2011 prediction game

[auscyclefan94]

Should be good for the upcoming weeks

Fleche
Moinard
Van avermaet
Anton
Ivanov
Vandevelde


Liege
Van Avermaet
Moinard
Anton
Ivanov
Vandevelde

Romandie
Evans
Moinard
Morabito
Howard
Renshaw
B Felliu
Tiralongo
Sutton
Cardoso

 

[Eric8-A]

Giro del Trentino

Andreas Kloden

Rory Sutherland

Jose Rujano

Carlos Ochoa

 

[Tuarts]

You have a day(-ish) to get you're F-W predictions in! I realise life can be hectic but I can't make special cases out of anyone!

 

[LukeSchmid]

My Giro Team.

RUJANO GUILLEN José
FRANK Mathias
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose
DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres
MASCIARELLI Francesco
KRUIJSWIJK Steven
PORTE Richie
STETINA Peter
DEIGNAN Philip

 

[Jancouver]

Brutt saved my A$$ last week and I hope that he can deliver more unexpected points @Giro

Giro:
BRUTT Pavel
CAPECCHI Eros
DESSEL Cyril ?????
HOOGERLAND Johnny
KREUZIGER Roman
LÖFKVIST Thomas
RABON Frantisek
RENSHAW Mark

PS I also hope that Cav is completely out of shape and Renshaw will take over the sprint job at HTC

 

[Hugo Koblet]

With the Giro coming up, I can finally look forward to jump up the ranks the next few weeks:

Anton will obviously be the biggest contributor to this massive point harvest as he surely will end up winning all three jerseys. The podium is locked up as two of Cobo, Duarte and Capecchi will take the two free spots while the third definately will finish 4th. I don't have high hopes for Seeldraeyers so I don't think he'll top 5 but obviously he'll be among the 7 best overall. Then we have Kristoff who already has atleast 4 stages in his bag and perhaps the points jersey will be his too. As a long shot David Blanco might get a top 10 along with his two definite stage wins. And then I almost forgot Brice Feillu, though I don't think he needs mentioning. We all know that he's bound for glory and is gonna be a massive scorer this Giro.

Overall I think my Giro squad probably is the strongest of all teams in the competition, but it'll definately be exciting to follow.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Team send in - obviously the winning team that is

Thanks for organizing this - should be great fun!

 

[Tuarts]

Sprinter is easy for me but I'm kinda biased.

 

[Tuarts]

lol! Nice one. You must've been wondering where Moerenhout was this year?

Yeah I've RETIRED from searching for news about him. It's like he's packed his bags and left the sport!

 

[Ferminal]

Sprinter is easy for me but I'm kinda biased.

Yeh... sprinter was easy and probably the best value of the lot.

I'm rather happy with my team for now.

But my final decision is which 4-pointer gregario to pick. Leaning towards Le Mevel now.

 

[Havetts]

So we send in our prediction for GC, KoM, Points jersey and team jersey straight away and then each selected individual stage aswell? Just checking if I completely understand .

 

[taiwan]

Only the predictions for the overall classifications need to be sent to me before the first stage. Predictions for stage 2 can be sent to me before that stage starts. All the other stages should be sent to Tuarts before they start.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Whats the final European time/day for sending predictions ?

Saturday 1800AEST ?

 

[Cobblestoned]

Only the predictions for the overall classifications need to be sent to me before the first stage. Predictions for stage 2 can be sent to me before that stage starts. All the other stages should be sent to Tuarts before they start.

So, there is not 24h deadtime before start ?
We can send till beginning of TTT at latest ?

 

[taiwan]

I'd missed that, sorry. Regular rules: deadline is 24h before race start.

 

[Tuarts]

Yeah but I usually allow some lee-way there taiwan. Not sure what time zone you're in but races usually start in my late evening so I usually make the cut off afternoon time before I upload and publish. May have to work something else out if you're more closer to Euro time than I.

As what has been mentioned, it really isn't that hard to figure I'd have thought (do people read the opening post?):
All the predictions for the overall classifications you send in BEFORE the race. The selected stages are run when they happen, just like when the classics were running. So really the only change in format(apart from sending the predictions to taiwan for now and stage 2) is the start of the Giro and the predictions for that. Otherwise, its just top 5 for stages, just like the classic.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Is this correct ?

I get the 20 points for a jersey wearer/taker on each day he wears the jersey.
Not only for the day when he takes it.

 

[taiwan]

Ok, 00:00 GMT on race day will suit me for the overalls and stage 2.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Ok, 00:00 GMT on race day will suit me for the overalls and stage 2.

So, thats 01:00 Girotime.

deadline for GC:
07.05.2011 / 01:00 Roma time
deadline for stage 2:
08.05.2011 / 01:00 Roma time

Is this correct ?
I send predictions to taiwan, and from stage 7 on then to Tuarts (then just BEFORE race ) again ?

 

[taiwan]

So, thats 01:00 Girotime.

deadline for GC:
07.05.2011 / 01:00 Roma time
deadline for stage 2:
08.05.2011 / 01:00 Roma time

Is this correct ?
I send predictions to taiwan, and from stage 7 on then to Tuarts (then just BEFORE race ) again ?

02:00 Rome time, and 01:00 London time. I just checked.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

my (CG,KOM etc.) picks are sent. the stage 2 predictions will come later

 

[bicing]

Like in Germany, this game has too many complicated rules. Can't we just pick one guy for each?

 

[taiwan]

Giro classification predictions recieved so far:

Timmy-loves-Rabo
lancaster
aarnold517
Havetts
FoxxyBrown1111
luckyboy
Eric8-A
Sasquatch
TuartsThe Hitch
minessa
Carl0880
Merckx

Stage 2 predictions recieved:

aarnold517
Havetts
luckyboy
Eric8-A
Sasquatch
Tuarts
The Hitch
Carl0880
FoxxyBrown1111

Here's the explanitory post from Tuarts.

 

[Eric8-A]

So stage 2 is the only stage we're doing for this game?

 

[Tuarts]

Eric, what is it you are not understanding? Have you read anything of the last 2 pages or the first page with the game rules? They are 5 (stages 2,7,13,14,21) stages that you are doing, just like the Classics. So you don't have to send in predictions for them straight away. The only difference is for Stage 2, taiwan is handling because I am away (in about an hour). The same is applied to all overall classification picks. Send them to taiwan and he will record them. I don't know how I can explain it further than I have these past pages...