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The daffodils in my garden are beginning to bud, so I guess that means it's time for the Spring Classics Game.
My definition for the purpose of the game is the races from Omloop to 1st May that are rated 1.WT or 1.Pro (If the Morbihan/TroBro combination were just a couple of days after Frankfurt I might include them, but I'm not extending the game for a week and a half and running into the start of the Giro for them)
Your team is to consist of 12 riders (maximum), with a majority cost of 3000 points based on the end of 2025 points (the same prices as the Main season long game). But the trick is to get a combination of sprinters, cobble riders, and hilly route riders in the scope of a twelve man squad.
So the only change in the races included are some name alterations. 24 events to pick a team for:
There is a small increase in the points available at the level that CQ calls WT3 compared to last year:
5 points for all finishers within time limit in the WT events (scales 1-3), no points below 30th in the PT events (scale 4)
This is our 14th year (the game was originally launched by @Hugo Koblet ) , and we have 13 winners (Vladimir is sort-off a two time winner, having won in 2016, and was the winner at the end of the very short spring of 2020, but by the time most of the events, and a few others, had taken place in the autumn of that atypical year, Bminchow came out on top). This year, it could be you.
But only if you send your team list to me by PM, before the Omloop starts in the European morning of 28th February.
Good luck to all.
My definition for the purpose of the game is the races from Omloop to 1st May that are rated 1.WT or 1.Pro (If the Morbihan/TroBro combination were just a couple of days after Frankfurt I might include them, but I'm not extending the game for a week and a half and running into the start of the Giro for them)
Your team is to consist of 12 riders (maximum), with a majority cost of 3000 points based on the end of 2025 points (the same prices as the Main season long game). But the trick is to get a combination of sprinters, cobble riders, and hilly route riders in the scope of a twelve man squad.
So the only change in the races included are some name alterations. 24 events to pick a team for:
| date | race | points class |
28.02 | Omloop Nieuwsblad | 3 |
28.02 | Faun-Ardèche Classic | 4 |
1.03 | Faun Drome Classic | 4 |
1.03 | Kuurne - Brussel - Kuurne | 4 |
4.03 | Trofeo Laigueglia | 4 |
7.03 | Strade Bianche | 2 |
18.03 | Danilith Nokere Koerse | 4 |
18.03 | Milano - Torino | 4 |
19.03 | Grand Prix de Denain - Porte du Hainaut | 4 |
20.03 | Bredene Koksijde Classic | 4 |
21.03 | Milano-Sanremo | 1 |
25.03 | Ronde Van Brugge - Tour of Bruges | 3 |
27.03 | E3 Saxo Classic | 2 |
29.03 | In Flanders Fields - From Middelkerke to Wevelgem | 2 |
1.04 | Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre | 3 |
4.04 | Gran Premio Miguel Indurain | 4 |
5.04 | Ronde van Vlaanderen | 1 |
8.04 | Scheldeprijs | 4 |
12.04 | Paris-Roubaix Hauts-de-France | 1 |
17.04 | De Brabantse Pijl - La Flèche Brabançonne | 4 |
19.04 | Amstel Gold Race | 2 |
22.04 | La Flèche Wallonne | 2 |
26.04 | Liège-Bastogne-Liège | 1 |
1.05 | Eschborn-Frankfurt | 3 |
There is a small increase in the points available at the level that CQ calls WT3 compared to last year:
| Scale | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 10th | 20th |
| 1 (Monuments) | 280 | 170 | 145 | 62 | 24 |
| 2 | 230 | 132 | 112 | 46 | 16 |
| 3 | 190 | 114 | 96 | 40 | 11 |
| 4 (ProTour ) | 130 | 78 | 66 | 24 | 6 |
5 points for all finishers within time limit in the WT events (scales 1-3), no points below 30th in the PT events (scale 4)
This is our 14th year (the game was originally launched by @Hugo Koblet ) , and we have 13 winners (Vladimir is sort-off a two time winner, having won in 2016, and was the winner at the end of the very short spring of 2020, but by the time most of the events, and a few others, had taken place in the autumn of that atypical year, Bminchow came out on top). This year, it could be you.
But only if you send your team list to me by PM, before the Omloop starts in the European morning of 28th February.
Good luck to all.
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