I have decided to launch this a little earlier than usual. The Giro starts on a Friday, the preceding Monday is a public holiday in many countries, CQ have often not made the weekly download available until later than the usual Monday early evening: there are ways it could have gone a bit pear shaped, so I have decided to use the prices from last Sunday, rather than the Sunday immediately preceding the race as I have normally done. I guess that means that anyone riding in Romandie this week is a bit cheaper than they would have been if I had waited, anyone who was in it last year gets to be slightly dearer.
So although I am launching it now, there is no great need to hurry with your selection: by all means wait until teams are more settled. As previously, there is a spreadsheet which will make sure you have used the appropriate price, avoid you going over budget, and give the right versions of names: here it is at dropbox.
The rest of the intro many of you will be familiar with, but new contestants are very welcome:
Team of exactly nine riders
Budget Budget will be 3500 points. If you don't leave your team until the last moment, I'll be able to warn you of errors: if it is later than my going to bed on Thursday night, I'm unlikely to able to help. If you are over budget, I'll take out the cheapest rider who can be replaced with a cheaper member of his team that will bring you into budget: if you pick someone who is not riding, I'll replace him with the next cheapest of his team, or the next cheapest in the race if there is not one in his team.
Price of riders
CQ score for 12 months to 23rd April, for which the update file that CQ released on Monday 24th will be considered definitive.
There is a dropbox spreadsheet of riders likely to participate and their prices for the game, and a facility for checking the team total.
Submitting your team
By personal message to me, either here or at Velorooms.
Please send the team with names formatted as per CQ. (Surname[space]Forename and nothing else: Spanish/Portuguese names need particular care, as do accents or other diacritics) It makes an enormous difference to the efficiency of adding teams. If you use the dropbox spreadsheet it will be a simple copy and paste job.
I have lodged my team with ChrisDK, the first person to submit a team, and won't change it unless any of them drop out.
Deadline
The start of the race, which I believe to be Friday 5th May at noon (Italian time) (but don't expect any analysis of teams until I get in from work that evening).
Scoring
Points issued according to the points tables of CQ (column GT2). Note there are no points issued for the young rider category.
Entries
will be listed here, hopefully updated daily. If you have not seen your name 24 hours after submitting it, drop me a reminder. If you are on another forum, by all means plug it there.
The 46 teams in the game are:
AG
AmisVelo
Armchair_Cyclist
BicycleBoy
BluesInTheBottle
Carlo_Algatrensig
ChrisDK
Comodoro
Crevaison
Del1962
DJW
Fauniera
Flo
GeraintTooFast
GodChild
GPBlanco
Hakkie2
Hugo87
Jakob747
Joelsim
Josedin
JustSomeGuy
Kabete
Kazistuta
Laarsland
Leadbelly
LightBing
LosBrolin
Mellow_Velo
Minessa
Rote_Laterne
Russell23
SafeBet
Scrool07
Search
SemirS
Shalgo
SilverGrenade
Spokenspin
Squire
ThePirate81
Torcia86
Trudgin
Tych23
Vladimir
Yellow_Knight
Good luck to all.
So although I am launching it now, there is no great need to hurry with your selection: by all means wait until teams are more settled. As previously, there is a spreadsheet which will make sure you have used the appropriate price, avoid you going over budget, and give the right versions of names: here it is at dropbox.
The rest of the intro many of you will be familiar with, but new contestants are very welcome:
Team of exactly nine riders
Budget Budget will be 3500 points. If you don't leave your team until the last moment, I'll be able to warn you of errors: if it is later than my going to bed on Thursday night, I'm unlikely to able to help. If you are over budget, I'll take out the cheapest rider who can be replaced with a cheaper member of his team that will bring you into budget: if you pick someone who is not riding, I'll replace him with the next cheapest of his team, or the next cheapest in the race if there is not one in his team.
Price of riders
CQ score for 12 months to 23rd April, for which the update file that CQ released on Monday 24th will be considered definitive.
There is a dropbox spreadsheet of riders likely to participate and their prices for the game, and a facility for checking the team total.
Submitting your team
By personal message to me, either here or at Velorooms.
Please send the team with names formatted as per CQ. (Surname[space]Forename and nothing else: Spanish/Portuguese names need particular care, as do accents or other diacritics) It makes an enormous difference to the efficiency of adding teams. If you use the dropbox spreadsheet it will be a simple copy and paste job.
I have lodged my team with ChrisDK, the first person to submit a team, and won't change it unless any of them drop out.
Deadline
The start of the race, which I believe to be Friday 5th May at noon (Italian time) (but don't expect any analysis of teams until I get in from work that evening).
Scoring
Points issued according to the points tables of CQ (column GT2). Note there are no points issued for the young rider category.
Entries
will be listed here, hopefully updated daily. If you have not seen your name 24 hours after submitting it, drop me a reminder. If you are on another forum, by all means plug it there.
The 46 teams in the game are:
AG
AmisVelo
Armchair_Cyclist
BicycleBoy
BluesInTheBottle
Carlo_Algatrensig
ChrisDK
Comodoro
Crevaison
Del1962
DJW
Fauniera
Flo
GeraintTooFast
GodChild
GPBlanco
Hakkie2
Hugo87
Jakob747
Joelsim
Josedin
JustSomeGuy
Kabete
Kazistuta
Laarsland
Leadbelly
LightBing
LosBrolin
Mellow_Velo
Minessa
Rote_Laterne
Russell23
SafeBet
Scrool07
Search
SemirS
Shalgo
SilverGrenade
Spokenspin
Squire
ThePirate81
Torcia86
Trudgin
Tych23
Vladimir
Yellow_Knight
Good luck to all.
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