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2015 Tour de France
For those who love to plan months ahead, I just noticed the Tour de France webpage is now showing full profiles, including profiles of the last kilometers, for every one of the 21 stages! 
The TTT on Stage 9 concludes on a hilly note, and the pure mountain stages look f$&@ing incredible! Excuse the language... 
You can start looking at profiles here - http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2015/us/stage-1.html. Enjoy!
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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Wow! We're up to 3635 teams in the competition!
That's almost 200 teams that joined overnight! 
3339 teams entered in the competition... At least 4 teams with the word 'Velociraptor' in them... 2 teams called 'Team Velociraptor'... 140 teams that scored 0 points yesterday... 0.
I wonder , do Purist teams show in the Standard competition, they don't, do they? Some of these teams that scored nothing seem built for the mountains... 
And, 'vive' the creative minds of the folks that play here, here are 2 highly entertaining team names among those that scored 0 points yesterday, US Mammary Service and League of ordinary gentlemen. 
TdF PURIST competition
hello everybody, I'd like to play this competition, but I need to know.
1) can I select totaly new Team for each stage (budget 170 points)?¨
2) is't necessary to fill all stages before TdF will start, or could I prepare the team before every new stage?
THX you in advance for replies
Purist has no transfers at all. You set a team at the start and that is the team that runs throughout.
If you want to make transfers then choose the standard game. You get 45 transfers in total for the whole competition.
thanks
I think the hot weather has adversely affected my choice of riders. Can I have a 100 point start on medical grounds?
Wouldn't you rather have a 100 credit budget allowance?
If you're inept as I am, a 100 point head start will disappear in the first 3 days! 
If I was as "inept" as you are then I would have a quantum-computing predictive analysis suite of software more powerful than JADE running a gazillion relational databases using datafeeds covertly tied into every team's private performance data servers to tell me who will win all the points in the TdF and the best purist team to select to maximise my return.
In preference to your NSA cheating ways, I will use cider.
Oh, you made me smile!
But I have no idea what JADE is though... I must be dated...
Hadn't thought of that...
And I have no hacking skills... 
I resent the reference to the NSA folks... some of those folks are quite decent human beings...
What makes you think cider is not part of my arsenal?...
Isn't that the most interesting part of this game?...
You get me, sandy, you get me... I wish you'd get over the 'cheating' part, though, it's really been for fun more than anything else... not for fame or glory... But maybe you're right... 
You are a reprobate. I get the fact that you are an iredeemable, filthy cheat. I get that you have no concept of being honest because you have been given over to vile affections. I don't get why the organisesers of this contest didn't cut you off two years ago.
Had to look it up...
reprobate
1.an unprincipled person (often used humorously or affectionately).
synonyms: rogue · rascal · scoundrel · miscreant · good-for-nothing
In a weird way, I kind of admire your vocabulary. You're obviously a well educated person..
These riders need to be added:
Angelo Tulik Team Europcar
Bryan Nauleau Team Europcar
Damien Gaudin AG2R La Mondiale
Daryl Impey Orica GreenEDGE
Jack Bauer Team Cannondale - Garmin
Kristijan Koren Team Cannondale - Garmin
Matteo Bono Lampre - Merida
Matteo Tosatto Tinkoff - Saxo
Michael Albasini Orica GreenEDGE
Michael Valgren Tinkoff - Saxo
Nathan Haas Team Cannondale - Garmin
Perrig Quemeneur Team Europcar
Ramunas Navardauskas Team Cannondale - Garmin
Ruben Plaza Lampre - Merida
Yohann Gene Team Europcar
Nice one Tom
The sprint and mountain point scoring has been updated in the scoring notes for each stage
That was last year enrique
This is deja vu all over again... Now I can't decide between Greipel and Debusschere!
Have you seen how Debusschere is sprinting?...
The sprints question needs to be answered before the off
Will be 15 down to 1 presume, same as last year
How are the intermediate sprints scored in the TDF this year?
Will the game score them 6,4,2 even if the race organizers award points for more than three riders?... 
Vive Le Tour!
I'll have Berto, the Dawg, Nibs and Nairito. Oh. Over budget.
Vive Le Tour!
I'll have Berto, the Dawg, Nibs and Nairito. Oh. Over budget.
40.0 Alberto Contador
37.5 Christopher Froome
34.6 Nairo Quintana
32.5 Vincenzo Nibali
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
159.6
How long before the TdF will we be able to register our fantasy teams?
End of next week probably
Dat stage 20