The 2023 Amy Pieters Trofee (Prediction Game WE)

[bminchow]

Ok. I guess i can try this. It is ... different. It is effervescent.

Tour Down Under – GC (January 15-17)	Grace Brown, Krista Doebel-Hickok
TDU – Stage huntress	Ruby Roseman-Gannon

Winner of the individual WWT ranking (1 point)	VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek
Winner of the youth ranking (riders born in 2001 or later) (1 point)	Backstedt Zoe
Winner of the team ranking (1 point)	Trek - Segafredo

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ok. I guess i can try this. It is ... different. It is effervescent.

Tour Down Under – GC (January 15-17)	Grace Brown, Krista Doebel-Hickok
TDU – Stage huntress	Ruby Roseman-Gannon

Winner of the individual WWT ranking (1 point)	VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek
Winner of the youth ranking (riders born in 2001 or later) (1 point)	Backstedt Zoe
Winner of the team ranking (1 point)	Trek - Segafredo

It's always great to welcome new players to the game!

I'm known for being a generous host, so even if you forget to submit riders for half the races, you'll probably still beat me.

 

[BR2]

Phew, honestly I just lack the knowledge to do this. But I might throw in some random guesses until midnight.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Phew, honestly I just lack the knowledge to do this. But I might throw in some random guesses until midnight.

You score the exact same amount of points in 2021 as I did in 2022, so having a bit of knowledge is not always better than blissful ignorance
And you could always just copy other people's predictions or exclusively select only Basque riders to make it less time consuming.

 

[Gwbert]

I really lack the knowledge too, especially outside of the main races, but that’s why i do this:

WWT: Demi Vollering, SD Worx and Shirin van Anrooij

TDU: Grace Brown and Ruby Roseman-Gannon + Alex Manly

 

[BR2]

Individual Ranking: Demi Vollering
Youth Ranking: Shirin van Anrooij
Team Ranking: Trek

TDU
GC: Grace Brown, Brodie Chapman
Huntress: Ruby Roseman-Gannon

Something in me wants to make up new names for these three Australians, like Brodie Brown, Grace Gannon and Ruby Chapman, but I am going with these slightly unspectacular picks and their real names in order to have a better shot.

 

[BR2]

Also, the drawings are new, aren't they? Love them.

 

[RedheadDane]

Something in me wants to make up new names for these three Australians, like Brodie Brown, Grace Gannon and Ruby Chapman, but I am going with these slightly unspectacular picks and their real names in order to have a better shot.

I was considering just writing "Bäckstedt" for the youth rider.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Also, the drawings are new, aren't they? Love them.

Christine Majerus is Luxembourgish champon of pretty much every cycling dicipline as well as drawing and knitting. I don't know if she's able to do the latter things while on a bike.

I was considering just writing "Bäckstedt" for the youth rider.

I only accept Elynor's married name from nown. But if you ever predict Schweinberger to win a race, I may give you the points, no matter which one of the two ends up winning.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

With the first race almost under way, we're currently set for a ten player shootout, but other posters can still join the game free of charge

Here is an overview of our WWT and TDU predictions:

@bminchow
WWT: Annemiek van Vleuten, Trek-Segafredo and Zoe Bäckstedt
TDU: Grace Brown and Krista Doebel-Hickok + Ruby Roseman-Gannon

@BR2
WWT: Demi Vollering, Trek and Shirin van Anrooij
TDU: Grace Brown and Brodie Chapman + Ruby Roseman-Gannon

@Dk one
WWT: Annemiek van Vleuten, SD Worx and Shirin Van Anrooij
TDU: Amanda Spratt and Grace Brown + Ruby Roseman-Gannon

@Jumbo Visma Fan :)
WWT: Annemiek van Vleuten, Trek and Shirin van Anrooij
TDU: Amanda Spratt and Grace Brown + Alex Manly

@Libertine Seguros
WWT: Demi Vollering, SD Worx and Shirin van Anrooij
TDU: Grace Brown and Ruby Roseman-Gannon + Alex Manly

@Põhja Konn
WWT: Annemiek van Vleuten, SD Worx and Shirin Van Anrooij
TDU: Grace Brown and Alex Manly + Georgia Baker

@RedheadDane
WWT: Lorena Wiebes, SD Worx and Shirin van Anrooij
TDU: Alex Manly and Brodie Chapman + Grace Brown

@yaco
WWT: Annemiek van Vleuten, Trek and Zoe Bäckstedt
TDU: Amanda Spratt and Brodie Chapman + Georgie Howe

@Samu Cuenca
WWT: Demi Vollering, SD Worx and Ally Wollaston
TDU: Amanda Spratt and Grace Brown + Ally Wollaston

@Gwbert
WWT: Demi Vollering, SD Worx and Shirin van Anrooij
TDU: Grace Brown and Ruby Roseman-Gannon + Alex Manly

 

[RedheadDane]

GODDAMMIT! I should have swapped Chapman and Brown. Chapman still wouldn't have gotten me any points, but at least Brown would have gotten me more points...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

GODDAMMIT! I should have swapped Chapman and Brown. Chapman still wouldn't have gotten me any points, but at least Brown would have gotten me more points...

Well I also made the mistake of swapping out Manly for Wollaston after the criterium. And Wollaston only finished fifth in the youth classification, so my strategy of her winning the blue jersey by simply riding more races than the other contenders is off to a bad start. It'll be interesting to see if Christie, Wyllie and/or Smith will be able to challenge Van Anrooij in that competition.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Everyone got points in our first race, but JV Fan was the only one to score the maximum 5.5.

The Cadel Evans Great Ocean RR is up next weekend. The start list isn't published yet, but I assume it will feature pretty much the same riders that we saw in TDU.

@Jumbo Visma Fan :) 5.5
@Dk one 5
@Samu Cuenca 5
@Gwbert 4
@Libertine Seguros 4
@bminchow 3.5
@BR2 3
@Põhja Konn 3
@yaco 2
@RedheadDane 0.5

 

[Dk one]

Cadel: Brown, Spratt

 

[BR2]

Cadel: Spratt, Brown

I'm not going to be original here.

 

[yaco]

Chapman and Spratt.

 

[bminchow]

For Great Ocean Road Race:
Alex Manly
Grace Brown

Oh yeah

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Manly and Brown for me as well

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm going to be unoriginal by picking Brown and Spratt.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Grace Brown and Ruby Roseman-Gannon

 

[Põhja Konn]

Great Ocean Road Race:
Brown and Spratt

 

[Samu Cuenca]

@Gwbert, you have about five hours to submit your picks for tonight

 

[Dk one]

I am jinxing Brown, she has a bad day everytime I pick her

 

[yaco]

Brown was never going to get around that course - Spratt was the best rider of the Aussie summer but got no rewards. Trek should have played the Chapman card today.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Brown was never going to get around that course

Brown was the second best rider on Corkscrew in TDU and has proven herself to be pretty good on these kind of hills in LBL as well, so I don't think it was a certainty that she would struggle that much today. Especially not in a field that wasn't exactly the cream of the crop.