Update #21: Lord of the Giro: Return of the King
The final week of the Giro is usually (but not always) one of three highest-scoring weeks of the CQ year. With such a popular pick finishing 2nd overall, this was bound to be the case again this year. We also had the 2.HC Tour of Norway and some 1.1 races with some fairly popular picks doing well.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 Total Package 1559
2 Wallenquist 1523
3 DFA123 1448
4 ruvu75 1388
5 skidmark 1348
To win a CQ week, you need the total package, and Total Package certainly had that this week. 2nd, 4th, 9th & 10th in the Giro equals almost 1000 points, and with Tour of Norway runner-up Halvorsen and Rund um Köln winner Planckaert in the team in addition to Giro stage winner Chaves, that's 1559 points and a weekly win! Wallenquist follows closely in 2nd with similar scorers + Kristoff, but no Sivakov and Halvorsen. The teams in 3rd, 4th and 5th on the week will get their glory in a moment...
Basically everyone mentioned in this update have some sort of Nibali/Landa/Chaves/Zakarin/Sivakov/Halvorsen/Planckaert combination. We need to go all the way down to 25th-placed Eyeballs Out to find the first Nibali-less team of the week. They had unique pick Carapaz to compensate, however.
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 Wallenquist (+42)
2 Total Package (+28)
3 search (+23)
4 Mayomaniac (+20)
5 LosBrolin (+18)
42 places for Wallenquist! What a jump, considering we're so far into the game. I guess it helps starting from far back. Weekly winner Total Package also gets a significant boost to their rankings, while search round out the podium here.
This Month's Top Scorers
Rank Team Up/down
1 DFA123 2728
2 Total Package 2555
3 Wallenquist 2427
3 ruvu75 2427
5 search 2402
With the Giro giving out a big share of the CQ points in May, it's natural that the Giro high-scorers are also near the top of this list. DFA123 has Giro sprinters Ewan and Cimolai to add to the GC points plus Dunbar with loads of Yorkshire points, and that takes them past this week's winner Total Package.
This Month's High Movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 Wallenquist (+41)
2 search (+40)
3 DFA123 (+34)
4 Total Package (+32)
5 drebelo (+30)
5 DJ Sprtsch (+30)
The big post-Giro movers are obviously the main players in the monthly climbing competition, too.
Green Jersey Competition
Rank Team Total
1 skidmark 167
2 TheArt 160
3 armchairclimber 153
3 Googolplex 153
5 ruvu75 150
Both skidmark (5th on the week) and TheArt (7th on the week) leapfrog former co-leaders armchairclimber and Googolplex. ruvu75 gains 26 points for 4th on the week, and sneaks into the top 5.
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (+2) skidmark 7445
2 (-) fauniera 7373
3 (-2) Object 7348
4 (+2) karaev 7160
5 (+2) TheArt 7121
6 (+11) DFA123 7008
7 (+3) Kryvo 7001
8 (+2) Nyssinator 6991
9 (+7) ruvu75 6990
10 (-6) Tigerion 6958
The CQ king himself, skidmark, returns to the top spot after his great week. Object also had a decent week, scoring 1038 points, but it wasn't enough against the high-flying skidmark. fauniera also passes the former leader. DFA123 makes a strong leap into the top 10 along with ruvu75. tobydawq, Googolplex and EvansIsTheBest drop out, but none of them too far. They are in places 11th through 13th.
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