2012 Giro d'Italia CQ game

[CQmanager]

Top 20 after stage 12.

Rank Team Points
1. Eric8-A 339
2. dlwssonic 309
3. FF'Wilco 296
4. Nyssinator 283
5. Handbrake 265
6. Jancouver 247
7. Kazistuta 241
8. robreg1 239
9. fedaia 215
10. Tjuhampion 210
11. Gubby Allen 208
12. Damiano 204
13. Zam_olyas 200
14. AntonioRossi 196
15. groomy93 193
16. georgeodio 193
17. hrotha 184
18. Duartista 183
19. Froome19 183
20. HelgeBlendet 173

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[Armchair Cyclist]

on Sunday this classification will be much more interesting!

On Sunday week it will be even more so, but at least we can afford some people the consolation of optimism at this stage.

If the Giro were to finish after stage 12, the leading finishers would be:

1 Damiano 1406
2 FF'Wilco 1371
3 mc mountain 1339
4 gustienordic 1269
5 Nyssinator 1267
6 hilltop finisher 1199
7 Geraint too fast 1154
8 Eric 8A 1135
9 Tuarts 1131
10 asdfgh101 1093

2 new entries in the virtual top ten: mc mountain and hilltop finisher, both with Casar in the team. Dasyboja also had Casar, and CQManager has also moved (temporarily?) much higher through Santaromita.

 

[CQmanager]

Top 20 after stage 13.

Rank Team Points
1. Eric8-A 339
2. dlwssonic 309
3. FF'Wilco 303
4. Handbrake 290
5. Nyssinator 290
6. Jancouver 279
7. Kazistuta 248
8. robreg1 246
9. fedaia 245
10. Tjuhampion 235
11. georgeodio 225
12. groomy93 218
13. Gubby Allen 215
14. Damiano 204
15. Zam_olyas 200
16. AntonioRossi 196
17. Chris Schneider 191
18. hrotha 184
19. Duartista 183
20. Froome19 183

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[taiwan]

Hopefully I'll come back a bit after today's stage. My team's pretty mountain oriented.

 

[CQmanager]

Top 20 after stage 14

Rank Team Points
1. Eric8-A 442
2. dlwssonic 345
3. FF'Wilco 336
4. Handbrake 323
5. Nyssinator 300
6. Jancouver 282
7. fedaia 278
8. groomy93 251
9. Zam_olyas 250
10. Kazistuta 248
11. Damiano 247
12. robreg1 246
13. Tjuhampion 235
14. AntonioRossi 230
15. Chris Schneider 225
16. georgeodio 225
17. hrotha 217
18. Duartista 216
19. Froome19 216
20. Gubby Allen 215

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[Armchair Cyclist]

Hardly any change yesterday (the start line, and its absentees, today made more impact than the finish line yesterday) so I didn't bother posting.

If the Giro were to finish after stage 14, the leading finishers would be:

1 mc mountain 1614
2 Damiano 1597
3 FF'Wilco 1585
4 gustienordic 1459
5 hilltop finisher 1407
6 Geraint too fast 1376
7 Nyssinator 1359
8 Eric 8A 1335
9 Tuarts 1327
10 Hrotha 1322

 

[CQmanager]

Top 20 after stage 15.

Rank Team Points
1. Eric8-A 442
2. dlwssonic 360
3. FF'Wilco 358
4. Handbrake 350
5. Nyssinator 322
6. fedaia 293
7. Jancouver 282
8. Kazistuta 270
9. groomy93 261
10. asdfgh101 257
11. Zam_olyas 257
12. Damiano 250
13. robreg1 249
14. Tjuhampion 242
15. Froome19 238
16. Chris Schneider 234
17. AntonioRossi 232
18. Duartista 231
19. hrotha 229
20. georgeodio 228

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[Armchair Cyclist]

CQM: do you ever get the feeling that you and I are talking to ourselves here?

If the Giro were to finish after stage 15, the leading finishers would be:

1 FF'Wilco 1568
2 Damiano 1530
3 gustienordic 1483
4 Nyssinator 1459
5 Geraint too fast 1438
6 mc mountain 1392
7 Handbrake 1357
8 hilltop finisher 1349
9 asdfgh 1344
10 Tuarts 1333

Teosheva thought on Wednesday that this would be far more interesting today: in fact, the top 5 is made up of the same competitors. If by "interesting" he meant he would be moving into a dominant position as in the season game, the bad news is that he is 61st out of 77 (and of the 16 he is beating, only 3 have a full complement of 9 riders).

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

I look forward to these daily updates (especially yours AC ).

 

[asdfgh101]

Same here, i take a perverse pleasure in lamenting the errors that i have made as the competition unfolds.

 

[taiwan]

I think I'll need to sweep a few podiums to get back into the game at this point.

 

[CQmanager]

CQM: do you ever get the feeling that you and I are talking to ourselves here?

No kidding! Sometimes I'm questioning all my efforts and time being just wasted here but at the same time the daily update really takes just a few minutes and I want to keep the game running since I started. I think that I can learn from it, get some feedback and make it more exciting for the Tour and the future. After all this game was meant to bring some excitement to those who missed the big game or those who are not doing good at that game.

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[EvansIsTheBest]

The problem is that the GC is going to give like 75% of the points for each team so until the GC is really well established the rankings don't have any real meaning.

 

[TeoSheva]

Teosheva thought on Wednesday that this would be far more interesting today: in fact, the top 5 is made up of the same competitors. If by "interesting" he meant he would be moving into a dominant position as in the season game, the bad news is that he is 61st out of 77 (and of the 16 he is beating, only 3 have a full complement of 9 riders).

you are absolute wrong... I was following this thread and I like this kind of classification that you are doing... and I said that would be more interesting after the 15th stage just because the GC should be closer to the final one...

thank you for underline that my team is doing really bad

 

[CQmanager]

Top 20 after stage 16.

Rank Team Points
1. Eric8-A 442
2. Drew Man 397
3. dlwssonic 360
4. FF'Wilco 358
5. Handbrake 350
6. Nyssinator 322
7. Duartista 301
8. fedaia 293
9. Jancouver 282
10. Sylvester 272
11. Kazistuta 270
12. robreg1 264
13. Zam_olyas 264
14. groomy93 261
15. asdfgh101 257
16. Damiano 253
17. Tjuhampion 242
18. Froome19 238
19. AntonioRossi 235
20. Chris Schneider 234

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[Armchair Cyclist]

If the Giro were to finish after stage 16, the leading finishers would be:

1 FF'Wilco 1569
2 Damiano 1530
3 gustienordic 1486
4 Nyssinator 1459
5 Geraint too fast 1439
6 mc mountain 1392
7 Handbrake 1358
8 hilltop finisher 1350
9 asdfgh 1344
10 Mellow Velo 1336

Predictably little impact from this stage: Mellow Velo appears in the top 10, but was only 3 points out of it yesterday.

 

[asdfgh101]

You need to remove Gesink from the game.

 

[CQmanager]

Top 20 after stage 17

Rank Team Points
1. Eric8-A 472
2. FF'Wilco 428
3. Handbrake 415
4. dlwssonic 387
5. Nyssinator 367
6. Duartista 331
7. groomy93 326
8. fedaia 318
9. Kazistuta 315
10. Sylvester 312
11. Chris Schneider 304
12. Zam_olyas 304
13. Froome19 303
14. hrotha 299
15. asdfgh101 287
16. Jancouver 284
17. Tjuhampion 282
18. whittashau 281
19. Damiano 278
20. mc_mountain 276

CQM

Gesink was removed ... any other non participating riders to be deleted?

BTW figured a better way was staring riders for the Tour game but I will need some help with updates as I will be on vacation in July ... perhaps Hugo has time to run the Tour game

CQM

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

If the Giro were to finish after stage 17, the leading finishers would be:

1 FF'Wilco 1621
2 mc mountain 1496
3 gustienordic 1404
4 Handbrake 1399
5 Chris Schneider 1370
6 Hrotha 1357
7 Nyssinator 1339
8= hilltop finisher 1294
8= Froome19 1294
10 Geraint too fast 1290

A bit of movement at last, but it may be that FF'Wilco is moving into a lead that will be hard to overhaul. 2 new names (Chris Schneider and Froome19), and one re-entry (Hrotha) into the top ten.

We were told before the race started that the rules were that each team must have 9 riders in the Giro: 2 of our top 5 fall short of that requirement. Where are all the UCI commissaires when an adjudication is needed?

 

[Froome19]

If the Giro were to finish after stage 17, the leading finishers would be:

1 FF'Wilco 1621
2 mc mountain 1496
3 gustienordic 1404
4 Handbrake 1399
5 Chris Schneider 1370
6 Hrotha 1357
7 Nyssinator 1339
8= hilltop finisher 1294
8= Froome19 1294
10 Geraint too fast 1290

A bit of movement at last, but it may be that FF'Wilco is moving into a lead that will be hard to overhaul. 2 new names (Chris Schneider and Froome19), and one re-entry (Hrotha) into the top ten.

We were told before the race started that the rules were that each team must have 9 riders in the Giro: 2 of our top 5 fall short of that requirement. Where are all the UCI commissaires when an adjudication is needed?

Yes!
I am still trying to work out how i moved up considering that I had Henao and of course I have Meersman and Guardini.
I guess it was really the combination of Hesjedal and Basso that are getting me the points, and in fact they are both relatively cheap as none my other riders have really scored or are looking to asides from Ventoso's stage win.
If only i could have swapped all of them for Purito

 

[CQmanager]

If the Giro were to finish after stage 17, the leading finishers would be:

1 FF'Wilco 1621
2 mc mountain 1496
3 gustienordic 1404
4 Handbrake 1399
5 Chris Schneider 1370
6 Hrotha 1357
7 Nyssinator 1339
8= hilltop finisher 1294
8= Froome19 1294
10 Geraint too fast 1290

A bit of movement at last, but it may be that FF'Wilco is moving into a lead that will be hard to overhaul. 2 new names (Chris Schneider and Froome19), and one re-entry (Hrotha) into the top ten.

We were told before the race started that the rules were that each team must have 9 riders in the Giro: 2 of our top 5 fall short of that requirement. Where are all the UCI commissaires when an adjudication is needed?

I deleted bunch of names that were selected but are not doing Giro thats why some teams dont have nine riders ...

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Yes!
I am still trying to work out how i moved up considering that I had Henao and of course I have Meersman and Guardini.
I guess it was really the combination of Hesjedal and Basso that are getting me the points, and in fact they are both relatively cheap as none my other riders have really scored or are looking to asides from Ventoso's stage win.
If only i could have swapped all of them for Purito

Minor placings for Larsson, Stetina and Pinotti more than make up for Meersman not getting 15 anticipated finisher points for you.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I deleted bunch of names that were selected but are not doing Giro thats why some teams dont have nine riders ...

Indeed, but choosing non Giro riders opens the chance to pick cheaper riders, and picking cheaper riders means more points available to buy expensive GC contenders...

 

[TeoSheva]

Indeed, but choosing non Giro riders opens the chance to pick cheaper riders, and picking cheaper riders means more points available to buy expensive GC contenders...

we should just check if the non Giro riders are cheaper than the less expensive riders of the Giro...

 

[Handbrake]

There should be a general rule that you must pick 9 riders from X cycling list on X date whether it be Cycling Fever or whatever and then your team is fine. Frustrating when the lists are wrong and you end up a rider or two short.