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”

  1. @dancollins On its way finally. Let us know when you get it. Just found it in the workshop and thought I’d shipped it already. Should just be a few more sleeps!

    Congrats on last years win mate!

  2. @il muro di manayunk no games, just calling it as I see it. Although I’ve had an annoying week – started with a flat and culminated in my team getting a thumping in the grand final today, so I’m not necessarily seeing straight at the moment.

    @Mikael Liddy no change. It looked like all the badges stopped working for a while a month or so ago. Mine never came back. No biggie though  – like I said, I just need to win another one.

  4. It looks like the WC road race results have been added to the standings above, but not time trial results yet, in case anyone was wondering.

  7. Anyone want to play unofficial Paris-Tours VSP?

    Septic Vmarke

    Snidely Degenkolb

    Arnold Demare

    Giacomo Va Nizzoli

    Jens “shut up Dave” Debusschere

  8. @xyxax These would have been my picks based on the preliminary start list.

    1. Degenkolb

    2. Demare

    3. Van Avermaet

    4. Nizzolo

    5. Navardauskas

  9. Oooh I want to play too?

    1) Navarduskas

    2) Degenkolb

    3) Demare

    4) Van Avermaet

    5) Nizzolo

  10. Women’s Chrono des Nations startlist: http://www.chronodesnations.com/19-liste-des-engages

    Only 17 entrants, only one of whom I know anything about. Solovey and then literally picking names from a hat looks like a viable strategy for Sunday.

  15. I love it! The Monday Quiz is back! If there is one things that keeps me going whilst all you lot talk about mud and cyclocross over the winter, it is Barry and the Monday Quizzes.

    Fortunately I picked up a whopping 15 on quiz one this season.

    Unfortunately this has now doomed me and it will be all downhill from here on in!

    http://www.cyclingrevealed.com/trivia/triviaindex.htm

  16. 3pts!!  WTF! todays was tough.  I should have known last week was a fluke..

  17. Trivia from today’s trivia. Full name of Knaven…Henricus Theodorus Josephus (Servais) Knaven.

    Quite the handle!!

    Oh, and who the heck is Rumsas? Never heard of that dude. Yikes, seems that he got his WIFE arrested and jailed for being his drug mule. That wouldn’t sit well with my VMH, but hey, it would allow a lot more stress-free saddle time on the weekends, without her around naggin’.

  18. 13 and 12 on the Trivia quizzes. Pity I’m not as proficient at the real VSP as I am at these. Might be within sniffing distance of a prize . . .

  19. @Ron

    Trivia from today’s trivia. Full name of Knaven…Henricus Theodorus Josephus (Servais) Knaven.

    Quite the handle!!

    Oh, and who the heck is Rumsas? Never heard of that dude. Yikes, seems that he got his WIFE arrested and jailed for being his drug mule. That wouldn’t sit well with my VMH, but hey, it would allow a lot more stress-free saddle time on the weekends, without her around naggin’.

    LOVE that name. Three names ending in US. Damn, they don’t name kids like that any more. It could only be better if they’d slipped something like Copernicus in there too.,

    Rumsas was probably the most blatant doper in an age of dopers and apparently a pretty unpleasant fellow off the bike too.

    I’m assuming your VMH doesn’t read this site? (Emoticon here)

  20. @Ron

    Hey! Enough of the clues Ronster! Don’t give any google ammo until the quiz is closed. Us mortals don’t need to be giving the brainiacs any mental blood bags.

    A pair of 11’s for me.

  21. @harminator

    @Ron

    Hey! Enough of the clues Ronster! Don’t give any google ammo until the quiz is closed. Us mortals don’t need to be giving the brainiacs any mental blood bags.

    A pair of 11’s for me.

    A-the fuck-Men!

    15 last week, 13 this week.  More than a few guesses this week, though.

  22. After a wipeout in the neutralised zone of this years VSP, I’m hanging with Luca Paolini at the back of the peloton for now – an eleven and a nine for starters

  23. Did I miss the podium presentation for the 2014 VSP?  Were there scantily clad podium girls sprayed down with champagne?  Post-race interviews?

    I had a good rookie season; ready to be in contention in 2015.

  24. @Floridian

    Did I miss the podium presentation for the 2014 VSP? Were there scantily clad podium girls sprayed down with champagne?

    Yep, and Frank groped one of them…

  26. @brett

    @Floridian

    Did I miss the podium presentation for the 2014 VSP? Were there scantily clad podium girls sprayed down with champagne?

    Yep, and Frank groped one of them…

    The real VSP is not yet over….The monday quiz has only just started and there is all to play for!!

  30. @Deakus Ok, was that some kind of Monty Python sketch? Seriously? I’m still befuddled. Mind you, not as befuddled as Scott Sterling.

  31. @wiscot

    @Deakus Ok, was that some kind of Monty Python sketch? Seriously? I’m still befuddled. Mind you, not as befuddled as Scott Sterling.

    It was a sketch from somewhere and looks professionally done but I nearly spat my tea out the first time I saw it!

  32. @Deakus

    @Deakus

    6 pts! WTF! I am doomed to a miserable existence…

    I feel like Scot Sterling!

    FUCK Me!  That KILT me (and SCOTT STERLING!!!)!!!  Too fucking funny.

    11 points here.  @wiscot’s making his move early.  Let’s see if he can hold it with the wind straight in his face like a 120 kph futbol heading directly for … SCOTT STERLING!!!

  33. 15 points here, lucky fuckin’ (semi) educated guess on Q5 to bring home the jamon

  36. God DAMN!!!  Got my ASS kicked for the second week in a row over on the cycling revealed quiz.  Definitely flatted and fallen off the back the last two weeks!!!

  38. Holy Merckx, 4 points this week as Barry throws in a rain-soaked cobbled stage !!

  39. @ped

    Holy Merckx, 4 points this week as Barry throws in a rain-soaked cobbled stage !!

    Indeed!  Felt like fuck’in Froomie with the cobbles looming ahead (not giving him any credit for actually riding any pave’ as he crashed out before even hitting one stone!)

  40. 9 points this week – clearly my eye-closed-throwing darts approach bore some fruit. 7 of those were pure guesses! If anyone gets full points this week, they’re either the reincarnation of Henri Desgrange and Felix Levitan or cheating to COTHO levels.

  41. Dart throwing was right – I scored a 6.  Clearly I’m not very good at darts.

  42. @wiscot

    9 points this week – clearly my eye-closed-throwing darts approach bore some fruit. 7 of those were pure guesses! If anyone gets full points this week, they’re either the reincarnation of Henri Desgrange and Felix Levitan or cheating to COTHO levels.

    Chapeau!  I scored 5.  I thought that I knew 6 straight up and hoped to guess a few right.  Guess I did not know as much as I thought I did! (probably much more common in my life than I would like to admit!).

    And yes, any 15 pointers this week are full of shit.  Probably why he put this one out, to ferret out the cheaters.

  43. @Buck Rogers

    @ped

    Holy Merckx, 4 points this week as Barry throws in a rain-soaked cobbled stage !!

    Indeed! Felt like fuck’in Froomie with the cobbles looming ahead (not giving him any credit for actually riding any pave’ as he crashed out before even hitting one stone!)

    i blame my ds

    crash

  44. @Buck Rogers

    @wiscot

    9 points this week – clearly my eye-closed-throwing darts approach bore some fruit. 7 of those were pure guesses! If anyone gets full points this week, they’re either the reincarnation of Henri Desgrange and Felix Levitan or cheating to COTHO levels.

    Chapeau! I scored 5. I thought that I knew 6 straight up and hoped to guess a few right. Guess I did not know as much as I thought I did! (probably much more common in my life than I would like to admit!).

    And yes, any 15 pointers this week are full of shit. Probably why he put this one out, to ferret out the cheaters.

    Agreed. 2 minutes isn’t a lot of time to sit there with another browser open to do “research”.

  45. @wiscot

    @Buck Rogers

    @wiscot

    9 points this week – clearly my eye-closed-throwing darts approach bore some fruit. 7 of those were pure guesses! If anyone gets full points this week, they’re either the reincarnation of Henri Desgrange and Felix Levitan or cheating to COTHO levels.

    Chapeau! I scored 5. I thought that I knew 6 straight up and hoped to guess a few right. Guess I did not know as much as I thought I did! (probably much more common in my life than I would like to admit!).

    And yes, any 15 pointers this week are full of shit. Probably why he put this one out, to ferret out the cheaters.

    Agreed. 2 minutes isn’t a lot of time to sit there with another browser open to do “research”.

    Exactly, but those registered with 2 accounts have all the time in the world…….

    Suspect No. 1

    cotho

  46. @ped

    @Buck Rogers

    @ped

    Holy Merckx, 4 points this week as Barry throws in a rain-soaked cobbled stage !!

    Indeed! Felt like fuck’in Froomie with the cobbles looming ahead (not giving him any credit for actually riding any pave’ as he crashed out before even hitting one stone!)

    i blame my ds

    crash

    Holy SHIT!!!  I have not seen that photo before.  Crazy!  Tour of Beijing?

  48. @ped

    @wiscot

    @Buck Rogers

    @wiscot

    9 points this week – clearly my eye-closed-throwing darts approach bore some fruit. 7 of those were pure guesses! If anyone gets full points this week, they’re either the reincarnation of Henri Desgrange and Felix Levitan or cheating to COTHO levels.

    Chapeau! I scored 5. I thought that I knew 6 straight up and hoped to guess a few right. Guess I did not know as much as I thought I did! (probably much more common in my life than I would like to admit!).

    And yes, any 15 pointers this week are full of shit. Probably why he put this one out, to ferret out the cheaters.

    Agreed. 2 minutes isn’t a lot of time to sit there with another browser open to do “research”.

    Exactly, but those registered with 2 accounts have all the time in the world…….

    Suspect No. 1

    cotho

    Too busy googling himself to play the quiz.

    At least 10 guesses from me this week. Happy with my VI.

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