velogames stage race championship 2022 is here!
yah...this be the thread for all
https://www.velogames.com/index_stage_season_2022.php league name: bike forums league code: 539488111 through race #11: monarch of the tours (mott) final standings: 1st Grain Brain: 40923 points 2nd canam73 37570 points 3rd Semroc 35394 points 4th slcbob 34865 points 5th ooga-booga 34689 points for races also with the "stage hunter" or similar option, using the "classic" game points in tabulating totals. 1. 3.06-13.22 paris-nice 🇫🇷: 1st Semroc/team Pulling Faces--2nd Grain Brain/team Baguettes rapids p/b Voxan--3rd canam73/team the bounty. monarch of the tours: Semroc 2. 3.07-13.22 tirreno-adriatico 🇮🇹: 1st Semroc/team Shut Up Legs--2nd Grain Brain/team Peroni Cataloni--3rd ooga-booga/team slow (s)pokes. monarch of the tours: Semroc 3. 3.21-27.22 volta ciclista á catalunya 🇪🇸: 1st Grain Brain/Team Bon Seny--2nd canam73/team the bounty--3rd slcbob/team X Merckx the Spot. monarch of the tours: Grain Brain 4. 4.04-09.22 itzulia basque country 🇪🇸: 1st Grain Brain/Team ¡Más Txapelas!--2nd Semroc/team pulling Faces--3rd canam73/team the bounty. monarchofthetours: Grain Brain 5. 4.26-5.01.22 tour de romandie 🇨🇭: 1st Semroc/team Pulling Faces--2nd Grain Brain/team Swiss Cheeze--3rd slcbob/team X Merckx the Spot. monarchofthetours: Grain Brain 6. 5.06-29.22 giro d'italia (gt) 🇭🇺🇮🇹: 1st slcbob/team X Merckx the Spot--2nd ooga-booga/team bruschetta bois--3rd Grain Brain/team Húsleves with Gnocchi. monarchofthetours: Grain Brain 7. 6.05-12.22 critérium de dauphiné 🇫🇷: 1st ooga-booga/team slow (s)pokes--slcbob/team X Merckx the Spot--3rd canam73/team the bounty. monarchofthetours: Grain Brain 8. 6.12-19.22 tour de suisse🇨🇭:1st slcbob/team X Merckx the Spot--2nd ooga-booga/team slow (s)pokes--3rd Grain Brain/team Cheesy Swiss. monarchofthetours: Grain Brain 9. 7.01-24.22 tour de france (gt) 🇩🇰 🇫🇷🇨🇭: 1st canam73/team the bounty--2nd Grain Brain/team Talented Tufts--3rd slcbob/team X Merckx the Spot. monarchofthetours: Grain Brain 10. 7.30-8.05.22 tour de pologne 🇵🇱: 1st canam73/team the bounty--2nd ooga-booga/team slow (s)pokes--3rd Semroc/team Pulling Faces. monarchofthetours: Grain Brain 11. 8.19-9.11.22 vuelta á españa (gt) 🇳🇱 🇪🇸: 1st Grain Brain/team Buena Vida Tapas & Sol--2nd canam73/team the bounty--3rd ooga-booga/team spanish caravan. monarchofthetours: Grain Brain grand tours:https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...qxADQ&usqp=CAU 5.06-5.29.22 giro d'italia (marco pantani/"il pirato" memorial trophy: slcbob http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bZLiQWMMwg...sartelli_5.jpg 7.01-7.24.22 tour de france (fabio casartelli memorial trophy): canam73 https://pezcyclingnews.com/wp-conten...ngliru-920.jpg 8.19-9.11.22 vuelta á españa (josé maría jimenez/"el chava" memorial trophy): Grain Brain https://i0.wp.com/velovoices.com/wp-...72%2C448&ssl=1 honorary adam hansen gt (completed 20 consecutive grand tours: 2012 giro-2018 giro) virtual trophy virtually awarded to the virtual participant with the highest overall combined score of all three 2022 virtual gt's: GrainBrain https://i.pinimg.com/474x/a0/68/9b/a...27ac3ad7bc.jpg the most coveted maglia nera/lanterne rouge-honorary lawson craddock trophy awarded to the participant with the lowest combined total score of all three gt's: Semroc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglia_nera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterne_rouge https://i0.wp.com/capovelo.com/wp-co...8e16800898.jpg honorary marino lejarreta trophy awarded to the monarch of the tours (mott) with the highest point total for the complete stage race championship. Grain Brain |
Semroc in the early lead for paris-nice and lookie lookie who(m) is in 2nd currently...stage three looks pretty choppy on the second half. like either gilbert or wva. let's go with gilbert.
Grain Brain goes 1-2 in the first (tt) stage of tirenno-adriatico. nice! going with remco ftw stage two. |
In TA Sagan over performing, Vingegaard's TT didn't stack up! Vingegaard looking for a stage win?
Van Aert bested by Pedersen means a good classics season awaits! Where's Rohan? Sporadically watching but a ton of great performances already. Ganna one to watch on TA, I think he's looking to the overall but no way he holds it past stage 6 into Carpenga. Look for an incredible performance up that first mountain by him. |
I will compete in this league with Tirreno-Adriatico tied behind my back, because
I was as close to picking LaPorte for the race to the sun as I was to dumping all my stocks in December and buying silver. But didn't do either. So many regrets. |
Originally Posted by slcbob
(Post 22433031)
I will compete in this league with Tirreno-Adriatico tied behind my back, because
I was as close to picking LaPorte for the race to the sun as I was to dumping all my stocks in December and buying silver. But didn't do either. So many regrets. Fyi Colbrelli's bronchitis came after he personally phoned me and we had quite the heated argument over my selection of him. I watched him chase Gaudu up a mountain last year after my non selection, not making that mistake again I said! Mental note to watch Biniam Girmay. |
three stages left in paris-nice but semroc and team Pulling Faces starting to ride hard tempo and drop the rest of us...
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The cream rises to the top.
Me? #NotCream I'm pacing myself for Benelux. |
Cycling mole didn't even mention Magnus Cort for today's TA stage win so I'm picking him to secure my over all in TA.
Paris Nice I've lost colbrelli so I'm wondering how Biniam Girmay will do - I noticed he won in trofeo-alcudia against Mathews, Ackerman,nizzolo and that had a cat 2. There's also my meme pick of Vliegen - seems like a stage he could do well in. ^^ Should probably check to see that none of these three have gone home sick... |
It cost me a lot of Euros to have the race volunteers stand aside on that right hand corner. A non win by the Pog today means I enjoy one last day as the leader in TA before the Slovenian selections of Ooga and Semroc send me back to my usual podium spot.
Tomorrow in TA I'm hoping Vingegaard kicks free on the final climb and I give you guys a run for your money! |
GrainBrain , unless Gaudu wakes up and McNulty crashes into Roglic, I'm going to be hacking up a lung and convulsing on the ground at the foot of the final climb. Be careful when you plough through. Wear your mask, and don't run over me.
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Semroc and Grain Brain with a clean one-two sweep of both paris-nice and tirreno-adriatico! nice!
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it’s about to get real busy for 6 weeks starting with milan-san remo on the 19th. mix in tons of one-days, classics and three weeklong tours. check velogames.com daily for roster building/changing/results.
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Congrats to some, cheers to all.
DFL in P-N and worse in T-A! I'm racing Fabio Aru to the broom wagon. An auspicious start to the season for me. But don't count me out. Borrowing a traditional term from Irish foreplay: "brace yourselves." |
look to change rosters later today or tomorrow for catalunya starting on the 21st!!
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catalunya is live!! some excellent riders at wut values. grab you some and register like asap!
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Originally Posted by ooga-booga
(Post 22444627)
catalunya is live!! some excellent riders at wut values. grab you some and register like asap!
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Originally Posted by slcbob
(Post 22438988)
Congrats to some, cheers to all.
DFL in P-N and worse in T-A! I'm racing Fabio Aru to the broom wagon. An auspicious start to the season for me. But don't count me out. Borrowing a traditional term from Irish foreplay: "brace yourselves." |
Originally Posted by GrainBrain
(Post 22445329)
Fyi Picasso spent his youth teaching cubism in the Catalunya region ... Dali was round about as well. Would be a wild time
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It looks like GrainBrain and I will be 1-2 with our 1-2 podium picks, but it's a long way to Barcelona. It'll be interesting to see who balanced their sprint vs. GC picks well, or their blind luck, and comes through at the end. I wouldn't put it past any of cunning prognosticators.
This first post recap motif for these threads is awfully reader-friendly, powerful, and ambitious. Part of me commends you. The other part thinks you better knock that off or there will be more competition outside of le Tour. :innocent: ;) It may totally throw off the blind hedgehog / acorn ratio. |
Originally Posted by slcbob
(Post 22445887)
It looks like GrainBrain and I will be 1-2 with our 1-2 podium picks, but it's a long way to Barcelona. It'll be interesting to see who balanced their sprint vs. GC picks well, or their blind luck, and comes through at the end. I wouldn't put it past any of cunning prognosticators.
This first post recap motif for these threads is awfully reader-friendly, powerful, and ambitious. Part of me commends you. The other part thinks you better knock that off or there will be more competition outside of le Tour. :innocent: ;) It may totally throw off the blind hedgehog / acorn ratio. https://www.rtve.es/deportes/2022032.../2319401.shtml Authorities are looking into recent fantasy league participations and the bad juju imposed upon the riders. Seriously though this is scary I hope he comes out of it! |
:wtf::wtf:******************** Wow.
I hear a little red wine is good for the heart, so I will toast him this evening and hope for the best for him. Saluti, Sonny. :injured: The 1-2 punch from us Grim Reapers was too much for him. It seems to have come upon him ~100m before the line. I've become such a humanitarian I won't even curse him for the DNS baggage we'll be carrying for the rest of the week. It was a little rude of you to mention that GrainBrain but I see you've edited the thread out nicely now. :innocent: |
Originally Posted by slcbob
(Post 22445964)
:wtf::wtf:******************** Wow.
I hear a little red wine is good for the heart, so I will toast him this evening and hope for the best for him. Saluti, Sonny. :injured: The 1-2 punch from us Grim Reapers was too much for him. It seems to have come upon him ~100m before the line. I've become such a humanitarian I won't even curse him for the DNS baggage we'll be carrying for the rest of the week. It was a little rude of you to mention that GrainBrain but I see you've edited the thread out nicely now. :innocent: Here's to you Colbrelli and my momentary 50th starting position! Salúd! https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...4304205bf2.png |
^^ Forgot to point out real champions collapse after the line instead of wandering off during a stage ...
:eek: I still pick ya though, Dennis and miggy ... Ok I'll stop now :lol: |
It's nice to soar with the eagles, however briefly. Top <1.5%, congratulations! I didn't process Higuita when I glanced at your team so I briefly thought I'd have a chance, at least amongst the turkeys.
Let's see what develops and try not to curse anyone else with a voodoo doll mention. Though I will say that my confusion about how Bauhaus and Colbrelli might score on the same team just got a whole lot less confusing. I'm really sad about that. As George said in his VG tweet, Forza Colbrelli. I guess that's a good Italian sentiment. |
wowzers...today's score really reflected a sincere and dogged determination to start off with a bang on my end.
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