Now that the 2025 main CQ game has been launched, I guess I ought to roll out year three of the Women's game.
Your challenge is to select 16 women riders, who have a total CQ score for 2024 of 4000 or less. The most recent download on CQ is as of 28th October, but few riders likely to feature will have scored since then. An end of calendar year download will probably appear in due course.
The goal, simply and predictably enough, will be to amass as many points from your 16 riders on the CQ scale of points, as adjudicated by CQ, by the end of 2025 (in practice, by late October, but I'll keep an eye on exact race dates and our selections) I don't impose any doping related rules: and if anyone is suspended during the year I follow CQ's schedule of removing those points or not.
Enter by sending me a PM by 23:59 (UK time) on 11th January (ie before the Australian national championships WE events starts) : I'll run the risk of the handful of points that might be picked up before that making any difference. In 2024 I removed points earned before the deadline unless teams were submitted before the race in question: it was more hassle than it was worth, so I'm not repeating that. As ever, if you can supply the name in the format that CQ uses, I would be grateful: please don't put other details like team or cost in the post, as I would only have to strip them out before I put it into the spreadsheet.
You'll have a couple of days after the main game closes to concentrate on this if you want to, or if you want to create your team rather than arguing with relatives about board games in Christmas week, feel free to send your team early (I normally try to have my team ready to send to the first participant, but I haven't thought about it yet and am travelling for Christmas, so don't hold me to that)
CQ don't do weekly downloads of the women's results, so I won't promise weekly updates, but I would aim to provide one every 2 to 3 weeks.
As ever, good luck and enjoy the game
Your challenge is to select 16 women riders, who have a total CQ score for 2024 of 4000 or less. The most recent download on CQ is as of 28th October, but few riders likely to feature will have scored since then. An end of calendar year download will probably appear in due course.
The goal, simply and predictably enough, will be to amass as many points from your 16 riders on the CQ scale of points, as adjudicated by CQ, by the end of 2025 (in practice, by late October, but I'll keep an eye on exact race dates and our selections) I don't impose any doping related rules: and if anyone is suspended during the year I follow CQ's schedule of removing those points or not.
Enter by sending me a PM by 23:59 (UK time) on 11th January (ie before the Australian national championships WE events starts) : I'll run the risk of the handful of points that might be picked up before that making any difference. In 2024 I removed points earned before the deadline unless teams were submitted before the race in question: it was more hassle than it was worth, so I'm not repeating that. As ever, if you can supply the name in the format that CQ uses, I would be grateful: please don't put other details like team or cost in the post, as I would only have to strip them out before I put it into the spreadsheet.
You'll have a couple of days after the main game closes to concentrate on this if you want to, or if you want to create your team rather than arguing with relatives about board games in Christmas week, feel free to send your team early (I normally try to have my team ready to send to the first participant, but I haven't thought about it yet and am travelling for Christmas, so don't hold me to that)
CQ don't do weekly downloads of the women's results, so I won't promise weekly updates, but I would aim to provide one every 2 to 3 weeks.
As ever, good luck and enjoy the game