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Giro game - pick three Italians
I figured I'd pull this into a separate thread:
Here's a game for you then, pick three Italians for 50 credits or less, combined fantasy score at the end of the race wins. Only riders making it to the end of the race count, if your's quits mid race, they get no points
Teams for far:
drheaton - Scarponi, Santambrogio, Locatelli
TERatcliffe26 - Nibali, Locatelli, Aru
JAndrewHill - Paolini, Santambrogio, Chichi
STEVESPRO 79 - Nibali, Pirazzi, Gavazzi
ray silvester - Nibali, Oss, Gavazzi
Dave Atkinson - Nibali, Santambrogio, Garzelli
Ghedebrav - Nibali, Gatto, Aru
Philip Unwin - Pirazzi, Locatelli, Modolo
chrisdstripes - Santambrogio, Salerno, Gavazzi
Gkam84 - Locatelli, Tiralongo, Cataldo
NeilG83 - Nibali, Santambrogio and Di Luca
stumps - Santambrogio, Garzelli, Pirazzi
Timbo13 - Nibali, Aru, Trentin
stevemarks - Nibali, Santambrogio, Bongiorno
Wig_Billy - Nibali, Santambrogio, Battaglin
spin cycle - Nibali, Appollonio, Di Luca
livestrongnick - Cataldo, Santambrogio, Pietropolli
djb123 - Scarponi, Pozzato and Caruso (Giampaolo)
SounDaz_7 - Nibali, Aru, Locatelli
hguop13 - Pozzovivo, Pozzato, Santambrogio
rcorbin - Nibali, Santambrogio, Garzelli
m.n.charlton - Nibali, Aru, Gatto
enrique - Nibali, Aru and Pellizotti
fico - Nibali, Santambrogio and Gavazzi
obutterwick - Santambrogio, Modolo, Aru
taustin789 - Agnoli, Aru, Nibali
Gmancervelo - Nibali, Aru, Locatelli
thorolf - Nibali, Santambrogio, Cattaneo
johnny2names - Nibali, Santambrogio, Garzelli
shishman - Nibali, Pirazzi and Battaglin
northstar - Santambrogio, Nibali & Battaglin
letgoup - Nibali, Pirazzi, Bongiorno
flying11 - Nibali, Santambrogio and Gavazzi
fluffchucker - Santambrogio, Pellizotti, Pirazzi
viveLaPants - Nibali, Pirazzi, Gavazzi
farrell - Sabatini, Tiralongo, Santambrogio
makiavelli - Nibali, G. Caruso and Locatelli
jasonbrim - Nibali, Santambrogio, Di Luca
smiley_boy2501 - Nibali, Santambrogio, Battaglin
stepho - Nibali, Locatelli, Aru
Mikeh789 - Viviani, Pozzovivo, Di Luca
TheHatter - Pozzovivo, Appolonio, Pirazzi
Alan Tullett - Nibali, Santambrogio, Canola
andynic - Nibali, Santambrogio, Garzelli
d_jp - Pozzovivo, Santambrogio, Salerno
Tuarts - Nibali, Santambrogio, Battaglin
debbieg - Nibali, Locatelli, Trentin
Rant - Nibali, G Caruso, Locatelli
Feel free to pitch in your team, no prizes but a bit of fun.
EDIT: Dave has confirmed that there'll be a prize for the winner pulled from the legendary road.cc swag bag so get your teams in fast. Deadline is 12:00 on Saturday (midday).
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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Same as my purist team. Robbed by snow
I'm picking sprinters all the way for Le Tour just in case the snow continues
Forgot to say: good game good game
Can we do this every time?
Criterium - ??
TDF - 3 brits
Vuelta - almost certainly 3 colombians
Or should it be kept as native riders??
The format works best with grand tours and I think native riders gives more variety.
Three Brits at the tour would basically be half the teams with Cav, half with Froome then people scrambling around for cheap riders, unless there are no Brits under 5 credits in which case it becomes even less varied.
The other thing is that with the format being what it is and abandons scoring zero the three week long races add a level of unpredictability to it and as in the Giro, being well out in front after week one doesn't mean you'll win.
I'm happy to let people run other races but I'll only be doing the grand tours with native riders.
Not that I want to run it
but what about pick three 3.0 riders for the Dauphine? Here's mine, just in case! 
Natnael Barhane
Florian Guillou
Pieter Serry
Do I get a prize if Nibali tests positive?
To add to Mauro Santambrogio.....positive test during Giro and now suspended....Go Vini Fantini(that could be the death knell for that team following DiLuca!!)
I can't believe garzelli let me down so much. All his buddies in Vini were on Edgar, surely he could have scored a few more points.... #letdown...
Can I pick 3 here?
U all bored yet?
Alright Brucie!!
I think the Good Doctor will have his hands full with the Grand Tours(native riders)?
Just curious, how has my score decreased since last week? All three of my lads are still riding.
Well Modolo and Aru have been flops so far. If Modolo's going to get anything it'll be today - on home turf.
As has Garzelli. It has to be his last Giro at 39yrs and he thought he might have done a bit better to be honest.
Update after stage 12:
shishman 388
Wig_Billy 387
northstar 387
smiley_boy2501 387
Tuarts 387
NeilG83 374
jasonbrim 374
STEVESPRO 79 340
viveLaPants 340
fico 339
flying11 339
Alan Tullett 319
Dave Atkinson 305
rcorbin 305
johnny2names 305
letgoup 305
andynic 305
stevemarks 304
thorolf 299
spin cycle 272
fluffchucker 272
stumps 263
ray silvester 257
JAndrewHill 253
Mikeh789 248
Timbo13 246
makiavelli 241
Rant 241
taustin789 232
enrique 226
Ghedebrav 222
m.n.charlton 222
TERatcliffe26 216
SounDaz_7 216
Gmancervelo 216
stepho 216
debbieg 211
drheaton 191
obutterwick 187
livestrongnick 169
chrisdstripes 168
hguop13 155
Philip Unwin 153
TheHatter 151
d_jp 150
farrell 149
djb123 128
Gkam84 59
Good to see a league without 'Hairpiece-William' at the top......Well at least for one day....
The loss of Battlegin will affect a fair few teams
Aye, non finishers don't score so that knocks all the top scorers out of the running for now.
Rest day 2 score update:
NeilG83 544
jasonbrim 544
fico 510
flying11 510
Alan Tullett 487
stevemarks 475
Dave Atkinson 471
rcorbin 471
johnny2names 471
andynic 471
STEVESPRO 79 465
viveLaPants 465
Wig_Billy 460
thorolf 460
northstar 460
smiley_boy2501 460
Tuarts 460
letgoup 430
shishman 415
fluffchucker 410
stumps 390
spin cycle 368
JAndrewHill 350
ray silvester 344
Timbo13 334
enrique 319
makiavelli 318
Rant 318
drheaton 314
taustin789 309
Mikeh789 306
Ghedebrav 304
m.n.charlton 304
debbieg 299
TERatcliffe26 293
SounDaz_7 293
Gmancervelo 293
stepho 293
hguop13 277
obutterwick 271
livestrongnick 264
chrisdstripes 262
d_jp 258
farrell 233
TheHatter 213
Philip Unwin 191
djb123 181
Gkam84 60
NeilG83 living up to his growing reputation as a purist expert.....even in a 3 man purist team!!
With Gavazzi thrown off the tour there are a few more of the leaders dropping away.
Why Gavazzi....Why ????? What have I ever done to you?
3rd now then. All I need is Di Luca to give up and I might win something.
Say what, I'm second?!
I certainly didn't expect that! I only hope that my three boys can keep it up!
Not to tempt fate, but what happens if both me and Neil come first, seeing as we have the same team?
Think Dave has said somewhere above it'll be a coin toss/random name pull from a bag if it's a draw.
Di Luca is out for a positive EPO test
His results should still stand though (I think the rules are like that), so it really is tooth and nail now, what with today's stage cancelled as well!
Surely his points are cancelled. He's out the race. Rider has to make it to the end for points to count.
The rules for this 'Pick 3 Italians' game say that anyone who fails to finish doesn't score.
In the main game i'm not sure.....perhaps we need some clarification on DiLuca(and Sylvain Georges for that matter)....Frank Schleck's points were DEFINITELY deducted once he tested positive at Le Tour.
Damn, so no points in this competition, but for the normal competition, the rules are stated as follows:
Disqualified riders
If a rider is disqualified or suspended then they won't score any points for the stage in which they were disqualified. Their other points from other stages will remain in the game.
So yesterday's points should still stand for Di Luca, and all other points. But no future points and nothing in the "pick three Italians"
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