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Vuelta al Pais Vasco – Stage 4

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  • April 4, 2013 at 6:42 am #18401
    drheaton

    Tough decisions to make today, will Txurruka go in the break again?  Will the same people be racing for the win or will the slightly easier finale make for a different selection.

    My transfer decisions are basically which 2 of 3 riders do I drop for which 2 of 3 I want?

    I can either drop Fuglsang and Barguil for Ulissi and Didier or another sub 6 credit rider or I can drop Peraud and Barguil for Ulissi and Txurruka.

    I don't really want to drop Peraud and I'm worried that Txurruka pretty much has the jersey sewn up now so won't go in the break today but he's a guaranteed 10 points whatever happens.

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  • April 6, 2013 at 4:54 pm #725989
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    TERatcliffe26

    ray silvester

    ray silvester wrote:
    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    ray silvester wrote:
    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    drheaton wrote:
    Dropped Spilak, Barguil and Fuglsang, drafted in Cardoso, Txurruka and Ulissi

    Contador
    Peraud
    Porte
    Sanchez
    Quintana
    Ulissi
    Cardoso
    Txurruka
    Betancurt

    In the end decided that Spilak was boring and steady enough to get rid of, can’t see him getting more than 15 points today. Plan is to keep it broadly the same tomorrow then bring in Martin, Talansky and a couple of others and drop Contador, maybe Quintana and possibly Sanchez.

    Drop Contador, really?

    Quintana had a good ITT recently too (Paris-Nice Col D’Eze)3rd behind Porte/Talansky and beating Tejay,Kloden,Peraud,Chavanel,Coppel,Menchov,Velits and Spilak amongst others¬!!

    Yes but that was totally different, 9km up a hill is what Qunitana is good at, not 24km on rolling terrain

    As I said ;)

    Well I paid the price, it was a surprise though

    April 6, 2013 at 4:11 pm #725987
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    ray silvester

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:ray

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    ray silvester wrote:
    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    drheaton wrote:
    Dropped Spilak, Barguil and Fuglsang, drafted in Cardoso, Txurruka and Ulissi

    Contador
    Peraud
    Porte
    Sanchez
    Quintana
    Ulissi
    Cardoso
    Txurruka
    Betancurt

    In the end decided that Spilak was boring and steady enough to get rid of, can’t see him getting more than 15 points today. Plan is to keep it broadly the same tomorrow then bring in Martin, Talansky and a couple of others and drop Contador, maybe Quintana and possibly Sanchez.

    Drop Contador, really?

    Quintana had a good ITT recently too (Paris-Nice Col D’Eze)3rd behind Porte/Talansky and beating Tejay,Kloden,Peraud,Chavanel,Coppel,Menchov,Velits and Spilak amongst others¬!!

    Yes but that was totally different, 9km up a hill is what Qunitana is good at, not 24km on rolling terrain

    As I said 😉

    April 5, 2013 at 2:20 pm #725985
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    NeilG83

    ray silvester wrote:NeilG83

    ray silvester wrote:
    NeilG83 wrote:
    I have been playing this game for almost 2 years and have finally finished 1st on a stage. 255pts for me today.

    Have got all the badges except the 10,000pts now too. :D

    Chapeau NeilG83……I’ll race you to the 10K badge?

    Although I’ve Still never had a stage win :?

    I think you’ll beat me to 10K Ray. You’re more than 500pts ahead of me at the moment.

    Kept the same team for today, so I can have 4 transfers available before the TT.

    April 4, 2013 at 11:31 pm #725983
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    ray silvester

    NeilG83 wrote:I have been

    NeilG83 wrote:
    I have been playing this game for almost 2 years and have finally finished 1st on a stage. 255pts for me today.

    Have got all the badges except the 10,000pts now too. :D

    Chapeau NeilG83……I’ll race you to the 10K badge?

    Although I’ve Still never had a stage win 😕

    April 4, 2013 at 9:50 pm #725981
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    enrique

    NeilG83 wrote:I… finally

    NeilG83 wrote:
    I… finally finished 1st on a stage. 255pts for me today.

    Wow! Pretty cool! Nice! 🙂 You must be 1st on the High Scores for the season, too! 🙂

    April 4, 2013 at 9:35 pm #725979
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    NeilG83

    I have been playing this game
    I have been playing this game for almost 2 years and have finally finished 1st on a stage. 255pts for me today.

    Have got all the badges except the 10,000pts now too. 😀

    April 4, 2013 at 9:18 pm #725977
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    northstar

    Yeah, I’m premium, i thought
    Yeah, I’m premium, i thought the same rules applied, thanks dr B-)

    April 4, 2013 at 9:08 pm #725975
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    drheaton

    northstar wrote:I think I’ve

    northstar wrote:
    I think I’ve got this right – I have 3 transfers for tommorrow but if i don’t use one, I will lose it / won’t have 5 for the TT?

    Thanks

    It depends, are you premium? Standard players can carry two forward so can have at most 4, there is no limit on how many transfers a premium player can roll forward.

    April 4, 2013 at 8:28 pm #725973
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    chrisdstripes

    NeilG83 wrote:1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9

    NeilG83 wrote:
    1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9 for me today! 😀 😀 :D

    Nice one Neil – stage win!

    April 4, 2013 at 8:28 pm #725971
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    chrisdstripes

    JAndrewHill wrote:Rather than

    JAndrewHill wrote:
    Rather than being a summit finish, this was more of a PLUMMET finish….as Talanski and a.n.other will concur

    That deserves a big laughing face :))

    April 4, 2013 at 8:24 pm #725969
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    northstar

    I think I’ve got this right –
    I think I’ve got this right – I have 3 transfers for tommorrow but if i don’t use one, I will lose it / won’t have 5 for the TT?

    Thanks

    April 4, 2013 at 7:34 pm #725967
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    drheaton

    enrique wrote:drheaton

    enrique wrote:
    drheaton wrote:
    … I’ll have to take a look at the profile when I score the stage…

    Why oes it take so long to score the stage and put up the results? :(

    Enrique, the full results have only been available for a short while (we have to wait for official results on all climbs/sprints etc) so it’s not like we can update them immediately on the finish of the race. I can’t rely on unofficial twitter feeds or anything like that, I need cold hard official results or something like what Cycling News provides which is what I usually use.

    Anyway, those doing the scoring also have jobs and other commitments that mean that it may take until 8pm or 9pm to put up scores some days. Apologies if this is too late for you but we’re doing it voluntarily.

    April 4, 2013 at 7:31 pm #725965
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    simon F

    drheaton wrote:Apologies for

    drheaton wrote:
    Apologies for the delay, after a stewards enquiry the official decision is that the points count.

    In future, if it’s a HM (high mountain stage, as today’s is) then it’s not officially a summit finish and therefore the KoM point will apply.

    Make sense?

    Scores are updating.


    All seems perfectly reasonable and makes sense. Thanks for sorting it out (with or without the stewards’ help)

    April 4, 2013 at 7:29 pm #725963
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    drheaton

    Apologies for the delay,
    Apologies for the delay, after a stewards enquiry the official decision is that the points count.

    In future, if it’s a HM (high mountain stage, as today’s is) then it’s not officially a summit finish and therefore the KoM point will apply.

    Make sense?

    Scores are updating.

    April 4, 2013 at 7:28 pm #725961
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    enrique

    drheaton wrote:… I’ll have

    drheaton wrote:
    … I’ll have to take a look at the profile when I score the stage…

    Why oes it take so long to score the stage and put up the results? 🙁

    Alan Tullett wrote:
    Usually such finishes are not scored.

    chrisdstripes wrote:

    If the finish line is also the KOM line, then they aren’t scored, but that isn’t the case here…. it seems funny to have it as a discretionary rule when it could just be black-and-white – all KOMs count unless it is also the finish line.

    I agree… Score it…

    stumps wrote:
    Personally i think if its a summit finish you should get KOM points, you would if it was a mountain earlier in the stage so why not here ?

    I agree…

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