Zwift Chat

[alex_cycles]

I think that by effectively turning it into a points race, the racing should benefit because it should motivate people who've been dropped to keep riding hard to pick up intermediate FAL points. With the old format, if you were dropped and out of a point-scoring position FAL-wise, there was virtually no point in keeping going. That Innsbruck race was an exception because we were able to work together to get a good leadout for the sprint (and, in a different race, I won FTS on a Libby Hill finish segment after being dropped), but by-and-large the FTS sprint points were going to be won from the big peloton.

I like the new format. It's very reminiscent of a simplified version of what they wanted to achieve with SBP. Everyone has something to play for and those who just went for segment smashing won't find it beneficial any more, so will have to race properly, like real men

Much simpler though and actually doable instead of pissing about with a new system that doesn't work.

 

[mjd1988]

Interesting...

 

[alex_cycles]

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Interesting...

We raced with 5 so potentially could take a few seconds off. But can we be arsed? I'm not sure.

 

[steverob]

Some teams in our league are saying this will give them four weeks to upgrade their TT bikes and try again, but they’d have to put in almost 40 hours of riding (assuming an un-upgraded bike currently) for it to make a meaningful difference.

Our team won the TTT and got the fourth best time out of all D leagues, so I think we’ll stick with our time as there’s too much risk we’ll end up going slower second time round.