It is always a balance to try to keep the viewing experience clean and uncluttered whilst also providing the necessary data. We experimented this time around with time gaps instead of w/kg and I tend to agree that in the first two races the time gaps were largely irrelevant as there were very few breaks from the group. I did think the time gaps worked much better in the final Hill Climb TT where the gaps were much more relevant (and significant).
I've spoken to the broadcast team and hopefully we will have w/kg back in for next week's racing.
Richard,
Thank you to you and the Team at Zwift for pulling this together again.
Great work by both Matt Leito and Sarah True - as a fellow Commentator/Announcer, I know first hand this is much harder than it looks. Not being together physically is a challenge, and then layered on top of that, the differences between Virtual Racing and Real World Racing - you can't call it the same! There are some subtle differences I discovered.
This is still really a new way of both racing and bringing the racing to fans and the people - the Sport Presentation and Broadcast/Streaming part of it all. A work in progress I'm guessing and ever evolving. I agree with others that if it's easy to get at key data like Power Output, it would be good to be able to see that. For the few Zwift races that I did some Commentary for early this year, it did give me something to talk about, and compare rider to rider.
Continued best wishes with this.
I'm looking forward to watching the UCI eSports World Championships on Zwift in December - That will be a HUGE step forward for eRacing/eSports and for Zwift!
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