The Great Grand-Tour-Game 2011

[Ferminal]

See you all next year

Tough race, no one scored more than they did in the Giro.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Stage win number 6. Tomorrow 7.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Ferminal see you next Giro. Roche cost you dearly on Alpe. Luckily i didn´t had to depend on him lately.

Mortant´s gamble with picking Tony Martin payed big dividends. He is the only one who jumped into the Top-8 on the ("true") last day, from 10th to 8th.
Hitch almost made a Timmy-Rabo-like-Comeback by jumping from 14th to 9th, missing just 1 point.
Greenflame was hit hard in the ITT: falling from secure 8th to 15th.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Stage win number 6. Tomorrow 7.

Which would be a new record, if it only were official.

P.S.: ... and a total of 17 points after todays stage = very secure Top-8-Spot...

 

[boomcie]

Phew...

To be honest, in the end, I feel kind of lucky to have made it into the final 8. I've lost 7 riders along the way, only have Andy in the correct place and have only won 3 stages.

That is pretty pathetic, but I'm still 100% behind all of my picks. I had F. Schleck in 4th and Evans in 3rd, which were pretty good picks in hindsight. These didn't get me any extra points though.

Peraud, Coppel and Taaramae were my winning cards.


All things considered, with one point less, I would still have been in the top 8. So I guess I was pretty safe.

Thanks again Foxxy, see you in Spain.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Phew...

To be honest, in the end, I feel kind of lucky to have made it into the final 8. I've lost 7 riders along the way, only have Andy in the correct place and have only won 3 stages.

That is pretty pathetic, but I'm still 100% behind all of my picks. I had F. Schleck in 4th and Evans in 3rd, which were pretty good picks in hindsight. These didn't get me any extra points though.

Peraud, Coppel and Taaramae were my winning cards.


All things considered, with one point less, I would still have been in the top 8. So I guess I was pretty safe.

Thanks again Foxxy, see you in Spain.

Which were the great picks. DeWeert on top of that would have been perfect.

Anyway, i think we all scored less b/c of all those crashed out riders. So the "secret" picks were even more special than in the Giro.
I like the Peraud-Pick the best, b/c i really tought he´d be only there to help Roche, until i learned some hrs before theTdF started (= after our deadline) that Peraud is Co-Captain. Since then, i knew that was a great pick.

P.S.:
BTW, great to have you in Spain for those great excel-tables....

 

[boomcie]

Which were the great picks. DeWeert on top of that would have been perfect.

Yeah, but me being Belgian and all makes it difficult to be objective about him and his "potential"!

P.S.:
BTW, great to have you in Spain for those great excel-tables....

Yeah, but with 8 players left making those tables is hardly rocket science .

 

[dlwssonic]

OMG Im last

I get the lantern rouge!

 

[The Amateur]

My gawd. I gave up on this game a long time ago when I was dead last.

Looks like I have to make a team for Spain as well

- The Amateur

 

[aarnold517]

Well, it appears my run has finally come to an end. Thanks again for doing this foxxy, and the best of luck to all who qualified for the vuelta!

 

[Cobblestoned]

....7.....

 

[mortand]

Provisionals after 20 and therefore very likely goin to Spain*:

20 Sasquatch (1st)
19 Foxxy (2nd)
18 (19) Sylvester (3rd)**
18 (19) Amateur (4th)
17 Lancaster (5th)
16 (25) Hartog (6th)
16 (22) Boomcie (7th)
16 (18) Mortand (8th)

... just missing the cut:

15 (22) Hitch (9th)
15 (18) Kazistuta (10th)
13 (22) Ferminal (11th)
13 (19) Armchair (12th)***
13 (19) Timmy Rabo (13th)
12 (22) Aarnold (14th)
12 (21) Greenflame (15th)
11 Dlwssonic (16th)

Woohoo - on the right side of the split this time! At least if this ends up the official classification. Special thanks go out to my new favorite German TT'er Tony M

See y'all in Spain!

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Official Final Standings:

Link; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ouuTPqRWhQL_1rrmRGEZzuYu2mHxvbgyWC16lExNaBE/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1


Quick Overview

21 Sasquatch*
20 Foxxy*
19 Sylvester*
19 Amateur*
18 Lancaster*
17 Hartog*
17 Boomcie*
17 Mortand*
----------------------
16 Hitch
16 Kazistuta
14 Ferminal
14 Armchair
14 Timmy Rabo
13 Aarnold
13 Greenflame
12 Dlwssonic

* qualified for the Vuelta a Espana

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

....7.....

BTW, final points for both our non participants:

Tuarts with 19 points,
Cobble with 18 points

... both would have been qualified for Spain

 

[Sasquatch]

Looks like I'm going into the Vuelta as hot favourite. My tiebreak position will come in handy.

 

[boomcie]

Looks like I'm going into the Vuelta as hot favourite. My tiebreak position will come in handy.

Gonna crush you .

Anyway: congrats!

 

[Greenflame]

Too bad.. I got hit hard by all the crashes in the first week. Only thing that could have saved me was an brilliant Schleck, but him coming in second instead of winning cost me two points (instead of one ahead on the rest for correctly placing him first, the others got a point ahead for correctly placing him second). Even that wouldn't have been enough though, so essiantially I just sucked

It was a good game though, thanks Foxxy for organizing, and I'll be back next year Good luck to the people on to the Vuelta!

 

[Cobblestoned]

BTW, final points for both our non participants:

Tuarts with 19 points,
Cobble with 18 points

... both would have been qualified for Spain

godlike

 

[Tuarts]

BTW, final points for both our non participants:

Tuarts with 19 points,
Cobble with 18 points

... both would have been qualified for Spain

Haha, its always the way. Where were the points scored? Can't find the excel sheet :/

 

[lancaster]

delighted to have made it.

i had 4 shackers in the top 20, none of them made it! epic fail for them, epic fail for me.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Haha, its always the way. Where were the points scored? Can't find the excel sheet :/

Here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ouuTPqRWhQL_1rrmRGEZzuYu2mHxvbgyWC16lExNaBE/edit?hl=en_US

You have to scroll down for your personal stats.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Starting-Grid for the Vuelta by tie breakers (Total-Points):

45 Sasquatch (1st)
42 Hartog (2nd)
41 Lancaster (3rd)
39 Boomcie (4th)
39 Foxxy
38 Amateur (6th)
38 Sylvester
35 Mortand (8th)

 

[The Hitch]

OMG i just missed the cut.

So disapointing

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

I think 9th has a good chance to still make it*. So be ready.

* as some people may again forget to send picks, or being late...

 

[The Hitch]

I think 9th has a good chance to still make it*. So be ready.

* as some people may again forget to send picks, or being late...

Please do not remind them