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Hors Categorie Series

Get ready to push yourself to the limit and experience the thrill of competitive racing on extremely challenging courses! The Hors Categorie Series, powered by Team DIRT Racing, is bigger, better, longer and harder than anything we’ve hosted before!

Challenging Courses

Six hard and challenging courses. The races with duration around 1,5 hours will test both your endurance and strength

Category Enforced

Category Enforced individual racing and a balanced points structure (FIN, FTS, and FAL). Competitive experience for everyone!

Time

From the 29th of October to the 03rd of December 2023, join us every or Sunday at 18:00 UTC.

Hors Categorie Series Calendar

Date Time Course World Distance Elevation Classification
Series 4, Race 1/6 29/10/2023 18:00 UTC Rolling Highlands Scotland 58.8 km 493 m 2 - Rolling
Series 4, Race 2/6 05/11/2023 18:00 UTC Bridges and Boardwalks Makuri 58.9 km 547 m 2 - Rolling
Series 4, Race 3/6 12/11/2023 18:00 UTC London 8 London 61.5 km 772 m 3 - Hilly
Series 4, Race 4/6 19/11/2023 18:00 UTC Park Perimeter Loop New York 58.6 km 759 m 2 - Rolling
Series 4, Race 5/6 26/11/2023 18:00 UTC Harrogate Circuit Reverse Yorkshire 55.2 km 981 m 3 - Hilly
Series 4, Race 6/6 03/12/2023 18:00 UTC Four Horsemen Watopia 50.0 km 1159 m 4 - Montainous
After Party 10/12/2023 18:00 UTC Figure 8 Reverse Watopia 59.9 km 509 m 2 - Rolling

Series 4 – Stage Briefing

Race 1/6 (Scotland: Rolling Highlands – 6 Laps | 58,8 km | 493 m)

Segments in play:
Lap 2, 3, 4, 5: Breakaway Brae Reverse FAL (Sprint) + FTS

Race 2/6 (Makuri: Bridges and Boardwalks – 9 Laps | 58,9 km | 547 m)

Lap 2, 4, 6, 8: Shisa Sprint Foward FAL (Cat. 4) + FTS

Race 3/6 (London: London 8 – 3 Laps | 61,5 km | 772 m)

Lap 1:
Box Hill | FAL (Cat. 4) + FTS
Lap 2:
Sprint Forward | FAL (Sprint) + FTS
Box Hill | FAL (Cat. 4) + FTS
Lap 3:
Box Hill | FAL (Cat. 4) + FTS

Race 4/6 (New York: Park Perimeter Loop – 6 Laps | 58,8 km | 756 m)

Lap 2, 3, 4, 5: Sprint Forward | FAL (Sprint) + FTS

Race 5/6 (Harrogate Circuit Reverse – 4 Laps | 55,3 km | 981 m)

Lap 1:
Yorkshire KOM Reverse | FAL (Cat. 4)
Lap 2, 3:
Yorkshire Sprint Reverse | FAL (Sprint) + FTS
Yorkshire KOM Reverse | FAL (Cat. 4) + FTS
Lap 4:
Yorkshire KOM Reverse | FAL (Cat. 4)

Race 6/6 (Four Horsemen – Custom Finish Line | 50,0 km | 1159 m)

Segments in play:
Zwift KOM Forward | FAL (Cat. 4) + FTS
Volcano KOM Forward | FAL (Cat. 3) + FTS
Epic KOM Forward | FAL (Cat. 2) + FTS
Alpe du Zwift Shortened | FAL (Cat. 2)

Rules and Scoring

1: Overriding Principles
  1. Race within the spirit of the rules. You can see what we’re aiming for here so work with us. Don’t try to game the system if we missed a loophole. We want to find the fastest riders not the smartest sneaks.
  2. Be honest with your stats and recognise that when we are eRacing the appearance of honesty is also crucial! Don’t mess with your height. Don’t lend your account to anyone else to play with. Don’t find a massive weight drop the day before the Alpe du Zwift race.
2: Rider Requirements
  1. All riders must have completed 3 maximum effort RACES (minimum 20+ minutes per race) that count towards their ZwiftPower 3 Race Average in the prior 90-days to start in a HCS race. This is mandatory and easy to do. Failure to comply will result in results being annulled.
  2. Riders must have a fully registered ZwiftPower.com account that has enabled the sharing of rider data with ZwiftPower from your Zwift Profile Connections.
  3. Riders should ensure that races in this series are saved as PUBLIC to ensure transparency.
  4. In the event that a rider is reported to Race Control, then Race Control will request the original ZWIFT FIT file from the team captain via notification on Direct Message on Discord. This will need to be provided within 24-hours and failure to provide that FIT file will itself be a DQ for the rider in question.
  5. Riders must have accurate height and weight entered in-to their Zwift profile, either through Companion app or Zwift.com. Weight reductions of >2kg close to the event will require the rider to verify this with a weigh-in video.
  6. Riders are not permitted to change their height, weight or other biometric information from the point they enter the pen to when they exit the race. Failure to comply will result in a rider DQ.
  7. All riders must transmit power information to Zwift. This can be done by using a Smart turbo trainer, Smart bike or Classic ‘dumb’ trainer with a separate power meter. Riders without connected Power device to Zwift will not be able to enter the starting pen.
  8. All riders must wear a heart rate monitor (HRM) that transmits data directly to Zwift.
3: Categories
  1. HCS uses Category Enforcement (CE) to place riders into the correct pen. This process is automatically done based on rules defined by Zwift, which can be viewed here: https://support.zwift.com/en_us/category-enforcement-faq-rJ5CQrpvc
  2. Category Enforcement (CE) means that riders could start in different categories within the series, always in the minimum possible category on race day. However the race results for the league table are category-related, which means that only the points earned in the specific category are added to the overall result of the same category. Therefore we recommend riders who are close to a specific category limit to start directly in the next higher category.
4: The HCS Threshold
  1. If a rider does 0.2 w/kg over the relevant Category limit (double the normal Zwiftpower limit), and is 10w or more than the Watts Range for their category, in a HCS race then they will be disqualified with a WKG tag.
5: Individual Leaderboard and Points
  1. The Individual leaderboard is calculated to the accumulated Total Rider Points (Finishing + FTS + FAL points) of a rider in all HCS races of the same series.
  2. Finishing position points (FIN): are awarded to all riders finishing the race as per the table in 6.1 below.
  3. Fastest Through Segment (FTS): points are awarded to the top 10 times through the segment on each lap as listed in 6.2 below – in conjunction with the course schedule. Be aware some segments may be worth double points and some segments may not count so study the race details carefully!
  4. First Across the Line (FAL): points awarded to the top 10 riders across the segment finish line on each lap as listed in 6.3 below – in conjunction with the course schedule. Be aware some segments may be worth double points and some segments may not count so study the race details carefully!
  5. The results will be published on Zwiftpower.
6: Points Tables

Hors Categorie Series - Finishing Points (FIN) table

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 100 95 90 85 84 83 82 81 80 79
Position 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Points 74 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65
Position 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Points 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51
Position 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Points 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41
Position 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Points 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31
Position 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
Points 25 25 24 24 23 23 22 22 21 21
Position 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
Points 20 20 19 19 18 18 17 17 16 16
Position 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
Points 15 15 14 14 13 13 12 12 11 11
Position 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
Points 10 10 9 9 8 8 7 7 6 6
Position 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100+
Points 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2

Hors Categorie Series - Fastest Though Segment (FTS) table (Race 1 & 2)

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 20 17 15 13 11 9 8 7 6 5

Hors Categorie Series - Fastest Though Segment (FTS) table (Race 3-6)

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 20 17 15 13 11 9 8 7 6 5
Position 11 12 13 14 15
Points 4 3 2 2 1

First Across the Line (FAL) Table – Weighted KOM and Sprint points

KOM - Hors Categorie / Categorie 1
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 40 36 32 32 28 28 24 24 20 20
KOM - Categorie 2
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 20 18 16 16 14 14 12 12 10 10
KOM - Categorie 3
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 10 9 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5
KOM - Categorie 4
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 5 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1
Sprint
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 5 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1

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