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2020 Spring Classics CQ Game

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That, it would appear, is that.

All remaining races are cancelled or postponed, and even if rescheduled, will not take place in anything describable as the European spring. So congratulations to Vladimir, our winner, to podium placed Search and Madrazo, and to Googolplex who topped the Green points.

In terms of the top three, we could have stopped after the first race, as Omloop provided 81.5% of the game's points (KBK 14.7%, Ardeche 2.5% and Drome 1.3%).

The top scoring riders were(Rider/score/price/number of teams)
STUYVEN Jasper 232 854 0
BARGUIL Warren 136 711 0
ASGREEN Kasper 135 757 0
CAVAGNA Rémi 135 300 0
CLARKE Simon 130 638 0
MARTIN Guillaume 124 1041 0
LAMPAERT Yves 108 979 0
KANGERT Tanel 106 333 0
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 92 268 15
TRENTIN Matteo 78 1478 0
NIZZOLO Giacomo 78 490 0
NIBALI Vincenzo 75 1012 0
DECLERCQ Tim 70 89 1 (Googolplex)
EDET Nicolas 66 282 0
KRISTOFF Alexander 66 1606 0
TEUNISSEN Mike 62 1252 0
NAESEN Oliver 59 1205 1 (Salvarani)
JAKOBSEN Fabio 58 781 0
ROTA Lorenzo 54 138 0
COSNEFROY Benoit 52 683 0
SERRANO RODRIGUEZ Gonzalo 51 130 0
HOFSTETTER Hugo 46 505 1 (Googolplex)
GILBERT Philippe 46 911 0
COLBRELLI Sonny 45 909 0
CALMEJANE Lilian 44 596 0
ROELANDTS Jürgen 42 100 10
KÜNG Stefan 40 889 0
HONORE Mikkel Frølich 40 100 0
SIMON Julien 40 463 0

and a special mention of MARTIN SANZ Gotzon, the only rider who yielded a profit in the abridged series.

I think the best possible team is STUYVEN Jasper
CLARKE Simon
CAVAGNA Rémi
EDET Nicolas
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh
ROTA Lorenzo
SERRANO RODRIGUEZ Gonzalo
DRUCKER Jempy
ROELANDTS Jürgen
DECLERCQ Tim
BENNETT Sean
PICHON Laurent
for a total of 968 points.

This includes three of the Collective Wisdom team, which far outscored Vladimir or any other team.

The impeccable picks were:
STUYVEN Jasper
BARGUIL Warren
CAVAGNA Rémi
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh
DECLERCQ Tim
BENNETT Sean
PICHON Laurent
MARTIN SANZ Gotzon


Let's hope, with no disrespect to him intended, that this does not award Vladimir the 4 seasons title, but quite when we will reconvene and what game will be next is anyone's guess. If we have a large scale upgrading of the autumn one day programme to include some of these races, I would hope to have a, presumably one off, autumn game. We'll see.

Until whenever...