Zwiftpower - Downgraded from Cat B to Cat E

[Ian_Attoe (Ian)]

@Heribert_S

Will I now always or never be DQ’d?

In theory I believe the answer should be that you will never be DQ’d under a CE race setup in the future. The link at the bottom provides recent information from Zwift but relevant wording shown below.

“By default, events in ZwiftPower will no longer Upgrade or DQ riders based on their category or W/Kg limits. This is because we plan to use Category Enforcement in the majority of events going forward”

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I notice you don’t race much but see that you unfortunately received a UPG on Rapha Rising 2023 and 2022. From what I can see in the thread linked below Rapha Rising was not ideally configured and there are possibly plans to improve the ride/race configuration next year.

Rapha Rising [2023]

This is mainly due to the GC that is also running for these events. I’ve already chatted it though with the owner of the project and we’ll use category enforcement next year as it didn’t make sense to change things halfway through. Agreed on event type.

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ZwiftPower Category Update [March 2023]

Hey Zwift racers, We’re making this short post to let you know that as of today, ZwiftPower category has been replaced, and is now calculated by our Category Enforcement metrics. That means when viewing your category on ZwiftPower, it will now be based on the same metrics as your category in Zwift…