We are back to May, the natural home of the Giro d'Italia, and of its CQ game.
cqranking.com (highly recommended results and reference site) allocates points for races of .1 category and above, and the running total of riders over the last year (to Sunday 2nd May, which are in a download on CQ released on Monday 3rd) is their cost in this game. You have 3500 of those points to spend on 8 riders who are taking part in the Giro
Your score is the CQ points they gain in the Giro (points for the top ten, 70 to the winner, in each stage; the same scale of points for the final points and mountains classifications; 18 points for the pink jersey wearer going into each stage; and final GC position with scores from 500 for the winner down to 15 for all finishers) The prices, start list, and full score charts are on a spreadsheet that you can download from Google Drive here. That spreadsheet will also give the version of riders' names which I would ask you to use.
Your list of riders should be with me (send a personal message on Cycling News or VeloRooms, CQ version of names and nothing else on the same line please) before Stage 1 starts at 14:00 Italian time on Saturday 8th May. If your team is over budget or you select a rider who does not start, I will try to alert you to the need to change, but if you don't, I'll swap him for the next cheapest rider. There will be updates after each stage.
I have run a couple of trial selections: with the depressed scores in 2020 making many riders rather inexpensive, I am expecting massive scores this edition.
And, as ever, good luck to all.
cqranking.com (highly recommended results and reference site) allocates points for races of .1 category and above, and the running total of riders over the last year (to Sunday 2nd May, which are in a download on CQ released on Monday 3rd) is their cost in this game. You have 3500 of those points to spend on 8 riders who are taking part in the Giro
Your score is the CQ points they gain in the Giro (points for the top ten, 70 to the winner, in each stage; the same scale of points for the final points and mountains classifications; 18 points for the pink jersey wearer going into each stage; and final GC position with scores from 500 for the winner down to 15 for all finishers) The prices, start list, and full score charts are on a spreadsheet that you can download from Google Drive here. That spreadsheet will also give the version of riders' names which I would ask you to use.
Your list of riders should be with me (send a personal message on Cycling News or VeloRooms, CQ version of names and nothing else on the same line please) before Stage 1 starts at 14:00 Italian time on Saturday 8th May. If your team is over budget or you select a rider who does not start, I will try to alert you to the need to change, but if you don't, I'll swap him for the next cheapest rider. There will be updates after each stage.
I have run a couple of trial selections: with the depressed scores in 2020 making many riders rather inexpensive, I am expecting massive scores this edition.
And, as ever, good luck to all.
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