Recent content by Riverside

  1. Riverside

    The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Max Poole with fractured collarbone and my team's hope to come back a bit are broken as well...
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    The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Bagioli is in profit - gg for 56 teams. not much to celebrate this week for me, cautiously optimistic about first racing days of rare (14 teams) Quinn Simmons...
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    The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    And he is relatively rare. 16 of us picked him. So nice to have some good points from him early.
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    The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    now that what I call an effort in attempt to beat Collective Ignorance team :)
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    The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Time to introduce my team. First of all I’m an idiot – not sure how I picked 32 not 33 riders. There was room for one more rider that I’ve missed even with 0 points and will be eating me whole year. Second – I will not write about commonly picked riders – there are better writers then me in...
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    The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    you know... I've spend dozens of hours on creating last year's team and ended up nowhere close to what my goal was. So this year I took a different approach - create team in 24 hours from the scratch. Lets see how it goes but its like an early breakaway attempt in monument race - no chance there...
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    The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    oh, my favourite "how could I've missed this guy" day is coming...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    77th place and increasing gap is not ideal, but not pushing panic button yet. got growing concerns about Covi, Stewart injury (obviously) but otherwise it is not that bad atm... from this week rare picks perspective Matthews in top10 but stage 4 might be a killer and Cosnefroy got his...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Michael Matthews got his first win, 80 points, semi-unique pick (2 of us picked him), well, at least something to cheer about considering how pathetic I'm in TDU :)
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    two unique picks: KOPECKY Tomas and DEWEIRDT Siebe... that shouldn't be game changer but would be a pleasant bonus if they can overachieve significantly. What is interesting is that BARGUIL Warren and MATTHEWS Michael were picked by one team except me. I absolutely get it - why they are not so...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Here we go, traditional post-introduction of this year’s team. I’ve changed the strategy this year, concentrating on <1k riders, there is a mix of those who I wanted to pick for a few previous years but couldn’t afford, young talents, some fan picks and pure bargain. Probably I’ve missed few...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    my team is ready, hesitating a bit, last years hesitations kicked Rui Costa from the team, so need to send the list and stop thinking about it
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    The 2023 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    and finally he got more points then in 2022 ;)
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    2023 Giro CQ Game

    nice podium :) thanks a lot for all the participants and a special thanks to Armchair cyclist for his time and putting this all together!
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    The 2023 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    I love our game, seriously. last stage at Sicilia I was watching like PR last weekend. rooting for FFB :) that was even more special watching with polish commentators who were with a heart-breaking voices cheering for Rafal and considering him (not w/o reason) as the strongest one on that stage