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Update #4: Armchair riding to the top The early season racing carried on last week with Etoile de Besseges and Vuelta Valenciana, where despite the neutralization of the TT, Remco Evenepoel continued his early season tear. Unsurprisingly, the standings this week are topped by teams including...

I missed this earlier this week - just to clarify, the official weekly rankings are based on CQ spreadsheet updates, so that is the basis for the weekly scores. Indeed it will fix itself for the overall scores but we've never countered the official CQ sheet in the game, so their mistake becomes...

Update #3: Onizuka999 Gets Christened into CQ Game The early season continued this week with races (not braces!) in Mallorca, Saudi Arabia, Australia and France. As more riders get their seasons underway we will see more upheaval in the standings, although the very top of the standings remained...

Indeed. Are you saying there aren't just two Mallorca races? :flushed:

Update #2: The postmanhat always wins at least once After a week lull following the appetizer points given out in the Aussie national championships, the season gets underway in earnest with the Tour Down Under as well as our first European one-day races. As such, the standings get upended with...

Hi, just catching up on the thread - this is a great suggestion, I've thought of it before but just haven't done it. Will put in the heading of the first post later today. Also apologies everyone, bad form to not get an early update out as quickly as possible, just had some unexpected turns of...

I believe the explanation for his non-picking is in your post. I mean, last year was his 'lets see how he does outside of stacked Visma on a different teams with an explicit focus on his own chances', and the profit was 56 points. Just so many more inspiring choices at around his cost.

Oops yeah poor sentence construction - should have said 'Morgado' instead of 'him' there.

Oh yeah, that's probably right. I definitely don't have an encyclopedic memory of this game and rarely check my notes (occasionally I will open an old spreadsheet when I'm moving files and be shocked I had basically half my team in a given year because I have no memory of choosing those riders)...

I've clipped and bolded a piece of this, just to say that on reflection, I think I meant what you are saying by what I was saying, but probably should have chosen a better word than 'risk', or added context. I just mean risk as in opportunity cost of other riders that you could have picked, who...

Wow, how does he hold the handlebars with those tiny arms?

That makes sense - yeah I always appreciate your team-building approach, as it mixes conventional down-the-middle picks with a risk appetite that accepts big swings, which is why you end up with a unique pick like Buitrago that can really swing things your way if you hit on that risk. That also...

Update #1: Mason07 builds a winning team in Australia The 2026 CQ game is underway, and this year CQ has decided not to wait until the TDU to release it's first download, so we are getting our first update after the Aussie nationals! Between that and the other minor races that have taken place...

That last paragraph was exactly my consideration in taking Remco. My process (I'm sure I've made reference to it in the past) is to make a long list without much thought, then systematically take a closer look at the riders one by one, giving them 1-5 stars based on how convinced I am that they...

I'm a dummy - I had it in my head that the deadline was the 12th (I don't know why), and didn't click that it'd of course be tied to the first race of the season. Well, if the deadline is extended I'd happily work on a team before the TDU, but if not I'll be back next season :)