lot more racers returning with similar ability, compared to those that have lost a lot of ability over the northern summer break.
I think if they hadn’t been racing for >3 months that their 30s and 10m powers would all be older than 3 months as well, and so whatever values are set after that would be responsible for a new seed score.
From before my long covid of the last two years, it would usually take approx three weeks minimum to acclimatise to intensive turbo use and get similar power and heart numbers compared to outdoors.
In those early weeks, my heart rate for a given power would be higher and ultimately limit the power I could manage.
i did a pretty clean 50/50 split full indoors/full outdoors over this year and it takes a couple weeks… going from inside back to outside takes about the same. but i wouldn’t call it a big deal or anything. it’s just a couple of weeks of conditioning
I did notice it one year when I took about 6 weeks off Zwift and came back in August. It was a painful period of adjustment and I vowed never to go more than 2 weeks without doing some indoor. Fortunately in the UK the weather is such that “summer” usually offers plenty of indoor days anway
Still a mess with the entering cats @James_Zwift .
There are people in the 19.10 CEST cat 500 to 550 with 563 and 596 ZRS.
And it looks like people who havent raced since the reset can enter lower cats than they should be. A friend of mine is also able to join that cat with a 564 scorel.
Ps another friend with 598 score can also join that cat. He also hasnt raced since the reset. Another one who has raced cant join so the bug seems to be there indeed.
hopefully they wont need 5 whole days to fix a small administrative error. though if i were to ride zhq for it, i believe this stuff wouldnt happen so easily if the event creation and management toolset was more robust and streamlined
it would probably save a lot of people a lot of time and grey hairs. they’re probably painfully aware of it already though
Speaking of events being set up wrong.
Has something gone wrong with the Community Racing Festival events? They are all showing as A-E Category Enforced events rather than Racing Score on the companion event list. The categories don’t have any other description, no w/kg range or racing score range is showing. But judging by the pen which I can enter they seem to have Racing Score as the category enforcement method.
I hope something has gone wrong there, if that’s what the event listings will look like going forward it’s only going to add to the confusion.
As long as eg. a 40 point hike isn’t what the results-based system hikes your score by for winning the race. Nobody would want to be DQ’d because they won and got promoted. As a percentage, in a 1000 point system, 40 points is a 4% increase.
So until Oct 7th, the only way your RS will change is if you don’t set any pb for 30sec and 10min times, you hit 90day, or you join zrs races. No more decay for now
Good thing we arent going live in 5 days … oh wait …