ToQ stage 1

My team is

Cav
EBH
Degenkolb
Guardini
Brutt
Velits
Rasch
Devolder
Le Bon

And my purist is

Cav
EBH
Degenkolb
Flecha
Van Avermaet
Rasch
Devolder
Voss
Muravyev

Wanted to squeeze Velits in there too but was over budget by 0.1 credits

Oh yeah, and my Challenge team is

Cavendish
Cancellara
Bouhanni
Devolder

My Purists

Cav
Degenkolb
Modolo
Guardini
Kruopis
Van Avermaet
Elmiger
Huffman
Voss

My team is

Cav
Degenkolb
Guardini
Viviani
Van Avermaet
Kruopis
Roulston
Bewley
Chan Jae Jang

My purist team is

Cav
Viviani
Guardini
Modolo
Gallopin
Van Avermaet
Bewley
Rasch
Kreder

Purist is

John Degenkolb
Aidis Kruopis
Mark Cavendish
Taiji Nishitani
Gabriel Rasch
Kenny van Hummel
Roger Kluge
Iljo Keisse
Greg van Avermaet

My teams are

Standard:-
Mark Cavendish
John Degenkolb
Elia Viviani
Adam Blythe
Aidis Kruopis
Bobbie Traksel
Yoann Offredo
Stijn Devolder

Takashi Miyazawa none runner

Purist:-

Mark Cavendish
Karsten Kroon
Greg van Avermaet
Matthew Brammeier
Nelson Oliveira
Russell Downing
Tony Gallopin
Geoffrey Soupe
Salvatore Puccio - none runner

I've taken a bit of a risk. This is going to be the windiest stage, so if the strong men are going to do something it should be today.

Phinney
Cancellara
Boasson Hagen
Van Avermaet
Van Keirsbulck
Flecha
Goddaert
Rasch
Devolder

If it all goes wrong, I should still have a decent team for the TTT.

Standard:

Viviani,Degenkolb,Cavendish,Guardini,Modolo,Bewley,Jarc,Arndt,Devolder

Purist:
Kruopis,Cantwell,Haussler,Cancellara,Sutton,Guardini,Blythe,Phinney,Mol

Race is apparently split into three groups with Degenkolb in the lead group, Cancellara in the second and Cav in the third.

The race is in pieces, I think Cancellara and EBH are in group 2 45 seconds adrift

http://nutjob.eu/njtvx10.html

I'm watching there in English, its a mess, no-one knows who is where, who won sprints.....scoring is going to be a painful process and take a while

Stannard is in the lead group and im pretty sure EBH is not in that group.

Quite a few BMC riders in the lead group and at least 2 other Sky guys, a couple of Argos too

They keep mentioning Cav, I think he is well back

Think Blythe and Kruopis in front group

Sounds like a Sky rider won the intermediate sprint but god knows who.

Degenkolb in group one, EBH, Haussler and Kruopis in second group, Cav in third from what I can tell.

Terpstra and Viviani in lead group

2nd group is gonna catch the lead group

Eisel think took the 2nd sprint

Eisel, Schar, Rollin and Curves in the lead.

EDIT: with a 10 second lead apparently.

Everyone together and its a f**king mess

3 out front that could stay away

C'Mon Elmiger

Bookwalter from Elmiger

Bookwalter
Elmiger
Rast

Cav, Viviani, Sutton/Thomas, Van Avermaet/Blythe were up there

Well it was Eisel and Phinney

1.Bookwalter
2.Elmiger
3.Rast
4.Eisel
5.Viviani
6.Cav
7.Breschel
8.Phinney
9.Haussler
10.Ladagnous

5th and 6th for my normal team and just 5th for my purist

Disappointing!

Scores might be done by this time next year.....The official site is a blank

Couple of nice pictures coming from Qatar....

The doping station
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCLezxrCUAATsnK.jpg:large

Then what Eisel did to Brammeier's bike

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCGa5NxCAAAUXtc.jpg:large

The "key moments" on the official site...

On the race-day, be sure not to miss the live coverage.

That has been like that since this morning.

I cant find more than just the top 10 on every site ive looked on

John Degenkolb (ARG)
Mark Cavendish (OPQ)
Sacha Modolo (COG)
Aidis Kruopis (GRE)
Matteo Trentin (OPQ)
Alexander Porsev (KAT)
Luke Rowe (SKY)
Dominique Rollin (FDJ)
Takashi Miyazawa (SAX)

Not a good start for my standard team....i was about to change Miyazawa for Bewley this am when the window closed...oops

and my purists did little better.

Mark Cavendish (OPQ)
Aidis Kruopis (GRE)
Sacha Modolo (COG)
John Degenkolb (ARG)
Zak Dempster (APP)
Luke Rowe (SKY)
Alexander Porsev (KAT)
Dominique Rollin (FDJ)
Chan Jae Jang (CHA)

Results are in

1. BOOKWALTER Brent 33 BMC RACING TEAM 3h 28' 47"
2. ELMIGER Martin 73 IAM CYCLING 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
3. RAST Gregory 26 RADIOSHACK LEOPARD 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
4. EISEL Bernhard 12 SKY PROCYCLING 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
5. VIVIANI Elia 91 CANNONDALE 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
6. CAVENDISH Mark 1 OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
7. BRESCHEL Matti 52 TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
8. PHINNEY Taylor 31 BMC RACING TEAM 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
9. HAUSSLER Heinrich 71 IAM CYCLING 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
10. LADAGNOUS Matthieu 44 FDJ 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
11. HUTAROVICH Yauheni 101 AG2R LA MONDIALE 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
12. DEGENKOLB John 81 TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
13. KRUOPIS Aidis 111 ORICA GREENEDGE 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
14. KLUGE Roger 131 TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
15. KRISTOFF Alexander 141 KATUSHA TEAM 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
16. VAN HUMMEL Kenny Robert 128 VACANSOLEIL-DCM 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
17. BOASSON HAGEN Edvald 11 SKY PROCYCLING 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
18. BLYTHE Adam 32 BMC RACING TEAM 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
19. FISCHER Murilo Antoniobil 43 FDJ 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"
20. KEUKELEIRE Jens 116 ORICA GREENEDGE 3h 28' 47" + 00' 00"

6,8,9,13 and 15 for me.

Woo hoo, I might have my lanterne rouge badge.
Could dave put little red flags on the badges to indicate how many times we have won that badge?

Bewley is out boys

Back to the drawing board, and not great for my purist team

Trentin is lanterne Rouge today! sorry

Edit didn't see your Standard team

Phinney saved my team from complete failure.

Ive brought in the schar for tomottow, expecting tp to lead his ttt for a win...

Ive brought in Rast and Rasch for Bewley (out) and Guardini

Anyone else find that they can't see their stage scores for 1st stage of ToQ? Can't seem to find mine and I'm not sure if it's me or everyone.

PS think i did naff

I'm not sure the scores have been updated yet.

Correct they haven't been updated yet, Gkam will do it when he returns

Thanks, I'll just have to wait..

I'm on it, just doing them now

Scores just updating.

There is no combat award in Qatar. So no 10 points for that.

Not the great start tour I'd envisaged for my fantasy teams. Things can only get better hey!?!

I seem to have been accidentally awesome in today's stage. Go me?!