Update #10: Has the Wizard of Oz lost his mojo?!
After 9 week of ozzie dominance at the top, leadership has changed for the first time in this year's cq game. Geraint Too Fast took over the lead, the Wizard of Oz dropped two places and is down to 3rd.
Geraint too Fast took advantage of Rémy di Gregorio's win and the surprisingly strong performance of Markus Eibegger in the Tour of Taiwan which made him able to grap the lead ahead of the strongly upcoming team of SteelyDan. This week's highscorer moved up from 22nd to 2nd - and if Richie Porte hadn't been swapped from Paris Nice to Tirreno Adriato as a last minute call, who knows if it might have even been the lead.
Generally there has been a lot of movement and mainly because of Betancur winning Paris Nice the teams of Yellow Night, Froome19 and Mellow Velo all were able to step up massively and conquer the Top 10 without having even been in striking distance before.
Behind Steelyban's enomous 796 points - the 2nd best scoring so far this year - the Velorooms collective team came 2nd in the list of this week's top scorers - followed by Froome19, search and Mello Velo.
Despite the fact of starting the game eight riders down, fraserhughes' remaining players were able to earn him an impressive move of 60 places, whereby he is also this week's highest mover, closely followed by olopaine, highoctane, al_pacino, ironsscally.
This Week's Top Scorers
1 SteelyDan 796
2 VeloRooms 686
3 Froome19 685
4 Mellow Velo 679
5 search 677
This Week's High Movers
1 fraserhughes (+60)
2 olopaine (+57)
3 highoctane (+56)
3 al_pacino (+56)
5 ironsscally (+55)
Top 10 Overall
1 (+1) Geraint Too Fast 2699
2 (+20) SteelyDan 2545
3 (-2) wizard_of_oz 2503
4 (+15) Yellow Knight 2423
5 (+23) Froome19 2396
6 (-) knallertjeblaf 2392
7 (-4) lenissart 2367
8 (+29) Mellow Velo 2322
9 (-5) just some guy 2320
10 (-3) Ruvu75 2300
With Tirreno-Adriatico still running and Milan Sanremo coming up, massive points are available this week again. Ruvu75, currently 10th, is the highest placed team includining Tirreno Adriatico's likely winner Alberto COntador, while Geraint Too Fast will try to defend his position in the lead with a good result from Nairo Quintana. Or will another surprise winner in Sanremo turn the standings upside down!? We will see, stay tuned...
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