6Points Challenges has been running group rides and races on Zwift for several years now, with a high degree of realism for 6Points riders, with the 6Points jersey and bib shorts in every 6Points Zwift event for everyone worldwide to use.
6Points Challenges
Since 2019, https://6pointschallenges.com has organised Zwift group rides, led by a “beacon” leader, including, on occasions, the UK’s record breaking Olympic cyclist, Dame Sarah Storey.
We offer 6Points Challenges Zwift group ride training on Thursdays at 9.55am GMT and Sundays at 11.40 GMT, and for the more competitively-minded, there are 6Points Zwift races on Wednesdays at 20.10 GMT.
Zwift has 12 worlds to choose from, including the new Scotland world, celebrating the UCI World Championships in Glasgow, and we run Zwift events based in all of them – Richmond, London, New York, Innsbruck, Bologna, Yorkshire, France, Paris and Scotland, as well as Zwift’s own Watopia, Crit City and Makuri Islands worlds.
Many thousands of individual participants have ridden nearly 100,000 6Points group rides between them, and well over 10,000 6Points races over 4 years. Riding and chatting with other riders, via a headset or texting on screen, Zwift allows a highly developed, shared and engaging way to train, with like-minded others, when in-real-life (irl) road or track riding isn’t possible.
Zwift’s 6Points imagery
Helping to promote real-life 6Points event, in Spring and Autumn, we put up the
6Points page url for riders to see more about real-life 6Points. At the start of
events, the ride affiliation is clearly stated, and here, in this screenshot from an
event start, you can also see that everyone wears the 6Points in-game Zwift kit.
In the next screenshot, having started an event, and this time at the Tuileries gardens in Paris, you can see my announcement reminding riders of the 6Points in-game kit, which they can use for any event after completing just one 6Points event.
Next, we see a rider about to lap me. He has done 24.7 kms, about 3.5 laps into the ride, whereas I have only done 18 kms, as you can see on the right, on the fairly short Champs Élysées course. You can clearly see not only his 6Points jersey, but also the 6Points strapline “We ride for Charity” on his bibshorts.
This side view (from Zwft’s Watopia world) shows “6Points” well displayed on my avatar’ ‘s bibshorts.
Discord
We also use the Discord chat system on our rides, so just as in real-life rides, we can chat to those riding with us. We use the dedicated 6Points Discord channel I remind riders about in the screenshot below, and use earbuds and microphone, connected by Bluetooth to the Zwift “game”, just as many gamers do.
There is a link to this channel when riders book into the game, so that they know about Discord in advance, as you will see here for one of our Sunday rides. https://www.zwift.com/uk/events/tag/6points/view/3900953.
A “Club Discord” live link, as you see below, is also on the Zwift Companion Mobile app for the ride, which most riders use to communicate during their ride. (NB 12.40 is the European time for this particular ride, 1 hour ahead of the UK’s 11.40am)
Riders that complete one of our 6Points rides or races get the 6Points in-game jersey and bibs unlocked for them in their equipment garage in Zwift. They can then use the 6Points kit at any time, and in any of their Zwift rides after that.
Zwift summary
Zwift is ever more popular worldwide for recreation and training amongst professional and amateur riders alike, and is is a really good promotional platform for 6Points Challenges. The in-game 6Points kit helps to suggests to Zwift riders to book a future 6Points Challenges event in real-life.
6Points Challenges is one of only a few entities, apart from Zwift themselves and some bike manufacturers, to have our own kit in the Zwift game, and so every 6Points Zwift event showcases 6Points Challenges.
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