Most Combative Rider Award

Good idea Ray, he can have
Good idea Ray, he can have his own thread and he can spout off as much as he wants. 😀

enrique wrote:
My hero, Gkam!

enrique wrote:

My hero, Gkam! 🙂 I learned how to interact on the forum from him. I owe him my ‘Irritability’ factor! 🙂 God knows how he annoyed the crap out of me last year! 🙂 If asked, I would would accept the Gkam Memorial Award for Most Irritating Poster for 2013! 🙂

Erm, thank you. I think I’ve got a few people interacting on the forum. When I used to raise points. It was a fairly new game and things were still getting worked out.

This is going back to 2011 and earlier.

The game is fairly settled now and I am also part of the team running it. So I can’t have been that irritating 😉

Quite a number of my suggestions and comments lead to things happening, some people would improve on my original thought and Dave would then put his touch on it and enacting it into the game.

One other reason I continued to post “provocative” thoughts and statements back then was to actually get people onto the forum and chatting, it was quite a dead place back then, there were only a few of us, maybe 10 who would be using this part of the site.

Now I’m not being big headed, but I feel that the forum has steadily grown over that time and a small part of that might be down to me :B :B

So carry on making comments and suggestions, one day you might hit something that will work. But don’t expect the warm loving friendly comments that normally come with the forum when you start new threads day in day out with grumbles 😉

That’s my “beef” with you, not really a beef as such, but do you need to keep starting new threads?? Try and keep it contained to one 😀 :B

letsgoup wrote:I think we

letsgoup wrote:

I think we should award Enrique a Combativity award for being, er, combative. I love his posts. Or I love the reaction to his posts. Have you all considered he just says things to wind everyone up. He cannot be serious surley :?

+1

I enjoy your threads Enrique and you are not the only one who has been known to raise the backs of other subscribers on occasion. You often raise legitimate points but I have to agree with the majority on this one – it is an official award and that should be reflected in our game, subjective or not.

The pedant inside me does request that you reduce the quotations and the icons though. You are on a rocky road to matching Gkam with his smileys and commas.

B-) :/ X( :”( 👿 😀 :^o :B 😐 🙁 :& 🙂 :O 😕 😉 (|:

I read this on twitter last
I read this on twitter last night….. 👿 👿

Given up answering his question’s, complaints, comments….etc. Someone go tell him to shut up ITS A GAME http://road.cc/82480 via @roadcc

enrique wrote:sm wrote:… I

enrique wrote:

sm wrote:

… I don’t think it’s right that we attack enrique for voicing an opinion….

Thanks…

sm wrote:

… Enrique, take the time to read TERatcliffe’s points and consider this next time you post…

I will… Appreciate it…

sm wrote:

… I like the subjective nature of the combative award. It rewards excellence and points to an achievement that cannot be summed up simply by saying I came first, second or third. It says: today this rider was special beyond the boundaries of the race and here we honour this special effort with our judgement.

I like it, too! 🙂 I just think it’s a lot of points for someone who probably already (!) racked up a lot of points 🙂

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

… Why not say things like what does everyone think of this aspect of the game… rather than jumping straight in with I don’t like x so we should get rid of it…

Ok, (sigh!) 🙂 Let me try a different approach… 😉

What do you guys think of reconsidering the points awarded for the Combativity Award and lowering it to 5 points only next year? 😉

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Enrique the biggest problem is your initial expression of your opinion then… it comes across as ‘I don’t like it so we shouldn’t have it’…

TER, you’re right… I can’t help but to write things like this and then I have no idea how it comes across so arrogantly 😕 I do love this game, but I am kind of unaware of how others take my tone online… It’s probably a family and cultural thing… We have so many fights a day in my family it’s incredible! We annoy the crap out of each other, get iritated, slap each other around and get on with it! 😉 No arrogance intended, really… I guess I come from a feisty crowd! 🙂

drheaton wrote:

… I have one question though, did you have Cav in your team yesterday? :D

I did… 😀

I also had these other idiots on my team!

Ferrari, Goss and Degenkolb… By the way, would you put your money on Goss and Degenkold making it to the end to contest Monday’s stage? You think Cav, will make it?

Goss done alright…..could be in Pink after the TTT(although I’m still sticking with my gut feeling that it’ll be Navardauskas).

Cav was at the front nearly
Cav was at the front nearly all the stage marshalling his team so that the break did not get away and was still there, without his train i might add, to come through from quite a distance back for a sprinter and win against some of the form men and quickets men around at the mo.

Well done to him and for that he deserves the combativity award imho.