2026 Tour de France CQ game

[Peteturbo2]

If i have gone from head of the swingers the day before yesterday, to bottom of the swingers yesterday, doesnt that make me the swingerest?

in a population of nearly 7 billion surely only one knows why Pidders was in the break yesterday. i was screaming down the radio at him.

our lawyers are in heated discussion. and why do i have the wrong paret pointre?

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Jordan Jegat gaining another two spots in the GC today. At this rate he'll be maillot jaune just in time for Paris. The math doesn't lie.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Stage 15

The end of the 1-2 era, and an unexpected stage winner

Green points

Once again, the big points are taken by riders that no-one picked by reason of cost.

Rider	pts	Teams
EVENEPOEL Remco	80	0
POGACAR Tadej	50	0
DEL TORO ROMERO Isaac	35	0
SEIXAS Paul	25	18
LIPOWITZ Florian	15	11
MARTINEZ Lenny	10	2
SKJELMOSE JENSEN Mattias	5	0
AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	3	23
YATES Adam	2	0
SIMMONS Quinn	1	0

Daily gains
Once again, it's about which pair from Seixas/Ayuso/Lipowitz anyone has chosen.

Rank		Pts
1=	Armchair_Cyclist, BluesInTheBottle (Seixas & Lipowitz)	40
3=	Laarsland, Leadbelly, LosBrolin, Madrazo, Search (Seixas & Ayuso)	28
8=	Rest of the Seixas teams	25
19=	Teams with Lipwitz & Ayuso	18
25=	Just Lipowitz	15
28=	2 teams with Martinez	10
30=	Remaining Ayuso teams	3
42=	Three teams drawing a blank	0
	Collective_Wisdom	3
	Default	0
	Torito_y_amigos	35

​

Standings
As with the last rest day, the full rundown.

Rank		Pts	+/-
1	Kazistuta	672	(-)
2	PostmanHat	620	(-)
3	Hayneplane	613	(-)
4	Triley36	582	(-)
5	DJSprtsch	565	(-)
6	Shakes	535	(-)
7	Del1962	505	(-)
8	QueenStagiaire	483	(-)
9	DevilsElbow	458	(+1)
10	Madrazo	450	(+3)
11	Leadbelly	450	(+3)
12	Dogboy	449	(-3)
13	Avoriaz	448	(-1)
14	Mikks	425	(-1)
15	RedheadDane	424	(-4)
16	Schachus	407	(-)
17	Laarsland	406	(+1)
18	IlMaestro	391	(-1)
19	Josedin	387	(-)
20	TotalPackage	380	(-1)
21	AmisVelo	374	(-)
22	BicycleBoy	361	(-)
23	Nightowl	358	(-)
24	Ingsve	337	(-)
25	MagliaNera	331	(-)
26	Search	289	(+1)
27	Rufs	279	(-1)
28	BsAsCycling	269	(+1)
29	Bminchow	258	(-1)
30	LosBrolin	251	(+1)
31	Onizuka999	243	(-1)
32	Armchair_Cyclist	242	(+1)
33	Vladimir	236	(-1)
34	SamuCuenca	207	(+1)
35	BluesInTheBottle	203	(+2)
36	Lecko	201	(-2)
37	DJW	189	(-1)
38	JumboVismaFan	188	(-1)
39	ZigZagWanderer	180	(-)
40	EvansIsTheBest	178	(-)
41	SlowClimber	162	(-)
42	YellowKnight	153	(-)
43	PeteTurbo2	142	(-)
44	Squire	88	(-)
	Collective_Wisdom	612
	Default	107
	Torito_y_amigos	241

Yellow points

Rider	pts	Teams
MARTINEZ Lenny	54	2
LIPOWITZ Florian	47	11
SEIXAS Paul	35	18
CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio	30	23
JEGAT Jordan	30	1
RUBIO REYES Einer Augusto	16	9
MARTIN GUYONNET Guillaume	12	8
VAN GILS Maxim	12	9
KANTER Max	10	1
VACEK Mathias	-12	1
TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso	-13	2
AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	-27	23
JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland	-28	2
MERLIER Tim	-45	16

Daily Swings

Late, but (at least as far as I am concerned) worth waiting for.
Merlier teams lose his GC and green jersey placings points, but keep 275 stage points.

Rank		Pts
1	Armchair_Cyclist	108
2	Rufs	101
3	BluesInTheBottle	82
4	YellowKnight	79
5	AmisVelo	78
6	EvansIsTheBest	74
7	LosBrolin	67
8	SamuCuenca	65
9	DJW	58
10	JumboVismaFan	57
11	BicycleBoy	55
11	Nightowl	55
13	Madrazo	50
14	TotalPackage	49
15	Leadbelly	47
16	BsAsCycling	46
16	Search	46
18	Josedin	42
19	Onizuka999	39
20	QueenStagiaire	37
21	ZigZagWanderer	33
22	Bminchow	29
22	SlowClimber	29
24	Laarsland	27
25	Vladimir	26
26	Schachus	22
27	DevilsElbow	21
28	Lecko	19
29	Del1962	16
30	Avoriaz	10
31	DJSprtsch	9
31	Squire	9
33	Ingsve	7
34	PeteTurbo2	-1
35	Hayneplane	-7
36	IlMaestro	-24
37	Mikks	-30
38	Triley36	-35
39	MagliaNera	-46
40	Kazistuta	-49
41	PostmanHat	-51
42	Dogboy	-62
43	Shakes	-71
44	RedheadDane	-83
	Collective_Wisdom	-15
	Default	-3
	Torito_y_amigos	214

I guess I should make a theoretical team for Evenepoel, similar to the Del Toro one.

Standings

Amis Velo is back onto the podium,

Rank		Pts	+/-
1	Madrazo	1422	(-)
2	Leadbelly	1411	(-)
3	AmisVelo	1330	(+1)
4	Hayneplane	1246	(-1)
5	Search	1228	(+2)
6	DevilsElbow	1216	(-)
7	LosBrolin	1211	(+3)
8	BicycleBoy	1193	(+3)
9	Nightowl	1190	(+3)
10	Laarsland	1178	(-1)
11	TotalPackage	1173	(+2)
12	Kazistuta	1154	(-7)
13	QueenStagiaire	1142	(+3)
14	Triley36	1137	(-6)
15	Armchair_Cyclist	1125	(+7)
16	Ingsve	1117	(-1)
17	DJW	1109	(+3)
18	Del1962	1108	(+1)
19	Mikks	1065	(-2)
20	PostmanHat	1043	(-2)
21	Shakes	1043	(-7)
22	IlMaestro	1009	(-1)
23	DJSprtsch	1007	(-)
24	Schachus	1000	(+1)
25	Josedin	963	(+3)
26	Bminchow	962	(-)
27	BluesInTheBottle	960	(+3)
28	Avoriaz	937	(-1)
29	Dogboy	928	(-5)
30	Rufs	909	(+5)
31	SlowClimber	905	(-)
32	EvansIsTheBest	905	(+1)
33	JumboVismaFan	890	(-1)
34	MagliaNera	843	(-5)
35	SamuCuenca	837	(+2)
36	Squire	830	(-2)
37	BsAsCycling	813	(+1)
38	ZigZagWanderer	811	(-2)
39	Vladimir	774	(+1)
40	YellowKnight	742	(+1)
41	RedheadDane	667	(-2)
42	Onizuka999	653	(+1)
43	Lecko	634	(-1)
44	PeteTurbo2	488	(-)
	Collective_Wisdom	1251
	Default	404
	Torito_y_amigos	896

Spreadsheet

 

[RedheadDane]

VACEK Mathias	-12	1
TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso	-13	2
AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	-27	23
JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland	-28	2
MERLIER Tim	-45	16

OUCH!

 

[Peteturbo2]

Pidders is actually celebrating being in the break three days in a row and says it is some kind of record.
In almost the same breath he then says he blew up in the last 5km and really struggled.
No wonder Ineos sacked him.
I am doing everything i can to sack him.

Or can we have points for 'knucklehead in the breakaway'?

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Pidders is actually celebrating being in the break three days in a row and says it is some kind of record.
In almost the same breath he then says he blew up in the last 5km and really struggled.
No wonder Ineos sacked him.
I am doing everything i can to sack him.

Or can we have points for 'knucklehead in the breakaway'?

I've heard he plans to go solo for the entire stage tomorrow. How crazy is that ?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I've heard he plans to go solo for the entire stage tomorrow. How crazy is that ?

Some people plan to do that but get overtaken.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So similar to the Del Toro team, there will now be another team below the table, Remco en zijn vrienden (Apologies if Google translate has misled me)

None of us chose Evenepoel presumably a combination of thinking he was too expansive and having made conclusions from his early season climbing performances. But if anyone had, it's not unreasonable to imagine a team wit hhim and the most popular possible combination of 7 other riders within the remaining 1772 points. So that team would be:

EVENEPOEL Remco

AYUSO PESQUERA Juan

CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio

VAN EETVELT Lennert

TRATNIK Jan

QUINN Sean

WALKER Max

ALLEGAERT Piet

and at the moment they would be on 1385 points, with only Madrazo and Leadbelly ahead of them.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

That closely match pairing at the top of the table, Madrazo and Leadbelly, have a spending overlap of 3837 points (Seixas, Ayuso, Kooij, Carapaz and Ven Eetvelt)

That leaves 3 riders on each team to establish a difference:
Madrazo: Quinn, Stewart, Walker
Leadbelly: Verona, Dhondt, Allegaert.

Quinn and Verona each have 6 stage points, which is why they are tied on green points, and these two sit at the moment 20th and 24th on GC, which is why there are 11 points between the teams. That 4 place gap hides a 15 minute odd advantage of Quinn over Verona, so it would require Verona to be in a break, or Quinn to be in a long-distanced gruppetto, or an impressive stage placing by Dhondt or Allegaert (unlikely given the remaining profiles) to change the positions of the top pair.

Or a DNF by one of the six riders that distinguish one team from the other.

 

[Squire]

So even if my glorious unique pick Uijtdebroeks was still up there somewhere on the GC, it wouldn't have put me in any respectable position. My 2 minute team gets what it deserves, I guess.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So even if my glorious unique pick Uijtdebroeks was still up there somewhere on the GC, it wouldn't have put me in any respectable position. My 2 minute team gets what it deserves, I guess.

If he were in yellow, you would be in the lead.

We have been relatively unaffected by DNFs, compared to previous games: only Uijtdebroeks (a unique pick) and Merlier (who had already given a very respectable return in terms of stage points) have dropped out among expensive picks, and only Avoriaz has more than 2 of his team not entering Week 3.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The DNFs that were picked:

Rider	teams	cost	earned	net cost
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian	1	851	0	851
MERLIER Tim	16	857	275	582
TRAEEN Torstein	1	388	43	345
BERTHET Clément	1	282	0	282
BIESTERBOS Frits	1	281	0	281
DE KLEIJN Arvid	8	232	0	232
DEBRUYNE Ramses	3	209	16	193
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando	4	178	2	176

And the affected teams

non finishers
Avoriaz	3 (Merlier, De Kleijn, Gaviria)	990
RedheadDane	2 (Merlier, Traeen)	927
Squire	1 (Uijtdebroeks)	851
Shakes, QueenStagiaire, Kazistuta, DJSprtsch	2 (Meriler, De Kleijn)	814
PostmanHat	2 (Merlier, Debruyne)	775
Triley36, Dogboy	2 (Merlier, Gaviria)	758
Schachus, Mikks, MagliaNera, IlMaestro, Hayneplane, DevilsElbow, Del1962	1 (Merlier)	582
Josedin	2 (De Kleijn, Debruyne)	425
Onizuka999	1 (Berthet)	282
Laarsland	1 (Biesterbos)	281
TotalPackage, Rufs	1 (De Kleijn)	232
ZigZagWanderer	1 (Debruyne)	193
Search	1 (Gaviria)	176

 

[RedheadDane]

YAY! I'm near they top of a table!

Oh... wait...

 

[QueenStagiaire]

None of us chose Evenepoel presumably a combination of thinking he was too expansive and having made conclusions from his early season climbing performances.

True, but I doubt that was what you were trying to write.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Main scorers so far (equivalent to at least a stage win, only those picked in the game)

cost		Green pts	Yellow pts	teams
1601	SEIXAS Paul	139	484	18	5 of the top 7 have him
1460	LIPOWITZ Florian	63	355	11	on any team in top 12 without Seixas, except Hayneplane, who has neither
862	AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	40	300	23	Only one of top 12 without him (Devil's Elbow)
857	MERLIER Tim	275	275	16	Only HaynePlane and Devils Elbow in top 10; top 9 of the green classification
1646	PIDCOCK Thomas	73	256	1	Briefly lifted PeteTurbo out of last
637	KOOIJ Olav	217	252	15	Top 6 in green have him and Merlier
1176	MARTINEZ Lenny	16	221	2
544	CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio	38	203	23
805	GIRMAY HAILU Biniam	130	185	5
610	JEGAT Jordan	7	167	1
1229	JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland	77	159	2
507	KANTER Max	82	127	1
506	VAN WILDER Ilan	0	120	6
1379	VAN DER POEL Mathieu	81	101	1
580	TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso	50	82	2

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Quite surprising that Ayuso is so much more common in the top of the rankings than Merlier when they basically cost the same and there are only 25 points between them right now.

 

[RedheadDane]

True, but I doubt that was what you were trying to write.

Yeah, all that fat-shaming poor Remco needs to stop!

 

[Squire]

Quite surprising that Ayuso is so much more common in the top of the rankings than Merlier when they basically cost the same and there are only 25 points between them right now.

People picking Ayuso over Merlier are perhaps way more inclined to pick other GC riders, and vice versa. As seen by at least six teams having Merlier AND Kooij. While many Ayuso teams seem to have paired Ayuso with Seixas or Lipowitz (or Uijtdebroeks).

 

[Schachus]

I picked Merlier, because his stage results seemed „safe“ to me, while Ayusos GC seemed uncertain. I thought it was likely he would drop out like Giro or Vuelta last year. I was wrong, but that was my thinking.
Also I wanted someone I could cheer for on all kinds of stages.

Speaking of: Today was my day to shine, but its not looking so good with Tarling and Hoole in 2nd and 5th ATM, they will probably not score much. Tarling could give a top10 though.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

That's not the kind of shakeup that benefits me I would have liked to see. Ayuso entering the freefall he's been threatening, on the other hand, could win me the game if it happens...

Four seasons also wide open again given that AC and DJW both have Lipo.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

That's not the kind of shakeup that benefits me I would have liked to see. Ayuso entering the freefall he's been threatening, on the other hand, could win me the game if it happens...

Awful for Lipowitz. Not sure there's much room for Ayuso to slip down the GC though. Skjelmose can pass him sure but then Ayuso has 3'30'' on Pidcock/Martinez which should be enough. Would take something truly wild for him to drop below Jegat/Voisard/etc.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Awful for Lipowitz. Not sure there's much room for Ayuso to slip down the GC though. Skjelmose can pass him sure but then Ayuso has 3'30'' on Pidcock/Martinez which should be enough. Would take something truly wild for him to drop below Jegat/Voisard/etc.

With the way his form is trending I can see a total collapse on the final mountain stage happening.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Stage 16

The ITT: consolidation for Evenepoel and Pogacar, and disaster for Lipowitz and those that picked him.

Green points

Yet again, missing out on the biggest scorers

Rider	pts	Teams
EVENEPOEL Remco	80	0
POGACAR Tadej	50	0
SKJELMOSE JENSEN Mattias	35	0
SEIXAS Paul	25	18
DEL TORO ROMERO Isaac	15	0
CATTANEO Mattia	10	1
ARENSMAN Thymen	5	2
ARMIRAIL Bruno	3	0
CASTRILLO ZAPATER Pablo	2	3
TARLING Joshua	1	7

Daily gains
A few combinations with Seixas, Del's UP Cattaneo being the best

Rank		Pts
1	Del1962	36
2	ZigZagWanderer	30
3	Armchair_Cyclist, JumboVismaFan	27
5	Vladimir	26
6=	Seixas teams	25
19	Bminchow	5
20	Shakes	2
21=	Tarling	1
26=	The rest	0
	Collective_Wisdom	0
	Default	0
	Remco_en_zijn_vrienden	80
	Torito_y_amigos	16

Standings

Rank		Pts	+/-
1	Kazistuta	672	(-)
2	PostmanHat	621	(-)
3	Hayneplane	613	(-)
4	Triley36	582	(-)
5	DJSprtsch	565	(-)
6	Del1962	541	(+1)
7	Shakes	537	(-1)
8	QueenStagiaire	508	(-)
9	DevilsElbow	483	(+1)
10	Madrazo	475	(+3)

Yellow points will be late.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yellow points will be late.

Late, or just later?

I think as long as you post them before the conclusion of tomorrow's stage it'll be fine.












I don't care about those yellow points...

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

disaster for Lipowitz and those that picked him

Ouch. From mediocre to rock bottom.