- Mar 22, 2010
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And here we go again:
Rules
Team of exactly nine riders. Teams with fewer riders will be filled out with cheapest riders available (if two or more riders are the joint cheapest, the rider whose name comes first alphabetically shall be used). If quota of nine cannot be reached in this manner (eg, 8 riders totalling exactly 4000, no free riders starting race) team will be disqualified.
Riders selected who do not start the Tour, or who are excluded from the game because of a ban (see below) will be replaced, if it is possible within budget, by the next most expensive from their own team, otherwise as above.
Where a team has nine riders but is over budget, the cheapest rider whose price is at least equal to the overspend, will be replaced according to the same principle.
Teams with more than 9 riders will have their most expensive pick(s) removed from their squad.
Budget
4000 points (as has been the case on the three previous versions of this game)
Price of riders
CQ current score as at 28th June, with points accumulated over 12 months leading up to that date, for which the update file that CQ released on Monday 29th will be considered definitive.
There is a spreadsheet at dropbox here that might help you compile your team.
Rider eligibility
All riders selected to ride are eligible for the game, no special arrangements for anyone coming off a ban (this is a change from previous years).
Submitting your team
By personal message to me.
PLEASE use the CQ format for names (surname then first name, nothing else at all): it makes an enormous difference to the time it takes to log teams.
I shall endeavour to have my team ready on the first day after the price list is released and submit it to the first to submit a team so that there can be confidence that I didn't pick from among the best of everyone else's ideas.
Deadline
Saturday 4th July at whatever is the time of the first rider on the ramp for the prologue (2pm French time, 1pm BST, noon UTC: work it out from there if you are outside Europe)
Scoring
Points issued according to the points tables of CQ (column GT1). Note there are no points issued for the young rider category.
Teams so far
As of 11:59 am (BST) on Saturday (1 hour to go)
AmisVelo
Armchair_Cyclist
asdfgh101
BicycleBoy
Blues_in_the_Bottle
ClaudioCappucchino
Comodoro
Crevaison
Del1962
Diggercuz
DJW
GeraintTooFast
Hakkie2
Handbrake
Hugo87
Jancouver
Joelsim
Josedin
JosephD
JustSomeGuy
Kabete
L29205
Leadbelly
LightBing
LosBrolin
Mellow_Velo
Midge
Minessa
MrHender
Murali
Murrjt
NairoQ
Postmanhat
Rote_Laterne
Scrooll07
Search
Shalgo
The_Sceptic
Togo95
Trudgin
Tuart
USPostal
Vladimir
Yellow_Knight
If you are part of other cycling forums, feel free to publicise the game there, and invite entrants.
Good luck!
Rules
Team of exactly nine riders. Teams with fewer riders will be filled out with cheapest riders available (if two or more riders are the joint cheapest, the rider whose name comes first alphabetically shall be used). If quota of nine cannot be reached in this manner (eg, 8 riders totalling exactly 4000, no free riders starting race) team will be disqualified.
Riders selected who do not start the Tour, or who are excluded from the game because of a ban (see below) will be replaced, if it is possible within budget, by the next most expensive from their own team, otherwise as above.
Where a team has nine riders but is over budget, the cheapest rider whose price is at least equal to the overspend, will be replaced according to the same principle.
Teams with more than 9 riders will have their most expensive pick(s) removed from their squad.
Budget
4000 points (as has been the case on the three previous versions of this game)
Price of riders
CQ current score as at 28th June, with points accumulated over 12 months leading up to that date, for which the update file that CQ released on Monday 29th will be considered definitive.
There is a spreadsheet at dropbox here that might help you compile your team.
Rider eligibility
All riders selected to ride are eligible for the game, no special arrangements for anyone coming off a ban (this is a change from previous years).
Submitting your team
By personal message to me.
PLEASE use the CQ format for names (surname then first name, nothing else at all): it makes an enormous difference to the time it takes to log teams.
I shall endeavour to have my team ready on the first day after the price list is released and submit it to the first to submit a team so that there can be confidence that I didn't pick from among the best of everyone else's ideas.
Deadline
Saturday 4th July at whatever is the time of the first rider on the ramp for the prologue (2pm French time, 1pm BST, noon UTC: work it out from there if you are outside Europe)
Scoring
Points issued according to the points tables of CQ (column GT1). Note there are no points issued for the young rider category.
Teams so far
As of 11:59 am (BST) on Saturday (1 hour to go)
AmisVelo
Armchair_Cyclist
asdfgh101
BicycleBoy
Blues_in_the_Bottle
ClaudioCappucchino
Comodoro
Crevaison
Del1962
Diggercuz
DJW
GeraintTooFast
Hakkie2
Handbrake
Hugo87
Jancouver
Joelsim
Josedin
JosephD
JustSomeGuy
Kabete
L29205
Leadbelly
LightBing
LosBrolin
Mellow_Velo
Midge
Minessa
MrHender
Murali
Murrjt
NairoQ
Postmanhat
Rote_Laterne
Scrooll07
Search
Shalgo
The_Sceptic
Togo95
Trudgin
Tuart
USPostal
Vladimir
Yellow_Knight
If you are part of other cycling forums, feel free to publicise the game there, and invite entrants.
Good luck!
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