2024 Women's CQ Manager game

[Samu Cuenca]

They did have Michael VALGREN HUNDAHL (ANDERSON) for a year or two. It's useful to have the continuity noted, but agree that it should be equal and temporary.

In RhD texting voice: *ANDERSEN. Don't make him Swedish.

Im Samu texting voice: *ANDERSEN. Don't make him a North American with Scandinavian ancestry.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

CQ also changed the format of Karen Lorena Villamizar's name by omitting Lorena, despite the fact that it appears to be the name she prefers to go by herself.

 

[RedheadDane]

In RhD texting voice: *ANDERSEN. Don't make him Swedish.

Im Samu texting voice: *ANDERSEN. Don't make him North American.

Don't make him anything other than Danish!

Just for fun, here are a list of riders with bracketed names:

STEPHENS (ROBERTSON) Lauren
NORSGAARD BJERG (JØRGENSEN) Emma Cecilie
EDWARDS (WINDER) Ruth
DEIGNAN (ARMITSTEAD) Elizabeth
WOOD (BARNES) Alice - That's a rather new thing, isn't it?

 

[Armchair cyclist]

CQ also changed the format of Karen Lorena Villamizar's name by omitting Lorena, despite the fact that it appears to be the name she prefers to go by herself.

Oops, sorry about O rather than E.

Managing lists for the Emerging Riders games means than just about every name change comes to my attention. I suspect that they assume that whatever variant on a name they have most recently received from a race results service becomes the current name. Benoit Cosnefroy has just changed to that circumflex devoid version of his name in the last few weeks, but I wouldn't be surprised if after his next result in a French speaking territory he suddenly reacquired it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Don't make him anything other than Danish!

Just for fun, here are a list of riders with bracketed names:

STEPHENS (ROBERTSON) Lauren
NORSGAARD BJERG (JØRGENSEN) Emma Cecilie
EDWARDS (WINDER) Ruth
DEIGNAN (ARMITSTEAD) Elizabeth
WOOD (BARNES) Alice - That's a rather new thing, isn't it?

Yes, Alice Barnes and Oliver Wood got married in the off season.

Kim Le Court hasn't had Pienaar added to her name (yet), but Tamara Dronova has that hyphen between her maiden name and, what I assume is, her married name, which I'm not sure is her legal name.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yes, Alice Barnes and Oliver Wood got married in the off season.

She got married to a quidditch player!?

Of course, I personally think they should just drop the never-used last names from the Danish riders.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

She got married to a quidditch player!?

No, this one is a track cyclist mostly.

 

[RedheadDane]

My riders for the week:

Ahtosalo
Andersen
Anderson
Fahlin
Lepistö-Henttala
Koerner
Norsgaard
Ottestad
Uttrup
Aalerud

 

[RedheadDane]

Anderson into profit!
Whop-Wooo!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Anderson into profit!
Whop-Wooo!

*Minke

 

[RedheadDane]

*Minke

I thought 'Minke' was more of a "secondary first name", like how Norsgaard is also called 'Cecilie'.

Anyway:

Ahtosalo into profit!
Whop-WHoooo!


(By one point!)

 

[Armchair cyclist]

20 May to 10 June
3 weeks, including Ride London and Tour of Britain, GP Eibar, Vuelta a Andalucia, Catalunya, and a batch of 1.1s, mainly in Belgium

Scoring big was the preserve of the less popular picks this time around: the two biggest scorers having been priced out as far as most teams are concerned.

KOPECKY Lotte	314​	Tour of Britain GC and 2 stage wins, Ride London 3rd and stage pts	3 (DJSprtsch, JonE, Lead)​
WIEBES Lorena	300​	Ride London GC and 3 stage wins, ToB stage win and 2 3rd, GC 10th	2 (Dk One, Muddy Waters)​
PATERNOSTER Letizia	182​	London 4th, Britain 5th with stage pts	1 (Muddy Waters)​
KOOL Charlotte	158​	London GC2nd and 2 2nds, one 2nd in ToB	3 (Laurens, Muddy, Slow Climber)​
GARCIA CAÑELLAS Margarita Victoria	140​	Andalucia win + stage pts	1 (Samu)​
VOS Marianne	136​	Catalunya win + stage pts	5​
MAJERUS Christine	108​		1 (Urkiola)​
AALERUD Katrine	100​		1 (RhD)​
KOPECKY Julia	97​		6​
WOLLASTON Ally	97​		3​
GEORGI Pfeiffer	94​		3​
WYLLIE Ella	82​		4​
BRAND Lucinda	80​		2​
COPPONI Clara	79​		3​
DEIGNAN (ARMITSTEAD) Elizabeth	77​		3​
OTTESTAD Mie Bjørndal	73​		1​

Looking at that, you won't be surprised to see who is the top scorer in this three week slot, and by quite a margin.

1​	MuddyWaters	845​	Wieves, Paternoster, Kool, Vos
2​	EvansIsTheBest	547​	Vos, Woolaston, Kopecky J
3​	DJSprtsch	545​	Kopecky L, Kopecky J
4​	Laurens147	493​	Kool.Vos, Brand
5​	DkOne	444​	Wiebes
6​	JonEzeitza	416​	Kopecky L
7​	Leadbelly	387​
8​	Urkiola	365​
9​	Rufs	352​
10​	SamuCuenca	348​
11​	Josedin	346​
12​	RedheadDane	334​
13​	Hfgon1	325​
14​	Otolomanolo	275​
15​	ArmchairCyclist	253​
16​	Bminchow	220​
17​	Izzyeivel	211​
18​	AmisVelo	195​
19​	LosBrolin	190​
20​	SlowClimber	168​
21​	ArchieBoy	154​
22​	Ruvu	140​
23​	Anderis	137​
24​	Salvarani	136​
25​	TRiley36	133​
26​	Skidmark	59​
27​	Madrazo	44​
28​	LibertineSeguros	35​
	CollectiveWisdom	51​

Standings
Only one of those who were top ten on 19th May was in the top half during these three weeks. Being the exception to the rule of underacheivement among the leaders puts Samu Cuenca back up to 2nd overall, with the gap more than halved. Muddy Waters takes a big jump forward to join the battle for 4th place which, were it more prestigious, would be very closely fought with 3 teams separated by just 5 points, and 6 teams in 35, and a couple more with not-insurmountable gaps.

1​	Bminchow	4712​	(-)
2​	SamuCuenca	4601​	(+1)
3​	Ruvu	4456​	(-1)
4​	Skidmark	3766​	(-)
5​	ArmchairCyclist	3762​	(+2)
6​	TRiley36	3761​	(-1)
7​	MuddyWaters	3758​	(+6)
8​	SlowClimber	3737​	(-2)
9​	Rufs	3731​	(+2)
10​	Salvarani	3640​	(-2)
11​	AmisVelo	3633​	(-2)
12​	Leadbelly	3550​	(-)
13​	Madrazo	3449​	(-3)
14​	EvansIsTheBest	3025​	(+3)
15​	Laurens147	2861​	(+4)
16​	Anderis	2742​	(-2)
17​	Izzyeivel	2707​	(-2)
18​	DkOne	2699​	(+2)
19​	ArchieBoy	2534​	(-1)
20​	LibertineSeguros	2520​	(-4)
21​	LosBrolin	2445​	(-1)
22​	JonEzeitza	2282​	(+2)
23​	DJSprtsch	2277​	(+2)
24​	Urkiola	2274​	(-1)
25​	Otolomanolo	2223​	(-3)
26​	Hfgon1	2019​	(-)
27​	Josedin	1883​	(-)
28​	RedheadDane	1606​	(-)

I'm guessing that my best chance to do the next update will be after week 1 of the Tour (there is a rest day on the Monday, yes?) So that should include Tour de Suisse, Thuringen Tour, and a thousand and one national championships.

And I suppose that was the first of what will be many TdF game reminders and prompts that I shall scatter around the forum in the next three weeks.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

It's early, but with these three being ~ 700 points clear, it might be worth starting the comparison in the selections

Riders in price order:

Bminchow	Samu Cuenca	Ruvu
REALINI Gaia
VAN ANROOIJ Shirin
LONGO BORGHINI Elisa	LONGO BORGHINI Elisa	LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
		DYGERT Chloe
BALSAMO Elisa	BALSAMO Elisa	BALSAMO Elisa
	CAVALLI Marta	CAVALLI Marta
	BARIL Olivia	BARIL Olivia
	GARCIA CAÑELLAS Margarita Victoria
	SIERRA CAÑADILLA Arlenis
VOS Marianne
SHACKLEY Anna
FISHER-BLACK Niamh
		AHTOSALO Anniina
	WOLLASTON Ally
	NIEDERMAIER Antonia
		WYLLIE Ella
		EWERS Veronica
		RUEGG Noemi
VAS Blanka
VAN EMPEL Fem	VAN EMPEL Fem
	BARBIERI Rachele
	MANLY Alexandra
BÄCKSTEDT Zoe		BÄCKSTEDT Zoe
		CADZOW Kim
PIETERSE Puck	PIETERSE Puck	PIETERSE Puck
	FAULKNER Kristen	FAULKNER Kristen
GIGANTE Sarah	GIGANTE Sarah	GIGANTE Sarah
BEGO Julie
EDWARDS (WINDER) Ruth	EDWARDS (WINDER) Ruth	EDWARDS (WINDER) Ruth
VAN DEN BROEK-BLAAK Chantal
VAN DIJK Ellen	VAN DIJK Ellen	VAN DIJK Ellen

So six of these riders are irrelevant to the competition between these three.

 

[RedheadDane]

My riders for the week(end):

Gåskjenn
Uttrup