Hello everyone!
I'm sorry I wasn't online yesterday to answer questions. A friend of mine was involved in a minor accident so I went to visit him at the hospital which is located quite a bit from my home.
I must say that I'm glad and overwhelmed that so many seems to think that this is a great idea. 9 pages in this thread and 17 entered teams in 24 hours!
To clear some things up:
On size of the team:
You have all submitted teams consisting of 25-33 riders, which we will keep the limits at. If anyone wants to change their teams because you have made it based upon the assumption that it should consist of exactly 25 riders, you are very welcome to do so.
On suspended riders:
This has been an issue, and because I hadn't thought of it before I made up the game a ruling has to be made. So far it hasn't been a major problem. Quite a few of you have included Pellizotti (60 CQ points), but Rasmussen, Di Luca and Rebellin have only been included once overall.
I'm still in doubt as to what the most fair solution is, but I've decided that suspended riders will have a price of what's similar to their last active season. This means that these are the prices:
Franco Pellizotti: 60 CQ Dollars
Michael Rasmussen: 38
Davide Rebellin: 775
Danilo di Luca: 113
Since I'm only human and there might be some riders whom I don't know much about, there might be riders whom I didn't know was suspended. If anyone has included riders which are coming back from suspension and have "bought" them for a wrong price, please be fair and send me a PM stating the changes.
The people who have included Rebellin, di Luca or Rasmussen I will send a PM to and ask them to change their team.
On riders getting suspended:
During the 2011, some riders might get caught using doping. Anyone getting suspended during the 2011 season will get a total of 0 points at the end of the season regardless of how many points the rider had accumulated prior to his suspension.
On riders costing 0 CQ Dollars:
That's perfectly fine. As you have a limited spots in your team it doesn't matter what the individual rider costs.
On registering a team:
A lot of you have been very good at writing the rider's full names along with their value - and a few of you haven't been just as good
To make it as easy for me as possible, I kindly ask anyone new who wants to participate to write the rider's full name, his price and the aggregated price of the team so that I don't have to do the math myself or find out what the firstname of the riders are.
All of you who already have submitted teams, you are registered so don't worry (except one whom I have send a PM asking him to resend his team).
Now I think that was it.
Now some facts:
There are
17 registered teams so far.
232 different riders have been chosen. The most expensive rider bought costs
1619 CQ Dollars (now figure out who that is and who has bought him
), while the cheapest rider bought costs
0 CQ Dollars. The rider bought the most times has been bought by
12 different teams - can anyone guess who that is?