We definitely need to add teams and team scoring! I'd take some East vs. West coast action :)
Yeah, teams, team scores, also categories so there are more options to win! :)
I hear Zwift races are using cats based on you w/kg ftp. It's a new world.
That at least keeps all the people cheating with insanely high w/kg racing against each other... great idea!
Uh oh Pritesh, Handlebar-Hanley is in. Shit just got real.
Awesome - more representation from the East Coast!
RACE DAY! Hammerfest Blizzard bowl!
It is on!
I'm a bit worried about the number of ties on this short first stage. That is one of the learnings. Strava doesn't bring back 10ths of a second on the API... everything rounds to the closest second... even though Zwift has tenths of a second. Already seeing lots of close/tie times. So this first stage might be a bit of a wash! It just means longer stages work better to prevent ties.
Man that was fun, nearly spun off the rollers... I'm jealous of anyone that can stand up and hammer....
I wonder if strava still uses the tenths to rank on their leaderboard. You might be able to use that to rank among tied times.
Yeah I'm looking at it as the times come in. But the API really only returns seconds. So I'll just need to make sure the leader boards and points properly handle ties.
So just did my run. And since I am paying more attention now, I grabbed screen shots. The Jersey sprint points in Zwift show my times as 15.7 and 20.48. The API would round those to 16 + 20 for a total of 36 seconds on the stage. However the stage times using the GPS on Strava has my segment times at 14s + 15s for a total of 29s... It seems like the first segment (the corrected legth) is more accurate but Broad street is too short. Curious what others think about their data. This shouldn't be an issue with Hammerfest races that take place on real roads where you can actually map it visually to real landmarks. It is hard to draw a segment in a fake world. :)
Here is my activity link to check it out: https://www.strava.com/activities/486641293/overview
I had the same experience with the discrepancy between zwift sprint segment times and strava times. I think it's consistent between days/activities and between riders, so should not affect results, but it does make it hard to get an optimum time on the strava segment...
Yeah seems like that is the case. If everyone tries hard on the same timed jersey segments, it will translate into the same effort on the strava segments. They are too short to game and try and change the effort. Bare minimum that is why I tried to use pretty clear segments in Zwift and not make my own or get fancy with it. When I start mapping rides outside and accounting for stop lights and dangerous descents with multiple segments, it will get a little more tricky.
Yeah I had 15.62 and 19.65 and got 15 and 13 on the segments
Although that isn't consistent across riders (compare my times to trapper). But it'll be representative of what strava does outside too I guess
Jesus 13s on Broad? That is a monster time Giles.
Bam! I've done my 2 attempts.