Youth CQ Ranking Game 2019

[fauniera]

Re:

110 nice points for Thibault Ferasse today, winning Boucles de la Mayenne overall and bringing him to 148 points this year, from 2 points. Almost in the Evenepoel league of picks so far. Thats the kind of results needed to challenge Fauniere so I hope the rest of my team gets inspired. But ofcourse during the same 3 days Pogacar scores 54 points further and will likely just continue like this all year, so it will be very hard to catch him indeed.

Very good pick. Never even heard of Ferasse before.

But i can counter that with Daniel Munoz, who scored 136 points last week. And hopefully will go on to have a succesful Tour of Hungary.

 

[MADRAZO]

Re: Re:

110 nice points for Thibault Ferasse today, winning Boucles de la Mayenne overall and bringing him to 148 points this year, from 2 points. Almost in the Evenepoel league of picks so far. Thats the kind of results needed to challenge Fauniere so I hope the rest of my team gets inspired. But ofcourse during the same 3 days Pogacar scores 54 points further and will likely just continue like this all year, so it will be very hard to catch him indeed.

Very good pick. Never even heard of Ferasse before.

But i can counter that with Daniel Munoz, who scored 136 points last week. And hopefully will go on to have a succesful Tour of Hungary.

Nice counter with Munoz I did considder him, but amongst the many young cheap Columbians I felt he was maybe the least interesting one, though there were some hyping him together with Florez. I guess they were right to do so afterall. Nice pick. He is for sure not making catching you any easier.

Ferasse is nothing special, but mostly a solid allrounder, also with a good finish. He was just one of the riders that did well for Continental team Armee De Terre in 2017, but who had to ride a year with the french amateurs in 2018 (doing well there) after that team suddenly closed and he did not have time to get a new contract. So he was therefore very cheap this year, getting a new continentalteam-contract. And good to see him doing well.

 

[fauniera]

I picked Munoz because Savio said he had great potential. Unfortunately i didn't pick him in the CQ game.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Update 11

An interesting update, with 3 more obscure names scoring over 100 points. Of course I mean Edoardo Affini, Dani Muñoz and Thibault Ferasse. Affini scored 121 points, mainly thanks to his stage win and 4th place at the Tour of Norway. Muñoz won the overall at the Tour of Bihor in Romania, and Ferasse won the Boucles de la Mayenne. All three of them were cheap picks, at 41, 6 and 2 points and they were only picked 20 times between the 3 of them. Chapeau to those with one of multiple of these guys on their team!

Joelsim did well to pick both Affini and Muñoz. On top of that, he scored significant points with riders like Evenepoel, Pidcock, Thijssen and Paret-Peintre. He is this update's highest scorer and also moves up 5 spots which makes him joint 2nd in the highest movers ranking, together with Jpettersen, who got points from, amongst others, Muñoz, Evenepoel and Paret-Peintre.

DJW was the second highest scorer. He also has Affini, and added significant points from Nieuwenhuis and rare pick Champoussin. Those nice picks earn him the top spot on the highest movers rankings, he climbed 7 places.

Ludwigzgz is the third highest scorer, he combined points from Affini, Nieuwenhuis, Pogacar and a couple others.

Overall, we see that Joelsim climbs to 4th overall and we also see Karaev1 climb and Ludwigzgz enter the top-10. Fauniera remains the leader, but MADRAZO got a little closer.

Also, we got some significant news this week: MVP MVDP will race again near the end of the season, and not just any race. Could be many more points awaiting those who selected him!


Highest scorers
1 Joelsim 375
2 DJW 327
3 Ludwigzgz 322
4 Trudgin 320
5 Jpettersen 293
6 comodoro 285
7 Kazistuta 271
8 Kryvo 260
9 MADRAZO 252
10 fauniera 233

Highest movers
1 DJW +7
2 Joelsim +5
2 Jpettersen +5
4 Ludwigzgz +4
4 Trudgin +4
4 Wallenquist +4
7 Kazistuta +3
7 rote_lanterne +3
9 Karaev1 +2
9 Kryvo +2


Overall ranking
1 = fauniera 2192
2 = MADRAZO 1886
3 = shawnm4747 1792
4 +5 Joelsim 1777
5 = comodoro 1763
6 +2 Karaev1 1642
7 -1 CORDI 1639
8 -4 search 1595
9 -3 AupaPyama 1543
10 +4 Ludwigzgz 1540

Spreadsheet at MediaFire

 

[LaFlorecita]

Update 12

High scores across the board, thanks to Evenepoel's big score in the Tour of Belgium, but due to his popularity, this only matters little. More important is Pogacar's 99-point score. He keeps adding to his already impressive tally.

We have two highest scorers this week, comodoro and Ludwigzgz. Comodoro scored with Evenepoel, Pogacar and rare picks Hayter, Barbier and Pronskiy. Ludwigzgz got points from amongst others De Decker and Byriel Iversen, besides Evenepoel and Pogacar.
Only 1 point behind these two is our leader fauniera, who received a nice amount of points for Muñoz' performance in Hungary, but after his Tour of Bihor win he might have hoped for a bit more.

Because almost all of us scored significant points with Evenepoel and not much else, there isn't a whole lot of movement. Worth noting is that 18-Valve moves up 3 spots, thanks to 71 points from his unique pick Attila Vallter. Nice choice!

Overall, of course fauniera has extended their lead. MADRAZO remains second and comodoro is now third. Lower in the top-10 we also see Ludwigzgz climb from 10th to 8th.

Highest scorers
1 comodoro 372
1 Ludwigzgz 372
3 fauniera 371
4 Josedin 354
5 Karaev1 341
6 Kryvo 339
7 18-Valve 337
8 Jon Ezeitza 334
9 Jpettersen 328
10 skidmark 321

Highest movers
1 18-Valve +3
2 comodoro +2
2 Ludwigzgz +2
2 Wallenquist +2

Overall ranking
1 = fauniera 2563
2 = MADRAZO 2182
3 +2 comodoro 2135
4 = Joelsim 2075
5 -2 shawnm4747 2043
6 = Karaev1 1983
7 = CORDI 1931
8 +2 Ludwigzgz 1912
9 -1 search 1885
10 -1 AupaPyama 1858


Spreadsheet at MediaFire

 

[LaFlorecita]

Update 13

The weeks leading up to the Tour are always a bit slow, with only the National championships and a couple minor races on the calendar. This year was no different, but those smaller races prove an excellent opportunity for our youngsters to show themselves.
Trudgin is this update's highest scorer, with points from amongst others Evenepoel, Affini, rare picks Muñoz, Caicedo, Touze and also unique pick Umberto Marengo. With this score, Trudgin is also the highest mover - climbing 7 spots

The second highest scorer is comodoro. Notable names on his squad include Leknessund, Touze, Hayter, Evenepoel and Affini. Third highest scorer is LukasCPH. His rather unique team scored highly with Hirschi, Evenepoel, Leknessund and unique pick Niklas Larsen. LukasCPH moves up 2 spots, which makes him the joint 2nd highest mover together with Squire.

Not much to note with regards to the overall ranking. The only notable movement is comodoro climbing 1 place to 2nd, pushing MADRAZO down into 3rd.


Highest scorers
1 Trudgin 303
2 comodoro 273
3 LukasCPH 212
4 Jpettersen 188
5 otoxiep87 187
6 Joelsim 178
7 Wallenquist 176
8 Squire 175
9 fauniera 171
10 Kazistuta 156

Highest movers
1 Trudgin 7
2 Squire 2
2 LukasCPH 2
4 comodoro 1
4 Jon Ezeitza 1
4 Jpettersen 1
4 Hakkie2 1
4 otoxiep87 1

Overall ranking
1 0 fauniera 2734
2 1 comodoro 2408
3 -1 MADRAZO 2260
4 0 Joelsim 2253
5 0 shawnm4747 2139
6 0 Karaev1 2111
7 0 CORDI 2083
8 0 Ludwigzgz 2004
9 0 search 1985
10 0 AupaPyama 1900

Spreadsheet at Mediafire

 

[LaFlorecita]

As I will be away for almost 4 weeks from Saturday I am looking for people to take over the updates for the week of 22 July and 5 August. If I can't find anyone I'll have to do them in retrospect or do one big update near the end of the week of 12 August.
Please let me know if you can take care of an update!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Update 14
I'm back with a massive update. Thanks to Evenepoel's exploits, we pretty much have high scores across the board. Highest scorer is DJW, who not only got major points from Evenepoel but also from Hirschi, De Bod, Gibson, Affini and Honoré.
Second highest scorer is Jpettersen, who also has Evenepoel, Honoré and Hirsch, as well as Muñoz, Paret-Peintre and Pidcock.
Third highest scorer is Trudgin. Her golden combo was Evenepoel, De Bod, Affini, Muñoz and rare pick Caicedo, with several added smaller scores as well.

Our highest scorer DJW is also our highest mover, but he shares the honors with two others: Armchair_Cyclist and Wallenquist. Armchair_Cyclist's scored with amongst others Evenepoel, De Bod, Vingegaard, Affini and Honoré, while Wallenquist has Evenepoel, Hirschi, Vingegaard, Muñoz and Honoré.

Overall, there is very little to note. The only movement in the top-10 is Joelsim grabbing the third spot on the podium, pushing MADRAZO down to 4th.

Spreadsheet at Mediafire
Highest scorers

1​	DJW	616​
2​	Jpettersen	590​
3​	Trudgin	576​
4​	Wallenquist	575​
5​	otoxiep87	574​
6​	Armchair_Cyclist	571​
7​	Joelsim	544​
8​	LukasCPH	525​
9​	Nyssinator	508​
10​	LaFlorecita	506​

Highest movers

1​	DJW	+5​
1​	Armchair_Cyclist	+5​
1​	Wallenquist	+5​
4​	Jpettersen	+4​
5​	LaFlorecita	+3​
6​	Trudgin	+2​
6​	scrooll07	+2​

Overall Ranking

1​	=​	fauniera	3090​
2​	=​	comodoro	2844​
3​	+1​	Joelsim	2797​
4​	-1​	MADRAZO	2621​
5​	=​	shawnm4747	2601​
6​	=​	Karaev1	2517​
7​	=​	CORDI	2463​
8​	=​	Ludwigzgz	2422​
9​	=​	search	2356​
10​	=​	AupaPyama	2317​

 

[LaFlorecita]

Update 15

While we're all focused on the last Grand Tour of the season, la Vuelta, let's have a look at the most recent update for our game. There is one very obvious winner, LukasCPH, who outscored his closest rival by over 200 points. He's got his Nordic-centered team to thank for it, as he scored big points with unique pick Niklas Larsen, winner of the Tour of Denmark. He added to that with major points from Marc Hirschi and Jonas Vingegaard (both on 7 teams), and also near-unique pick Tobias Foss. Of course, LukasCPH is also the big winner in the highest mover classification, climbing a massive 13 places.
Second highest scorer, with a still very respectable 321 points, is Wallenquist. Hirschi and Vingegaard are on his team as well, and he got some minor points for a couple other riders. Wallenquist is the second highest mover as well, climbing 5 spots.
Third highest scorer is DJW. He has Hirschi and also saw several other riders score a couple dozen points each, one of them being Aksel Nommela, DJW's unique pick and one of the most expensive riders in the game. DJW is also the third highest scorer.

Overall, there isn't much movement in the top-10. shawnm4747 and Karaev1 both climb 1 spot, which causes MADRAZO (who must've enjoyed Wednesday's stage a lot ) to drop 2 places.

Spreadsheet at Mediafire

Highest scorers
1 LukasCPH 561
2 Wallenquist 321
3 DJW 300
4 Karaev1 261
5 Jpettersen 248
6 Squire 244
7 Hakkie2 224
8 otoxiep87 215
9 Armchair_Cyclist 214
10 Nyssinator 211

Highest movers
1 LukasCPH +13
2 Wallenquist +5
3 DJW +3
4 Hakkie2 +2
4 LosBrolin +2
4 Nyssinator +2

Overall ranking
1 = fauniera 3176
2 = comodoro 2970
3 = Joelsim 2966
4 +1 shawnm4747 2800
5 +1 Karaev1 2778
6 -2 MADRAZO 2740
7 0 CORDI 2613
8 0 Ludwigzgz 2532
9 0 search 2471
10 0 AupaPyama 2424

 

[LaFlorecita]

Update 16

Time for the post-Vuelta update. The past few weeks have been great for our game, with two of the big hitters, Pogacar and Van der Poel, adding more points to their already impressive tally. Of course Pogacar is the one who impressed us most, with 3 stage wins and a third place overall at the Vuelta, while Van der Poel just did what he always does as he's a machine.

Naturally, our leader, fauniera, is top scorer this update, as he's the only one with both riders on his squad. His score is absolutely massive, over 900 points, but note that this update actually includes points for the past 3 weeks instead of 2 as usual.
Ludwigzgz is the second highest scorer. He has Pogacar and also scored with quite a few other riders, amongst others Jaako Hänninen and Edoardo Affini.
Comodoro is the third highest scorer, besides Pogacar he also got significant points from Pierre Barbier, plus some smaller points.

This update's highest mover is Jon Ezeitza, rising to 11th overall, and Josedin and Leadbelly share 2nd place in the highest mover rankings.

Overall, of course fauniera solidifies his lead even further. Karaev1 manages to jump onto the podium as Joelsim and shawnm4747 drop 1 spot each. In the lower part of the top-10 we see our Spanish friends Josedin and Kryvo make a leap into the top-10.

Spreadsheet at Mediafire


Highest scorers
1 fauniera 904
2 Ludwigzgz 739
3 comodoro 727
4 Karaev1 726
5 Josedin 710
6 Kryvo 700
7 Jon Ezeitza 639
8 MADRAZO 540
9 shawnm4747 512
10 Joelsim 395

Highest movers
1 Jon Ezeitza +7
2 Josedin +5
2 Leadbelly +5
4 Kryvo +4
4 TheArt +4
6 rote_lanterne +3
7 Karaev1 +2
7 otoxiep87 + 2



Overall ranking
1 = fauniera 4080
2 = comodoro 3697
3 +2 Karaev1 3504
4 -1 Joelsim 3361
5 -1 shawnm4747 3312
6 = MADRAZO 3280
7 +1 Ludwigzgz 3271
8 +5 Josedin 3026
9 +4 Kryvo 3016
10 -3 CORDI 2946

 

[LaFlorecita]

Update 17
The Worlds are behind us, which pretty much leaves only one important week of racing still on the calendar. Let's have a look at the most recent events in our game.
Interestingly, I was the highest scorer, with my unique pick Samuele Battistella (U23 World Champion after that controversial DSQ) pushing me ahead of the others. Other big scorers for me were Evenepoel, Affini and Tanfield.

Shawnm4747 is the second highest scorer. He has Evenepoel, Affini and Dainese as his main scorers, and Van der Poel scored some points as well, but not nearly as much as expected.
Third highest scorer DJW shares big scorers Evenepoel, Affini and Tanfield with me.

There wasn't much movement overall, with most notably me moving up 5 positions (to 24th - woohoo!). Squire and rote_lanterne both climbed 2 places. In the top-10 we only see Ludwigzgz and MADRAZO swap places. Fauniera has an almost 400-point lead, which should be more than enough to secure the win in the following couple of weeks.

Spreadsheet at Mediafire

Highest scorers
1 LaFlorecita 314
2 shawnm4747 289
3 DJW 269
4 Joelsim 268
4 Ludwigzgz 268
6 Trudgin 267
7 comodoro 266
8 Armchair_Cyclist 254
9 TheArt 251
10 Karaev1 247

Highest movers
1 LaFlorecita +5
2 Squire +2
2 rote_lanterne +2
4 Ludwigzgz +1
4 search +1
4 DJW +1
4 Kazistuta +1
4 LosBrolin +1


Overall ranking
1 = fauniera 4331
2 = comodoro 3963
3 = Karaev1 3751
4 = Joelsim 3629
5 = shawnm4747 3601
6 +1 Ludwigzgz 3539
7 -1 MADRAZO 3486
8 = Josedin 3243
9 = Kryvo 3225
10 = CORDI 3120

 

[fauniera]

Looking good so far. Thanks for all the work Flo.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Final update
Time flies, we've already (pretty much) reached the end of the 2019 cycling season, so it's time for one last update. Highest scorer us rote_lanterne, she scored with several rare picks like Damien Touze, Clément Champoussin and Arvid de Kleijn. Second highest scorer is shawnm4747, but it wasn't enough to move onto the overall podium for him. DJW is the third highest scorer. Due to the low scores there isn't much movement overall, but Trudgin still climbs two spots.
It's hardly surprising, but we can crown fauniera as the winner (officially there are still some races on the calendar, but it seems highly unlikely those will have an impact on the final standings). Looks like he pulled off a rare double, winning both the main CQ game and our youth game Congrats to fauniera and the other two on the podium, comodoro and Karaev1, and thanks to all for playing!

Highest scorers
1 rote_lanterne 144
2 shawnm4747 140
3 DJW 133
4 skidmark 124
5 MADRAZO 109
6 CORDI 106
7 search 103
8 Trudgin 99
9 Squire 90
10 comodoro 89

Highest movers
1 Trudgin +2
2 shawnm4747 +1
2 MADRAZO +1
2 search +1
2 AupaPyama +1
2 DJW +1
2 Kazistuta +1
2 rote_lanterne +1
2 otoxiep87 +1


Overall ranking
1 = fauniera 4382
2 = comodoro 4052
3 = Karaev1 3810
4 +1 shawnm4747 3741
5 -1 Joelsim 3710
6 +1 MADRAZO 3595
7 -1 Ludwigzgz 3587
8 = Josedin 3284
9 = Kryvo 3252
10 = CORDI 3226

Final spreadsheet at Mediafire

 

[Ludwigzgz]

I am very happy with my individual result but even more for the collective result of my friends:
Overall ranking
1 = fauniera 4382
2 = comodoro 4052
7 = Ludwigzgz 3587
8 = Josedin 3284
9 = Kryvo 3252
10 = CORDI 3226

5 of us in the top 10 with Comodoro as the best of humans ...
after the formidable performance of fauniera
Excelent

 

[fauniera]

Great to win this game. I went all in with my team and it worked out.

 

[Koronin]

First time playing this game and I finished mid pack. I'm happy with that.

 

[LaFlorecita]

First time playing this game and I finished mid pack. I'm happy with that.

You did better than me!

I feel like I should mention that there is a pretty decent chance I won't organize the game next year. I'll have to think about it a bit, because I realize that likely means the game won't run next year. I've struggled to keep up with this game + another one I'm running on Velorooms for the last couple of years, but I don't think people mind as long as there's someone who can collect all the teams and occasionally post an update. Next year I'm hopefully finishing university and will be out of the country for the second half of 2020, which means I'll have even less time. As a last resort, if I can't find anyone to take over I might be able to do the 'big work' in the first half of the year and then let the game run its course with hopefully a couple updates by other players in the meantime. But like I said I'll have to think about it.

 

[Koronin]

LaFlorecita, congrats on being close to graduating from University.

 

[Ludwigzgz]

I made a table with the results of the last 3 editions of the game. 10 points to the first, 9 points to the second, 8 points to the third ... etc

1 fauniera	22​
2 Hakkie2	18​
3 comodoro	16​
4 TheArt	10​
4 CraZyCaLL	10​
6 Josedin	9​
6 MADRAZO	9​
8 Karaev1	8​
8 Kryvo	8​
8 LaFlorecita	8​
8 Trudgin	8​
shawnm	7​
Joelsim	6​
DJW	5​
Ludwigzgz	5​
GP Blanco	4​
rote_lanterne	3​
the_asian	3​
Kazistuta	2​
Roubaix	2​
al_pacino	2​
CORDI	1​

 

[danielo]

ARDILA ORDOÑEZ Andres Camilo

ARENSMAN Thymen

BAGIOLI Andrea

COVI Alessandro

DAINESE Alberto

DONOVAN Mark

EEKHOFF Nils

FOSS Tobias Svendsen

JORGENSON Matteo

PICCOLO Andrea

RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos

SIMMONS Quinn

TIBERI Antonio

VALTER Attila

VILLALOBOS HERNANDEZ Luis Ricardo

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Hi danielo, I've added your team to the spreadsheet but could you please delete/edit your post as others can now see your picks and potentially benefit from it