SISU Racing has announced a second season of their innovative race series featuring a fun twist: it’s focused more on your segment time through a KQOM climb section than on your finish position.
The SISU KQOM series begins July 26th and runs weekly through September 6/7 for a total of seven races.
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Race Specifics
- Riders will enter according to Zwift’s category enforcement.
- Riders can race in any time slot across the series.
- All grades will depart simultaneously, with all riders visible on the course.
- Z Power and riders without heart rate data will be removed from the results on ZwiftPower.
Schedule and Course Details
Race 1: July 26/27
- Route: Watopia Figure 8, 1 Lap
- 29.8km long, 234m of elevation
- KQOM Segment(s): Hilly Reverse and Hilly Forward
Race 2: August 2/3
- Route: Greater London 8, 1 Lap
- 24.3km long, 256m of elevation
- KQOM Segment(s): Box Hill
Race 3: August 9/10
- Route: Watopia Volcano Climb, 1 Lap
- 22.8km long, 192m of elevation
- KQOM Segment(s): Volcano
Race 4: August 16/17
- Route: Greatest London Loop, 1 Lap
- 26.1km long, 345m of elevation
- KQOM Segment(s): Leith Hill
Race 5: August 23/24
- Route: Knickerbocker, 1 Lap
- 22.9km long, 346m of elevation
- KQOM Segment(s): NYC
Race 6: August 30/31 (Queen Stage)
- Route: Watopia Tour of Fire and Ice, 1 Lap
- 28.3km long, 1161m of elevation
- KQOM Segment(s): Alpe du Zwift
Race 7: September 6/7
- Route: Makuri Islands Countryside Tour, 1 Lap
- 15.8km long, 185m of elevation
- KQOM Segment(s): Temple
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Point Scoring
Scoring includes finishing position, but is heavily weighted toward your KQOM segment times:
- KQOM FTS 50,45,40,38,36,34,32,30,28,26,24,22,20,18,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
- Finishing Points 25,20,15,12,10,9,8,7,6,5 (and 4 for all other finishers)
The top 30 riders in each race are then awarded the following Championship Points based on their combined KQOM and Finishing Points position in the race:
50,45,40,38,36,34,32,30,28,26,24,22,20,18,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Individual and Team Competitions
Each rider’s best four Championship Points results will count towards the championships.
The individual rider with the most Championship Points wins for the season. There is also a team championship, with scoring based on your team’s four highest point scorers from each race. Team championship requires three finishers in four races.
Questions or Comments?
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Sounds awesome. Hopefully, this will be the motivation I need to finally get the Tour of Fire and Ice badge. It’s the only sub 2-3 hour badge I don’t yet have (still got the pretzels and PRL full left to go) and I seem to run out of motivation about turn 9-7 every time I try to go for it.
Last 3 stages clash with the dirt league sadly
Great to have another KOM centric race series, although I think they may be having some teething problems as the prime points on Zwiftpower are all over the place atm – e.g. a rider NOT placing top 10 in FTS on either climb and finishing well outside the top 10 on the finish line is currently placed 5th in my race, while a rider who was 3rd and 5th on the FTS and 4th at the finish is below them 🤔
They have now sorted the scoring out, looking forward to a great series 👍
Great schedule of diverse climbs. Thanks for pulling this together… provides a bit of motivation and great training.