Samu's 2025 Emerging Female Riders CQ Game (The Muriel Furrer Trophy)

[Samu Cuenca]

I would reciprocate, but a 'popular in the Emerging game' team would be hugely below budget (1776 if I were to use your CW team, even less if I were to accommodate Stigger and Vadillo)

Madrazo's team from last year almost outscored RhD's team from the main game, despite only having 12 riders, so you never know. She also got quite unlucky by having Anne Dorthe Ysland who was out for the whole season, and Wilma Olausson, who only rode one race before she was hospitalised for a few months while battling an eating disorder, on top of some of her other riders having poor seasons.

 

[Cordi333]

Interesting that Oudeman (11 picks) and Roldan(9) make your Collective Wisdom team, but were entirely unselected for my Women's game, and that Ciabocco (11 picks here) and Venturelli (7) were each selected just once over there. Disproportionate support in my game compared to here for Mitterwalner and Stigger.

A few riders were selected in the other game (all just once each), but despite eligibility were not picked here:
ABAIDULLINA Inna
ALVARADO Ceylin del Carmen
AVOINE Alison
COMTE Ema
MAHE Océane
RUFFILLI Vittoria
VAN ALPHEN Aniek
YULDASHEVA Sevinch
Perhaps likely candidates for the Collective Ignorance team? Mahe is perhaps the most surprising, as she was not dead cheap in the other game (101 points), and price is not a disincentive here. (Alvarado and Van Alphen may have been picked over there by those who know from from CX, but don't follow women's racing closely.)


I'm bemused: Why does your Collective Wisdom team include Blasi and Schreiber, but exclude the equally popular Stigger and Vadillo?

From that list, the only ones I seriously considered were Comte & Mahe.

 

[Cordi333]

Btw, as a fun fact, the 4 higher women in the collective wisdom that I didn't select (Wolff, Venturelli, Schreiber, Hashimi) are exactly the 4 last cuts in my team. So, my shortlist of 20 riders was exactly the same 20 highest women in the collective wisdom list

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Btw, as a fun fact, the 4 higher women in the collective wisdom that I didn't select (Wolff, Venturelli, Schreiber, Hashimi) are exactly the 4 last cuts in my team. So, my shortlist of 20 riders was exactly the same 20 highest women in the collective wisdom list

We'll see if your wisdom/boring predictability works out for you.

Out of the 73 picked riders, I think there were only two that I hadn't either already added to the spreadsheet as potential picks or at the very least visited their CQ pages: Gabriela Lopez and Clémence Chereau.

While both Holmgren twins were picked, only Lucía Ruiz made it in, so it will be interesting to see if she scores more than her sister.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

19 of our 73 riders have now scored points this year, and that gives us the following scores after CEGORR:

Rank	Player	2025 Score	Points since last update (update rank)
1	Ruvu	123​	53 (7)​
2	Archieboy	99​	99 (1)​
3	Armchair cyclist	71​	71 (2)​
4	Salvarani	64​	64 (3)​
5	hfgon1	63​	63 (4)​
6	JOSEDIN	62​	62 (5)​
7	RedheadDane	57​	57 (6)​
8	Dk one	49​	49 (8)​
9	Cordi333	46​	46 (9)​
10	Samu Cuenca	43​	43 (10)​
11	Madrazo	41​	41 (11)​
12	DJW	40​	40 (12)​
13	jon ezeitza	38​	38 (13)​
14	Rufs	34​	20 (14)​
15	LosBrolin	28​	28 (15)​
16	Laurens147	25​	11 (16)​
17	Libertine Seguros	16​	16 (17)​
18	bminchow	14​	14 (18)​

Lucinda Stewart's national title keeps Ruvu in front, but the fact that she isn't part of the Jayco WT team hasn't helped his team since the championships.

While my team is far from the lead, I have at least already equaled the amount of updates I spent one spot above Madrazo in last year's game.

SPREADSHEET

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It's about time for an update. Points from today's Umag Trophy are not included, but I believe that only affects the out of competition teams. Less than half of our picks are on the board at this point, and Aussie champion Lucinda Stewart is still the leader among them.

Ruvu has defended the lead, but Archieboy is only one point behind, and the winner of this update, Salvarini, is almost breathing down their necks at this stage.

Rank	Player	2025 Score	February
1 (0)	Ruvu	174​	51 (10)
2 (0)	Archieboy	173​	74 (4)
3 (+1)	Salvarani	166​	102 (1)
4 (-1)	Armchair cyclist	163​	92 (2)
5 (0)	hfgon1	135​	72 (5)
6 (+1)	RedheadDane	126​	69 (6)
7 (-1)	JOSEDIN	112​	50 (11)
8 (+1)	Cordi333	102​	56 (7)
9 (+8)	Libertine Seguros	101​	85 (3)
10 (+1)	Madrazo	94​	53 (8)
11 (+2)	jon ezeitza	91​	53 (8)
12 (0)	DJW	84​	44 (12)
13 (-3)	Samu Cuenca	80​	37 (13)
14 (-6)	Dk one	61​	12 (18)
15 (0)	LosBrolin	52​	24 (14)
16 (-2)	Rufs	49​	15 (16)
17 (-1)	Laurens147	41​	16 (15)
18 (0)	bminchow	28​	14 (17)

Spreadsheet

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Picking Eirini Stampori was a gamble, but now she's on the board with 7 sweet points.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It's time for another update.

Salvarani has outscored everyone else the past month and is now safely in the lead. Bminchow also scored well, but it wasn't enough to escape from last place (yet), despite Archieboy's horror month. 46 of our 73 riders have scored points at this stage of the season.

The Best of 2024 team has taken a commanding lead in the OOC League, while the 2024 Toppers seems to be its losing riders faster than Hess Cycling.

Rank	Player	2025 Score	March
1 (+2)​	Salvarani	466​	300 (1)
2 (+2)​	Armchair cyclist	422​	259 (6)
3 (-2)​	Ruvu	394​	220 (12)
4 (+8)​	DJW	381​	297 (2)
5 (+4)​	Libertine Seguros	361​	260 (4)
6 (+10)​	Rufs	338​	289 (3)
7 (-1)​	RedheadDane	336​	210 (15)
8 (0)​	Cordi333	333​	231 (11)
9 (-2)​	JOSEDIN	322​	210 (16)
10 (+3)​	Samu Cuenca	317​	237 (10)
11 (+4)​	LosBrolin	310​	258 (8)
12 (-2)​	Madrazo	310​	216 (14)
13 (+1)​	Dk one	308​	247 (9)
14 (-3)​	jon ezeitza	308​	217 (13)
15 (-10)​	hfgon1	304​	169 (17)
16 (+1)​	Laurens147	300​	259 (7)
17 (-15)​	Archieboy	290​	117 (18)
18 (0)​	bminchow	288​	260 (5)

SPREADSHEET

 

[bminchow]

I refuse to give up.

 

[Cordi333]

I refuse to give up.

the game hasn't really started yet. Very low points by now.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The first GT-ish race of the season is now behind us with and a lot of one-day races have been dealt with as well over the past month and a bit. @Cordi333 has won this update by amassing just over 400 points, but it's @Armchair Cyclist who can cheer the loudest as his team has moved up to first place in the standings.

Two victories and other solid results means that Paula Blasi is now not only the highest scoring rider among our picks, but also among all possible picks. 16 of our 73 riders have still not scored any points, but I know that some of them have been injured and might start racing again soon.

Rank	Player	2025 Score	April
1 (+1)	Armchair cyclist	760​	338 (5)
2 (+3)	Libertine Seguros	744​	383 (2)
3 (-2)	Salvarani	742​	276 (9)
4 (+4)	Cordi333	734​	401 (1)
5 (+5)	Samu Cuenca	694​	377 (3)
6 (+5)	Madrazo	672​	362 (4)
7 (+6)	jon ezeitza	607​	299 (7)
8 (+7)	hfgon1	600​	296 (8)
9 (+8)	Archieboy	598​	308 (6)
10 (-7)	Ruvu	592​	198 (13)
11 (-7)	DJW	585​	204 (12)
12 (-5)	RedheadDane	567​	231 (10)
13 (-4)	JOSEDIN	548​	226 (11)
14 (-8)	Rufs	531​	193 (15)
15 (-3)	LosBrolin	506​	196 (14)
16 (0)	Laurens147	478​	178 (16)
17 (-3)	Dk one	459​	151 (17)
18 (0)	bminchow	428​	140 (18)

SPREADSHEET

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

, but it's @Armchair Cyclist who can cheer the loudest as his team has moved up to first place in the standings.

Rank	Player	2025 Score	April
1 (+1)	Armchair cyclist	760​	338 (5)

Indeed I shall:

Woo-hoo​

 

[RedheadDane]

Indeed I shall:

Woo-hoo​

Not just the loudest, but also the most colourful!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Cordi333 has won the second update in a row and has now taken over the lead. Dk one has inherited last place, but has still managed to decrease the gap to 16th and 15th.

At this point in time, there's still no team that has seen all its riders score points yet, but with multiple races this weekend, that could perhaps be about to change.

Rank	Player	2025 Score	May
1 (+3)​	Cordi333	1132​	398 (1)
2 (-1)​	Armchair cyclist	1098​	338 (8)
3 (0)​	Salvarani	1060​	318 (11)
4 (+2)​	Madrazo	1050​	378 (3)
5 (+2)​	jon ezeitza	964​	357 (5)
6 (-1)​	Samu Cuenca	951​	257 (16)
7 (-6)​	Libertine Seguros	949​	205 (18)
8 (0)​	hfgon1	937​	337 (9)
9 (+1)​	Ruvu	937​	345 (6)
10 (+4)​	Rufs	923​	392 (2)
11 (0)​	DJW	896​	311 (12)
12 (+1)​	JOSEDIN	888​	340 (7)
13 (-4)​	Archieboy	870​	272 (15)
14 (+2)​	Laurens147	837​	359 (4)
15 (-1)​	LosBrolin	781​	275 (14)
16 (-4)​	RedheadDane	780​	213 (17)
17 (+1)​	bminchow	764​	336 (10)
18 (-1)​	Dk one	754​	295 (13)

SPREADSHEET

 

[RedheadDane]

Hello! One of my riders won...

 

[DJW]

Hello! One of my riders won...

Me too!

 

[jon ezeitza]

This month could be interesting for my team. Four more riders have equaled or surpassed the points they cost me when I signed them: I. Holmgren, F. Moors, V. Cavallar, and E. Ciabocco. I've now equaled the 1,530 points I spent on the 16 signings at the start of the season .

 

[RedheadDane]

Hello! One of my riders won...

... and then broke her leg...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I had hoped CQ would've released an update before I went on holiday last month, but there still wasn't one available when I returned home. Now there is a new one and it contains results from both June and July, as well as the Tour de France. That means that quite a lot of points have been scored since my last update and nearly all teams are now holding new spots in the overall ranking.

However by finishing a close second to jon ezeitza, Cordi333 has increased his lead from 34 points to 103. Libertine Seguros, on the other hand, has had a bad couple of months and has dropped down to last place as a result. But there are still 2.5 months of racing left, so nothing is decided yet (none of us have any Indian or Taiwanese riders, so I don't think we'll be scoring points in November or December).

As we're now in August, it will also be interesting to follow whether Paula Ostiz will have an impact on DJW's points tally.

Rank	Player	2025 Score	June-July
1 (0)	Cordi333	2283​	1151 (2)
2 (+2)	Madrazo	2180​	1130 (3)
3 (+2)	jon ezeitza	2128​	1164 (1)
4 (-2)	Armchair cyclist	2096​	998 (7)
5 (+4)	Ruvu	1997​	1060 (4)
6 (+4)	Rufs	1920​	997 (8)
7 (+5)	JOSEDIN	1884​	996 (9)
8 (+6)	Laurens147	1847​	1010 (5)
9 (+2)	DJW	1833​	937 (11)
10 (-4)	Samu Cuenca	1780​	829 (14)
11 (+6)	bminchow	1774​	1010 (6)
12 (-4)	hfgon1	1758​	821 (15)
13 (-10	Salvarani	1753​	693 (17)
14 (+2)	RedheadDane	1728​	948 (10)
15 (0)	LosBrolin	1661​	880 (12)
16 (-3)	Archieboy	1636​	766 (16)
17 (+1)	Dk one	1626​	872 (13)
18 (-11)	Libertine Seguros	1578​	629 (18)

SPREADSHEET

 

[RedheadDane]

Woow... dropping 11 places. Not even I tend to do that.







(Usually because I'm already so far down I can't really drop much, but still...)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

CQ released their latest update on Monday. I have added points from today's Grand Prix de Wallonie (only to the few riders that are relevant to this game).

The top 3 remains the same. Madrazo has cut the gap to Cordi by 9 points, but since they share 14 riders it could prove hard to gain another 94 points before the end of the season.

By winning this update Ruvu has moved within 55 points of 3rd place. Having "only" 10 riders in common with Jon Ezeitza makes that duel more exciting on paper.

LS has finished last for the second update in a row, so if nothing else, she's at least found some consistency in the latter stages of the game.

Rank	Player	2025 Score	August-Sep
1 (0)	Cordi333	2963	680 (3)
2 (0)	Madrazo	2869	689 (2)
3 (0)	jon ezeitza	2749	621 (4)
4 (+1)	Ruvu	2695	698 (1)
5 (-1)	Armchair cyclist	2579	483 (12)
6 (0)	Rufs	2422	502 (9)
7 (0)	JOSEDIN	2378	494 (11)
8 (+1)	DJW	2355	522 (8)
9 (+2)	bminchow	2302	528 (7)
10 (+2)	hfgon1	2301	543 (6)
11 (-3)	Laurens147	2257	410 (16)
12 (+1)	Salvarani	2250	497 (10)
13 (-3)	Samu Cuenca	2240	460 (14)
14 (+2)	Archieboy	2181	545 (5)
15 (0)	LosBrolin	2135	474 (13)
16 (-2)	RedheadDane	2060	332 (17)
17 (0)	Dk one	2053	427 (15)
18 (0)	Libertine Seguros	1863	285 (18)

SPREADSHEET

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Since none of us have any African riders in our teams that can score points at the continental championships in November, we are not likely to see any huge developments before the end of the year. However, three of us do have Romina Hinojosa, who, as I understand it, will be riding at the Mexican NC this week. I will therefore wait until the end of those before revealing the final scores. It will also give me some more time to work out some stats.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm guessing whatever solution is found for sending teams in for the Main Game will be similar to the one used for this game?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Romina Hinojosa scored 27 points during the Mexican NC, thus helping her to outscore her 2024 performance. However, it was still 6 points short of elevating Salvarani's team from 12th to 11th. Well he can't win everything.

Let's first take a look at the scores from the final weeks of the season:

Rank	Player	Sep-October
1	Laurens147	356​
2	Madrazo	311​
3	JOSEDIN	310​
4	bminchow	307​
5	Salvarani	303​
6	Ruvu	302​
7	Armchair cyclist	298​
8	LosBrolin	292​
9	Rufs	283​
10	jon ezeitza	275​
11	DJW	269​
12	Cordi333	268​
13	hfgon1	258​
14	Samu Cuenca	252​
15	Libertine Seguros	248​
16	Archieboy	219​
17	Dk one	189​
18	RedheadDane	184​

@Laurens147 gets close to a maximum break with a dominant win in this update. @MADRAZO, @Ruvu and @Dk one all get the better off the players right in front of them, but was it enough to move past them?

The answer is a resounding...




... no in all 3 cases. DKO got very close, but RhD takes 16th place by a mere 2 points.

So there we have it: @Cordi333 wins the second edition of this game. Interestingly, the top 8 teams were also the 8 teams with the highest popularity scores, although they didn't finish in the exact same order. Much like Oliver Bleddyn in the last sprint of the omnium points race yesterday, Laurens147 also ends up in the top 10 thanks to a strong finish.

A colossal congratulations to Cordi who becomes the first player to receive the Muriel Furrer Trophy. Take good care of it until the day where you may have to hand it over to someone else.

Rank	Player	2025 Score
1	Cordi333	3231​
2	Madrazo	3180​
3	jon ezeitza	3024​
4	Ruvu	2997​
5	Armchair cyclist	2877​
6	Rufs	2705​
7	JOSEDIN	2688​
8	DJW	2624​
9	Laurens147	2613​
10	bminchow	2609​
11	hfgon1	2559​
12	Salvarani	2553​
13	Samu Cuenca	2492​
14	LosBrolin	2427​
15	Archieboy	2400​
16	RedheadDane	2244​
17	Dk one	2242​
18	Libertine Seguros	2111​

@Libertine Seguros finish in last place, but I can possibly soften the blow by revealing that if last year's game had lasted 2 seasons her team would actually have come out on top, despite only being in 7th place at the end of 2024.

The spreadsheet and further statistics will follow soon, but before that I'd like to thank everyone one of you for taking part. I hope you've had fun and may also have learned a thing or two that could come in handy in a possible third edition of this game.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Cordi's winning score was 3231 points, but how did that match up against the imaginary teams?

In the OOC league he would have lost to both the team with the best 16 riders that were picked in 2024 (they scored 4453 points) and the Collective Wisdom team (3483 points), but 12 of our 18 teams beat all of the other teams in that league.

OOC League	2024​	2025​
Best Picks 2024 Game	4597​	4453​
Collective Wisdom	1776​	3483​
2024 Poppers	1440​	2515​
2025 Main Game	1101​	2542​
2024 Toppers	1420​	1070​

It's worth noting that the winning team actually scored fewer points than in 2024.
That is also the case for the best possible team in 2024, as you can see below:

Rider	2024​	2025​
SOUREN Scarlett	552​	304​
BUNEL Marion	482​	324​
PIETERSE Puck	454​	631​
VANPACHTENBEKE Margot	416​	289​
OSTOLAZA ZABALA Usoa	406​	655​
CADZOW Kim	361​	87​
VILLAMIZAR VARON Karen Lorena	342​	310​
SMULDERS Silke	331​	350​
BORGHESI Giada	317​	183​
PEREKITKO Karolina	317​	208​
REIJNHOUT Rosita	314​	109​
BEGO Julie	299​	109​
LE COURT DE BILLOT Kimberley	298​	796​
VINKE Nienke	298​	218​
TRINCA COLONEL Monica	289​	604​
JANSEN Eline	279​	518​
	5755​	5695​

So since these riders scored fewer points combined in 2025, does that mean the best possible picks for this year's game would have given them a run for their money?

No is also the answer here. Many riders that had strong seasons had already scored more than 200 points before the start of the year. These riders scored 3.75 times more points compared to 2024, while the average for the best 2024 team was a whopping 5.87 compared to their 2023 results.

Rider	2024​	2025​
FERGUSON Cat	143​	580​
BLASI CAIROL Paula	107​	523​
HOLMGREN Isabella	96​	369​
CIABOCCO Eleonora	126​	292​
LIECHTI Jasmin	96​	274​
GRIFFIN Mia	11​	274​
COUZENS Millie	52​	253​
CHLADONOVA Viktoria	40​	243​
MUL Malwina	61​	229​
MOORS Fleur	139​	221​
DICKSON Lauren	2​	215​
CAVALLAR Valentina	143​	207​
HÄBERLIN Steffi	16​	202​
GERY Célia	0​	202​
JØRGENSEN Tiril	78​	178​
THOMAS Ségolène	71​	165​
	1181​	4427​

None of these riders will be eligible for future editions of this game (Ségolène Thomas has also retired to focus on a career in agricultural engineering, so she will likely not be a great pick for any cycling games going forward).

Two juniors were picked in this year's game. Paula Ostiz scored 9 points and Eirini Stampori 7. Sidney Swierenga was the clear winner among the youngest riders with 57 points. Not bad considering she wasn't riding as a stagiaire at the end of the season, but also far from Cat Ferguson's record setting 143 points from last year.

If anyone had somehow managed to pick the best 16 riders that are still teenagers at this very moment, they would have finished last with 2070 points, only 42 behind LS (and if I hadn't included the Mexican NC, they would have beat her team because there were some higher scoring riders that turned 20 after Chrono des Nations ).

Last, but not least, here's the final spreadsheet.