Climb Portal Leaderboards Announced (Zwift Insider + Veloviewer)

Many Zwifters are already familiar with the Zwift Insider Route Hunter leaderboards hosted by Veloviewer. But this week, we took a new leaderboard live, featuring Zwift’s Climb Portal!

See the new Zwift Insider Climb Portal leaderboards >

How It Works

We’ve broken the list of Climb Portal climbs into two separate leaderboards: one for shorter climbs, the other for longer climbs. There are currently 18 climbs in each leaderboard, but this number will grow as Zwift expands their Climb Portal library.

Leaderboard rankings are points-based. You receive points for:

1. Completing a particular climb (20 points each), and
2. How quickly you completed the climb

Because of how Zwift’s Climb Portal works, Ben over at VeloViewer had to code up some fresh functionality that grabs your best effort for each climb, whether completed via the Watopia Climb Portal or the France Climb Portal. It works like a charm. Nice job, Ben!

Getting Yourself On the Leaderboard

Getting your data into the leaderboards is easy! Start by visiting the Zwift Insider Climb Portal leaderboards on VeloViewer.

1. Click “Connect with Strava”. (If you’re already signed into your Strava account in your browser, skip to step 3.)
2. Log into your Strava account. You will be redirected back to the leaderboard..
3. Click “View” beneath one of the leaderboard titles.
4. If you are not yet a member of the Zwift club on Strava, click to join the club then return to the leaderboard page and click “Recheck Club Membership”. (If you are already a member of the Zwift club on Strava, skip to step 5.)
5. Click “Update Your Times” to import your Strava rides into whatever leaderboard you are currently viewing. You may only click this link once every 30 minutes per leaderboard.

The leaderboards, before and after checking my own times. I’ve got work to do!

Using the Leaderboards

Here are a few tips for using the leaderboards:

• While they will work just fine on a smartphone, the leaderboards are much easier to browse on a large screen.
• Click any column title in a leaderboard to sort by that column.
• Click “View” next to the route title to view that segment’s details in VeloViewer.
• Filter by gender using the buttons at the top-right.
• Clicking a rider’s time for a particular route will take you to their Strava activity, where you can look for reasons to rationalize them beating your segment time 😄

Can You Ride Them All?

As of the writing of this post, nobody on the list has completed all 36 Climb Portals. It’s especially challenging to do so since you can only access particular climbs when Zwift schedules them!

See the Climb Portal schedule >

(On a related note, Zwift doesn’t currently provide a simple list of all Portal climbs with a completion indicator, so one side benefit of using these new VeloViewer leaderboards is that you can easily see which climbs you have left to check off.)

Free vs Subscriber Functionality

Due to Strava restrictions, you must be a Strava subscriber in order to see segment times and placings on VeloViewer’s leaderboards. If you only have a free Strava account, you will see check marks to show completion of each segment, and points totals based solely on whether segments have been completed.

Shout Out to VeloViewer

Ben over at VeloViewer is giving us this functionality free of charge. But if you find it useful, please consider upgrading your VeloViewer account to a Pro or Pro+ account. Cost is only £10-£20 per year, and you get lots of premium features – read more about those here.

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