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How confidently can you state where you will be in your career by the end of 2028?
More relevantly, how confidently can you state where 18 male riders will be in their careers by the end of 2028?
The purpose of this game is to find 18 riders who have rather limited success to date: fewer CQ points in their whole careers to now than Aadne Holter scored in just this year (200)
But, of course, to be successful, you need a team that will score well over those 3 years, maybe even as well as Del Toro, Gregoire, Onley, Martinez or Lipowitz, who each scored more than 2000 points in the three years of the edition that has just finished (2023-35). Note that Del Toro was still a junior in the first of those three years, but would still have been a valid pick (nobody took him though)
So scour the team lists for promising youngsters, scrutinise the results of the juniors this year, examine the lists of new signings, and re-visit those that you thought would make a breakthrough this year but didn't quite making it. When you have 18 names you are happy with, PM me with that list of names, but do so before the Tour Down Under starts on 20th January (but that's Australian time, so on the 19th or the small hours of the morning for most of us). Please use CQ formats of the names if possible.
We typically get about 40 entries, so I'd hope for at least that again, but by all means spread the word and invite new players: the more the merrier.
Once you have sent in the names, all you have to do is sit back and hope that I remember to post updates about once a month. And hopefully retain interest in it for a large proportion of the three years.
Good luck to all the managers, and to the young riders on whose hopes and ambitions they are basing their teams.
More relevantly, how confidently can you state where 18 male riders will be in their careers by the end of 2028?
The purpose of this game is to find 18 riders who have rather limited success to date: fewer CQ points in their whole careers to now than Aadne Holter scored in just this year (200)
But, of course, to be successful, you need a team that will score well over those 3 years, maybe even as well as Del Toro, Gregoire, Onley, Martinez or Lipowitz, who each scored more than 2000 points in the three years of the edition that has just finished (2023-35). Note that Del Toro was still a junior in the first of those three years, but would still have been a valid pick (nobody took him though)
So scour the team lists for promising youngsters, scrutinise the results of the juniors this year, examine the lists of new signings, and re-visit those that you thought would make a breakthrough this year but didn't quite making it. When you have 18 names you are happy with, PM me with that list of names, but do so before the Tour Down Under starts on 20th January (but that's Australian time, so on the 19th or the small hours of the morning for most of us). Please use CQ formats of the names if possible.
We typically get about 40 entries, so I'd hope for at least that again, but by all means spread the word and invite new players: the more the merrier.
Once you have sent in the names, all you have to do is sit back and hope that I remember to post updates about once a month. And hopefully retain interest in it for a large proportion of the three years.
Good luck to all the managers, and to the young riders on whose hopes and ambitions they are basing their teams.
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