ToQ Stage 6

think Phinney was 3rd at the 1st sprint not sure about 1st and 2nd

Glad GVA won the 2nd sprint

TeamSky saying Bernie Eisel picked up 2 seconds so he must have been there in the first sprint.

Actually Phinney may have won the 1st sprint, Eisel was 2nd

I gutted my team last night and swapped out a few in order to try and score the podium and full house badges:

Cavendish
Guardini
Hutarovich
Eisel
Blyhte
Kruopis
Fortin
Rowe
Van Avermaet.

So far I seem to be managing on the full house front but I'm banking on Fortin and Guardini to place in the sprint.

I took out Fortin....

Cav
Hutarovich
Kruopis
Markus
Rowe
GVA
Haussler
Kristoff
Jarc

I was hoping for a full house too, even though I've not gone premium so won't get the badge!

Cav
Hut
Blythe
Markus
Kristoff
Rowe
Kruopis
Schar
Velits

Wonder if it'll be the usual 3 hour wait for the full results.

WTF did Cav come from?

Cav
Hutarovich
Markus
Blythe
Phinney
Van Hummel
Kristoff
Eisel
Bouhanni
Boivin

GC
1 Cavendish
2 Bookwalter +25"
3 Phinney +26"
4 Blythe +30"
5 Eisel +32"
6 GVA +32"
7 Schar +35"
8 EBH +39"
9 Rowe +40"
10 Thomas +40"

Cav was miles back. What a tour he's had - Boonen all over again.

Seems my changes paid off, I think I might get a couple of badges today....

Adam Blythe (BMC)
Yauheni Hutarovich (ALM)
Mark Cavendish (OPQ)
Brent Bookwalter (BMC)
Aidis Kruopis (GRE)
Bernhard Eisel (SKY)
Marco Haller (KAT)
Martin Velits (OPQ)
Barry Markus (VCD)

Podium badge 1,2,3 and 7 for me, will be easily beaten by all those with Phinney, Blythe and Eisel.

Kruopis, Rowe and Haussler let me down

Should have played safe

He waited until all the others were flat out (maybe even fading slightly towards the line) and picked his way past. Hutarovich tagged along. Matt Rendell says Van Hummel brought Markus in to take 3rd and finished 6th himself.

People used to say Mark needed a 'train' to win but I always said he was more creative than he was given credit for, like McEwen

No podium badge for me again. Congrats to timbo13, gkam and TER (if you didn't already have one).

PLEASE tell me Kruopis got into the top 20. Else He'll be my let down none scorer....

Guess who took Markus out last night and forgot to put him back in...

I left my team alone 1,2,3,4! podium 2 days running now

Will he sneak into the top 5 for points? He was 3rd in the points overall as at yesterday, 6 ahead of Bookwalter & Eminger.

I've got my fingers crossed because he's the key to my full house too.

1. CAVENDISH Mark 1 OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 2h 24' 31"
2. HUTAROVICH Yauheni 101 AG2R LA MONDIALE 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
3. MARKUS Barry 125 VACANSOLEIL-DCM 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
4. BLYTHE Adam 32 BMC RACING TEAM 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
5. PHINNEY Taylor 31 BMC RACING TEAM 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
6. VAN HUMMEL Kenny Robert 128 VACANSOLEIL-DCM 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
7. KRISTOFF Alexander 141 KATUSHA TEAM 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
8. EISEL Bernhard 12 SKY PROCYCLING 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
9. BOUHANNI Nacer 41 FDJ 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
10. BOIVIN Guillaume 93 CANNONDALE 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
11. COLBRELLI Sonny 163 BARDIANI VALVOLE-CSF INOX 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
12. KLUGE Roger 131 TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
13. LADAGNOUS Matthieu 44 FDJ 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
14. BRAMMEIER Matt 151 CHAMPION SYSTEM 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
15. GALLOPIN Tony 23 RADIOSHACK LEOPARD 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
16. CANTWELL Jonathan 53 TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
17. DOWNING Russell 133 TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
18. GUARDINI Andrea 61 ASTANA PRO TEAM 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
19. VIVIANI Elia 91 CANNONDALE 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"
20. KRUOPIS Aidis 111 ORICA GREENEDGE 2h 24' 31" + 00' 00"

points

1. CAVENDISH Mark 1 OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 70 pts
2. MARKUS Barry 125 VACANSOLEIL-DCM 33 pts
3. HUTAROVICH Yauheni 101 AG2R LA MONDIALE 24 pts
4. KRUOPIS Aidis 111 ORICA GREENEDGE 21 pts
5. BLYTHE Adam 32 BMC RACING TEAM 19 pts

youth

1. PHINNEY Taylor 31 BMC RACING TEAM 15h 55' 46"
2. BLYTHE Adam 32 BMC RACING TEAM 15h 55' 50" + 00' 04"
3. ROWE Luke 15 SKY PROCYCLING 15h 56' 00" + 00' 14"
4. GALLOPIN Tony 23 RADIOSHACK LEOPARD 15h 56' 06" + 00' 20"
5. HALLER Marco 143 KATUSHA TEAM 15h 56' 10" + 00' 24"

GC

1. CAVENDISH Mark 1 OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 15h 55' 20"
2. BOOKWALTER Brent 33 BMC RACING TEAM 15h 55' 45" + 00' 25"
3. PHINNEY Taylor 31 BMC RACING TEAM 15h 55' 46" + 00' 26"
4. BLYTHE Adam 32 BMC RACING TEAM 15h 55' 50" + 00' 30"
5. EISEL Bernhard 12 SKY PROCYCLING 15h 55' 52" + 00' 32"
6. VAN AVERMAET Greg 37 BMC RACING TEAM 15h 55' 52" + 00' 32"
7. SCHÄR Michael 36 BMC RACING TEAM 15h 55' 55" + 00' 35"
8. BOASSON HAGEN Edvald 11 SKY PROCYCLING 15h 55' 59" + 00' 39"
9. ROWE Luke 15 SKY PROCYCLING 15h 56' 00" + 00' 40"
10. THOMAS Geraint 18 SKY PROCYCLING 15h 56' 00" + 00' 40"

badge voor 1,2,3 i have
but fortin just makes me miss a full house:(

Back of a digital envelope says I pulled 183 today, so bagged Podium, High Stage Score and Full House.

My digital envelope seems to have 170 pts written on the back, including the intermediate sprint points. Have to wait and see where that leaves me in the leagues.

163, missed out on podium (by one rider, again) and on full house thanks to Fortin being lazy and finsing 23rd.

I got 192 with Podium, High stage and Full house badges.

I tried to be sneaky with my purist team and got kicked out of the purist overall.....

to bad to many phinney's cost me my first win

Damn, Just missed out on the Forum's Scorums league win. Just squeaked my Tour Top Ten badge though and came first in the W. Mids league. Good tour for me. It can only be downhill from here,

Same here. I've had 3 of the first 4 in the last 4 stages (2x Qatar & 2x Med).

But I did get the Tour Top Ten thanks to my purist team.

is the seccon
game in a row the last stage my win is smashed by some
stupid cyclist who can't even win but goes for boni seconds
dumepd thomas in the last TDU stage

In 14 or so stages so far I've had two of the top three 8 times...

A decent tour for me though just missing out on top 100. Averaging 92 points per stage at the minute, anyone know how many stages there are in the year? Want to see if I'm doing enough for the 10k badge.

Qatar 1st (south west) 3rd (scorum) 21st (comp)
Overall 1st (south west) 5th (scorum)
30th overall

Very pleased with my Qatar
just need to perform a miracle with tour of Med now!!!

Still no high stage score badge though.....

Guys,

do you know if there are prizes for the podium within the Tour of Qatar (overall score) or only for the winner? Couldn't find any answer to it

Cheers
johan83

209 for my purist team, 197 for my standard. Extraordinary scenes (nowhere near making up for the fact that the rest of my ToQ was pretty poor, mind you).

15th in the overall at the moment and now only missing the three Points Awards and the Tour Top Ten from my badge collection

Dr Heaton's question is a good one - roughly what do we need to be averaging per stage to get the 10k badge?

Giro,LeTour and the Vuelta will give more than 60 stages alone.....I don't think 10,000 pts will be a significant barrier.

23rd in the ToQ(equalling my best ever single competition finish)and first in London

That's put me in to the top 20 overall so delighted with that AND got the Podium Badge in stage 3.

You'd need to average around 80 per stage to reach 10k I think, but going on last year, it should be easy enough when the big tours come around, alot of users were scoring 2-2500 in the Grand Tours.

So say you get 2000 x 3 you only need 4000 for the rest of the season with almost 3 races down, I'm already at 1364

onley badge missing is full house and i fear with my luck it will take me a loooong time before i get it causse
its the badge i wanted the most:)

but i shoul not complain 1st in GC and 6th in purist GC is a real good start it looks like finaly i gett the rules of this real nice game:)