The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Devil's Elbow]

Losing Nys today is very unfortunate, he will be an okay pick at best and this week will be mediocre at best now.

 

[shalgo]

Losing Nys today is very unfortunate, he will be an okay pick at best and this week will be mediocre at best now.

That’s my fault, I think, for picking Nys. I had several years’ worth of good luck last year and now I am getting all of the make-up illnesses and crashes this season.

 

[Squire]

That’s my fault, I think, for picking Nys. I had several years’ worth of good luck last year and now I am getting all of the make-up illnesses and crashes this season.

I would also accept all kinds of bad luck in the 2026 game if it means I win the 2025 as handsomely as you did last year.

 

[postmanhat]

And Riccitello crashes again. Hoped he'd have progressed in terms of how to ride in the peleton this year, but he seems to be getting worse.

 

[vladimir]

Not many points in the baby Giro, but still quite happy today with my unique pick Pavel Novak

 

[hayneplane]

And Riccitello crashes again. Hoped he'd have progressed in terms of how to ride in the peleton this year, but he seems to be getting worse.

My only potential GC points down the drain. With Nys out as well a very poor CQ game day for my squad.

 

[search]

I must say i would have preferred Pithie on the startlist.

well, in the end they didn't send Welsford either. Hard to see him still turning into a good pick.

 

[Salvarani]

Looking like a very good week.

Riccitello the only casuality. The kid gotta stay on his bike!

 

[Squire]

Looking like a very good week.

Riccitello the only casuality. The kid gotta stay on his bike!

Same here. We have many of the same riders scoring, with the only notable exception being that you also have Gall. Should net you the weekly win.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It's a little funny that CQ have decided to list Copenhagen Sprint as a continuation of the Odsherred Classic (which actually had a decent route by Danish standards), because they had put Copenhagen in the name despite it not actually being held there.

Gall, Kämna, TGH, Hayter and Démare gave me some points today, but that one day my team was in the top 10 is far away now.

 

[adamski101]

After a slump lasting in excess of 2 months, finally a good week. Gall, Kamna and Van Wilder in Suisse. Hayter, Ganna and Vermeersch in Belgium plus few points from THG, Vernon and few others. By my rudimentary calculations that is 977 points this week. Happy with that, even if it is just temporary.

 

[RedheadDane]

Skjelmose has a brilliant return to racing, and wins Andorra: 80 points. (Well, he won the race, I don't think the prize was becoming a Co-Prince of Andorra...)
Lund gets 5th in Copenhagen: 70 points.
Kragh gets 12th on the GC in Belgium: 29 points.
Søjberg gets 12th in Copenhagen: 27 points.
Charmig, Bjerg (apparently, he didn't OTL, nice), Johansen, Gregaard, and Kamp each get 5 points for making it over the mountains in Switzerland.
Changizi, Breiner, Pedersen, Bevort, Wallin, Stokbro, Asgreen, Foldager, Salby, and Price each get 5 points for avoiding crashes - or least getting back up again - in Copenhagen.
Nielsen gets 8 points for 23rd in Copenhagen.
Levy gets 5 points for finishing 43rd on the GC in Belgium.
And last, but... well... actually, totally least; Withen gets (*checks notes*) 1 point for finishing 14th in the Giro Next Gen.

Let's see if next week can bring some Danish Championship magic for me. Hopefully, everyone will stay off the Bike Lanes Friday.

 

[search]

my brillant pick Lucas Hamilton is now at 40 points for finishing all his WT races, with only a handful of non-WT race days in between. At that rate, he could actually end up in profit.

 

[Earns1985]

E. Hayter scoring, as the only really popular pick which I don´t have, is not good news for me. Together with Riccitello crashing out of the Tour de Suisse, these two riders had been the weak points of the week. Hopefully Riccitello will stay at least at the startlist of Sibiu, where he would be the big favourite, given the startlist...
Positive is Demare finally scoring a huge amount of points. Together with Gall and Kämna that means still 3 places up for me this week.

 

[Earns1985]

Almeida now at 1718 points.. wow..

 

[repre]

Almeida now at 1718 points.. wow..

Marc Hirschi award for the greatest points cheater of the year!

 

[slow_climber]

Almeida now at 1718 points.. wow..

Great pick by the 4 people who took him. He never even made the long list for my long list!

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Nyssinator seems to have completely disappeared from the rankings in the spreadsheet in the past two weeks?

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Not sure what happened because their team still appears in other tabs. It'll be fixed in this update.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Marc Hirschi award for the greatest points cheater of the year!

I mean the guy is winning the biggest one week races on the calendar. It's not his fault the 2-3 GC riders that are better than him have chosen different schedules. I think it's not the same as Hirschi being backed by the UAE armada against overmatched second division teams in .1 races.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Update #22: New Salvarani salvo smashes suspense

The ramp up to the Tour de France is almost done with some fun racing across Europe that shuffled the deck in the CQ game (well outside of one particular spot).

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank​	Team​	Points this week​
1​	Salvarani​	1109​
2​	peixotini​	1009​
3​	skidmark​	932​
4​	Squire​	929​
5​	adamski101​	799​

Salvarani comfortably wins the week after a rare off update for their standards the last time around. Having Almeida, Gall, Hayter, Kämna and Vermeersch certainly helped. Peixotini also crosses the 1000 points barrier with a similar group (minus Hayter). Two time former winner skidmark is third behind the efforts of Almeida, Hayter, Kämna and Grégoire. Squire is fourth which means that it's a clean sweep of the top 4 for the four Almeida teams. Adamski is the best of the rest with nearly 800 points on the week.

This Week's High Movers

Rank​	Team​	Up/down​
1​	peixotini​	(+20)​
2​	adamski101​	(+17)​
3​	skidmark​	(+15)​
4​	Squire​	(+11)​
4​	Armchair cyclist​	(+11)​

Four of the top five highest scorers repeat on this list, the only one missing being Salvarani due to starting the week in first place. You can't really climb higher than that though they sure are trying ! Armchair cyclist (Gall, Hayter, Kämna, Vermeersch) is the team that makes an appearance instead.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank​	Team​	Total​
1​	Salvarani​	285​
2​	Pantani4ever​	273​
3​	Rufs​	208​
4​	Squire​	161​
5​	peixotini​	160​

Oh look Salvarani is first here now as well. BITB in 2023 and EITB in 2022 are the only team to do the gree jersey/GC double. Might we see a third ?

Top 10 Overall

Rank​	Team​	Points​
1​	Salvarani​	9323​
2​	Qazaqstan​	8360​
3​	postmanhat​	8218​
4​	Senderos​	8056​
5​	triley36​	7988​
6​	slow_climber​	7860​
7​	MADRAZO​	7793​
8​	abbulf​	7752​
9​	Nyssinator​	7719​
10​	Squire​	7669​

Qazaqstan is now the only team within 1000 points of Salvarani (barely). Long time participants Madrazo and squire enter the top 10 taking hayneplane and Devils Elbow's spots. It's national championship week which is always a favorite of mine with some riders getting rare opportunities to shine. Last year, Redhead Dane topped the charts with basically the entire field in Denmark. Will we see a repeat ? I'm trying to come up with some form of suspense, it's not easy.

spreadsheet link (xlsx version)

spreadsheet link (ods version)

 

[repre]

I mean the guy is winning the biggest one week races on the calendar. It's not his fault the 2-3 GC riders that are better than him have chosen different schedules. I think it's not the same as Hirschi being backed by the UAE armada against overmatched second division teams in .1 races.

Suisse and Romandia competition was on par with random .Pro races

 

[Earns1985]

It's national championship week which is always a favorite of mine with some riders getting rare opportunities to shine. Last year, Redhead Dane topped the charts with basically the entire field in Denmark. Will we see a repeat ? I'm trying to come up with some form of suspense, it's not easy.

The national championship week is always very difficult to forecast. Looking at the startlists, I have quite a few riders, who will start, but given the fact, that the profiles are not published, where I normally get my information from, I have no clue, if my riders could score or not.
I only know, that the German RR is pretty hilly, so Lipowitz should be one of the favourites there..

EDIT: Looking at CQ Ranking Homepage, it seems, that the Danish Championship is only ranked in Category 2 this year, so less points than last year are available, where it had been ranked in Category 1. So it will be more difficult for ReadHeadDane to repeat the victory. Italy is this year again more important than last year. (Category 1; Category 2 last year)

 

[Earns1985]

Category 1 National Championships are (70 points for a I.T.T win, 130 points for a RR win)
Italy
Spain
Belgium
Slovenia
France

Category 2 National Championship (50 points for I.T.T win; 100 points for RR win)
Denmark
Great Britain
Netherlands
(USA and Australia, which are in the same Category already took place earlier this year)

Category 3 National Championship (30 points for a I.T.T. win; 60 points for RR win)
Latvia
Poland
Canada
Czech Republic
Austria
Ireland
Portugal
Eritrea
Germany
Norway
Switzerland

 

[RedheadDane]

Category 2 National Championship (50 points for I.T.T win; 100 points for RR win)
Denmark

Why is Denmark in Category 2? We're 3rd in the UCI (and the CQ) ranking.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Why is Denmark in Category 2? We're 3rd in the UCI (and the CQ) ranking.

It's based on the CQ ranking for 2024 in which Denmark came 6th (we're currently 5th in the 2025 ranking, while Slovenia is only 9th due to blatant pointism).