New Options and Occasions Will Assist You Get Prepared For The Outside Using Season.
Pricey Members of the Media and Zwifters,
I’m writing initially of the winter vacation season, and such as you, I’m wanting ahead to spending time with household and family members over the following few weeks. After all, right now of 12 months, many of the international inhabitants even have shorter days and colder climate to deal with, so I’m driving on Zwift greater than ever proper now. Thankfully, there are a bunch of latest options and enjoyable, partaking content material that may maintain me busy over the following a number of months as I begin to construct health forward of the spring and summer season driving season.
One among our favourite issues about Zwift is how so many individuals come collectively within the digital world, and quite a few our new options are designed to assist help us just do that. Different options are designed to make Zwift simpler to make use of, serving to to get extra folks enthusiastic about driving in Zwift and becoming a member of our neighborhood as all of us collectively trip by means of winter and towards spring.
I’m additionally excited that Zwift is internet hosting the 2023 UCI Biking Esports World Championships. The occasion will check racers in a wholly new format designed to provide fierce competitors and supply thrilling viewing for spectators. The races might be held in a brand-new map that may even be out there for our neighborhood to take pleasure in.
I’m extra excited than ever to get Zwifting, and excited to share this season’s new options and content material with you; please maintain studying to study this season’s greatest new options.
Sincerely,
Mark Cote, Zwift Vice President of Content material
New Options for This Season On Zwift (December 2022 by means of March 2023)
>> Scotland Map
Coming in February
We’ve created worlds modeled on actual locations previously, and maps that precisely replicate UCI Street World Championship programs, however Scotland is the primary Zwift map that’s influenced by the real-world UCI World Championship location and likewise designed to optimize all racing on Zwift.
The brand new map helps a three-race format that might be used for the 2023 UCI Biking Esports World Championships in February, and consists of options not seen anyplace else in Zwift, together with a loopable hill and a devoted time trial course that may make racing at each degree enjoyable.
The Scotland map is impressed by the bucolic Scottish panorama, the town of Glasgow’s distinctive structure, and the encircling areas. As you trip by means of the world, you’ll see well-known landmarks and points of interest from the nation, together with castles, mountains and cityscapes.
All Zwifters can have the possibility to hitch occasions on the brand new map beginning in late January. You’ll be capable to free-ride in Scotland beginning in mid-March.
For extra info: Slides 5 and 14-20 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Personalised Leaderboards
Coming to Zwift Companion App in February
I like parsing my information as a lot as you do, and I’m so excited to share this new function with you. This replace to the Zwift Companion app will enable Zwifters to see and analyze their occasions on Zwift segments. Zwifters will be capable to monitor their time on segments and see how they alter over time. When Personalised Leaderboards launch, Zwifters will be capable to evaluate their occasions throughout their lifetime on Zwift.
Sooner or later, this function will enable Zwifters to check and analyze different Zwift information.
For extra info: Slides six and 7 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> HoloReplay Updates
Spawning in early Q1 2023
Since launching earlier this 12 months, HoloReplays have rapidly change into certainly one of our favourite Zwift options.
Whereas it’s tempting to not mess with success, we’ve determined so as to add extra performance to HoloReplay, letting Zwifters now trip towards their Replays on total routes along with segments.
As earlier than, Zwifters can replay their 90-day PR, final effort, each on the similar time, or you may flip your replay off. HoloReplays can come on throughout Pacer Group rides and free rides, and all of your section and route occasions are recorded, apart from group exercises, meetups, or different actions which have rubberbanding enabled.
For extra info: Slide eight within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Zwift ‘For You’
Coming to the Residence Display Beginning in December
The brand new “For You” carousel will seem on the prime of the homescreen and can make it simpler for Zwifters to find their most well-liked in-game content material, together with group rides, different Zwifters they might need to trip with, and on-demand exercises. The entire content material Zwifters use most frequently might be proper there the place it’s simple to search out.
The brand new ‘For You’ carousel will steadily roll out to all Zwifters beginning in December.
Sooner or later, “For You” will enable Zwift to advocate content material to you primarily based in your current rides, occasions you’ve signed up for, and Pacer Teams rides you’ve participated in.
For extra info: Slide 9 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Discord Chat Integration for Golf equipment
On the road now!
Using down the street chatting with a good friend is without doubt one of the biggest pleasures in any bicycle owner’s life. Discord – the main social platform for voice and tex chat – makes it simple to speak whereas driving on Zwift, whenever you’re not inside earshot of your pals. It’s a enjoyable method to trip and chat, and a really useful device to permit teammates to coordinate techniques throughout a race. To make it simpler to search out your membership’s Discord chat, we’ve launched a manner for golf equipment to combine a Discord hyperlink into their profile within the Zwift Companion App.
For extra info: Slide ten within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Sub 30-Minute Exercises
Reside now!
In an effort to offer larger selection for time-crunched athletes and the rising variety of newbie and leisure cyclists on Zwift, we’ve added 10 new sub-30 minute exercises, doubling the variety of exercises in that assortment. These new exercises will assist anybody slot in a enjoyable, productive trip in even the shortest window of time.
For extra info: Slide 11 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Be a part of A Zwifter
Reside now!
Again by fashionable demand, Be a part of a Zwifter enables you to simply trip or run with folks you observe on Zwift, professional athletes, and even the occasional celeb. You’ll find Be a part of a Zwifter on the homescreen, and it is going to be within the “For You” carousel, when it rolls out.
In its new iteration, Be a part of a Zwifter will present you the common pace of individuals in your Be a part of a Zwifter display, in addition to their elapsed trip or run time, so that you don’t be part of somebody chasing a HoloReplay who gained’t need to chat, or somebody simply ending a trip.
For extra info: Slide 12 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
New Content material for This Season On Zwift (December 2022 by means of March 2023)
>> UCI Biking Esports World Championships
Going down in February
To amp up the joy for the 2023 UCI Biking Esports World Championships, Zwift has partnered with the 2023 UCI Biking World Championships. The true-world occasions will happen in Glasgow in August, 2023. For the Esports World Championships, happening in February, Zwift has created a brand new map, impressed by Glasgow. This new atmosphere is Zwift’s first to be designed particularly for a UCI Biking Esports World Championship occasion, and was created to help a brand new format of racing as a result of debut on the occasion, The Zwift Battle Royale.
This format will crown the final word all-around Zwifters. To try this, the World Championships occasions will embrace three races, every happening on a course particularly constructed for that stage of racing. The primary stage, The Punch, will ship racers out on a rolling circuit that may present a right away check of racers’ health, technique, and Zwiftcraft. Out of 100 starters in each the ladies’s and males’s races, solely the highest 30 stage one finishers will advance to stage two.
The second stage, The Climb, is a climber’s race that may repeatedly ship the remaining area up steep grades – 161 meters of climbing in 8.6 kilometers. Solely the highest ten finishers on this stage will advance to the third and ultimate stage.
Stage three, The Podium, is an elimination race contested on a difficult crit circuit in digital Glasgow. The elimination is a well-liked and thrilling format of racing generally seen on a velodrome’s banks. On Zwift, the elimination will pull out the final rider throughout the road at every of the circuit’s two arches, bringing monitor racing pleasure and techniques to Zwift’s digital roads for the primary time. As soon as the sector has been whittled right down to the final three riders, there might be a dash for World Champions’ stripes!
With eliminations occurring all through the three races, and PowerUps enabled, this race would be the final check of on-bike power and pace, in addition to Zwift technique and ability.
The nationwide groups lining as much as race the world championships embrace each riders chosen by federations and prime finishes on the continental qualifier races held in November. Distinctive to world championship racing, any Zwifter had an opportunity to earn a berth at worlds by means of these qualifiers. You’ll want to watch what guarantees to be essentially the most thrilling racing motion Zwift has ever seen in February.
For extra info: Slides 14-20 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Z Fondo Sequence
December-April
The Zwift Fondo Sequence brings the enjoyable and collective pleasure of “The Massive Experience” to Zwift. This 12 months’s sequence consists of three endurance challenges: Gran, Medio, and Bambino lengths, each designed to suit into completely different schedules, and to offer choices for Zwifters of all health ranges.
Every of the fondo weekends provides three distance choices: An A gaggle that may cowl 90 kilometers, a B group that covers 70 kilometers, and a C group that covers 50 kilometers. Everybody can decide the space that makes essentially the most sense for them, after which join with different riders on the roads of Zwift.
Fondo weekends will happen the primary weekend of every month, beginning December 2, 2022, and ending in April 2023:
December 2, 2022 – December 4, 2022
December 30, 2022 – January 1, 2023
February 3, 2023 – February 5, 2023
March 3, 2023 – March 5, 2023
March 31, 2023 – April 2, 2023
For extra info: Slide 21 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Rapha Festive 500
December 24-31
The Rapha Festive 500 is without doubt one of the 12 months’s most pleasant collective biking occasions, difficult riders to pedal 500 kilometers between Christmas Eve and New Yr’s Eve. It’s a time of 12 months when many individuals are off work and making the most of the additional time to trip. We’re excited to work with Rapha to host some Festive 500 rides on Zwift; ensure you register for the Festive 500 on Strava to trace your Zwift and real-world miles. Full any Festive 500 rides on Zwift, led by a Rapha ambassador or a PacerBot, and you’ll unlock a novel in-game Festive 500 equipment.
For extra info: Slide 22 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Tour de Zwift
Begin the tour in January
The Tour de Zwift is without doubt one of the largest biking occasions on the planet, and provides all riders the possibility to discover eight of Zwift’s worlds over eight levels that may present you the entire worlds’ most enjoyable and scenic routes and programs. Contributors will get the possibility to unlock new route badges, earn an in-game equipment, and also can buy a real-world equipment made by Pedal Mafia, with the intention to match your in-game avatar.
For extra info: Slide 23 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Zwift Racing League Spherical Three and Championships
Begin the race in January
ZRL is essentially the most enjoyable you may have racing on Zwift; type a group with associates and driving companions, after which compete in six races – 4 factors races and two TTTs. Programs embrace all of Zwift’s hottest worlds. The third and ultimate spherical of ZRL begins in January and prime groups might be invited to the ZRL finals in early March.
For extra info: Slide 24 within the This Season on Zwift media deck, and on the WTRL web site.
>> Scotland Rides
Experience in February
Zwift’s new Scotland map would be the scene of intense competitors on the 2023 UCI Biking Esports World Championships in February. Earlier than the championship racing begins, there might be ZRacing occasions and route recon rides joined by professionals on the brand new map. These occasions offers you the possibility to reconnoiter the brand new programs, absorb the entire imaginative Scottish surroundings, and revel within the pleasure of driving on the 2023 UCI Biking Esports World Championship course.
For extra info: Slide 25 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Tremendous League Area Video games
Watch in February
I like the format of the Tremendous League Triathlon Area Video games. Again for its fourth season, this 12 months’s expanded sequence will proceed to have the world’s prime skilled triathletes swimming in a pool, after which driving and working on Zwift, creating an thrilling, spectator-friendly triathlon spectacle.
As in 2022, Tremendous League Triathlon will once more accomplice with World Triathlon and can host occasions in 4 cities. You’ll be able to stream the motion, or attend in individual if you happen to stay close to any of the 4 occasions.
Excited about seeing the way you evaluate to the top-level triathletes racing within the video games? You’ll be capable to check your health in quite a few occasions on Zwift.
For extra info: Slide 26 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Zwift Academy Run
Take a look at Your mettle in February
For 2023, Zwift Academy Run will embrace seven structured exercises. That will help you get by means of them, Zwift will present a number of coaching ideas alongside the way in which, and also you’ll be capable to join with a neighborhood of runners who’re all united within the mission of getting fitter and sooner. On the finish of this system, you’ll full a end line.
We labored with world-class coach Terrence Mahon and three-time Jen Rhines to create all of the exercises, that are designed that will help you enhance your health, whether or not your purpose is to set a marathon PR or end your first 5k.
Everybody who graduates from this system has the possibility to win the grand prize, which incorporates gear from prime working manufacturers and an entry to the 2023 Berlin Marathon.
For extra info: Slide 27 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
>> Tour of Watopia
Begin the Tour in March
Tour of Watopia is the tour that ranges you up sooner, whether or not it’s your in-game degree or your health degree. Enhance your health and enjoyable when you unlock new gear, Maintaining your avatar wanting recent. The rewards of arduous work are amplified whenever you rating double XP, taking you to the following degree sooner than a dash!
In the event you end all 5 levels, you’ll unlock the in-game 2023 Tour of Watopia equipment.
For extra info: Slide 28 within the This Season on Zwift media deck.
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