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National Championships game
Yet another extra game!
This week is national championships week with most of the major countries having their national champs over the weekend.
The idea is, pick the winner of five major European road race championships, specifically the winners of the British, French, Spanish, Italin and Belgian national road race championships. Simple.
Nominate your five guys (one per race) below. Scoring will be based on an omnium stlye points system. 1 point for the win, 2 for second, 3 for 3rd etc down to 10 points for 10th and below (if someone doesn't finish then they'll also get 10 points).
Person with the lowest points total wins.
An example team would be:
GB: Cavendish
FR: Bouhanni
ESP: Sanchez
ITA: Nibali
BEL: Boonen
You can find some info on all the champs here: http://www.podiumcafe.com/2013/6/18/4442290/welcome-to-nationals-week
Deadline for entires is 9am (BST) Saturday 22nd June.
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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Yeh I did mean Sammy
Thought so, he was the obvious pick given the long downhill to the finish.
W00t!
Why do I get the feeling I've peaked too soon?
Ok, so, scores:
TERatcliffe26 - 37 (assume you picked Sammy Sanchez?)
Stumps - 35
Timbo13 - 25
arsene - 41
Gkam84 - 42 (based on Barker, Bouhanni, Lastras, Moser & Meersman)
djb123 - 33
livestrongnick - 28
JAndrewHill - 42
Ghedebrav - 40
chokofingrz - 34
cranky - 36
rcorbin - 48
ray silvester - 37
backflipbedlam - 33
johnny2names - 34
drheaton - 42
Dave Atkinson - 34
northstar - 34
Lots of similar scores but Timbo13 takes it despite having a non-riding Nibali thanks to a 1st, 2nd and two 6th place finishes. Well done!
Podium:
1. Timbo13 - 25
2. livestrongnick - 28
3. djb123 - 33
3. backflipbedlam - 33
3rd yea I'll take that! Hopefully good omen for the tour!
OK here are the relevant DNF's
GB
DNF Ben SWIFT
DNF Adam BLYTHE
Italy
DNF Ivan BASSO
Belgium
DNF Jurgen ROELANDTS
DNF Tom BOONEN
EVERYONE finished in Spain
No-one picked a none finisher from France
Here is my ONE bug....Nibali wasn't even scheduled to ride the Italian champs, he wasn't even there, so he CANNOT get a DNF/DNS and should NOT get 10 points
so if you picked five riders that didn't start, then you win?
That was my false understanding...Then I remembered, we are trying to get low scores.....
Silly me
If I could be bothered I'd go and find one of the times that someone complained because they picked someone who didn't end up riding a stage but were in the games start list and you basically told them to 'do one' because players have a responsibility to check start lists themselves...
Seeing as I'm at work though and don't have the time to do that, let's just pretent I have
Top 10's
Belgium
1 Stijn Devolder
2 Gianni Meersman
3 Jan Bakelants
4 Björn Leukemans
5 Sep Vanmarcke
6 Philippe Gilbert
7 Greg Van Avermaet
8 Jurgen Van den Broeck
9 Thomas De Gendt
10 Laurens De Vreese
France
1 Arthur Vichot
2 Sylvain Chavanel
3 Tony Gallopin
4 Anthony Roux
5 Yoann Offredo
6 Matthieu Ladagnous
7 Samuel Dumoulin
8 Arnaud Gerard
9 Anthony Geslin
10 Cyril Lemoine
Spain
1 Jesus Herrada Lopez
2 Jon Izaguirre Insausti
3 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil
5 Eduard Prades Reverte
6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
7 Carlos Barbero Cuesta
8 Arkaitz Duran Aroca
9 Ruben Peraz Moreno
10 Peio Bilbao
Italy
1 Ivan Santaromita
2 Michele Scarponi
3 David Rebellin
4 Alessandro De Marchi
5 Rinaldo Nocentini
6 Matthew Rabottini
7 Simone Stortoni
8 Henry Gasparotto
9 Damiano Caruso
10 Marco Marcato
GB
1 Mark Cavendish
2 Ian Stannard
3 David Millar
4 Peter Kennaugh
5 Luke Rowe
6 Kristian House
7 Scott Thwaites
8 Simon Yates
9 Ian Wilkinson
10 Yanto Barker
I think I ended up with 25 points. Fingers crossed.
Oh hang on a minute...I thought it was just first home....I think I should win for my long list of OPQS that a few are champions
Down to tenth, 1 for 1st, 2 for 2nd, etc down to 10 for 10th or below or DNF/DNS.
Will do the proper scores tomorrow.
Id say Timbo wins based on omnium format, depending how far down the results you go in each race
There is nothing up for grabs and if Millar wins, NO-ONE win this game
Results coming in, I'll update
GBR:
FRA: Vichot
ITA: Santaromita
ESP: J Herrada
BEL: Stijn Devolder
Ahem, my email says you originally picked Moser and Dowsett Gkam on the 19th, you changed Dowsett for Barker on the 21st and then Santaromita appeared in your team today, I got the email for that at 5pm today.
Scandal amongst the fantasy peloton......
BUSTED
What a man would do for a pair of socks !
10 month ban called for here from fantasy cycling...though some of that can be served during the close season.
I didn't change my Italian, It was putting Yanto Barker in for Dowsett
I know, I was joking, as your the only one (by getting it spot on) who got remotely close to picking correctly
Gkam at what point after the Italian race had finished did you edit your team
Nice pick
GBR: Cavendish
FRA: Bouhanni
ITA: Nibali
ESP: Joaquim Rodríguez
BEL: Thomas De Gendt
GBR: Yanto Barker
FRA: Sylvain Chavanel
ITA: Enrico Gasparotto
ESP: Samuel Sanchez
BEL: Gianni Meersman
just looking at the time trial national champons........is it just me or are the French and Norwegian ladies ITTchamps rather pleasing on the eye?
Crumbs...
Best sub in Moser instead then.
My team is:
GBR: Swift
FRA: Sandy Casar
ITA: Visconti
ESP: Sammy Sanchez
BEL: Meersman
Visconti isn't riding Dr
ive played safe- cos I is boring.
Cavendish
Bouhanni
Valverde
Nibali
gilbert
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