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Fontfroide · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 1179

Funny one this Vuelta. We score hardly any points on many days (in our own little game), no idea at all who is going to win a stage, could be anyone. Our teams in the Giro Game behave oddly since there are people quitting all the time, people we picked and thought might actually finish the race. My mainly sprinters team (with Cancellara and Valverde) seems still to be doing well, when I thought they would fade badly during the "heavy mountain stages" of the Vuelta. Odd. Even my other team, instead of a middling performance, my usual sort, is also doing well.

Overall, I keep getting the feeling that picking a winner on a day is a bit of luck. I thought maybe yesterday Jesus Hernandez might want to win badly enough, since he lives in Avila, that something would go his way. But not so.

Odd race. But not illogical, just not too much fun and really quite impossible to predict. It is as much fun sometimes to watch our teams as it is to hope for big action on the actual course.

Fontfroide · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 1179

Double post, sorry.

Bartali · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 7730 Location: Hertfordshire

Tight at the top of the league. FF's sprinters team is still in there, bit not many riders still in it to pick up GC and Sprint points?

Fontfroide · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 1179

maffy · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:52 pm Post subject:

Current Rankings - Justcycling League
Last Updated: 18th Sep 2009 23:32:51

42 ITA Stella Rosa Velo Club 883
52 KAZ Just a Team 863
75 VAT Kazakh Junkies 828
83 FRA Team Petafi 819
93 ITA St Pellegrino 810
115 SWE Ildo's ice scrapers 786
116 KAZ almaty 785
137 SWE Vacchi Locos 764
161 GBR Lantern_Rouge 739
166 IRL Team Nolte 735
215 SCO His Royal Hoyness 701
230 ESP kathy's klowns 687
254 CAN BIANCHI 656
285 WAL Celtic Raiders 626
378 WAL somewhere over the bridge 550
453 ESP alter ego 424
458 USA USCR 411
469 SCO Mrs Murphys Fanclub 378
477 KAZ one stop quick steppe shop 335
482 AUT Maria Theresa's Revenge 308
488 PRK Die Liestrong Die 280
495 GBR Dave Harmon's Mancrushes 245

Current Rankings - Justcycling League
Last Updated: 19th Sep 2009 16:52:10

39 ITA Stella Rosa Velo Club 938
71 KAZ Just a Team 882
84 FRA Team Petafi 869
87 VAT Kazakh Junkies 867
89 ITA St Pellegrino 865
110 SWE Ildo's ice scrapers 841
125 KAZ almaty 824
136 GBR Lantern_Rouge 814
148 SWE Vacchi Locos 803
160 IRL Team Nolte 790
225 ESP kathy's klowns 737
237 SCO His Royal Hoyness 720
241 CAN BIANCHI 716
320 WAL Celtic Raiders 645
367 WAL somewhere over the bridge 602
450 USA USCR 460
453 ESP alter ego 456
454 SCO Mrs Murphys Fanclub 455
480 KAZ one stop quick steppe shop 338
483 AUT Maria Theresa's Revenge 321
486 PRK Die Liestrong Die 316
492 GBR Dave Harmon's Mancrushes 286

Bartali · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 7730 Location: Hertfordshire

Stella Rosa remains unbeaten in the JC league and takes its second consecutive GT win. Number two team makes the podium too. Can someone give me a trumpet to blow!!! Smile

35 Stella Rosa Velo Club 1501
45 Ildo's ice scrapers 1484
65 St Pellegrino 1428
70 almaty 1414
79 Team Petafi 1392
85 Kazakh Junkies 1382
95 Lantern_Rouge 1362
101 Team Nolte 1346
110 Vacchi Locos 1318
173 kathy's klowns 1200
177 Just a Team 1195
213 His Royal Hoyness 1136
242 BIANCHI 1091
295 somewhere over the bridge 1006
323 Celtic Raiders 978
394 USCR 855
434 Mrs Murphys Fanclub 745
461 alter ego 556
467 one stop quick steppe shop 519
481 Die Liestrong Die 420
484 Dave Harmon's Mancrushes 389
492 Maria Theresa's Revenge 357

kathy · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject:

Your wish is my command!

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"You can't win races with passion alone."

Fabian Cancellara (2008)

Bartali · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 7730 Location: Hertfordshire

maffy · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject:

that one looks cornetish Wink

go team bartstana-wurth Cool

Overall Rankings (all 3 Grand Tours)
Last Updated: 20th Sep 2009 17:53:10
15 KAZ almaty 4176
25 ITA St Pellegrino 4000
49 FRA Team Petafi 3679
39 ENG Oundle Outrage 3802
55 GBR Lantern_Rouge 3614
65 ESP kathy's klowns 3547
66 IRL Team Nolte 3545
73 VAT Kazakh Junkies 3484
77 SCO His Royal Hoyness 3454
95 WAL Celtic Raiders 3291
99 CAN BIANCHI 3272
121 KAZ Just a Team 3109
143 ITA Stella Rosa Velo Club 2902
151 CHE Biohazard 2854
156 USA USCR 2813
193 SCO Mrs Murphys Fanclub 2550
205 ESP alter ego 2482
223 GBR Calice 2417
313 WAL somewhere over the bridge 2042
432 GBR Dave Harmon's Mancrushes 1556
452 SWE Ildo's ice scrapers 1484
480 USA The Injectors 1398
527 SWE Vacchi Locos 1318
659 WAL Boneshakers 1176
825 PRK Die Liestrong Die 1027
1015 GBR Spooooooooo 858
1195 AUT Maria Theresa's Revenge 618
1238 KAZ one stop quick steppe shop 519
1290 SCO Columbia's Finest Export 339

as usual, many thanks to NRT (and his lovely assistant)

and we still don’t know sven goran and ulrikakakaka from abba

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Bartali · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 7730 Location: Hertfordshire

Well played Maffy! Smile

Now if only Stella Rosa had entered the Giro! Watch for them next year Wink

And all my thanks to Noel and MJM

kathy · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject:

Fontfroide · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 1179

Still asking simple questions.
Noel is nrt, right? He organises and runs that game, right? And is on our forum.
What is the role of MJM, since people are thanking her?

Just trying to catch up.

I now see Bartali's earlier point about Just a Team, they suddenly fell 100 places into mid table at the end of the race, presumably because they had nobody except Valverde on the GC. Is that right? It is rather huge weight on the GC, in spite of doing well during the entire Vuelta. Good to try the experiment though.

I love doing the post race analysis. If I had not picked x and picked y ...

Slapshot 3 · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject:

I'm quite happy at that after young schlecky bugging out early. Shows how "odd" the Vuelta was this year.
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Fontfroide · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 1179

How come Oundle Outrage is not on the podium and I am? Which score is the typo? Congrats to my countryman and to the ever thoughtful Bartali.

15 KAZ almaty 4176
25 ITA St Pellegrino 4000
49 FRA Team Petafi 3679
39 ENG Oundle Outrage 3802
55 GBR Lantern_Rouge 3614

Col de Petafi is the climb, very short, that takes one from our valley into the flat bit that leads to Beziers and the Med, in case anyone wondered.

maffy · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject:

hell yeah. go noel. numbers probably right, me certaintly wrong. stupid compyoutya buttons. also, not expert in blowy orchestral/jazz tintstruments. was just the silver mouthpiece what made me say it. although...

kathy · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject:

Fontfroide, Noel is NRT, and his team is Oundle Outrage. Earlier this year, he asked for some help in keeping the results up-to-date, and MJM volunteered.

So we thank both of them!
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"You can't win races with passion alone."

Fabian Cancellara (2008)

Fontfroide · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 1179

Got it. I now understand more.

levi · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:06 pm Post subject:

well done NRT & MJM i hope i end up higher up the table next year.