Velominati Super Prestige

The Velominati Super Prestige is a season-long competition wherein readers will be submitting their predictions for the top five finishers of each qualifying race.  In order to qualify, your picks via the VSP Picks form above the posts section of the VSP Event article pertaining to the race in question by the time the countdown clock goes to zero at midnight on the day of the race start. These articles are clearly marked and are generally posted at least 72 hours in advance of each event. The current leader of the competition has the honor of posting on the site bearing the VSP Leader’s badge; winners of select races (the monuments and Grand Tours) similarly gain the honor of posting with a dedicated badge for the remainder of the year. Prizes may be given for key events; these prizes will be announced on the associated VSP Event. Points will be tallied as the season progresses and the winner will be announced after Paris-Tours. Prizes to be determined.

Scoring (One-Day Races)

Readers who wish to enter shall enter their predictions for the top five placings of each race by the time the countdown clock goes to zero at midnight PDT on the day of the race. Regular Points Points will be scored in reverse order of finishing order: 7 points for first place, 5 points for second, 4 for third, 3 for fourth, and 2 for fifth.  Readers will also earn 1 bonus point for every other rider named in the top five, regardless of the rider’s placing, but riders are not scored twice. Tie Breaking In the event of a tie, the first reader to submit their predictions will be named the winner.

Scoring (Grand Tours)

Readers who wish to enter shall enter their predictions for the top five placings on General Classification of each Grand Tour by the time the countdown clock goes to zero at midnight PDT on the day of the first stage or prologue. Points Points will be scored as follows based on the final G.C of the race: 20 points for first place, 15 for second, 10 for third, 7 for fourth, and 5 for fifth; plus 3 points per rider in the top five regardless of the rider’s placing, but riders are not scored twice. Changing of the Picks* Contestants are allowed to make line up changes on one of the rest days of the Grand Tours but not both. These changes will come with a point penalty.  You will be allotted one (1) rest day to make swaps in grand tours; you may pick either the first or second rest day. The penalties for swapping will be lower for the first rest day than the second. This will allow you to swap out a rider(s) who gets caught in some first week nervousness  with a 5 point penalty for each swap. Or make some go for broke/doomed to fail break-away swap on the second rest day for a 10 point penalty for each swap. That’s it. You make one swap or five on either rest day for the corresponding 5 or 10 point penalty per swap. Additionally, if one of your riders crashes out, DNF’s, or DNS’s, you may swap them out on a rest day with corresponding penalties if you haven’t already used up your one rest day swap. Tie Breaking In the event of a tie, the first reader to submit their predictions will be named the winner. Minor Stages We will be posting VSP’s for minor stages as well. Scoring is similar to one-day racing, except no bonus points are in play for getting the rider in the wrong placing.

Scoring (Minor Stage Races)

Readers who wish to enter shall enter their predictions for the top five placings on General Classification of each Minor Stage Race (less than three weeks) by the time the countdown clock goes to zero at midnight PDT on the day of the first stage or prologue. Regular Points Points will be scored in reverse order of finishing order: 10 points for first place, 8 for second, 7 for third, 5 for fourth, and 3 for fifth; plus two bonus points per rider in the top five regardless of the rider’s placing, but riders are not scored twice. Tie Breaking In the event of a tie, the first reader to submit their predictions will be named the winner.

Posting Badges

The following badges will be worn by current leaders of the competition and sub-competitions:

Overall Super Prestige Leader:
Milano Sanremo:
VVomen’s Ronde van Vlaanderen:
Men’s Ronde van Vlaanderen:
Paris-Roubaix:
Leige-Bastogne-Liege:
Giro d’Italia Leader:
Giro Rosa Leader:
Tour de France Leader:
Vuelta a Espana Leader:
Giro di Lombardia:
Overal Super Prestige Lanterne Rouge:

2016 Velominati Super Prestige Schedule

Les Hommes

Start

End

Event

Race Website
18.03.2017 18.03.2017 Milano-Sanremo www.milanosanremo.it
26.03.2017 26.03.2017 Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields www.gent-wevelgem.be
02.04.2017 02.04.2017 Ronde van Vlaanderen – Tour des Flandres www.flandersclassics.be
09.04.2017 09.04.2017 Paris-Roubaix www.letour.fr
16.04.2017 16.04.2017 Amstel Gold Race www.amstelgoldrace.nl
19.04.2017 19.04.2017 La Flèche Wallonne www.letour.fr
23.04.2017 23.04.2017 Liège-Bastogne-Liège www.letour.fr
05.05.2017 28.05.2017 Giro d’Italia www.giroditalia.it
04.06.2017 11.06.2017 Critérium du Dauphiné www.letour.fr
10.06.2017 18.06.2017 Tour de Suisse www.tds.ch
01.07.2017 23.07.2017 Tour de France www.letour.fr
29.07.2017 29.07.2017 Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian www.klasikoa.net
19.08.2017 10.09.2017 La Vuelta ciclista a España lavuelta.com
08.09.2017 08.09.2017 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec www.gpcqm.ca
10.09.2017 10.09.2017 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal www.gpcqm.ca
20.09.2017 20.09.2017 Mens World Championship Time Trial
24.09.2017 24.09.2017 Mens World Championship Road Race
07.10.2017 07.10.2017 Il Lombardia www.illombardia.it

La Femmes

Start

End

Event

Race Website
26.03.2017 26.03.2017 Gent-Wevelgem In Flanders Fields www.gent-wevelgem.be
02.04.2017 02.04.2017 Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres www.flandersclassics.be
16.04.2017 16.04.2017 Amstel Gold Race info@amstelgoldrace.nl
19.04.2017 19.04.2017 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine www.letour.fr
23.04.2017 23.04.2017 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes www.letour.fr  et www.pesantliege.be
11.05.2017 14.05.2017 Amgen Breakaway from Heart Disease Women’s Race empowered with SRAM amgentourofcalifornia.com
30.06.2017 09.07.2017 Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile
20.07.2017 20.07.2017 La Course by Le Tour de France www.letour.fr
29.07.2017 29.07.2017 Prudential RideLondon Classique www.ridelondon.co.uk/events/classique
17.08.2017 20.08.2017 Ladies Tour of Norway www.ladiestour.no
26.08.2017 26.08.2017 GP de Plouay – Lorient Agglomération www.grandprix-plouay.com
29.08.2017 03.09.2017 Boels Rental Ladies Tour www.hollandladiestour.nl
10.09.2017 10.09.2017 Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta lavuelta.com/Madridchallenge
19.09.2017 19.09.2017 Womens World Championship Time Trial
23.09.2017 23.09.2017 Womens World Championship Road Race

Standings

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Past Results

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2010 VSP G.C.

1. Andy 56 points
2. Geoff 53 points
3. Steampunk: 51 points
4. Frank 48 points
5. Gianni 47 points
6. Marcus: 43 points
7. Jarvis 42 points
8. Hawkeye 40 points
9. Rob 38 points
10. Brett 37 point
11. Robert Marques: 36 point
12. Joe 35 point
13. Marko 32 points
14. Scott 26 points
15. Roadslave 25 points
16. Ben 21 points
17. Ken 17 points
18. Pont 15 points
19. Nathan Edwards: 11 points
20. Souleur: 10 points
21. Crossy: 10 points
22. KitCarson 10 points
23. Mr Haven 7 points
24. Cyclops 6 points
25. Daniel 5 points
26. Sgt 3 points
27. David: 2 points
29. Dan O 2 points
30. Joshua 2 points
31. David 1 points
32. James 0 points
33. Jim 0 points
34. Ben: 0 points
35. Dale: 0 points
36. Houdini 0 points

*The Changing of the Picks rules are designed to promote fair play and keep the competition fun and open throughout the three-week race.  Abuse of these rules will be managed through the “Piti Principle”: if we we feel you are attempting to exploit loopholes or otherwise take advantage of the Changing of the Picks rules, we will penalize you by deducting points from your total score. Much like the UCI doping suspensions, the amount of points deducted will be based on how egregious the abuse was.

2,331 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige”

  2. @frank

    @Marcus

    @frank

    Anyone who watched your hour attempt would have realised how much riding time has been stolen from you by this site.

    Brilliant. This is why I am happy to burn more time writing code to replace your stupid Rassmussen posts with a YouTube of him crashing instead of just banning you outright.

    @sprider

    Your attitude still smacks of shit but if I misappropriated a comment meant for that sexist fuck Buck instead of me, then I apologize for that.

     

    HEY!  Since we are all being offended around here I am offended that I have been called a sexist fuck and offended that sprider was offended for the entire world of women (I’m sure that they appreciate your support) when I called a grindfart race a rhinefart face or whatever the fuck it was and accidently identified it as a women’s race so that made me a sexist and also offended that I went to bed last night before I could be oiffended by these offenses.   Probabbly also offended the entire German race by offending their language when I made fun of the name, but doubly offended the German Women as I did say women in a sentence. 

    Jesus, let’s all sing Kumbaya now and hold hands or something.  No, wait, I think that might offend someone.

    Ooh, guess I’ll “fuck off”. My response was to someone calling this “a women’s International ass fart race”. Guess you showed me who respects women…

  4. @roger

    buck,

    Yeah, I think I failed the “Bedside Manner” class in med school.  The only reason they let me squeek through was that the instructor was a female and she thought that I was so fuck’in hot that she could not fail me.

  5. @Buck Rogers

    @frank

    @Marcus

    @frank

    Anyone who watched your hour attempt would have realised how much riding time has been stolen from you by this site.

    Brilliant. This is why I am happy to burn more time writing code to replace your stupid Rassmussen posts with a YouTube of him crashing instead of just banning you outright.

    @sprider

    Your attitude still smacks of shit but if I misappropriated a comment meant for that sexist fuck Buck instead of me, then I apologize for that.

    HEY! Since we are all being offended around here I am offended that I have been called a sexist fuck and offended that sprider was offended for the entire world of women (I’m sure that they appreciate your support) when I called a grindfart race a rhinefart face or whatever the fuck it was and accidently identified it as a women’s race so that made me a sexist and also offended that I went to bed last night before I could be oiffended by these offenses. Probabbly also offended the entire German race by offending their language when I made fun of the name, but doubly offended the German Women as I did say women in a sentence.

    Jesus, let’s all sing Kumbaya now and hold hands or something. No, wait, I think that might offend someone.

    Ooh, guess I’ll “fuck off”. My response was to someone calling this “a women’s International ass fart race”. Guess you showed me who respects women…

    Obviously the reason you didn’t pour me a snort of bourbon yesterday evening is that you kill’t the bottle all by yerself.

  9. @dancollins

    Oh, cock. Sorry, its been an insanely busy week, as evidenced by the late posting on Wednesday. San Sebastian will be cancelled, but you guys should feel free to roll informally here.

  10. @frank Informal and just for my embarrassment.

    QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander***1
    SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel Spain***2
    RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin***3
    KREUZIGER Roman***4
    PORTE Richie***5

  13. RESULTS

    1. Tony GALLOPIN, RadioShack-Leopard, in 5:39:02
    2. Alejandro VALVERDE BELMONTE, Movistar, at :28
    3. Roman KREUZIGER, Saxo-Tinkoff, at :28
    4. Mikel NIEVE ITURALDE, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at :28
    5. Nicolas ROCHE, Saxo-Tinkoff, at :29

  14. After the full-tilt action of the TdF fun to watch races like the San Sebastian and Tour of Poland. It looks like JV stuff, which I suppose it is in comparison to the 100th. Still good racing, and plenty of good racers.

  16. Wasn’t sure where to put this.  Stybar takes the final stage and overall of the Eneco Tour.  Watch at 3:00 of this highlight clip to see him set up a hard right hand turn.

  18. I’ve just realised that La Vuelta starts in 4 days!  Going to be mental this year; as if it’s not always mental these days.  11 mountaintop finishes!!   When are VSP picks open?

  19. @Mike_P

    I’ve just realised that La Vuelta starts in 4 days! Going to be mental this year; as if it’s not always mental these days. 11 mountaintop finishes!! When are VSP picks open?

    No kidding!  Going to be a GT for the climbers!  I have my picks narrowed down to 11 at this point.  Will be hard to get down to my Top 5 and even harder to figure out the order of those Top 5!

  20. @Buck Rogers I’m thinking that if I pack my top 5 with certain Spaniards and Colombians I’ll have a fair chance of bettering my appalling showing in both the Giro and Tour.

  23. I know that there is no Mens ITT this year for points in the VSP but I figure we can throw them up here for bragging rights, no?

    1: T. Martin

    2: Wiggo

    3: Cancellara

    4: Mini-Phinney

    5: Gretsch

  25. BOOM! and we have the ITT result.

    Der Panzerwagen

    Twiggy

    Faboo

    After stage 6 on the Vuelta I think Tony Martin was saying “catch me if you can!”

  26. @Mike_P

    Its incredible how the tides shift; in sprinting Cav was unstoppable and then suddenly the last few seasons he’s less dominant and new faces are hitting the front. Same with the ITT – Faboo was a forgone conclusion until a few years ago and now Martin is dominating.

  27. I liked wiggins description of suffering in his interview yesterday – only feeling the pain of an hour long TT for the first 10 minutes:

    ‘The subject of tattoos came up because Wiggins said riding a long time trial, like tomorrow’s, at 57.9 kilometers, is similar to getting ink shot under your skin.

    “Everyone has different ways of dealing with [riding for more than an hour]; that’s what defines you as a time trialist. You can get into your own little world, you need to be able to deflect the pain,” Wiggins said. “I told Alex [Dowsett, British teammate], it feels like having a tattoo, it hurts for the first 10 minutes, but after awhile you don’t feel it. You get to a different state. It’s only when you finish, you cross the line, that you realize how much pain you’re in.”

  30. @frank He dealt with today’s proceedings with panache. When the delegates were trying to decide whether or not to have a secret ballot to decide whether McQuaid had in fact been nominated, he stood up and told them to stop pissing about and get on with the main presidential vote.

  35. We need a new award… not so much a wooden spoon…any idiot can end a vsp season on zero…but to end the the season with a solitary point…a numero uno….a solo….now that takes skill and panache!

  36. ugh delgado’d il lombardia need to be more careful or I might end up out of the top twenty. only maybe one more race on the calendar too.

  39. Another year of the VSP sees its autumn close and having completed my first full season and had a valiant stab at understanding womens cycling in a year where the Vos Boss was  not quite so dominant I have scraped my way through with bribes, use of virtual EPO, and copying everyone who seems to know anything about cycling, in to the top 30!

    I can now ease in to the winter, hoping that the conversations on mountain biking are kept to a minimum and look forward to a season of putting back on the kgs (7) that I lost this summer, so that I can once again give myself “a challenge” next spring.

    Keep the road posts coming and congratulations to the winners and all participitants….everyone who ranked above me is off my christmas card list!

  40. Congrats to dancollins and everyone who finished above me in the VSP. Although to be fair, as my picks were generally woeful, knee-jerky and cribbed from the guesses of others, I shouldn’t be surprised. Hours will be spent on the trainer this winter prepping for a better run next year.

  41. I came in very late this year but am already anticipating 2014 VSP. A big thanks to the site admins for putting this on and maintaining a great site. Allows me to participate in something when all the talk at the office is of fantasy football.

  42. Calling all Velominati who fancy cycling history!!!  Cycling Revealed has started their off season weekly quizzes.  First quiz is up.  SUPER event.  Every week there is a timed quiz (be honest–no cheating!!!) where you have 2 or 3 minutes to answer five questions.  Questions get harder as they go from 1 to 5 and more points awarded as they get harder.  Top score each week is 15.  I scored 8 this week.  Not my best start ever!!! Join in, it’s loads of fun and cool to learn.  You can also join the Velominati sub-competition as well.  Happy guessing!!!

  43. @Buck Rogers

    Calling all Velominati who fancy cycling history!!! Cycling Revealed has started their off season weekly quizzes. First quiz is up. SUPER event. Every week there is a timed quiz (be honest-no cheating!!!) where you have 2 or 3 minutes to answer five questions. Questions get harder as they go from 1 to 5 and more points awarded as they get harder. Top score each week is 15. I scored 8 this week. Not my best start ever!!! Join in, it’s loads of fun and cool to learn. You can also join the Velominati sub-competition as well. Happy guessing!!!

    Just got the email – will be joining in the fun shortly

  46. @Nate

    12 points.

    Fuck!  Already kicking my ass!!!  Weren’t you nrs5000 last year?  Man, it’s going to eb a looonnnggg off season!

    Also everyone playing:  PLEASE do not post anything but your score until the following week’s quiz is up!  I HATE it when I see someone say some shit like, “Wow, what a quiz all focused on Sean Kelly” or “I never realized that Merckx won the Giro and Tour in 1974” or whatever before I have taken it. 

    But, major bragging rights on the line here, Mates!

  50. @seemunkee

    1 point, yes it will be a serious ass kicking

    It’s all about the learning.  Just keep repeating that mantra, “It’s all about the learning”.

    Definitely gives me something cycling related to look forward to every week in the off season.

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