The Great Grand-Tour-Game 2011

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Yes, yes... Garmin. Took me a while to select them. I was going with my own DB of PCM and counted the ITT-Rating of all nine riders together. They just (thank god ) were one point better than RSH (so i choose RSH for the other prediction game. Good decision ). uff ...


Standings after Stage 2:

2 (23) Lancaster (1st)
2 (19) Sylvester (2nd)
1 (25) Hartog (3rd)
1 (24) Sasquatch (4th)
1 (22) Boomcie (5th)
1 (22) Ferminal
1 (22) Hitch
1 (21) Greenflame (8th)
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1 (19) Dlwssonic (9th)
1 (19) Foxxy
1 (19) Timmy Rabo
1 (18) Kazistuta (12th)
1 (18) Mortand
0 (22) Aarnold (14th)
0 (19) Amateur (15th)
0 (19) Armchair

 

[Ferminal]

Ah, thought I may have been in the relegation zone for the first time.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

damn htc.

cav better win.
only 5 picked him today also, which would make it that much more sweeter.
Also neither lancaster or slyvester have him so even better

woo. Let's go Cav !

 

[Tuarts]

That'd be right, the only time I do well in a competition is when I don't count in it.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

damn htc.

cav better win.
only 5 picked him today also, which would make it that much more sweeter.
Also neither lancaster or slyvester have him so even better

woo. Let's go Cav !

Yeah, go Cav. I am one of the five...

HTC don´t have all those TTlers they had 2 yrs ago. Honestly i am surprised they only lost 5 seconds.

That'd be right, the only time I do well in a competition is when I don't count in it.

LOL. And today you make your 3rd win in a row* with those of us having Cav...

* a new would be record, not counting in the GGTG-Hall of Fame...

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Double-LOL. We have another out of competition winner: Cobblestoned is the only one who picked Farrar, yet he sent his picks too late.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

no one had Farrar?

nice

Gilbert tonight!

Ferminal is the only one who didn't pick him

 

[Hartog]

The people who didn't pick Cav still kind of won, I'd say. We're all limited to three stages for Cav to win, I still got mine left.

Of course he still has to actually win those.

 

[lancaster]

the first 2 stages put me equal with my giro effort. i'll be gutted if i now don't beat it!

sanchez and conti losing time isn't ideal, but too early to know until mountains.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

great pick Ferminal. I am truly impressed....

 

[boomcie]

Yeah, that's a very ballsy pick! Congrats Ferminal.

I would have put Evans in 2nd, but never in 1st. It was impossible for me to look past Gilbert on this particular finish.

What made you doubt Phil for this stage?

 

[Ferminal]

What made you doubt Phil for this stage?

Nothing really. I thought he would have won all 4 of the serious uphill finishes in the first "week". So I had to pick which one was least likely.

The gradient, 1km @ 10%. If you forget Gilbert setting the record at Huy, as it gets steeper I think he becomes more beatable for the GC guys. Fleche 2010, Vuelta 2010 De Jaen, the T-A 2011 finishes into Chieti and Macerata he failed to win. This was the steepest of the four proper uphill finishes.

Then there was the flatter final 1km section, which added an unknown element. Would Gilbert still have his punch if he saved it until the final km, or would he be able to hold on if he attacked on the steep section?

Like I said though, was more an elimination of the stage I thought he was least likely to win, rather than suggesting he was never going to win this stage. After deciding against Gilbert, Evans was the obvious pick.

I have always been worried that Stage 8 or 9 will go to a break though, and now I think Contador is looking scary.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Let me call you Cycling-Professor. I think you are the favourite, even tough this game is like NHL-Playoffs. 50% luck is needed too

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Live-Update: The often picked Brajkovic just left the peloton in ambulance...

... and Kern.

Cav on the wrong stage: Only 3 picked him...

 

[Hartog]

And Cav takes it, what a finish. Got me on the edge of my seat.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Know that feeling. But happened only once to me. At the TTT is was nervous nail biting every time another team crossed the line with 4 seconds down on Garmin...

 

[Kazistuta]

Weeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only me and Hartog with Eddy Bos as winner today, very important since my sprint stage picking seems off...

 

[boomcie]

Weeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only me and Hartog with Eddy Bos as winner today, very important since my sprint stage picking seems off...

Yeah, I played Goss. Close but no cigar.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

At least my pick wasn´t embarrassing, with Rojas finishing 5th.

Standings after 6:

3 (25) Hartog (1st)
3 (19) Sylvester (2nd)
2 (23) Lancaster (3rd)
2 (22) Ferminal (4th)
2 (18) Kazistuta (5th)
1 (24) Sasquatch (6th)
1 (22) Boomcie (7th)
1 (22) Hitch
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1 (21) Greenflame (9th)
1 (19) Armchair (10th)
1 (19) Dlwssonic
1 (19) Foxxy
1 (19) Timmy Rabo
1 (18) Mortand (14th)
0 (22) Aarnold (15th)
0 (19) Amateur (16th)

 

[Sylvester]

Yeah, I played Goss. Close but no cigar.

Me too. My top 20 doesn't look too well at the moment and I really don't expect Brutt, Steegmans and Paulinho to win the stages I picked them for (nor any other stages, actually), so I suggest that Cavendish be very fast tomorrow.

edit: nevermind, everybody picked Cav. I hope he doesn't win, then.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Me too. My top 20 doesn't look too well at the moment and I really don't expect Brutt, Steegmans and Paulinho to win the stages I picked them for (nor any other stages, actually), so I suggest that Cavendish be very fast tomorrow.

At least you have 3 stages already, am stuck with one ...

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I originally had him

 

[Hartog]

If Cav indeed does win tomorrow, I get the bragging rights for scoring three stages in a row.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Yeah Hartog, tomorrow is for the Record-and Fact Book only

Otherwise nothing to gain for anybody...

 

[dlwssonic]

what a terrible start for me