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Giro Prize Suggestion

  • This topic has 48 replies, 15 voices, and was last updated 13 years ago by enrique.
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  • April 29, 2013 at 5:50 pm #18633
    enrique

    Well, here I go with a crazy idea.

    The last week of the Giro seems to be tailor made for Premium members to stack up on transfers and come in with a bunch of sprinters on the last day… And therefore beat the crap out of any Standard player still standing! 🙂 I guess it would probably take a miracle for anyone playing Standard to win in this scenario.

    So, how about this? 🙂

    Dave, why don’t you award ANY Standard player who is in the Top 50 in the Giro standings at that point, say Stage 16, 17 or 18, at your discretion, a ‘CARRY OVER ALL YOUR TRANSFERS FOR THE LAST WEEK OF THE GIRO’ card as a reward for being in the running at the end of the competition?

    I can’t imagine there’ll be too many Standard players left in the running at that point and it would certainly reward a smart player who’s broke! 🙂

    On the other hand, if not that, why not give the Top Standard player for the Giro a FREE Premium membership as a prize at the end of the competition? Sounds nice to me! 🙂

    Or maybe you could award a Free Premium membership for next year, to the 4th place, or whatever position that does not get a prize at the end of a competition, whether they are Standrad or Premium? Just for fun! Will you think about it? Thanks! 🙂

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  • May 23, 2013 at 12:53 am #731045
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    enrique

    enrique wrote:…I guess it

    enrique wrote:
    …I guess it would probably take a miracle for anyone playing Standard to win in this scenario….

    enrique wrote:
    I can’t imagine there’ll be too many Standard players left in the running

    Dave Atkinson wrote:
    … ten out of the top 20.

    so can we stop going on about it now?…

    Noted already below and in the Standard Team Giro Updates thread. Maybe! 😉

    enrique wrote:
    I stand corrected. 11 Stages in and these are the highest ranking Standard Players in the Giro overall competition…

    3 petiagos petiagos 1155
    4 Pharmacie Roulant Jonas Lorenzen 1144 2
    5 Eyeballs Out richardk9 1135
    6 Mountain Renegade tony kappler 1127 2
    7 Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan 1124
    8 karlake2 karlake2 1122 3
    9 ZACATON anita 1115
    10 Indurains lungs Samacollins 1105 7
    11 rock n rouleurs matanhale 1099 8
    12 Team Velosive Sebbe87 1094 4
    12= Rangaedge Rangaedge 1094 11
    14 Team Sky Blue NeilG83 1092 8
    15 mischelka mischelka 1086 5
    15= Hinaults Uno Hinaults Uno 1086 3
    17 Eds Ripley Riders Eds Ripley Riders 1084 11
    18 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter 1083
    19 ProVelo ricycle 1080 4
    20 pclark007 pclark007 1076 12
    21 Got Milk TheDoctor 1074 5
    21= CPT RACERS KIEF77 1074 7
    23 Lampre-LSD ewen 1073 4
    24 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave 1072 9
    25 Klefbet.com kleff 1071 1

    Pretty impressive! :)

    May 22, 2013 at 8:50 pm #731043
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    dave atkinson

    enrique wrote:I can’t imagine

    enrique wrote:
    I can’t imagine there’ll be too many Standard players left in the running

    ten out of the top 20.

    so can we stop going on about it now?

    thanks

    May 22, 2013 at 5:23 pm #731041
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    northstar

    stumps wrote:Enrique, i still

    stumps wrote:
    Enrique, i still cant get over the fact you have so much interest and passion for the game but cant find a tenner to play premium, the mind boggles, it really does mate. :?

    I agree, it’s laughable, he should put up or shut up.

    May 22, 2013 at 5:14 pm #731039
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    enrique

    TheBigMong wrote:…so yeah,

    TheBigMong wrote:
    …so yeah, sometimes you just gotta do… nothing. 😀 …

    Gkam84 wrote:
    …took in Cav, Mezgec and Nizzolo for Uran, Nibali and Rollin today. Didn’t lose to much, but… X(

    Heh heh! 🙂

    enrique wrote:
    Well, tactically speaking, I beg to differ…

    Stage 16 is, if you ask me, a transitional stage… You could technically keep your team from Stage 15, which is right before the rest day, and score enough points to keep in the running…

    Stage 17 is a flat finish… but, again, you might do quite nicely to just leave the guys high on GC on your team…

    :)) Ha ha ha ha ha! Bow to the wisdom of enrique… Anybody care to argue against the foresight of the strategy I spelled out three weeks ago? :)) Hah ha ha ha ha!

    Bow down, drheaton, bow down STEVESPRO, notwithstanding your recent stage win! Then again, maybe I should shut up, after all, at last call, I was No. 591 in the competition and you were No. 54 and No. 195 overall respectively! 😕 So what? :)) Ha ha ha ha ha!

    Ok, so I’m a little deluded… Changing over to Visconti or Navardauskas, especially (!) Navardauskas, or Mezgec would have definitely done you good yesterday and today(!), but (!) all the same… it wasn’t such a bad or bold idea to leave the team unchanged if you were Premium or (!) Standard (!) 🙂 Just kidding, of course… Blowing off all the frustration of not being able to play Premium… =((

    May 22, 2013 at 4:55 pm #731037
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    enrique

    drheaton wrote:I can’t get

    drheaton wrote:
    I can’t get over how much he requotes himself.

    drheaton wrote:
    I know, tell me about it!

    :)) Ha ha ha ha ha! Good one! 🙂

    May 22, 2013 at 4:41 pm #731035
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    drheaton

    drheaton wrote:I can’t get

    drheaton wrote:
    I can’t get over how much he requotes himself.

    I know, tell me about it!

    May 22, 2013 at 4:41 pm #731033
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    drheaton

    I can’t get over how much he
    I can’t get over how much he requotes himself.

    May 22, 2013 at 4:19 pm #731031
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    Stumps

    Enrique, i still cant get
    Enrique, i still cant get over the fact you have so much interest and passion for the game but cant find a tenner to play premium, the mind boggles, it really does mate. 😕

    May 22, 2013 at 3:54 am #731029
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    enrique

    enrique wrote:… I can’t

    enrique wrote:
    … I can’t imagine there’ll be too many Standard players left in the running at that point [this week}…

    I could never have imagined how wrong I was going to be (!). The top spot and the No. 3 spot are being held by Standard players right now! Wow!…

    enrique wrote:
    … Stage 16 is, if you ask me, a transitional stage… You could technically keep your team from Stage 15, which is right before the rest day, and score enough points to keep in the running. You could techinically bank your 4 transfers from the rest day that day. And if you had a nice team for Stage 14, you might be able to bank those and bank 6 after the rest day. You know that sometimes… keeping the GC guys on your team turns out quite nicely…

    On the other hand, keeping their team from Stage 15 and banking transfers turned out pretty nicely for STEVESPRO and drheaton! 🙂

    May 20, 2013 at 7:32 am #731027
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    stevemarks

    Maybe it’s just me but I’m
    Maybe it’s just me but I’m not sure I have managed to bank and use more than 2 transfers yet all season! It’s a nice thought but I usually seem to find a transfer or two I want to make each day. 🙁

    May 20, 2013 at 6:14 am #731025
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    drheaton

    I have banked 90 transfers
    I have banked 90 transfers and intend to make 12 every day for the rest of the race.

    May 20, 2013 at 6:00 am #731023
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    enrique

    enrique wrote:… The last

    enrique wrote:
    … The last week of the Giro seems to be tailor made for Premium members to stack up on transfers and come in with a bunch of sprinters on the last day… And therefore beat the crap out of any Standard player still standing! I guess it would probably take a miracle for anyone playing Standard to win in this scenario…

    Ok, so the last week is here… And these are the Standard Players left standing in the Top 25:

    Overall Ranking Team Team Owner
    2 Mountain Renegade tony kappler
    4 rock n rouleurs matanhale
    7 petiagos petiagos
    8 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave
    11 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter
    13 Eyeballs Out richardk9
    14 Chute Collective Chute Collective
    15 Indurains lungs Samacollins
    17 Rangaedge Rangaedge
    20 BaggyBoy999 BaggyBoy999
    23 Leipheimer not weeks memories of meseeuw

    I have to admit there are way (!) more Standard Players up there in the Top 25 than I expected! (11/25) 🙂 So maybe, banking transfers is realy not that (!) much of an advantage! :O

    Now, it would be cool to know how may people will start banking transfers, how many will use all 4 rest day transfers, how many will bank 2 for Wednesday and how many people will be able to bank any more than 4 for the last stage… But, of course that would be giving away your strategy 🙂

    So, if you’re up to it, I would love to hear how many transfers you end up saving for Sunday! Thanks! 🙂

    May 17, 2013 at 10:47 am #731021
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    ray silvester

    4th place Jonas Lorenzen is a
    4th place Jonas Lorenzen is a premium player?

    May 15, 2013 at 10:25 pm #731019
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    enrique

    enrique wrote:…I guess it

    enrique wrote:
    …I guess it would probably take a miracle for anyone playing Standard to win in this scenario….

    I stand corrected. 11 Stages in and these are the highest ranking Standard Players in the Giro overall competition…

    3 petiagos petiagos 1155
    4 Pharmacie Roulant Jonas Lorenzen 1144 2
    5 Eyeballs Out richardk9 1135
    6 Mountain Renegade tony kappler 1127 2
    7 Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan 1124
    8 karlake2 karlake2 1122 3
    9 ZACATON anita 1115
    10 Indurains lungs Samacollins 1105 7
    11 rock n rouleurs matanhale 1099 8
    12 Team Velosive Sebbe87 1094 4
    12= Rangaedge Rangaedge 1094 11
    14 Team Sky Blue NeilG83 1092 8
    15 mischelka mischelka 1086 5
    15= Hinaults Uno Hinaults Uno 1086 3
    17 Eds Ripley Riders Eds Ripley Riders 1084 11
    18 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter 1083
    19 ProVelo ricycle 1080 4
    20 pclark007 pclark007 1076 12
    21 Got Milk TheDoctor 1074 5
    21= CPT RACERS KIEF77 1074 7
    23 Lampre-LSD ewen 1073 4
    24 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave 1072 9
    25 Klefbet.com kleff 1071 1

    Pretty impressive! 🙂

    May 2, 2013 at 10:01 pm #731017
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    obutterwick

    I thought we’d had a few
    I thought we’d had a few weeks without this raising it’s head again.

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