ToC Stage 8

The race may have been rescheduled to an earlier time because both the LA Clippers (NBA) and the LA Kings (NHL) had playoff games yesterday evening. Those wouldn't have been scheduled until the past month or so, probably after the ATOC had been planned.

TOC stage 8 (Dream Team) 110

Thanks

I was doing well and expect a good points tally.

Seeing as it was a sprint finish which finished after deadline I think there would be no real benefit to nullyfying the stage or throwing out transfers made after the stage start.

Let's mark it down as a cock-up and learn from it. The ToC is pretty much the only race outside of European time (other than the two Canadian 'classics') so this isn't a mjaor problem and something to try and get right next year.

Personally I wasn't really fussed by the ToC, running a another stage race alongside a grand tour seems pointless as it's never as fun or interesting as the big race, although the fact that most of stages had pretty much the same result didn't help. Having to make transfers in the afternoon/evening was a pain too and a lot of people seemed to keep missing the deadline.

Gkam - It's 7 hours from UTC/GMT but we're on summer time as well so the difference is 8 hours so the race finished at 19:37 BST - ie after the deadline but not sufficiently.

According to the live tickers, at 19:05 they had just started the finish circuits, the break had 20 secs and was being chased. I suppose you could have got points for the intermediate sprint 7 mins before the deadline but it wouldn't have gained you much.

I guess the other thing that annoys a bit is that this league was paid for, albeit not a lot. Nonetheless you did charge for it and still no points listed for the final stage.

Why isn't the TOC stage 8 data up yet, its been how long now?

I watched it live and it definitely finished after 7:30pm.

Agree Gkam, I did my transfers this morning when I did my Giro ones, as knew who I wanted and knew i wouldnt be about. But i didnt realise it would be so early either, and i guess dave didnt either? Did they move it early for any reason? (such as bad weather forecast) as you never see a final stage that early in europe no matter how short, always aim to finish at the same time as the rest of the stages, anywhere between 3-5 depending on the race, not 11.30am.

combative is most aggressive, I believe. I really doubt they'd give 10 points to most courageous when that rider has some days just been a political pick more than anything (for example, Leipheimer won it for stage 1 just for racing; and I forget the rider from Radioshack who won it for being a cancer survivor). Worthy reasons for a jersey to be sure, but not worthy I'd say of 10 points

I didn't know this. I thought I was watching live. As for late transfers, surely Dave would reverse only the transfersmade during and after the race took place, and leave the scores for everybody else.
Must just watch and stay away from the web now.

My team;

Sagan
Boonen
Ciolek
Haussler

Kulge
Hanson
Boivin
Pipp
Mannion