Samu's 2026-27 Emerging Female Riders CQ Game (The Muriel Furrer Trophy)

[Dk one]

Thank you to my unique pick, Alma W M Rasmussen, for winning the gc in a 2.2 in Vietnam, maybe it can help my rectify my quite poor start to this game🤞

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I had hoped the latest CQ download would have arrived sooner, but we had to wait until the conclusion of Paris-Roubaix for it to be released. This naturally means that quite a lot of points have been scored since the last update, but what has that done to the overall rankings?

Rank	Player	2026 Score	March-April
1 (+1)	Ruvu	550​	346 (1)
2 (+2)	bminchow	540​	345 (2)
3 (0)	LosBrolin	524​	324 (3)
4 (+3)	Armchair Cyclist	514​	322 (=4)
5 (-4)	RedheadDane	505​	288 (10)
6 (-2)	Rufs	505​	310 (7)
7 (-3)	Madrazo	504​	309 (8)
8 (+1)	jon ezeitza	501​	322 (=4)
9 (-1)	AkselWellington	451​	262 (11)
10 (+3)	Dk one	442​	316 (6)
11 (+1)	JOSEDIN	432​	293 (9)
12 (-2)	Cordi333	387​	215 (12)
13 (-2)	Samu Cuenca	332​	168 (13)
14 (0)	Dani HR	91​	77 (14)

@Ruvu rolls through to the top, but the gap to @bminchow is only a single point larger than before. @LosBrolin has managed to defend third place once again, but is now closer to fourth than second.

58 of our 83 riders have now scored points, but no players have all their riders on the board yet. Following Silvia Milesi's retirement announcement earlier this month, bminchow and @JOSEDIN seem the least likely to achieve that right now, but there are several picks that look questionable at the moment. However with 1.5 year to go in this game, both retired and injured riders could still return to the sport before we reach the end of it.

In the OOC League, the best possible team from last year has become the first one to surpass 1000 points.

SPREADSHEET

 

[jon ezeitza]

The only cyclist on my team who hasn't scored any points yet is Mara Roldán. She's had terrible luck. Last June, she won a stage in the Tour of Britain Women, and the next day she crashed, which sidelined her for nine months. This year, she raced for the first time in the Omloop Nieuwsblad, and just a few days later, she was hit by a car while training. She returned to competition at Liège-Bastogne-Liège but couldn't finish the race. Despite everything, I'm still hopeful that all the cyclists on my team will score points soon.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Another four weeks of racing have brought a lot of changes with them.

Rank	Player	2026 Score	April-May
1 (0)​	Ruvu	739​	189 (4)​
2 (+1)​	LosBrolin	736​	212 (3)​
3 (-1)​	bminchow	704​	164 (5)​
4 (+6)​	Dk one	659​	217 (2)​
5 (+3)​	jon ezeitza	656​	155 (7)​
6 (+1)​	Madrazo	648​	144 (8)​
7 (-3)​	Armchair Cyclist	614​	100 (9)​
8 (+4)​	Cordi333	613​	226 (1)​
9 (+2)​	JOSEDIN	589​	157 (6)​
10 (-4)​	Rufs	578​	73 (11)​
11 (-6)​	RedheadDane	567​	62 (14)​
12 (-3)​	AkselWellington	514​	63 (13)​
13 (0)​	Samu Cuenca	441​	109 (10)​
14 (0)​	Dani HR	155​	64 (12)​

@Ruvu defends first place, but @LosBrolin has closed the gap to just 3 points at this stage. @Dk one has moved up all the way to fourth thanks to a second place in this update. @RedheadDane's riders have been on vacation and that has put her closer to the bottom, where @Dani HR's team has scored its first top-12 finish in an update so far.

LosBrolin is the first manager to see all their riders score points, but if Mara Roldan starts and finishes Itzulia this week, there will be multiple teams joining him, including the Collective Wisdom team.

Mackenzie Coupland is still the highest scoring riders among all our picks, and Ainara Albert remain in the lead for the unselected ones. Anne Dorthe Ysland had scored her points of the season in Australia, but has now sadly been forced to retire due to her ongoing battle with ulcerative colitis, so Ruvu and @Armchair Cyclist shouldn't expect her to make any more contributions to their overall scores.

SPREADSHEET

 

[jon ezeitza]

With the three points Mara Roldán earned today in Iruñea, all my cyclists have now scored. Now, we have to fight to make sure they all contribute as many points as I paid for them when I signed them to the team 😎

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I hadn't even noticed she had scored points, too, but seeing her in the breakaway was very encouraging ahead of the rest of the season.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Another month has past us by, and this is how things stand after the Giro:

Rank	Player	May-June	2026 Score
1 (+1)	LosBrolin	158 (2)	894​
2 (-1)	Ruvu	130 (5)	869​
3 (0)	bminchow	119 (9)	823​
4 (0)	Dk one	128 (6)	787​
5 (+1)	Madrazo	138 (3)	786​
6 (-1)	jon ezeitza	124 (7)	780​
7 (+1)	Cordi333	134 (4)	747​
8 (-1)	Armchair Cyclist	114 (10)	728​
9 (+1)	Rufs	112 (11)	690​
10 (-1)	JOSEDIN	93 (12)	682​
11 (+1)	AkselWellington	122 (8)	636​
12 (-1)	RedheadDane	57 (13)	624​
13 (0)	Samu Cuenca	160 (1)	601​
14 (0)	Dani HR	46 (14)	201​

Helped by a victory to Ginia-Lara Caluori in Czechia and a second place to Angie Londoño in Colombia, my team tops this update, but it's still not enough to reach 12th place. At the other end of the table, the consistency of @LosBrolin's riders has made him take over the lead. Despite losing first place, Ruvu can find solace in the fact that the gaps to third and fourth have increased.


SPREADSHEET

 

[Dani HR]

The bad thing about this being two years is that now I can't pick Evelien Vijn for next season (she's still also a speed skater, don't know if she will become a full time cyclist or not).

I picked four WV Schijndel riders in case any of them signs for VolkerWessels, but now I think Evelien Vijn is more likely than them to be a VolkerWessels rider 😄

 

[RedheadDane]

The bad thing about this being two years is that now I can't pick Evelien Vijn for next season (she's still also a speed skater, don't know if she will become a full time cyclist or not).

It's still entirely possible there'll be a game starting next year as well.
Just like with the 3-year Men's Emerging riders games.
We have one that's 2024-2026, one that's 2025-2027, and one that's 2026-2028.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It's still entirely possible there'll be a game starting next year as well.
Just like with the 3-year Men's Emerging riders games.
We have one that's 2024-2026, one that's 2025-2027, and one that's 2026-2028.

I won't promise anything though.

 

[bminchow]

I won't promise anything though.

But we would love
it if you did 🙂

 

[Dani HR]

The bad thing about this being two years is that now I can't pick Evelien Vijn for next season (she's still also a speed skater, don't know if she will become a full time cyclist or not).

I picked four WV Schijndel riders in case any of them signs for VolkerWessels, but now I think Evelien Vijn is more likely than them to be a VolkerWessels rider 😄

Somehow I was right 😄 (I knew there were a few clues, but I still wasn't sure if she would actually end up on the team). Evelien Vijn is a stagiaire on VolkerWessels since today