The folks at WTRL have announced the first-ever “ZRL Summer Showdown,” a four-week, multi-format team racing competition. Get all the details below.
A Mini ZRL… with Twists
The ZRL Summer Showdown operates like a trimmed-down Zwift Racing League, with a shorter schedule (4 weeks) and smaller teams (max of 10 on your roster, with up to 4 racing each week) racing on Tuesdays.
Like the regular-season ZRL, 40+ race times will be available, and your team must race at the same time each week. Women-only and open races will also be available.
But there are some twists, including a “revised scoring system with more ways to earn valuable points” and a “new and exclusive route” for the third race of the series! Learn more about the new scoring system below.
The ZRL Summer Showdown is a standalone event, so results in this series will not affect the regular ZRL season which operates from September to April.
New Points System
The ZRL Summer Showdown uses a revised points system that differs from ZRL’s. Here’s a quick summary of how the new system works (click the link below to read the details on WTRL’s site):
- FAL: first across the line points are given to the first 20 riders, instead of 10
- FTS: fastest through segment points are given to the 5 fastest riders, with participants able to score multiple times if they clock more than 1 of the top 5 times
- FIN: finishing points scale based on field size
- PBP: podium bonus points (which don’t exist in ZRL) are given to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place riders across the line
- League Points: once the race ends, the 1st place team earns points equivalent to the total number of teams who start the race. 2nd place earns one less, etc.
See the details of the ZRL Summer Showdown scoring system by going to the website and clicking Resource>Scoring.
Race Schedule
We’ll add details to the race schedule below (including powerups) once they’re available.
- June 4th: Team Time Trial – Turf N Surf (Makuri Islands)
- June 11th: Points Race – Libby Hill After Party (Richmond)
- June 18th: Scratch Race – Itza Party (Watopia)
- June 25th: Points Race – Innsbruck KOM After Party (Innsbruck)
Registration
Registration opens today (May 21, 2024) at WTRL’s website.
Questions or Comments?
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Finally, ZRL adds a stage for climbers. It’s been multiple seasons it feels like for a pure climbers stage.
The scoring is on the website. Main change is for FIN the points scale with the field size. Also there are podium bonuses for points and scratch race FIN points.
I’d say the major change is far more points for FAL than FTS. Encourages breakaways, awesome change.
I agree that’s a great change too, which change is more significant depends on your point of view. Some of the finals last season only had fields of 10-15 riders. 65 points for last place made it more about attendance than performance.
Either way, hopefully these changes all carry through to the main ZRL season.
It depends, in scratch races does not matter if the final points start from 80 and goes down, or start with the exact number of riders and goes down. When is going to make more difference is in points races, because now final positions will be less important. Also, now all the riders have different positions at the end of the stage.
For the TTT all 4 riders must cross the line? Still 4th riders time across the line? Thanks
Does anyone find the information of which time segments are going to be in plaec for FAL and FTS segments? In the website it said something about the Finals page, but it seems more like they did not add that information.