The Great Grand-Tour-Game 2012

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Tuarts said:
Response for after stage 4:

On top of the Wooorld \o/

Should be a handy buffer for when i plummet like KVH in the mountains

At least it seems you´ll score more than me in the mountains since you have a garmin "back up rider" (Hesjedal), while i had put it all on Tommy D solely. Plus, all your riders are somewhat still in the hunt...

al_pacino said:
What gets you is not quite remembering who you picked for the sprint stages and thinking you may have got one right only to realise your pick ended up on the floor.

Well done to those with the consecutive wins.

Thank you. :)
 
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Froome19 said:
lol predicted Greipel all over CN, went over to check here and see I predicted Cav....

That's kinda the whole point of this game. Being able to predict it before the Tour starts...

FoxxyBrown1111 said:
That´s bad. 6 in a row would have looked beautiful and set in stone forever. Unlucky...

And super-lucky that Cav crashed today. So that more than evens it out I guess.
 
boomcie said:
That's kinda the whole point of this game. Being able to predict it before the Tour starts...



And super-lucky that Cav crashed today. So that more than evens it out I guess.

Not really, as if a Cavendish win is 100% certain. Besides in this game you a max of 3 times you can pick someone. So you have to gamble eventually.
But I don't expect to ever get a word of praise from you anyway, your ego is to big for that :p
 
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
Not really, as if a Cavendish win is 100% certain. Besides in this game you a max of 3 times you can pick someone. So you have to gamble eventually.
But I don't expect to ever get a word of praise from you anyway, your ego is to big for that :p

Why would I praise you?

And my ego is pretty big, but not too big for praise... Actually I'm pretty sure that Foxxy will confirm I'm the person that has given the most praise to the game and its skillful participants since the very beginning. I don't see how you are deserving of praise when all you did is predict Greipel where I predicted Cav and Cav where I predicted Greipel.

Congrats on making the cut though.
 
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Oh bad. Why you still fight?
Leave it on the field. How about that finish:
1st Foxxy :p
2nd & 3rd by Boomcie & Dekker.... decided by the last tie breaker. ;)

Anyway.... you both do well, so it´s a good chance we meet in the finals...

P.S.: Love you both; Boomcie for contributing great work for this game, and Dekker for his hints for the pcm game... And now we are all happy :)
 
boomcie said:
Why would I praise you?

And my ego is pretty big, but not too big for praise... Actually I'm pretty sure that Foxxy will confirm I'm the person that has given the most praise to the game and its skillful participants since the very beginning. I don't see how you are deserving of praise when all you did is predict Greipel where I predicted Cav and Cav where I predicted Greipel.

Congrats on making the cut though.

Oh, snap! :p
 
Can't recommend doing the picks in a rush btw. Made several copy paste errors. Riblon in my top-10 GC..? Optimistic!

And I would have had another if Foxxt wasn't nice enough to hint me before the start of the Tour. I'm not out of it yet, though!
 
DominicDecoco said:
Can't recommend doing the picks in a rush btw. Made several copy paste errors. Riblon in my top-20 GC..? Optimistic!

And I would have had another if Foxxt wasn't nice enough to hint me before the start of the Tour. I'm not out of it yet, though!
I put Haedo in my top GC :D
Fortunately Foxxy spotted it before it was too late :p
 
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
Kittel DNF. That's gonna hurt my sprint predictions :p

You even predicted Kittel would drop out today??? Absolute genius.

We've come a long long way together,
Through the hard times and the good,
I have have to celebrate you baby,
I have to praise you like I should

I have to praise you
I have to praise you
I have to praise you
I have to praise you like I should

;)
 
I'm feeling rather annoyed by the fact that I have had two 4th place finishers (Gilbert & Goss) almost giving me 2x0,5 points.....And I'm sure Valverde would have placed top3 in stage3 if he hadn't made the steering error in the corner 1,5k before the finish line. Well, at least all my GC riders are still in the hunt, since I will also miss Kittel on stage 13 and need all the points I can get.
 
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Dekker defends sole lead, while I dropped down the lowest since somewhere in te middle of the giro. Ouch, Kittel DNF hurts.

Kazistuta moves up, as Froome, Eshnar & jsem....

Standings after 5:

Europe;
5,0 Dekker_Tifosi (17,5)
4,5 Froome19 (21)
4,5 Eshnar (20)
4,0 FoxxyBrown1111 (23)
4,0 The Hitch (22)
4,0 Sylvester (22)
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4,0 search (19,5) *
3,0 jsem94 (20,5) *
3,0 Kazistuta (19)
3,0 mortand (WC) (18)
3,0 AntonioRossi (18)
2,5 DominicDecoco (19,5)
2,5 Hartog (18)
2,5 al_pacino (17)
1,5 minessa (19,5)

World;
4,0 Jakob747 (22)
4,0 Tuarts (18)
3,5 barmaher (20,5)
3,5 boomcie (20,5)
3,5 aarnold517 (20)
3,5 Mellow Velo (19)
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3,0 Timmy-loves-Rabo (22,5) *
3,0 roundabout (21,5) *
3,0 Ferminal (19,5)
3,0 Duartista (19,5)
3,0 18-Valve. (pithy) (19,5)
3,0 gerundium (19)
3,0 Vitapen (18)
2,0 Sasquatch (18)
2,0 FF'Wilco (17,5)

* would be wild card qualifiers
 
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Eshnar said:
I put Haedo in my top GC :D
Fortunately Foxxy spotted it before it was too late :p

Yes, that one was epic. By far the best. ;)

Ferminal said:
I reckon I will take a point tomorrow :rolleyes:

Yeah, Kittel.
Luckily enough i was thinking it´s his first TdF, so i decided to go w/him only once and early.

And it´s good that i have Cav for tomorrow... At least a 0.5 pt. chance.
Kazistuta complained a lit, but back in the game (also Cav tomorrow; so is roundabout, who looked really dead at the beginning).
 
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Wow... all of us lost riders today. Edition 2011 2.0 :eek:
And only one scorer today (TLR w/ 0,5 points).

Tomorrow the first provisionals will make things clearer... I fear the worst for me.
 
FoxxyBrown1111 said:
Wow... all of us lost riders today. Edition 2011 2.0 :eek:
And only one scorer today (TLR w/ 0,5 points).

Tomorrow the first provisionals will make things clearer... I fear the worst for me.
Well... Considering this morning I was regretting I picked Kittel and not Cav for this stage, it turned out to be useless.
Only one scorer so it's perfect.
But I don't even dare to take a look at my GC. Ignorance is better.
 
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Eshnar said:
Well... Considering this morning I was regretting I picked Kittel and not Cav for this stage, it turned out to be useless.
Only one scorer so it's perfect.
But I don't even dare to take a look at my GC. Ignorance is better.

Same way i do. Just fear. :eek:
 
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Geez Jakob, you did the mistake of looking at your CG.
Would you have followed eshnars and my advice, then there would be at least still hope for one more night. ;)