Hi Racing & ZwiftPower community, I was interested in whether anyone knew what the background for the power thresholds on the categories were, and had an opinion on whether they were worth encouraging the powers-that-be to revisit. For example - Cat B begins at 3.2w/kg only if you are over 200w. W…

I would think a ranking system based on performance would fix most of your concerns.

If anything the power thresholds need lowered. I’d suggest by 10-20w Look at all the kids and light riders smashing the lower categories but avoid promotions to a league they are easily capable of racing in. I think more of the issues is the majority of races on zwift are not what i’d call hilly s…

Interesting - thanks for the link @Gerrie_Delport_ODZ . To be honest I think that would be great too - I was just seeking maybe an easier way to achieve a stepping stone in that direction. Seeing the positive reaction to that other post, at least there seems a strength of feeling about it. What’s …

Hi Gordon - I’m racing in the ZRL at the moment where there’s a mix this season. The problem is on hills the lighter rider with the same w/kg are still no faster - so any time there are flats the lighter riders can drop off with never any upside. I totally understand about the kids racing too - an…

[image] Justin_Milligan: What’s your view on why nothing’s moved forwards yet? I really don’t have any inside info but my personal guess is there is a lot of work on the back end and Zwift is ramping up staffing. I don’t think Zwift understand how big Racing is, they look at number of racers …

All the data is there. I just think keeping zwift running is more the priority with user numbers doubling in the last year. Very frustrating really as it’s only an excuse for the last year and we have been racing with similar issues for years without much progress being made but fingers crossed som…

[image] Rhino-Racing: Look at all the kids and light riders smashing the lower categories but avoid promotions to a league they are easily capable of racing in. I think the problem there is not so much the w/kg numbers or wattage caps, but the faulty algorithm Zwift is using in terms of speed…

I tend to think whoever invented those algorithms (cause let’s be honest, they are invented, not carefully and logically configured) must’ve never ridden a bike outside. They are probably born on Zwift. The numbers have no realistic meaning, they upgrade you to a higher category with no solid groun…

Hey @Florin_Angelescu - wow that OP was ages ago. And a bit scary that not more has changed - but I do believe for the first time in ages that Zwift is trying. And in the meantime, the community themselves are doing loads to make it better! There are great racing series like www.dirtracingseries.co…

Thanks, Justin! I will have a look.

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