Overview

The Chasing Tour has a year-long general classification for individual riders (men/women) and teams. The more you ride, the more you earn. You earn points based on how you perform on the day and how you perform over the course of multiple days.

COMPETITIONS //

Chasing Tour 2023 GC:

• The individual rider GC is calculated off a rider’s point accumulation across the season.

• The team GC is calculated using the point accumulation from a team’s top 3 riders from each race event and GC competition.

Race Events:

• There are 90 individual event races during the 2023 circuit.

  • Please note, the Chasing Femmes stage race and events will be women’s only.

• Riders are awarded points for each individual race event they participate in and complete.

• Many of the individual race events are organized into GC competitions.

GC Competition | Stage Race:

• Stage races evaluate a rider's combined time over the course of multiple stages (race events).

• In an effort time normalize times across multiple time zones a time gap system will be used.

  • Time Gap System

    • The 1st placed rider in a race event will earn a time gap of 00:00:00s.

    • Each following rider’s time gap will be calculated as a difference from the first rider’s time (ie: +00:00:05s).

    • The time gap logic will apply to each race event time zone.

    • Riders will then be globally ranked based on their overall combined time gaps throughout the tour. The rider with the lowest overall combined time gap finishing in 1st.

• If a rider misses a stage they are given the last finishing time for the stage.

• Riders must complete the minimum required amount of stages within a GC competition to qualify for GC competition points. This is generally at least 80% of the stages.

• Don't worry if you miss a stage, riders still earn points from the individual race events they complete within a stage race.

GC Competition | Seasonal Series:

• Seasonal event series evaluate a rider’s point accumulation across a defined set of races.

• There is no minimum required race count with the competition to earn GC placement and points.

SCORING //

You earn points in two ways, from individual race events and general classification (GC) competitions. The more you ride, the more you earn.

Race Event Scoring:

• Points are awarded for each category by men/women for event time zone

• Riders can complete the race in any time zone; its not required to always race in the same time zone

• Only the first completed event for a specific race counts

• Race event points determined by the race tier

GC Competition Scoring:

• GC standing are calculated globally, not for each time zone

• Points awarded for each category and men/women

• Riders must complete min # of GC competition events to receive GC points

Team Scoring:

• The top 3 riders’ scores from each event count

• The top 3 riders from a GC competition count

RULES //

• Riders must be registered on www.zwiftpower.com

• Heart rate monitors required

• No ZPower riders

CATEGORIES //

Each race event supports multiple categories. The www.zwiftracing.app ranking system will be used to provide the fairest categorization system during the tour.

The bullets below detail the mapping between Zwift event categories and zwiftracing.app ranks. Example: Riders with a zwiftracing.app rank of Gold (I,II,III) should join the B category when signing up for race events.

• 🔴 A — Platinum, Challenge, Champion, Grand Champion

• 🟢 B — Gold

• 🔵 C — Silver

• 🟡 D — Bronze

Determining your category:

If you have completed a Chasing Tour event you can find your race category at the registered riders page. You should continue to sign up for race events using your registered category.

If you have not yet completed a Chasing Tour race event follow the instructions below.

1. Visit www.zwiftracing.app/riders/YOURZWIDNUMBER

2. Find your rating and the corresponding rank class.

3. Use the above categories information to determine if you are category A/B/C/D and sign up for race events using the appropriate category.

4. If your ZWID is not found on zwiftracing.app please sign up for race events using your ZwiftPower category.

Categories while racing:

• All categories and riders will be visible together on the race course.

• Riders will be able to differentiate and identify riders in their category with the associated category letter icon.

Result categorization:

• Results will be categorized into riders’ appropriate category at event completion.

• Results from riders racing within the wrong category on the race course will be recategorized. Example: If a B rider races in the C (Silver) category within the event, their result will be recategorized to B (Gold) at event completion.

• Continued riding under the wrong category will lead to disqualification or other penalties.

Category upgrades:

• It is expected that some riders will improve and upgrade categories throughout the tour.

• A rider’s category will be captured during their first event.

• A rider completing less than 5 events before upgrade is subject to a season long upgrade to their new category.

RACE EVENT SCORING //