One week and about half an hour from now, the Giro d'Italia starts in the quiet, typically Italian, town of Jerusalem.
Teams are beginning to be released, adverts are appearing on EuroSport: it must be time to get the game ready.
Discussion in the Vuelta thread last season was in favour of following the UCI in reducing the size of teams, but keeping the budget the same. Who can dethrone Fauniera, last year's winner?
Team of exactly eight riders all of whom must be Giro starters.
Budget Budget will be 3500 points.
Price of riders
CQ score for 12 months to 29th April, for which the update file that CQ released on Monday 30th 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, as soon as possible after that download is available, and I shall try to keep that up to date with team changes as best I can.
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, not even price or team name: 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 logged my team with Bminchow, the first person to submit a team, and won't change it unless any of them drop out, so there cannot be any accusation of me stealing everyone else's best ideas.
Deadline
The start of the race, which I believe to be Friday 4th May at 11am in Jerusalem, 10am in Western Europe, 9am in GB/Ireland, and other equivalents wherever you may be.
Scoring
Points issued according to the points tables of CQ (column GT2). Note there are no points issued for the young rider category. The winner will be declared as of the CQ points given by 27th May. Subsequent penalties/retroactive disqualifications, should there be any, will not effect the game.
EntriesEntries as of Friday morning, I need to go to work but time for a few last minute entries.
Amis Velo
Armchair_Cyclist
Axl
BicycleBoy
BikeRacer33
BluesInTheBottle
Bminchow
Carlo_Algatrensig
Caruut
Chiron
Comodoro
Del1962
Drebola
Fauniera
Googolplex
Gotland
GPBlanco
Hakkie2
Kazistuta
Koronin
Laarsland
Leadbelly
LightBing
LosBrolin
Mellow_Velo
Minessa
Nathanptz
PremierAndrew
Rote_Laterne
Russell23
Ruvu75
SafeBet
Salvarani
Scrool07
Search
SemirS
Shalgo
Squire
ThePirate81
Tigerion
Trudgin
Vladimir
Yellow_Knight
If you have not seen your name 12 hours after submitting it, drop me a reminder. If you are on another forum, by all means plug it there. We had 46 teams last year, let's try to beat it this time around.
Good luck to all.
Teams are beginning to be released, adverts are appearing on EuroSport: it must be time to get the game ready.
Discussion in the Vuelta thread last season was in favour of following the UCI in reducing the size of teams, but keeping the budget the same. Who can dethrone Fauniera, last year's winner?
Team of exactly eight riders all of whom must be Giro starters.
Budget Budget will be 3500 points.
Price of riders
CQ score for 12 months to 29th April, for which the update file that CQ released on Monday 30th 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, as soon as possible after that download is available, and I shall try to keep that up to date with team changes as best I can.
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, not even price or team name: 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 logged my team with Bminchow, the first person to submit a team, and won't change it unless any of them drop out, so there cannot be any accusation of me stealing everyone else's best ideas.
Deadline
The start of the race, which I believe to be Friday 4th May at 11am in Jerusalem, 10am in Western Europe, 9am in GB/Ireland, and other equivalents wherever you may be.
Scoring
Points issued according to the points tables of CQ (column GT2). Note there are no points issued for the young rider category. The winner will be declared as of the CQ points given by 27th May. Subsequent penalties/retroactive disqualifications, should there be any, will not effect the game.
EntriesEntries as of Friday morning, I need to go to work but time for a few last minute entries.
Amis Velo
Armchair_Cyclist
Axl
BicycleBoy
BikeRacer33
BluesInTheBottle
Bminchow
Carlo_Algatrensig
Caruut
Chiron
Comodoro
Del1962
Drebola
Fauniera
Googolplex
Gotland
GPBlanco
Hakkie2
Kazistuta
Koronin
Laarsland
Leadbelly
LightBing
LosBrolin
Mellow_Velo
Minessa
Nathanptz
PremierAndrew
Rote_Laterne
Russell23
Ruvu75
SafeBet
Salvarani
Scrool07
Search
SemirS
Shalgo
Squire
ThePirate81
Tigerion
Trudgin
Vladimir
Yellow_Knight
If you have not seen your name 12 hours after submitting it, drop me a reminder. If you are on another forum, by all means plug it there. We had 46 teams last year, let's try to beat it this time around.
Good luck to all.