Next week, Zwift is mixing up their typical monthly ZRacing model by holding a week-long series of races on fresh New York routes. Each race is scheduled for just 2 days, but everything else is what we know and love about ZRacing… fast, hard races, with an overall time-based GC competition for the three races.
Read on for details, or sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/nycshowdown.
The Week’s Routes
Here are the routes we’ll be racing for the week:
- Stage 1 (Nov 24-25): Times Square Circuit
- Laps: 6
- Distance: 21.24km / 13.20mi
- Elevation: 120m / 394′
- PowerUps: Draft / Aero
- Stage 2 (Nov 26-27): Prospect Park Loop
- Laps: 4
- Distance: 21.91km / 13.61mi
- Elevation: 187m / 614′
- PowerUps: Draft / Aero
- Stage 3 (Nov 28-29): Stay Puft Pursuit
- Laps: 1
- Distance: 31.6km / 19.6mi
- Elevation: 416m / 1365′
- PowerUps: Feather / Aero
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/nycshowdown
GC Leaderboards
Zwift’s web-based leaderboards are used for tracking the GC competition for the ZRacing series. No ZwiftPower registration or use is necessary.
Access the leaderboards for this week at zwift.com/racing/leagues/nycshowdown2025 >
Your GC ranking is based on your best finishing time for each stage, and you can race each stage more than once to try for a better time.
Category Options
Zwift schedules three different flavors of ZRacing events in order to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.” They each use different racing score ranges for categorization and are titled Advanced, Range 1, and Range 2.
Extras
New: XP Bonus!
Zwift is moving away from giving badges for ZRacing, and instead will be doing XP bonuses. For this three-race series, riders will get a 500XP bonus for completing each stage.
Questions or Comments?
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Maap, camp, nyc showdown, fondo
Zwift is willing to do anything to prevent me from having a good time with Coco on the Tempus Fugit.
Small error on Stay Puffed Pursuit – Elevation, distance, and power ups.
And stage number
Fixed!
Glad they have a results page.
Did anyone find one for the Brompton World Championship?
Zwift says there’s no GC page for Brompton Worlds.
Exactly. But they called it a “World Championship”.
Brompton fun rides would have been a better name.
Are ZRacing series the only things that get badges now? Nothing for Unlocked or Zwift camp series etc
Actually, Zwift just informed me that starting with NYC Showdown, they’re not doing badges anymore. Now it’s XP bonuses! Updated above.
Hopefully they bring back missions for badges
Thats no fun when you are at level 100.
That’s a shame, I liked collecting the badges its one of the reasons I do ZRS every week
Not sure why they couldn’t badged and do double xp
That’s a shame, why can’t they do both? Badges are a good way to check back and see whats been completed throughout the year. I would compare the ZRacing badges and other events year to year
And they’re also an extra little motivator too 🙄😄
I agree with others that I really like the badges, to compare accomplishments from year to year. It would be nice to still get them for Zwift Academy, Camp, Tour of Zwift, Tour of Watopia…
Still wondering where they will use the No Sleep Till Brooklyn route for …
Hopefully the xp will lure more racers. One of the reasons I stopped is the fields were smaller than I wanted to participate in. I’ll consider doing it for an xp boost.
They’ve also hurt themselves by having 9 bins for performance rather than 5
4/5 – so everyone picks the one they’re at the top of which dilutes racers
Can’t recall the last time ZwifthHQ did anything like a mini race tour of several different routes over just one week.
Any races on Sunday the 30th?
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