The Great Grand-Tour-Game 2012

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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...

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.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well I predicted Kittel for tomorrow and that won't happen. So my streak ended here

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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

 

[boomcie]

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...

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.

 

[Eshnar]

I knew crashes were gonna f*ck it all up.
Now the downfall begins... I counted on the early stages to collect as many points as possible (and I did an awful mistake to save a Cav pick for Paris)

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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

 

[boomcie]

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

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.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Oh bad. Why you still fight?
Leave it on the field. How about that finish:
1st Foxxy
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

 

[DominicDecoco]

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!

 

[DominicDecoco]

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!

 

[Eshnar]

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
Fortunately Foxxy spotted it before it was too late

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Kittel DNF. That's gonna hurt my sprint predictions

 

[boomcie]

Kittel DNF. That's gonna hurt my sprint predictions

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

 

[Kazistuta]

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.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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

 

[boomcie]

Yesterday I had Cav, crashes. Today Sagan, also crashes.

Part of the game I guess.

 

[jsem94]

Luckily I had Kittel nowhere. But I have Farrar tomorrow, and the way he crashed today doesn't make me too optimistic about him.

 

[Ferminal]

I reckon I will take a point tomorrow

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

I put Haedo in my top GC
Fortunately Foxxy spotted it before it was too late

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

I reckon I will take a point tomorrow

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).

 

[Eshnar]

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

You're far too kind

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Wow... all of us lost riders today. Edition 2011 2.0
And only one scorer today (TLR w/ 0,5 points).

Tomorrow the first provisionals will make things clearer... I fear the worst for me.

 

[Eshnar]

Wow... all of us lost riders today. Edition 2011 2.0
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.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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.

 

[Jakob747]

Wout Poels.

Dan Martin and Fabrice Jeandeaboz toast . No surprises GC wise! I can basically pack up and go home.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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.