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. Another tough quiz in my opinion!  Please no spoilers until JAN on the subject.  I managed a 10 but got a bit lucky.

  2. Loved having a Trivia Monday about the Vuelta. Still had to guess a couple though.

  3. Wow, Barry must be feeling kind for the New Year – 100%, and, for the first time, not through luck.

     

  4. Dasn! Perfect today – but that’s what lucky guesses bring. I wish they had more questions based on photies though.

  5. A mere 6pts I am obviously battling with the man with hammer this season.

  6. About fucking time, a 15. Been on the downward slide for weeks, and the time we have to answer 15 questions instead of five I get it right…

  7. @ped Happy Birthday. My GC hopes are gone with two 2’s and a 3 this month. NFI and bad guesswork.

  8. 12 today but me, there a couple of crazy guesses in there. It kinda pisses me off – as far as I’m concerned anyone who’s getting perfect scores (or near perfect) is cheating. No way can you get perfect scores unless you have a couple of browsers or a couple of entrant names. I mean, cheating on this is like doing drugs in a Cat 3 race. It’s fun and for bragging rights, but I guess if you need to cheat at an online quiz with no prizes at stake, you are quite the opposite of a winner.

  9. @wiscot

    12 today but me, there a couple of crazy guesses in there. It kinda pisses me off – as far as I’m concerned anyone who’s getting perfect scores (or near perfect) is cheating. No way can you get perfect scores unless you have a couple of browsers or a couple of entrant names. I mean, cheating on this is like doing drugs in a Cat 3 race. It’s fun and for bragging rights, but I guess if you need to cheat at an online quiz with no prizes at stake, you are quite the opposite of a winner.

    Was just thinking the same thing. The leaderboard is ridiculous. So many obscure questions this year. I just took this weeks and last weeks and totalled 8 from a possible 30. Shite.

  10. Any ideas on when the 2015 VSP schedule will be up, I need to order new tea leaves (last years were crap), buy a couple of rabbits feet and hang some dead rodents around the perimeter of my house.  I have put in a call to Loki and offered up my soul and joined every religion I can think of.  Just really want that frame this year!

  11. Hey!  I can log in!  Excellent!

    On the side, Ass officially kicked this week on Barry’s Quiz.  My recent streak of decent results is blown away.  DAMN!

  12. Home run last week but a shabby 8 this week. Anyone who gets full marks week-in-week-out is doping.

  13. Here’s hoping my VSP form comes close to my Trivia Monday form. Might keep things interesting instead of being resigned to wishful thinking by the time Roubaix rolls around.

  14. 7 for me this week – wouldn’t be a proper Trivia Monday without a couple of total guesses.

  15. 10 today for Trivia Monday. I was only confident on the last one. Barry sure finished with a tough one!

  16. @wiscot

    10 today for Trivia Monday. I was only confident on the last one. Barry sure finished with a tough one!

    Ohhhh you Bastardo!  I managed an 8 but it was touch and go.  Damn, Barry has really NOT been pulling any punches this year!  Great stuff, though.  Cannot wait for the final standings as  have been just hanging off the podium all season (I went by BananaBob this year as my daughter told me that should be my name this time around. :) )

  17. Congrats to Tom Mc on finishing #20 on the overall Trivia Monday standings! Great job when you consider how many take part and that the winner is clearly cheating – a perfect score every fucking week? Are you kidding me? Can’t wait for next year!

  18. @wiscot

    Cheers mate. I’m in the same boat as you when it comes to whoever it is getting perfect scores every week – either a) they’re cheating at a free online trivia game; or b) they’re an even bigger cycling bore than I am. Either way it probably doesn’t reflect that well.
    Anyway, bring on this year’s VSP!

  19. I think it was Frank that posted that the weather was looking like making for a wet and windy GW; it did occur to me to change my tips accordingly but I hate changing tips – as if figuring out form, protected riders, rider’s season goals, and who’s due for some luck isn’t enough, you’ve also got to be a weather man!

    The Ronden are going to be so tough to pick this weekend – so many riders and teams in the mix.

  20. I’m confused how does dyalander get 24 after 17 in MSR and 0 in Gent Wevelgem. without calculating it looks to me like a whole bunch of people got some extra points from somewhere.  . . . . .amiwrong?

  21. yup, the bulk of my points have been gifted to me by the ladies. Do not ignore the women- the racing is superb

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