Hi all,
many of you have played the CQ Manager Game before, so this post is partially to serve as a reminder to those of you who are interested in playing again, but don't necessarily visit the games forum often. This post is also intended to call attention to the game itself and the games forum in general, for forum users that haven't visited it before.
The premise of the game is simple - you act as a team manager, picking between 25 and 33 riders for the year, spending no more than 7500 CQ points (as detailed by cqranking.com). Cyclingnews forums poster Hugo Koblet invented the game, and since 2011 it has become, as far as I know, the biggest online cycling fantasy game on english-language forums - last year there were 155 teams, and it would be great to get even more.
Anyway, details are to be found on this thread. I recognize this is being posted in the road forum, and don't intend for this to be a discussion thread here - I asked a mod's permission* to post it temporarily here for a week (deadline for entry is 23:59 CET January 4th), since it's the offseason and folks may not be aware of its existence. If you haven't played before, you should try it out! Even if it takes a year of participation to figure out how to pick a good team, you'll have plenty of riders to follow throughout the ups and downs of the year, and you might gain an interest in races you never really knew about before.
If you have questions etc, I encourage you to ask them in the main game thread I've linked to, or by PM.
*I had been in contact with the mod afrank last year and made an identical post to this one, and it was stickied for a week. I contacted afrank again a few weeks ago and haven't heard back; I am hoping active mods are okay with this post - I am going off the assumption that it's okay since last year it was.
many of you have played the CQ Manager Game before, so this post is partially to serve as a reminder to those of you who are interested in playing again, but don't necessarily visit the games forum often. This post is also intended to call attention to the game itself and the games forum in general, for forum users that haven't visited it before.
The premise of the game is simple - you act as a team manager, picking between 25 and 33 riders for the year, spending no more than 7500 CQ points (as detailed by cqranking.com). Cyclingnews forums poster Hugo Koblet invented the game, and since 2011 it has become, as far as I know, the biggest online cycling fantasy game on english-language forums - last year there were 155 teams, and it would be great to get even more.
Anyway, details are to be found on this thread. I recognize this is being posted in the road forum, and don't intend for this to be a discussion thread here - I asked a mod's permission* to post it temporarily here for a week (deadline for entry is 23:59 CET January 4th), since it's the offseason and folks may not be aware of its existence. If you haven't played before, you should try it out! Even if it takes a year of participation to figure out how to pick a good team, you'll have plenty of riders to follow throughout the ups and downs of the year, and you might gain an interest in races you never really knew about before.
If you have questions etc, I encourage you to ask them in the main game thread I've linked to, or by PM.
*I had been in contact with the mod afrank last year and made an identical post to this one, and it was stickied for a week. I contacted afrank again a few weeks ago and haven't heard back; I am hoping active mods are okay with this post - I am going off the assumption that it's okay since last year it was.
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