Tour de France.

Deadline was wrong for today. Stage started two hours earlier than was forecast.....because of the World Cup.

Thanks, i'll take a look and join for the TdF 

Sure thing Pitbull!

At the top of this page is a link in the 'More' drop menu to get to the Fantasy Cycling page. Once there, you'll see three competitions to play and you sign up by clicking the 'Play' option. There should be some info that you'll have access to before you sign up.  There is also a 'How To Play' option at the top for even more information.

After you've signed up, you'll be able to have a look through the competition at the stages and rules, scoring notes etc.  Use the 'Pick team' option on stage 1 to go to the transfers page. Purist competitions have no transfers once the competition starts, Standard have 42, just about 2 per stage with 2 extras.

Any other questions, just post them here, or make a specific discussion thread and I or another mod can help you out

Hi, i'm new to this so could someone explain how i join to play ? 

Roglic is the dark horse for the race, but he's persistently told us that he's there for stage hunting and to support Kruijskijk, who's the team leader. He's sais it's too early for him to go for Tour GC, but he's tempted next year.

That might all be bullshit and he'll be up for it this year, but who knows,

Valverde will help for sure, as for the other two, who knows.  A lot will depend on their TTT and then who's strong enough to hold on/attack in the mountains.  My money's on Quintana.

He's picked up a hell of a lot of points this year man.

Caleb Ewan to Lotto Soudal is the rumour.

I am interested to see what sponsorship promos ITV4 will have this year.

That slow riding beardy bloke for watchfinder last year was really quite weird.

It was hard enough for teams to enter a GT with two objectives last year with 9 man rosters, this year it'll be even harder.  See the Giro foe example.  Lotto NL Jumbo are going with two objectives and they've split themselves in half for them. Mitchelton are going for TTT, Yates has two mountains helpers, and I'd imagine Impey has a free role to go for a stage win.

Cav'll be a bit of a wild card, if he can stay upright then he can try for a win or two. QST will almost certainly only take Gaviria and not Viviani, and they're also in for Jungels GC. Kittel's train has been non-existent all year.

Oh, and there are 9 sprint stages this year...ish.

I know this won't be popular to the spirit of what the tour or tours are as a whole but I hate sprint stages. The TDF ones always seem like 180+kms of sightseeing followed by 10s of fury. 

Orica didn't send a sprinter to the TdF last year either.

Looking at the teams for 2018 things don't seem to have changed that much in terms of sprinters.

The main difference due to 8 man teams is probably reduced sprint trains for some.

Whispers he's moving to Lotto.  He hasnt had a good season for him in comparison to previous years.  Michelton are going for GC.   Plenty of other sprinters though.  Is Cavendish fit/going to TDF?