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 where are you getting your “confusion/perception” from? If you watch the facebook Zwift groups, most people are very unhappy with this decision. As you can see here on slowtwitch, there is a lot of disappointed people. I’m not saying I don’t believe you, but as a paying member of Zwift, I’d love to see all these people who wanted it removed. It makes a lot more sense to leave it up and those people who don’t want to race don’t. By removing the leader board the only people hurt are those that want to challenge themselves. Leaving it hurts no one.