The UCI Cycling Esports World Championships sponsored by Zwift are to be held today, and mirabile dictu, the virtual cops will be on the lookout for the actual outlaws.
This dude is ready for his comeback.
It seems that digital “doping,” like actual doping, is a thing in these dark days. The same miscreants who will hitch a ride on a team car, hide tiny motors in their bicycles, and hotrod themselves with the drug du jour will manipulate the data like cadet James T. Kirk queering the Kobayashi Maru test at Starfleet Academy.
Tech blogger Ray Maker, speaking to The New York Times, suggested that Zwift is rife with the sort of shameless corner-cutting one used to see when bike races were still held outdoors, in the real world, where there are actual corners to cut.
“There’s so much cheating in Zwift that I think a lot of people would like to see more accountability,” said Maker, who writes the endurance sports technology blog DC Rainmaker.
A spokesman for Zwift, meanwhile, expressed confidence in the company’s ability “to catch cheaters and to police the races.”
Ho, ho, etc. Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.
Tags: 2020 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships, Doping, esports, Star Trek, UCI, Zwift
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December 9, 2020 at 7:27 am |
One has to be batshit crazy to dive into this stuff so seriously as to dope or cheat for a virtual race.
I’ll retire to Bedlam….
December 9, 2020 at 7:58 am |
There’s gold in them thar e-hills, according to Forbes. As usual, the mining of same is the tricky part.
December 9, 2020 at 9:22 am |
December 9, 2020 at 12:06 pm |
I utterly fail to see how, even in the Plague Year, there is enough boredom to justify watching that.