Last week’s Tiny Races resulted in some very close overall points competitions. In fact, we awarded the first ever DOUBLE WIN (aka, a draw) to the D category mixed group in Time Zone 3, where the two top riders both won 2 firsts and 2 seconds in their races.
(Typically we give the overall win to the rider with the highest single race placings, but in this case we couldn’t since they both had the same single race placings!)
Rather than bringing it down to finishing times, we decided to award the first-ever overall tie, to celebrate this unique occurrence. Well done, David White (EVO) and Craig Harcombe!
Last Week’s Results
Overall Winners
A: Joakim Lisson (POAUTO-CeramicSpeed)
B: Westley Yates
C: Gertjan Van Schelvergem (BZR)
D: Damo (EVO)
A: Jon Werme (eSRT)
B: P. Vignol (FFZ)*
C: Peter Enserer (WLBB)
D: Cody Chandler (DraftingDinos)
A: Sam Crofts (DIRT)
B: Colin B. (DIRT)
C: James Balloch (Coalition)
D: TIE: David White (EVO) and Craig Harcombe**
* Vignol tied with “Mark R” in points, but Vignol gets the overall win since he had the highest single race finish.
** David and Craig both achieved 2 1st place wins and 2 2nd place wins, tying them for points. We considered looking at finish times to declare the winner, but decided to give them both the win instead!
Women’s Winners
A: Emilia Welte (SYNERGY)
B: Maria Marb (Beastmode pb ROSE)
C: Jessica Hamilton (KittyHawk)
D: –
A: –
B: Amanda Wendorff (IRACELIKEAGIRL)
C: Jill Sarginson (Synergy)
D: Darja Vavpetic (VirtuSlo)
A: –
B: –
C: Carly Graham (CrushPod)
D: Mina S (ZSUNR)
This Week’s Races: 1 Route, 4 Powerups
To celebrate/highlight/test Zwift’s newly rebalanced powerups, this week, for the first time, we’re racing the same route for all four races. The only difference between the races is the powerup you will receive near the start of the race.
How will powerups change the race? And will riders learn and improve on this very technical finish after taking it on race after race? Let’s find out!
- Race 1: Volcano Circuit CCW (4.84km, ends at Volcano Circuit lap banner)
- Powerup: Feather (1x)
- Race 2: Volcano Circuit CCW (4.84km, ends at Volcano Circuit lap banner)
- Powerup: Draft Boost (1x)
- Race 3: Volcano Circuit CCW (4.84km, ends at Volcano Circuit lap banner)
- Powerup: Burrito (1x)
- Race 4: Volcano Circuit CCW (4.84km, ends at Volcano Circuit lap banner)
- Powerup: Ghost (1x)
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tinyraces
ZwiftPower Results
Zwift displays preliminary race results in game when you cross the line, but points are computed after all four races are finished, with final results on ZwiftPower. (We have to do some data processing on our side to compute results, so if your rankings don’t show up right away, be patient.)
Riders will earn points based on finish position in each of the 4 Tiny Races. The category winner of each week’s series is the rider with the most points across their timezone’s 4 races. Here are the links for each timezone’s results on ZwiftPower:
- Zone 1 (9am GMT/5am EDT/2am PDT)
- Zone 2 (3pm GMT/11am EST/8am PDT)
- Zone 3 (9pm GMT/5pm EDT/2pm PDT/Sunday 7am AEST)
Rules
Tiny Race rules are simple, but still every week 7-10% of registered ZwiftPower racers get disqualified and removed from the final results. Don’t let that be you! Four races, four rules:
- You must have a ZwiftPower account, because final results are processed by ZwiftPower (learn how to sign up)
- No skipping then returning. These races are meant to be raced as a set of 4. If you need to leave early, that’s fine… but once you miss a race in your hour’s set of 4, don’t come back and race another or you’ll be disqualified from that race since you rested while others were racing! (Example: racing only races 1 and 2 is fine. Racing 1, 2, and 4 is not – you will be DQ from race 4. And if you race 2, 3, and 4, you’ll be DQ from all those races, since you skipped race 1!)
- Heart rate monitors are required for podium finishers
- ZPower/Virtual power is not allowed. Smart trainer/smart bike or power meter required.
Join a Chat & Chill Cooldown
Immediately following each hour’s racing, we’ve scheduled 30-minute “Chat & Chill” events where riders from all categories can spin their legs together and chat about how it all went down. Find them at zwift.com/events/tag/tinyraces.
Zwift Insider Kit Unlock
Finish any Tiny Race or a Chat & Chill ride and unlock the Zwift Insider “Ride Smarter // Ride Harder” in-game kit.
Questions or Comments
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Thanks for the TIE, Eric. Craig and I were having brief, friendly chatter between races, respecting each other’s results. In race 4, someone else won, and we were 2nd and 3rd – but then the winner was DQ. The tie was indeed the fairest outcome between the Aussie and the Kiwi. Honour is satisfied.
How do you calculate the winning woman? I would have expected to have been the zone 1 D woman 😉
It’s whoever takes 1st from the ladies… but there have to be at least 2 ladies in the race (because a 1st by default isn’t really a win!)
I best rally some ladies to beat then. Or get the others that were there to be on zwift power!
But that said 5th overall is also not 1st, last and only lady 😉
So if I win overall im
still not the 1st female? Perhaps you could consider that if you female is in the top 50% of riders she counts?
Congrats Ruth on the overall zone 1 D win this morning, just one position short of the “grand slam” over the four races.
If you win overall you’ll be the overall winner, which is huge! But yes, if you’re the only woman in your category and you win overall, I won’t list you twice.
Ugh, Burrito, I’d hoped after its truly awful rework that race organisers would be nice enough to spare us the ridiculousness of it in races
Yeah, I’m not a big fan either (it’s the only powerup that hurts others, after all). But we had to test out the new burrito!
Well having now experienced it, and seen that it is just as anti-cycling and ruinous as it seemed they would be I can safely say that I will NEVER again sign up for any race in any series which uses the Burrito as one of its power-ups (…unless Zwift change it again and in the way it should’ve been changed to begin with, however I won’t be holding my breath given this tone deaf change!)
Can you race in different categories in set a of races (obviously above your assigned category) without being DQ’d?
Yes. You’ll obviously not stand a chance of winning the overall podium that way (since you can’t accumulate points from both categories) but you can do it without getting a DQ.