2026 Spring Classics CQ Game

[Armchair Cyclist]

Did I actually manage to win green?

Turns out; picking rider with birthdays was a decent choice.

So what was the principle for your team? What feature do the birthdays share?

 

[RedheadDane]

So what was the principle for your team? What feature do the birthdays share?

12 riders.
12 months.
One rider for every month.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

12 riders.
12 months.
One rider for every month.

I seem to recall someone else once did something similar. I should really receive 12.99 of your green points for copyright infringement.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

But despite that small issue, a congratulation to RhD is in order. Once again thank you to AC for hosting this and the many other games he's responsible for. The trick is to do as many as possible cause then you're bound to strike gold once in a while. Great achievements were also accomplished by the other players on the final podium.

Although I didn't hold onto the lead, I still scored more green points than last year. However, I accumulated over 100 points lessfewer points in the main competition, so there's still room for progress. I'm very grateful that Romain Grégoire delivered the goods, and that only 18-Valve also spotted his potential for this game. I didn't really believe he would actually end up riding all the races he had listed on PCS, and I was already doubting myself when he performed below expectations in the very first one. But he came back strong from that, and while he didn't knock it out of the park every single time, the fact that he survived 12 one-day races is a big feat in itself. I mean Thomas Gloag only managed to make it safely through one in comparison.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Congrats to Armchair for the win and thanks to Armchair for hosting the game. Spent way too much time deciding between Van der Poel and Grégoire/Seixas before the game especially since I ended up with the wrong choice.

If anybody had decided to go for a fully French team, Grégoire/Seixas/Cosnefroy/Laporte/Baudin would have beaten the winning score with 347 points of budget and 7 roster spots left over. Hindsight is a beautiful thing.

 

[RedheadDane]

Spent way too much time deciding between Van der Poel and Grégoire/Seixas before the game especially since I ended up with the wrong choice.

Are you talking the living Gregoire?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So it turns out that although Ingsve finished 3rd, he had made the best pick of most expensive rider, as shown in the
Best Possible Team

	cost	score	popularity
SEIXAS Paul	661​	652​	3​
LAPORTE Christophe	273​	528​	22​
STUYVEN Jasper	389​	399​	6​
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion	304​	318​	0​
COSNEFROY Benoit	268​	284​	10​
MOZZATO Luca	243​	273​	3​
BAUDIN Alex	255​	258​	1​
VERSTRYNGE Emiel	83​	221​	2​
VAN DIJKE Tim	112​	206​	2​
DE GENDT Aime	156​	201​	1​
HAGENES Per Strand	106​	167​	5​
VANSEVENANT Mauri	113​	166​	3​
	2963​	3673​	58​

Only one of them unpicked, and only one not making a profit (in this limited series vs the whole of the previous year). That team would have been fairly low in the popularity rankings.

Winning score is 62.8 % of this, maybe a bit below what is typical.

Best possible with Van Der Poel would have been 2989 (omit Seixas, Stuyven, Izagirre, Cosnefroy, Baudin; replace with MvdP, Gualdi, Kron, Dewulf, Erzen), and with Van Aert 3382 (omit Seixas, Izagirre, Baudin, include WvA, Dewulf and Kron)


Unlike last year, we would not have had Collective Ignorance as the highest scorer. But it would have been close:

GROENEWEGEN Dylan	510​	320​
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion	304​	318​
TRENTIN Matteo	497​	272​
ZIMMERMANN Georg	314​	233​
SEGAERT Alec	361​	225​
TURGIS Anthony	345​	204​
HUENS Axel	148​	155​
FOLDAGER Anders	203​	155​
DEWULF Stan	74​	113​
ERZEN Zak	70​	108​
DONALDSON Robert	88​	106​
DEKKER David	83​	56​
	2997​	2265​

That group would have had 5 riders in profit, which is matched by the top three teams, and also Devil's Elbow. Leadbelly, DJSprtsch, HiHope and RedheadDane each have 4.