Youth CQ Ranking Game 2015
Welcome to the third annual Youth CQ Ranking Manager Game. This game allows you to showcase your knowledge of upcoming youngsters, and hopefully take a gamble on a couple of really young riders.
Your task is to create a team with 12-15 riders at 1000 CQ points to get the best possible return.
1. How the game works
1.1. Duration
The season starts when the first race is held (Australian Road Cycling Championships 7th-11th January 2015) and ends when the last major race (.1 or higher) is held. The winner will be crowned when the next update after the last major race (x.1) is out - submissions can be made to extend the season to include late season smaller races, should there be potential for them to affect the top placings. A victor can be declared earlier if there is no prospect of the leader being overhauled.
1.2. Updates
I will struggle to post updates every week in the 2015 game, but will post them at least monthly. If anyone is interested in helping post other updates let me know.
2. On doping
Hopefully doping will have much less of an impact on this game, but the Main game rules will apply
3.Submitting your team
3.1. How do I?
You pick between 12 and 15 riders whose combined value doesn’t exceed 1000 points and send the list to the YouthCQ account (see post below).
3.2. Eligibility
Riders need to fit one of the following two main criteria
i) be a first year professional rider (of any age), be it at World Tour or Professional Continental team.
ii) be riding at Continental level or lower, born in 1990 or younger, without having previously ridden as a professional.
For clarity, riders should not have already ridden a full year as a professional at either World Tour or Professional Continental level – riding as a stagiaire does not prevent selection. Riders who have signed their first pro contract in August (or later), are consider for the purposes of this game as no different from stagiaire riders. EDIT this rule makes Louis Veraeke ineligible as he signed for Lotto in July 2014.
Players of the game are strongly encouraged to include at least two riders from 1993 or younger who will ride at ProConti level (ie eligible for u23 world champs) or lower and one rider from 1993 or younger who will ride at Continental level or lower (ie will be riding x.2, x.2u, x.NC races).
Welcome to the third annual Youth CQ Ranking Manager Game. This game allows you to showcase your knowledge of upcoming youngsters, and hopefully take a gamble on a couple of really young riders.
Your task is to create a team with 12-15 riders at 1000 CQ points to get the best possible return.
1. How the game works
1.1. Duration
The season starts when the first race is held (Australian Road Cycling Championships 7th-11th January 2015) and ends when the last major race (.1 or higher) is held. The winner will be crowned when the next update after the last major race (x.1) is out - submissions can be made to extend the season to include late season smaller races, should there be potential for them to affect the top placings. A victor can be declared earlier if there is no prospect of the leader being overhauled.
1.2. Updates
I will struggle to post updates every week in the 2015 game, but will post them at least monthly. If anyone is interested in helping post other updates let me know.
2. On doping
Hopefully doping will have much less of an impact on this game, but the Main game rules will apply
3.Submitting your team
3.1. How do I?
You pick between 12 and 15 riders whose combined value doesn’t exceed 1000 points and send the list to the YouthCQ account (see post below).
3.2. Eligibility
Riders need to fit one of the following two main criteria
i) be a first year professional rider (of any age), be it at World Tour or Professional Continental team.
ii) be riding at Continental level or lower, born in 1990 or younger, without having previously ridden as a professional.
For clarity, riders should not have already ridden a full year as a professional at either World Tour or Professional Continental level – riding as a stagiaire does not prevent selection. Riders who have signed their first pro contract in August (or later), are consider for the purposes of this game as no different from stagiaire riders. EDIT this rule makes Louis Veraeke ineligible as he signed for Lotto in July 2014.
Players of the game are strongly encouraged to include at least two riders from 1993 or younger who will ride at ProConti level (ie eligible for u23 world champs) or lower and one rider from 1993 or younger who will ride at Continental level or lower (ie will be riding x.2, x.2u, x.NC races).