The Great Grand-Tour-Game 2014/15 "TdF Monster Edition"

[BYOP88]

We all have outside of Byop88 who can look into the future...

Look into the future? I'm back from the future




Thank you Kittel.

 

[BYOP88]

BTW After Germany's win tonight the people who got the stage 4 winner right, should get triple points.

 

[Jspear]

BTW After Germany's win tonight the people who got the stage 4 winner right, should get triple points.

I'll agree with you on this one. Don't know if I will at other times during this game though....

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

2 Sagan picks wasted so far. This isn't going well.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Sorry guys...
After the Magic night of Belo Horizonte, a super high... a super low followed. I couldn´t get into my Computer (either it crashed itself, or worse some phucking Nerd hacked it with a Virus. I just hope it was in "normal" Computer problem).

You guys may check if all your picks are still correct, or if this Nerd/s changed some data.

After all it will take a while to uptade standings now.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

So stupid, I picked Boom for another stage.. not the most obvious one

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Look into the future? I'm back from the future...
Thank you Kittel.

Good, good.... Will GER win the final by 3 or 4 goals?
Yeah thanks Kittel, and GER team blasting BRA. I am still shocked. Now my Degenkolb pick for today was a waste, but OTOH, I won´t be too greedy.

BTW After Germany's win tonight the people who got the stage 4 winner right, should get triple points...

I'll agree with you on this one... Don't know if I will at other times during this game though....

... make that 7 points.

2 Sagan picks wasted so far. This isn't going well...

Yeah, twice 4th, that hurts...

So stupid, I picked Boom for another stage.. not the most obvious one

LOL. Boom was a great pick. But I expected more from you: Picking him for the right stage.

 

[Flamin]

2 Sagan picks wasted so far. This isn't going well.

Same here stage 2 and today. Could have been a valuable (half) point, since we were the only ones from our division with Sagan today.

Anyway, I'm pretty much fucked now with 3 wins for Froome and none for Contador/Nibali

 

[rainman]

Sorry guys...
After the Magic night of Belo Horizonte, a super high... a super low followed. I couldn´t get into my Computer (either it crashed itself, or worse some phucking Nerd hacked it with a Virus. I just hope it was in "normal" Computer problem).

You guys may check if all your picks are still correct, or if this Nerd/s changed some data.

After all it will take a while to uptade standings now.

Oh well looks like no one scored today, might ease the workload

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

the only thing I got going for me is that I picked Nibali as the overall winner

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

the only thing I got going for me is that I picked Nibali as the overall winner

... and that was awesome. I first thought you are crazy when talking Aru up in the Giro. You proved me wrong... then you picked Nibali and I thought crazy again... again proved me wrong. I am impressed.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

... and that was awesome. I first thought you are crazy when talking Aru up in the Giro. You proved me wrong... then you picked Nibali and I thought crazy again... again proved me wrong. I am impressed.

to belive in the power of Astana is never crazy

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Full standings after stage 5 out (link post #1);

Leaders:
Group A; Eshnar, Foxxy, Wallenquist each at 2.5 points
Group B; 8 players in lead tie with 2.0 points each
Group C; Valv-pithy with 3.0 points
Group D; The Asian, Kiilike each with 2.5 points

 

[BYOP88]

Full standings after stage 5 out (link post #1);

Leaders:
Group A; Eshnar, Foxxy, Wallenquist each at 2.5 points
Group B; 8 players in lead tie with 2.0 points each
Group C; Valv-pithy with 3.0 points
Group D; The Asian, Kiilike each with 2.5 points

Excellent tied for 1st. Better stop the game now, because it's all downhill from now for me.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

For me too. No more Froome, that hurts especially in stage 20 when 3/4 of players have Martin.
But my most idiotic pick was Rodriguez having high. I clearly missed it that he rides the TdF for training/recovery only.
After last years Vuelta I thought the less training/less race days/injured is the new future blueprint for winning.
I was wrong.
OTOH, my secret sleeper pick, TDumoulin looks still good...

 

[greenedge]

I'm happy i picked Froome for only stage/ 2nd and luckily included Porte- though he'll probably finish higher than 5th.

Other than Rogers, Nieve and maybe Navarro and Frank Shleck my top 20 should look ok too and I really need it to go well after 0 points so far

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

13 had Greipel today... Standings soon will follow (circa 15 mins)

Full standings after 6 (see post #1):

Leaders
A; Eshnar, Foxxy, Jaylew & Wallenquist at 2.5
B; Minessa with 3.0
C; Valv-Pithy with 4.0
D; Al Pacino & Flamin each 3.0

 

[aarnold517]

Gorilla! Nice to get some points back after my two sagan fourths so far this week

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

28 players scored today...

Full standings after 7 (see post #1):

Leaders
A; Eshnar & Jaylew with 3.0 points
B; Minessa with 3.5
C; Valv-Pithy with 4.5
D; Flamin with 3.0

... overall laterne rouge; Cycladian the only one not yet scored...

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

First Provisional Rankings are out: After Stage 7, before the first "Mountain"-Stage... let´s see how things go from here.

Explanation of the provisionals are in post #1, as the links to them are too.

The “Anquetil”-Division:
17.5 aarnold517 (1st)
16.5 Pantani_lives (2nd)
16.0 jaylew (3rd)
15.5 Wallenquist (4th)
14.5 FoxxyBrown1111 (5th)
14.5 Gotland (6th)
14.5 Jspear (7th)
14.0 Eshnar (8th)
14.0 oliveira (9th)
14.0 ILovecycling (10th)
13.0 cycladianpirate (11th)*
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13.0 rainman (12th)
13.0 kingjr (13th)
(* Wins tie-breaker (together with rainman) on step 1 with 13 scores each vs kingjr with 12 scores. Further wins tie-breaker on step 2 with 13 T-20s vs rainman with 12 T-20s.)

The “Bartali”-Division:
20.5 minessa (1st)
16.5 Kazistuta (2nd)
16.0 Sasquatch (3rd)
15.5 JOSEDIN (4th)
15.5 l.Harm (5th)
14.5 LosBrolin (6th)
14.5 mortand (7th)
14.0 zlev11 (8th)
13.5 BYOP88 (9th)
13.0 Armchair cyclist (10th)
13.0 asdfgh101 (11th)
12.5 mutschi (12th)*
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12.5 Tigerion (13th)
11.5 Pricey_sky (14th)
(* Wins tie-breaker on step 1 with 13 scores vs Tigerion with 12 scores.)

The “Coppi”-Division:
18.5 Jorik112 (1st)
17.5 18-Valve. (pithy) (2nd)
16.5 EvansIsTheBest (3rd)
16.0 Ruudz0r (4th)
16.0 Afrank (5th)
16.0 Froome19 (6th)
15.5 Vino attacks everyone (7th)
13.5 movingtarget (8th)
13.5 Ferminal (9th)
13.0 The Hitch (10th)
13.0 Poursuivant (11th)
12.5 greenedge (12th)*
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12.5 Arredondo (13th)
12.0 search (14th)
(* Wins tie-breaker on step 2 with 12 T-20s vs Arredondo with 10 T-20s.)

The “Defraeye”-Division:
19.5 Flamin (1st)
15.0 the asian (2nd)
15.0 al_pacino (3rd)
15.0 vladimir (4th)
14.5 Geraint Too Fast (5th)
14.0 the sceptic (6th)
14.0 Hugo87 (7th)
13.5 diggercuz (8th)
13.5 Jakob747 (9th)
13.5 kiilike (10th)
12.0 Krzysztof_O (11th)*
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12.0 Dekker_Tifosi (12th)
12.0 Mellow Velo (13th)
(* Wins tie-breaker on step 1 with 13 scores vs Dekker_Tifosi & Mellow Velo with 12 scores each.)

Further "Elimination-Race": (2 worst players of those who are not directly knocked out within their division. Explanation; see post #2 tournament rules.)
12.5 greenedge (would be still in)*
---------------------------------------------
12.5 mutschi (would be out)
12.0 Krzysztof_O (would be out)
(* Wins tie-breaker on step 2 with 12 T-20s vs mutschi with 11 T-20s.)

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Provisional Rankings after Stage 8

Explanation of the provisionals are in post #1, as the links to them are too.

The “Anquetil”-Division:
17.5 aarnold517
17.5 Pantani_lives
16.0 jaylew
16.0 oliveira
15.5 FoxxyBrown1111
15.5 Wallenquist
15.0 Eshnar
15.0 rainman
14.5 Gotland
14.5 Jspear
14.0 cycladianpirate
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13.0 ILovecycling
12.0 kingjr

The “Bartali”-Division:
19.5 minessa
19.0 Sasquatch
16.5 l.Harm
16.5 JOSEDIN
16.5 Kazistuta
16.5 LosBrolin
16.5 mortand
16.0 asdfgh101
15.0 mutschi
15.0 zlev11
14.5 BYOP88
14.5 Pricey_sky
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14.0 Armchair cyclist
12.5 Tigerion

The “Coppi”-Division:
21.5 Jorik112
17.5 18-Valve. (pithy)
17.0 Afrank
16.5 movingtarget
16.0 Froome19
16.0 Ruudz0r
15.5 Arredondo
15.5 greenedge
15.5 Vino attacks everyone
15.0 search
14.5 Ferminal
14.0 The Hitch*
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14.0 Poursuivant
13.5 EvansIsTheBest
(* Wins tie-breaker on step 4 with an Off-Score of 55 vs Poursuivant with an Off-Score of 60.)

The “Defraeye”-Division:
18.5 Flamin
17.0 the asian
16.5 Geraint Too Fast
16.5 vladimir
16.0 Dekker_Tifosi
15.5 kiilike
15.0 al_pacino
15.0 Hugo87
15.0 Krzysztof_O
15.0 Mellow Velo
15.0 the sceptic
-------------------------
14.5 Jakob747
14.0 diggercuz

Further "Elimination-Race": (2 worst players of those who are not directly knocked out within their division. Explanation; see post #2 tournament rules.)
14.5 BYOP88
14.5 Ferminal
14.5 Gotland
14.5 Jspear
14.5 Pricey_sky
-------------------------
14.0 cycladianpirate
14.0 The Hitch

 

[Jspear]

Yikes! Today was terrible. Good thing I didn't pick Jrod for any other stage. I really thought that out of all the stages, this one suited him the most.

 

[cycladianpirate]

Foxxy,

Remind me what the lowest ever score is in this game. I'm pretty sure I hold the record, but it would be nice to beat it

And, as ever, my sincere apologies to those riders that I picked - I hope you get well soon.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Yikes! Today was terrible. Good thing I didn't pick Jrod for any other stage. I really thought that out of all the stages, this one suited him the most.

I saw it coming (that he will do zilch in this TdF when he lost kind of 20 mins per stage from day one on).
He just annoys me. I mean if he is on training ride, why did he occupy a spot from a rider who would have actually cared about the biggest race of the year (he could have trained at home for his home GT in the sun)? Yeah he was injured, so was Horner. But at least he is trying (my first ever positive words about grandpa ).
Why did JRod get number 1 in the team? Someone else certainly would have liked to shine as captain... Arrrg... My worst pick... next to my blunder to not taking Porte in the T-20. I took Nieve over Porte since I thought Porte isn´t in that great shape, thus Nieve would be domestique number one. It was a tight but wrong decide between them two. I hope this two major wrong picks don´t bite me in the end.

Foxxy,

Remind me what the lowest ever score is in this game. I'm pretty sure I hold the record, but it would be nice to beat it

And, as ever, my sincere apologies to those riders that I picked - I hope you get well soon.

Ah no. You look quite good this year. Major improvement. Solid T-20. It hurts you picking the wrong stage winners. Improve there next time (as you did with the T-20s), and you´ll make it far.

 

[Flamin]

I took Purito as 20th in GC because I was thinking he would ride the Tour like Valverde in 2012. Target a few stages, gain time, and take it easy-ish on other stages. The 'ish' isn't really working though also have him for 2 stage wins.