Forum game idea - Eurovision National Championships

RESULTS ARE IN

Belgium - (Debusschere, Jans, Boonen)
DJB & I had Boonen, 2pts each

France - (Demare, Bouhanni, Reza)
Ghed, Djb and I had Demare, 5pts. Joel and TERadcliffe had Bouhanni, 3pts.

Germany (Greipel, Degenkolb, Bauhaus)
TERadcliffe had Greipel, 5pts, Joel, Ghed and I had Degenkolb

GB (Kennaugh, Swift, S Yates)
Everyone had Ben Swift - 3points all round

Holland (Langeveld, Terpstra, W. Kreder)
Only TER scored with Terpstra, 3pts

Italy (Nibbles, Formolo, Rabottini)
Only DJB scored with Formolo, 3pts

Norway (Jacobsen, Eidsheim, Eiking)
Irrelevant. If any of us had even heard of any of these riders it would be a miracle. Kristoff was 16th and Enger 17th btw.

Spain (I.Izaguirre, Valverde, Barbero)
DJB and I picked Izaguirre, 5pts; Ghed had Valverde 3pts.

Switzerland (Elminger, Albasini, Morabito)
No-one picked anyone who scored.

Final scores:
=1 Djb123 (18)
=1 Twybaydos (18)
=3 TERadcliffe26 (14)
=3 Ghedebrav (14)
5 Joelsim (9)

Thanks for playing everyone. That was a lot easier to score than expected.

deadline is this evening at 11pm

http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/ulissi_provisionally_suspended_by_lamp...

Hey - anyone wanting to enter? Deadline is Friday.

People on reddit have been writing about their local championships at http://www.reddit.com/r/peloton/comments/28wh5r/nationals_preview_write_... this may help

Just road race. This could be a hassle

My team:
Belgium: Tom Boonen
France: Arnaud Demare
Germany: John Degenkolb
GB: Ben Swift
Holland: Bauke Mollema
Italy: Sonny Colbrelli
Norway: Alexander Kristoff
Spain: Ion Izagirre
Switzerland: Matthias Frank

Right - Let's Kick this off

1) Championships are pretty much all the weekend of 28/29 June. Deadline will be Friday 27th at 11pm
2) We will do the top 9 nations: Belgium, France, Germany, GB, Holland, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Spain. Please put in that order for my excel.
3) Please note that, at the time of writing, only Spanish teams are likely to compete in Spain due to a row over expenses. No J-Rod, David Lopez
4) In the event that any nation holds their championships before Saturday 28th it will be replaced by Slovenia. Because I have a man crush on Mohoric.
5) Points are 5,3,2 for first, second and third
6) I can't be bothered to check parcours or riders so I'm picking randomly but may change at any time up to Friday 11pm. If you find information on a stage please let everyone else know, or keep it to yourself.
7) British information is very good http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/nationalroadchampionships. German info is atrocious.

French, Belgium and British championships are all 29 June, Italy is 28th. I will aim to search the other federations' websites to confirm dates for the others (I tried looking at germany, that was not a happy time). If everything is 28/29 June then I'll push deadline back.

Thanks for the advice

I agree with the doctor to cut down on my loftier ambitions and limit to nine races. Personally I'll pick Holland over Russia. Everyone in Russia rides for Katusha or Rusvelo so the race can be controlled. The sheer randomness of most national championships is what will make the game.

TER - nice idea on the Omnium points but I'd only recommend doing that where we are sure of the riders. I don't think there will be much decent startlist information in advance of the race (especially if a championship is on 28/29 June rather than 21/22) and there is a risk that people will pick riders on reputation who don't turn up. Also, as a one-dayer, pro riders out of the mix will give up early whilst continental team riders will aim for ninth. I'm worried about getting decent information quickly and I would hope that at least the podium would be available on the night (PCS/twitter), with full results to trickle in later.

Accordingly I would stick with 3-2-1 unless the majority disagrees with me.