Happy to answer what questions I can, but I will say that the sentiment here is not surprising given the general mentality (as much as it’s possible to generalize) of the typical Slowtwitcher. However, in this particular case, the mentality of the typical Slowtwitcher - y’all are fairly competitive - was not at all universal. Ultimately, we made the decision to disable race results because the feedback we received indicated that - in total - people were confused by the presence of race results in an event which, in its description, explicitly states, “THIS IS NOT A RACE” having results.
To be clear, there were also some bugs related to the results, but it was more the general sense of frustration/confusion that we perceived that led us to disable race results for TdZ. We don’t have any further changes planned for TdZ 2019, but this experience has certainly laid out some work for us in terms of how we set similar event series up in the future…
So…maybe make it an option. Those that don’t want to use it or see it, turn it off in the menu settings. For the rest, leave it on - everyone is satisfied.
I personally liked it as it gave me a sort of goal to keep myself in X position in the entire group. Not caring about a top finishing position in as far as so much as to keep in the same position for the entire ride…or if I loose150 positions on a long climb…looking to gain all that back on the flats/rollers. Now just kind of riding blind. I can live without it, but definitely preferred having positional readouts.