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2025-27 Emerging Riders CQ game

The end of the 2027 season may seem a long way off, but young riders will be dreaming and speculating about what impression they will have made on the sport by then, and so can you.

Your challenge is to pick 18 male riders (hopefully @Samu Cuenca will give us a female emerging riders game again), each of whom has less than 200 (so max 199) CQ points in his career to date. Your goal is to pick them so that their total CQ score over the next three seasons will be as high as possible.


I will put up a huge list in a week or so (I'm away for a few days), and a potentially more helpful list shortly after the entries for the main CQ game of the year have closed, with riders from the entries in that who are eligible. In the meantime, to check on CQ, go to the rider's page (eg Tom Donnenwirth, here), and if you don't trust your arithmetic, click on the dark red, bold 'Points' at the bottom right of that table, and you will find that CQ has done the adding up for you (so Donnenwirth is priced out)

When you have your 18 names, send them to me by PM (preferably in the format that CQ uses, not always obvious for Danes, Portuguese, Spanish/South American or Eritrean/Ethiopian riders). Closing date will be 23:59 UK time on 20th January, so before the Tour Down Under (though I wouldn't expect many of our young guns to be scoring very highly there). There will be some point scoring opportunities before that: let's hope it doesn't slant the advantage too much over the course of 3 years. (But if you want to choose a load of Aussies and Kiwis in the hope of being the early leader, feel free: you wouldn't be the first.)

I aim to do updates approximately monthly, or as near to that as real life, GT & Spring Classics games, and occasionally not being arsed will allow.

Good luck and enjoy the game.
 
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I follow laarlsand lead and use the moment to thank @Armchair Cyclist for another edition of this great game.

One thing I would like to see in the future is a women emerging game, now that I'm following more the ladies and their level of profesionalism is increasing. But for me it would only have appeal one game with the same exact rules as the mens game: 3 years, 18 riders up to 200 points.

This juanuary I'll be quite busy and I reccon is a lil bit late to launch it... So I throw the idea and maybe if nobody takes the reins I think about organizing it myself the next season.
 
One thing I would like to see in the future is a women emerging game, now that I'm following more the ladies and their level of profesionalism is increasing. But one game with the same exact rules as the mens game: 3 years, 18 riders up to 200 points. This juanuary I'll be quite busy and I reccon is a lil bit late to launch it... So I throw the idea and maybe if nobody takes the reins I think about organizing it myself the next year.

Samu runs a single-year Women's Emerging Riders game.
 
Samu runs a single-year Women's Emerging Riders game.
Oh, as it started with "samu's game" never entered and didn't realised is indeed an emerging game with similar rules.

But I don't like that it is only one year and with less riders per team. Anyhow, if I find time to dive deep and make a good team this month (not sure it will be the case) I'll be there. I don't like to compete lightly in this games.
 
I had made a bit of a pig's ear of the spreadsheet, but I think I have recovered everything, so I will confirm teams already submitted within the next hour, I hope.

And I suspect that many are waiting for the 'cheat sheet' that is the list of riders selected for @skidmark 's Main CQ Game for the year that are eligible for this one.

Here they are, 149 of them.
ALVAREZ MARTINEZ Hector
ARTZ Huub
AUGE Ronan
AUGUST Andrew
BEHRENS Niklas
BELOKI FERNANDEZ Markel
BEVORT Carl-Frederik
BISIAUX Léo
BOMBOI Davide
BORRESCH Julian
BRAVO Henrique Ribeiro
BRENNAN Matthew
BROWNING Fergus
BRUN Nils
BRUTTOMESSO Alberto
CAPRA Thomas
CAPRON Rémi
CARRASCOSA MILLER Pablo
CHAMBERLAIN Oscar
CHANGIZI Sebastian Kolze
CHARLTON Josh
CLARK Boris
COLOMBO Filippo
CRAPS Lars
CRESCIOLI Ludovico
DALBY Simon
D'AMATO Andrea
DE JONG Timo
DE MEESTER Luca
DE SCHUYTENEER Steffen
DEJAEGHER Jasper
DEL GROSSO Tibor
DHONDT Robbe
DOCKX Aaron
DONALDSON Robert
DONIE Milan
DORUSSEN Johan
DOYLE Leo
EPIS Giosué
ERMAKOV Roman
ERZEN Zak
ETXEBERRIA ANSALAS Haimar
FAURE PROST Alexy
FERRARO Santiago
FINN Lorenzo
FRATCZAK Radoslaw
FREIRE COBO Marcos
GAROFOLI Gianmarco
GAZZOLI Michele
GEENS Jonas
GIDDINGS Joshua
GIRARD Damien
GRISEL Matys
GRUEL Thibaud
GUALDI Simone
GUARDEÑO ROMA Jaume
GUERNALEC Victor
GUTIERREZ GONZALEZ Jorge
HATHERLY Alan
HELLEMOSE Asbjørn
HENNEQUIN Paul
HERZOG Emil
HOBBS Noah
HRYNIV Vitaliy
HUENS Axel
HUISING Menno
INGEBRIGTSEN Storm
ISIDORE Noa
KAJAMINI Florian Samuel
KELLEY Garin
KESSLER Cole
KOERDT Bjoern
KONING Stef
KOPECKY Tomas
KRAMER Jesse
KUYPERS Gerben
LAMBRECHT Michiel
LE HUITOUZE Eddy
LEIDERT Louis
LEVY William Blume
LØLAND Sakarias Koller
MACKELLAR Alastair
MAIRE Adrien
MAISONOBE Sam
MARIN MARTINEZ Miguel Angel
MARTI SORIANO Pau
MARTINEZ HUERTAS Juan Guillermo
MASON Cameron
MIKKELSEN Pelle Køster
MONTAGNER Andrea
MOURIS Wessel
NAGENGAST Ruud Junior
NIELSEN Sebastian
NORDHAGEN Jørgen
NØRTOFT Morten Aalling
NOVAK Pavel
O'BRIEN Liam
ORINS Robin
PEDERSEN Henrik Breiner
PEÑUELA SANDOVAL Francisco Joel
PERICAS CAPDEVILA Adria
PESCADOR CASTRO Diego Fernando
PHILIPSEN Albert Withen
PICKERING Finlay
PICKRELL Riley
POLLEFLIET Gianluca
PONOMAR Andriy
QUICK Blake
RACCAGNI NOVIERO Andrea
RACCANI Simone
RAFFERTY Adam
REINDERINK Pepijn
REMIJN Senna
REX Tim
RONDEL Mathys
ROOTKIN-GRAY Jack
ROULAND Louis
SCHAPER Joeri
SCHOOFS Jasper
SEIXAS Paul
SENTJENS Sente
SHMIDT Artem
SKERL Daniel
STAMPE Daniel
STOCKWELL Oliver
STORM Theodor
SUMPIK Pavel
SUTTON Louis
SVESTAD-BAARDSENG Embret
SVRCEK Martin
SYDOR Sergiy
TJØTTA Martin
TONEATTI Davide
TORRES ARIAS Pablo
TOUMIRE Hugo
TSARENKO Kyrylo
VAN BEKKUM Darren
VAN BELLE Loe
VAN DER MEULEN Max
VAN HAUTEGEM Leander
VAN MECHELEN Vlad
VAN SINTMAARTENSDIJK Roel
VANDENABEELE Henri
VANGHELUWE Warre
VERSTRYNGE Emiel
VINOKOUROV Nicolas
WENZEL Mats
WIDAR Jarno
YAKOVLEV Daniil


Or you could name any of nearly 5000 names that I have compiled as having scored fairly recent CQ points without reaching the 200 pt threshhold. (I used to put such a list on Google docs, does anyone actually want it?)

Or look at the new young signings on your favourite teams.

Or choose from about 4 billions males on the planet who have not scored 200 CQ points (you won't be the first to have picked a rider who didn't even have a CQ page by the end of year three)
 
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Let's do the traditional early data revelation that we used to do in VeloRooms :)

YOB in my team:
1x 2002
4x 2003
1x 2004
8x 2005
4x 2006

Nationalities:
3x Belgium, France
2x Spain, Italy
1x other 8 different nations

 
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Here are mine:

YOB
6x 2003
5x 2004
5x 2005
2x 2006

Nationalities
3x Denmark and France
2x Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands
1x Colombia, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Norway, and USA

So, as you can see; a bit more experience than in my 2004-26 team...
 
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Here are mine:

YOB
6x 2003
5x 2004
5x 2005
2x 2006

Nationalities
3x Denmark and France
2x Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands
1x Colombia, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Norway, and USA

So, as you can see; a bit more experience than in my 2004-26 team...
I'm sure it will be much more competitive this time :)
 
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For the first time playing this game, I can't think of 18 riders I actually want. The top level is really good this year, but the second tier is almost nonexistent.
First time playing for me, so I may have misjudged some of the riders - but I found it the opposite. I found quite a lot of riders I wanted in my team and needed to make some tough choices.
 
For the first time playing this game, I can't think of 18 riders I actually want. The top level is really good this year, but the second tier is almost nonexistent.
I have pretty much the opposite feeling. Last year I felt like I had to put some second tier riders inside my top18, this year I feel like all of my riders are top tier prospects and it was difficult to reject a few guys.
 
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