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No Hopers
After a relatively poor Giro…I was thinking how difficult (or easy) would it be to pick a team of “no-hopers”
e.g. for the Tour de France pick a purist team that that scores the fewest points
But you have to use up all of the available credit (or leave less than 5)
(no 3.0 riders throughout!)
Canvasing support for the idea/ forum competition
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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I've updated the scores...
But there are several riders who I don't have a final score for.. as they withdrew during the race and don't appear on the rider rankings page.
Dave/ Anyone - can you give me final scores for:
G v Avermaet
M Renshaw
S Bennett
J Arredondo
J Coppel
E Sepulveda
S Langeveld
... but it very much looks like Rcorbin has won!
Attached are the final standings
(But I know some rider scores are too low - in red
They withdrew from the tour and I cannot get a final score for them on the game pages)
Anyway congratulations to Rcorbin
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Not that it makes a deal of difference JC. But Durasek ended on 48pts giving me 161. And Renshaw on 63pts(got his last 4 in Stage13) leaving cgipryan also on 161.
cheers JC, that was a good idea for a comp.
Agree, thanks JC. I had a lot more interest in the breakaways than I would normally.
Well, I tried, but the worst man won (the worst team, anyway)
Congrats to Rcorbin. We should do this for the Vuelta as well, it was really fun...
Very late - just caught this:
Roche 16.3
Scarponi 17.1
Renshaw 15.3
Vanbilsen 14.0
Vermote 14.5
78.2
A. Vuillermoz 16.8
J. Debusschere 15.4
T. Voeckler 16.3
C. Gautier 15.7
N. Edet 15.1
79.3
Made 10 points today, 5 yesterday. I even stink at this game, eh...
5 points scored today, but only a teammate bonus, so cant complain too much, teammate bonuses are inevitable tbh
Can we get an update?
I really wanted to pick Bouhanni with the expectation of him abandoning by the time a stage he could go for came up but didn't have the nerve. That would have taken care of a fair chunk of the budget.
I am on 15 point -.-
I still stand by my team though...
Good work with this JC. Great fun (so far!!!)
Looks like i'm on 27 points already. Should not have chosen Gesink by the looks of things.
Damn, had a decent start but today Westra's in the break, wonder if it will make the sprint.
I was hoping he'd get absorbed by domestique life this year.
Bloody hell! I lose at losing!
Smashing, at least it shows i'm shite as even my main teams cant score much either.
Seems a tad cruel when the first points that you score in a `Lets pick a shite team Comp`, are for last man home.....10 points for being really shite..... Thanks Mr.Langeveld, you useless piece of crap....
As far as i can see all my 20 points have come due to teammate bonuses. Cant do alot about that
Let's all just wait for the juicy breakaways in the second part of the tour
New update - see image below
Still some very low scores
And now I am the worst and being the worst!
(Secretly hoping for a 'test' problem for GvA)
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VanBilsen - you b@stard, what are you doing ????? get out of the break, man!
Full sprint points for Luis Angel Mate- this was always a possibility...
That's why I kept clear of the Cofidis boys, they are bound to hit the breakaways almost every day...
I imagine that a lot changed in this last stage..!?
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Stumps is smashing this comp - only 6 points so far
Hooray for Europcar and their rubbish/ no-show team
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Wow I've taken an absolutely pasting these last few days- could get worse in the mountains too.
At least there's a handful of others joining me over 100pts.
Think your still missing the points for valls from the ttt
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