ZRL Summer Showdown Announced: Signups Open Today

May 21, 2024

LAST UPDATED June 6, 2024

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.