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Thanks for prompt response and clarification Gkam84. I thought it would be the case that the winner would not get the 5 points as well. But when your scoring info said "5 points to **every** participating rider in the winning rider's team" I was uncertain.
Well, is anyone else going for a Slovenian in their squad?
And will Trek do any better this year?
No and yes possibly?
This is the part I like. Comparing actual scores to potentially perfect scores in the game. The Competition winner was Nodes who scored 1050 points. Congratulations, bud! Nice play!
The best Purist team in the competition was Blaireaux d'Attaque VC (vernthemerciless) whose team scored 909 points.
But what would have been the perfect score as a Purist? Well, here's my stab at the best Purist Team possible:
19.3 Simon Gerrans 252
16.1 Diego Ulissi 184
26.4 Cadel Evans 169
7.4 Nathan Haas 137
17.2 Robert Gesink 107
15.4 Adam Hansen 97
21.1 Daryl Impey 92
9.1 William Clarke 75
7.2 Carlos Verona 34
It would have come in at 139.2 credits and scored 1147 points. This is weird, I think this is the first time a Purist team would have been able to beat all the actually entered Standard teams, if the perfect one had been chosen! But that would have been practically impossible, wouldn't it?
Thanks!
It was a close call in the end with Kittel not taking any points on Stage 6 but it worked out OK in the end.
That was not a bad guess... 900 points wouldn't have won, but it would have made you No. 77 on the overall...
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