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

[ILovecycling]

Great, thanks for the update, you are not an overpaid organiser 😛 😀

Im really looking forward to that fun again,otoh I should really start to follow every race again 😱
See you in 2 weeks boys. 🙂

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

OK guys. You are all welcomed back. Really looking forward this round. 🙂
I also have already an idea of whom to pick 1st final CG. It´s going to be either Porte or Contador. For the rest of my picks I have no clue though. 😉

 

[al_pacino]

I'm in again.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

All right, everybody is welcomed back... But I still have some unread PMs in my outbox. I guess that means some guys couldn´t log in after the forum overhaul. Since it´s only 10 days until the deadline; hurry up to get your accounts running again, by contacting cycnews via e-mail...
Otherwise, good luck to all, looking forward the competition...

 

[Mellow Velo]

This place blows.
No idea whether the pm confirmation I sent got to you, since it keeps on saying you don't exist.
Would be posting, otherwise, but I'm in.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Re:

This place blows.
No idea whether the pm confirmation I sent got to you, since it keeps on saying you don't exist.
Would be posting, otherwise, but I'm in.

No I didn´t got your confirmation PM. 😱

@ everybody else: To whom I didn´t reply with a PM stating that I received the confirmation... then that means I did not receive a confirmation PM, as I didn´t in the case of Mellow Velo.

If that is the case, just post your confirmation here in the game thread. Then I know you still take part (as the others who already confirmed via PM, or here in the thread).

I bolded the players who confirmed the participation already (inclusive those who confirmed that they are ready in case as replacements). Just have a look at the front page (post #1). I will update it every time I get new confirmations.
BTW, I was sending a PM to all qualified players. So I hope you all got my first "reminding" PM.

If things are still unclear, just post questions here.

Edit: @asdfgh101... You tried to send a PM, but it was deleted. So I am confused: Still taking part or not? For now I havn´t bolded you in the post #1

Thanks in advance. We will keep that great game running, no matter what. 🙂

 

[greenedge]

@Foxxy I just sent you a message confirming I can/ will play!
Hopefully it sent, but if not i'll confirm here 🙂

 

[diggercuz]

I too am in.

Glad i have a slow week at work to get all my predictions sorted just to see them all fall over at the end!

Looking forward to it.

 

[vladimir]

My confirmation seems to be stuck in the outbox, but of course I will take part in the Giro part 😀

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

OK, I have updated the front page anew. Again: In bolded are the players I got confirmations from. @ others, open your PMs (if still around this place, and confirm your participation).
Thanks ahead.

 

[mortand]

Just in case the PM function's behaving badly, I'll confirm my participation here too.

 

[Sasquatch]

I hope you all are running scared.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Hopefully the PM function works when we are sending in our teams 😱

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

It seems to work fine now. So I am confident all picks shall receive me via PMs... 🙂

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

My last post was a little fast. Not all good now. I just got informed by chance, that when I delete a PM from my "Sendbox", it gets also deleted respectively is unreadable for the recipients. Wow. WTF! 😡

So basically I had send reminders, and some were for nothing if the recipent didn´t read it before I deleted a SEND pm! That is absurd, grotesque, annoying...

OK, so now I send a 3rd PM to those who weren´t able to read my PMs.

Edit: Learning by doing. Ofc I won´t delete send PMs anymore until everything is safe and done. It never crossed my mind that deleted PMs that were send could by deleted in the receivers post box too. 😱

 

[ILovecycling]

Re:

My last post was a little fast. Not all good now. I just got informed by chance, that when I delete a PM from my "Sendbox", it gets also deleted respectively is unreadable for the recipients. Wow. WTF! 😡

So basically I had send reminders, and some were for nothing if the recipent didn´t read it before I deleted a SEND pm! That is absurd, grotesque, annoying...

OK, so now I send a 3rd PM to those who weren´t able to read my PMs.

Edit: Learning by doing. Ofc I won´t delete send PMs anymore until everything is safe and done. It never crossed my mind that deleted PMs that were send could by deleted in the receivers post box too. 😱

what? 😱
thats a monster joke 😱

 

[Arredondo]

I have send you a message Foxxy, but in case it doesn't work: I'm in too.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

OK, frontpage (confirmed participants so far) updated again... Tomorrow I will send PMs in which format the picks shall be send, and when the exact deadline for sending the picks will be.

 

[ILovecycling]

People from divisions Coppi and Defraye are missing, cmon folks 😛

 

[fauniera]

Is it too late to join?

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

The deadline for sending picks will be coming Thursday at 13.10 GMT/UTC (therefore 48 hours before the start of stage 1) ...
I will send a PM tonight, in which format the picks shall be sent.

 

[vladimir]

Re:

The deadline for sending picks will be coming Thursday at 13.10 GMT/UTC (therefore 48 hours before the start of stage 1) ...
I will send a PM tonight, in which format the picks shall be sent.

Hi Foxxy!
Any reason why this early deadline? I was hoping ten create my team on Friday afternoon, as I have a very busy schedule this week. So consider this a friendly request to adjust the deadline from 48 hrs before start to 12 hrs 😉

 

[diggercuz]

Just posted my picks.

Seriously got me thinking this one!

One thing i did note while looking at the profiles is how much i love this race.

Cant really say much more than Hitch did in the Giro stage by stage analysis thread.

Bring on the Giro!

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Re: Re:

The deadline for sending picks will be coming Thursday at 13.10 GMT/UTC (therefore 48 hours before the start of stage 1) ...
I will send a PM tonight, in which format the picks shall be sent.

Hi Foxxy!
Any reason why this early deadline? I was hoping ten create my team on Friday afternoon, as I have a very busy schedule this week. So consider this a friendly request to adjust the deadline from 48 hrs before start to 12 hrs 😉

Hey... the deadline always was 48 hrs before the first stage. I had looked at the official site, where it´s stated that the first team rolls down the ramp at 15.10, a the time I am used to ("German summer time"). Now I converted it to "cycnews time". It shall be correct, even though it´s always confusing & hard to figure out this mishmash of CET, UCT, GMT, plus summer time, and the heck what else. 😱

Just posted my picks.

Seriously got me thinking this one!

One thing i did note while looking at the profiles is how much i love this race.

Cant really say much more than Hitch did in the Giro stage by stage analysis thread.

Bring on the Giro!

Yes bring it on. I am ready too. Let the show begin... 🙂

 

[Sasquatch]

I hope I don't make a blunder like I did in the Vuelta. It was more a calculated risk than a blunder though....