2025-26 CX Game

[Armchair Cyclist]

Almost done: Maldegem, Middelkerke and Lille.

	Armchair	Devil's Elbow	JR1012	RhD	Samu
Vandeputte Niels	230​	.	230​	.	.
Vanthourenhout Michael	.	.	.	.	194​
Alvarado Ceylin del Carmen	180​	.	.	.	.
Orts Felipe	.	.	.	176​	.
Schreiber Marie	.	.	.	170​	.
Bentveld Leonie	.	134​	.	.	134​
Wyseure Joran	.	124​	124​	.	124​
Brouwers Julie	.	.	106​	.	.
Norbert Riberolle Marion	.	.	98​	.	.
Kuypers Gerben	.	.	.	.	94​
Nieuwenhuis Joris	82​	82​	82​	.	82​
van Alphen Aniek	.	80​	.	.	80​
Michels Jente	78​	78​	.	.	.
Meeussen Witse	74​	74​	.	.	.
Kamp Ryan	.	.	70​	.	70​
Clauzel Hélène	.	.	.	64​	.
Bakker Manon	62​	.	.	.	.

Not a huge haul, even with three races

1​	SamuCuenca	913​
2​	JR1012	904​
3​	ArmchairCyclist	801​
4​	DevilsElbow	753​
5​	RedheadDane	512​
	CollectiveWisdom	598​
	Default	718​

Standings

1​	SamuCuenca	23471​	(-)
2​	DevilsElbow	21378​	(-)
3​	JR1012	19608​	(-)
4​	ArmchairCyclist	18435​	(-)
5​	RedheadDane	13290​	(-)
	CollectiveWisdom	21078​
	Default	15916​

It looks like the remaining events are Waaslandcross and Brussels University next weekend, and Oostmalle a week later. I might wait and do all three in one update if you think you can bear the suspense...

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

And so it ends: Waaslandcross, Brussels University and the untelevised (by TNT at least) final fling at Oostmalle.

	Armchair	Devil's Elbow	JR1012	RhD	Samu
Vandeputte Niels	230​	.	230​	.	.
Alvarado Ceylin del Carmen	212​	.	.	.	.
Kuypers Gerben	.	.	.	.	166​
Norbert Riberolle Marion	.	.	152​	.	.
Vanthourenhout Michael	.	.	.	.	148​
Bakker Manon	140​	.	.	.	.
Nieuwenhuis Joris	120​	120​	120​	.	120​
Wyseure Joran	.	100​	100​	.	100​
Bentveld Leonie	.	97​	.	.	97​
Vandebosch Toon	94​	94​	.	.	.
Brouwers Julie	.	.	92​	.	.
Orts Felipe	.	.	.	88​	.
Franck Alicia	.	78​	78​	.	78​
Michels Jente	78​	78​	.	.	.
Meeussen Witse	76​	76​	.	.	.

And as far as I am concerned, the best update was kept til last:

1​	ArmchairCyclist	1024​
2​	JR1012	998​
3​	SamuCuenca	837​
4​	DevilsElbow	715​
5​	RedheadDane	300​
	CollectiveWisdom	623​
	Default	534​

Final standings

1​	SamuCuenca	24308​	(-)
2​	DevilsElbow	22093​	(-)
3​	JR1012	20606​	(-)
4​	ArmchairCyclist	19459​	(-)
5​	RedheadDane	13590​	(-)
	CollectiveWisdom	21701​
	Default	16450​

Congratulations to Samu: avoidance of van Empel was important, and your unique pick in the same price range, Vantourenhout, although not in profit, scored consistently.

It would not have made any different if we had excluded points that the riders had before the game started: the positions were unaffected (those points were about 10% of the total of all scores)

Samu, Devil's Elbow and RhD all had contributions from all 18 riders: JR had one rider that failed to get any points (I Holmgren) and I had three no-shows (Iserbyt, Baroni and Holmgren again)

Felipe Orts moved narrowly into profit compared to last season in his last race, meaning that RhD had 5 riders on the right side of the balance line: JR had ten and the rest of us had 11, so more than a third of picks even on the more successful teams by that measure were in the red.

I suspect that a Collective Ignorance team might have thrashed us all: I'll break down the numbers and rider details a bit more sometime in the next few days.

In the mean time, don't forget your selections for the Spring Classics game.