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.

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