The challenging team are responsible for most aspects of race setup, undertaking all steps below. Teams can challenge another team no more than 7 places above them in the team ladder. Teams may challenge others of a higher rank as long as they are within 7 places. Challenges can be made up to a week in advance.

Women's teams can challenge any team within range globally (mixed or women’s), but may only be challenged by other women's teams.

The preferred method of creating a challenge is using the “availability auction” feature, though the “old” way of organising is still summarised below as a backup.

Via Discord / Website ‘Challenge’ Method

  1. In the #race-organisation Discord channel (please navigate to the one for your specific region), create a New Post, and @ tag the captain of the opposing team you wish to challenge and here you can start any discussion on the date and time. Teams being challenged have 24 hours to respond to the challenge. Note: Please refrain from challenging multiple teams for the same time and date to "hedge your bets", it's ok to enquire about availability of more than one team at a time but once you've started the process of making a challenge it should be with a single team.

  2. Navigate to the league view in the ladder site and hit the blue challenge button.

  3. The system will ask that you to check;

    1. You have approached this team on discord to agree a fixture?
    2. Ensured you have the riders to fulfill this race?

    Click “OK”, this will prompt you to propose a day, time and Steering on/off , and then click the ‘Challenge’ button, after which it will send the challenge to the opposing captain.

  4. Once the challenge has been formally accepted, the challenging team then have 36 hours to confirm their course choice (this is deliberately done after agreeing time and date, to stop the other team declining on the basis that the just don’t like the course). If the challenging team fail to propose a course within 36 hours then it will flip to the opposition to make the choice.

  5. The challenging captain can then complete the Route Selection and Powerup Selection before clicking Create Event.

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  6. This will instantly and automatically create the Zwift Event Link - which the captain should then share the link with the opposition Captain in the Discord thread, and with the riders of their own team who will be racing.

  7. Any change requests should use the Change Event button on the Fixture page.

Steering Choice (as of May 2025)

As some of you are aware, we have been developing a method to allow the potential for "steering disabled" races.

  1. During the challenge creation you will now have the choice to disable steering.
  2. If you choose to disable steering you will lost the route and powerup pick, these are given to your opponents instead.
  3. Captains will not know before accepting a challenge if it is "steering" or "no steering", and it is not grounds to refuse or cancel a challenge.
  4. The same is true for auctions, during the offer you can choose "steering off" alongside the request for numbers of riders.
  5. Once the Fixture is in place, the Steering Disabled icon will be visible (before the course and PU’s are chosen):