eSports Winter Series returns for 2025 / 2026
Cycling Ireland is pleased to announce the return the eSports Winter Series for 2025/2026. Run in association with Racing Without Borders, the series will get underway this Friday, 7th of November.
The series includes ten races, concluding on Friday, 23rd of January 2025.
Participants will race weekly across different stages, including punchy, climbing, flat stages and an Individual Time Trial. Races will be held on Friday evenings at 19.05GMT.
Points will be awarded for finishing places in each round, as well as selected rounds for General Classification timing. There are five open bracket categories using Zwift Racing Scores. These races will also be open to Para-Cycling Athletes who will have their own results tables amongst the five open Zwift Category Brackets.
Click here to register. To appear on the Cycling Ireland results all athletes must hold an active Cycling Ireland membership.
Points and Scoring:
There are two scoring options, there will be a General Classification (GC) and a Points based league. There are seven mandatory races that will accumulate time, the riders with the lowest accumulated time will be deemed the GC winners.
For the Points based race, finishing points will be awarded on each athlete’s finishing position, the riders with the most points will be deemed the winners in their respective categories. Each athlete’s best eight from ten rounds will count towards their points tally.
1st – 30 points
2nd – 25 points
3rd – 20 points
4th – 16 points
5th – 15 points
6th – 14 points
7th – 13 points
8th – 12 points
9th – 11 points
10th – 10 points
11th - 15th – 9 points
16th - 20th – 8 points
21st - 25th – 7 points
26th 30th – 6 points
31st - 35th – 5 points
36th - 40th – 4 points
41st – 45th – 3 points
46th - 50th – 2 points
Further information on Points and Scoring can be found in the Technical Guide.
The Cycling Ireland Esports series is dependent on Zwift Power monitoring and its statistical service. This also means that if you get upgraded by Zwift Power during the league, you will be upgraded in the points system, and you will start with 50% of your existing points in a higher Category.
If you are close to the Category limit, and you are not a very experienced Zwifter or long-time rider familiar with your power output, we recommend choosing a higher category. In this way, you avoid being moved to a higher Category and starting with 50% of your existing points.
Click here for the Technical Guide.
Categories
Category 1 – Pen A 690 – 1000 Points
Category 2 – Pen B 520 – 690 Points
Category 3 – Pen C 350 – 520 Points
Category 4 – Pen D 180 – 350 Points
Category 5 – Pen E 0 – 180 Points