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The 2014 Tour de Freakin’ France prediction contest
Calling all Cycling fans. It’s the time of year we get up early, get dressed in our kit and then plant our butts in front of the big screen while Phil and Paul massage our ears with telling tales of racing past and tell-tale signs of the race being run. In other words, it’s the Grand Boucle, from the Pyrenees to the alps, from Normandy to the Riviera, July is when Le Tour rules!
Speaking of rules, here is how we are going to run the prediction contest this year:
Make your picks in the following categories:
1. Pick the final podium. Pick them IN ORDER. Points will be awarded by giving 5 for each rider in the correct spot and 3 for each rider on the podium but not in the correct spot.
2. Pick the green jersey winner. Three points.
3. Pick the polka dot jersey winner. Three points
4. Pick the winners (pick a single winner, points awarded on a win/place/show basis of 3-2-1) of the following stages:
a. Stage one the race Leeds off
b. Stage five The cobbles!
c. Stage ten Pretty Girls rule
d. Stage fourteen D'Izoard in the middle
e. Stage eighteen Hautacam
f. Stage twenty the race of truth
5. Lanterne rouge award; Pick the nationality of the lowest placed finisher in Paris. You don’t need the rider, just the country of origin (2 points if youre right)
6. The jingoism award; Pick the highest placed American. (2 points if you’re right)
7. For a tie breaker: pick the highest–placed French rider. No points unless you are tied.
And just to encourage and help him out, we will give Donuthole a two point headstart!.
I encourage anyone and everyone to get all picks in before the race starts. However, at the least, you must have picks for items 1,2,3, and 4(a) in before the first stage commences. Items 4(b)-(f), 5, 6 and 7 can be added later, but I probably won’t accept them after stage three. Or thereabouts.
Be aware that all decisions of management are final and non-appealable. And, to be clear, I am management. And I do NOT run a court of love.
This will be a great race this year. I know it. And maybe it will be relatively clean. Who knows. So get reading, And get picking.
p.s. Special thanks to mtnbiker who agreed to let me have my fun running this thing this year. I suspect everyone will be clamoring to go back to his steady ways very soon, but he was very gracious in letting me play. I appreciate it.
well don't just sit there, send me your picks!
Calling all Cycling fans. It’s the time of year we get up early, get dressed in our kit and then plant our butts in front of the big screen while Phil and Paul massage our ears with telling tales of racing past and tell-tale signs of the race being run. In other words, it’s the Grand Boucle, from the Pyrenees to the alps, from Normandy to the Riviera, July is when Le Tour rules!
Speaking of rules, here is how we are going to run the prediction contest this year:
Make your picks in the following categories:
1. Pick the final podium. Pick them IN ORDER. Points will be awarded by giving 5 for each rider in the correct spot and 3 for each rider on the podium but not in the correct spot.
2. Pick the green jersey winner. Three points.
3. Pick the polka dot jersey winner. Three points
4. Pick the winners (pick a single winner, points awarded on a win/place/show basis of 3-2-1) of the following stages:
a. Stage one the race Leeds off
b. Stage five The cobbles!
c. Stage ten Pretty Girls rule
d. Stage fourteen D'Izoard in the middle
e. Stage eighteen Hautacam
f. Stage twenty the race of truth
5. Lanterne rouge award; Pick the nationality of the lowest placed finisher in Paris. You don’t need the rider, just the country of origin (2 points if youre right)
6. The jingoism award; Pick the highest placed American. (2 points if you’re right)
7. For a tie breaker: pick the highest–placed French rider. No points unless you are tied.
And just to encourage and help him out, we will give Donuthole a two point headstart!.
I encourage anyone and everyone to get all picks in before the race starts. However, at the least, you must have picks for items 1,2,3, and 4(a) in before the first stage commences. Items 4(b)-(f), 5, 6 and 7 can be added later, but I probably won’t accept them after stage three. Or thereabouts.
Be aware that all decisions of management are final and non-appealable. And, to be clear, I am management. And I do NOT run a court of love.
This will be a great race this year. I know it. And maybe it will be relatively clean. Who knows. So get reading, And get picking.
p.s. Special thanks to mtnbiker who agreed to let me have my fun running this thing this year. I suspect everyone will be clamoring to go back to his steady ways very soon, but he was very gracious in letting me play. I appreciate it.
well don't just sit there, send me your picks!
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