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. Eee heck – yup submit TdSuisse and I’ll see if we get a quorum of entrants by the close of Tomorrow UK time……….I thought I had avoided overlaps other than mens and women events.

  5. Tour de Suisse picks open till Sunday start time (The TTT is tomorrow).  Sorry been a bit distracted this week and missed it.

    If we get 7 or more entrants it will count in the VSP.

  9. Guys – the site was off again for a while this morning.  As a backup I have created a closed FB group The VSP Breakaway but this site will continue to be the main location.  I’ve sent out a couple of invites to test the group so you can either join or search for it if the main site goes.

  10. Porte

    Kelderman

    Quintana

    Izagirre – Ion

    Kruijswijk

    Is Sergio Henao riding? He’s not on the official startlist.

    I’m slightly underwhelmed by the line up. Do any of the team leaders have strong GT potential?

  11. It’s a really narrow field GC-wise, isn’t it? I’m always apprehensive of putting Porte up top, but barring crashes, mechanicals, or illness, it’s hard to see anyone beating him. (He says confidently, as if he’s ever predicted a stage race correctly.)

    Tour de Suisse VPS Picks:

    1. Porte
    2. Mollema
    3. Ion Izagirre
    4. Landa
    5. Kruijswijk

  12. @Teocalli

    Guys – the site was off again for a while this morning. As a backup I have created a closed FB group The VSP Breakaway but this site will continue to be the main location. I’ve sent out a couple of invites to test the group so you can either join or search for it if the main site goes.

    I’m not on Facebook, so fingers crossed that the site stays up…

  13. @mulebeatsdrums

    @Teocalli

    Guys – the site was off again for a while this morning. As a backup I have created a closed FB group The VSP Breakaway but this site will continue to be the main location. I’ve sent out a couple of invites to test the group so you can either join or search for it if the main site goes.

    I’m not on Facebook, so fingers crossed that the site stays up…

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    Indeed.

  15. @Teocalli

    Guys – the site was off again for a while this morning. As a backup I have created a closed FB group The VSP Breakaway but this site will continue to be the main location. I’ve sent out a couple of invites to test the group so you can either join or search for it if the main site goes.

    Henao is showing on Steephill’s site as starting. But if he isn’t, then please swap him out for last year’s winner, Simon Spilak. Thanx!

  16. @chuckp

    @Teocalli

    Guys – the site was off again for a while this morning. As a backup I have created a closed FB group The VSP Breakaway but this site will continue to be the main location. I’ve sent out a couple of invites to test the group so you can either join or search for it if the main site goes.

    Henao is showing on Steephill’s site as starting. But if he isn’t, then please swap him out for last year’s winner, Simon Spilak. Thanx!

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    OK

  18. So Porte first indeed, just because he was spotted by good colleague who shaves his legs and knows the Rules too.
    TJ van Garderen
    Kelderman
    Izagiirre
    Spilak

    Fwiw, am riding this coming friday from london to folkestone for charity ride and have been asked to point out kit fails at penalty of 5 GBP each.
    What do I favour? More fiails means more money for Demelza…. Anyway another opportunity to guide the unitiated.

  20. @KogaLover

    So Porte first indeed, just because he was spotted by good colleague who shaves his legs and knows the Rules too.
    TJ van Garderen
    Kelderman
    Izagiirre
    Spilak

    Fwiw, am riding this coming friday from london to folkestone for charity ride and have been asked to point out kit fails at penalty of 5 GBP each.
    What do I favour? More fiails means more money for Demelza…. Anyway another opportunity to guide the unitiated.

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    Which Izagirre?

  21. Current entries for TdS – still time to avoid a Delgado as open till the start of Sunday’s stage….

  23. @Teocalli

    Current entries for TdS – still time to avoid a Delgado as open till the start of Sunday’s stage….

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    I thought this started yesterday?

    Will I be allowed to hold off on my TdF picks until after the 2nd rest day?

  24. @chris

    Only if I fall asleep for the first 2 weeks.  Yes it did start yesterday but I was remiss so as the TTT does not massively dictate the outcome (maybe) The Committee passed opening entries till this morning.

  25. Results for Criterium Dauphine.  @Rick pulling away a little and I get on the second step for the second time in a row.  I doubt my hot streak will last long sadly.

    and current overall.

  26. @Teocalli

    Results for Criterium Dauphine. @Rick pulling away a little and I get on the second step for the second time in a row. I doubt my hot streak will last long sadly.

    and current overall.

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    Thanks again for all of your work. At the risk of a Rule #43 violation, my math indicates that I scored 14 points. If the scoring is 7, 5,4,3,2 and one point for NITRO in the top five, I count Thomas 7, one each for Yates and Bardet, three for D. Martin, and 2 for Caruso.

    Please forgive me if my math is incorrect but I believe that adds to 14.

  27. @Rick

    You are indeed correct.  I put just Yates rather than Adam Yates in the results table.  Revised scores as follows…pays to keep checking and keep me honest!

  32. @Teocalli

    @KogaLover

    So Porte first indeed, just because he was spotted by good colleague who shaves his legs and knows the Rules too.
    TJ van Garderen
    Kelderman
    Izagiirre
    Spilak

    Fwiw, am riding this coming friday from london to folkestone for charity ride and have been asked to point out kit fails at penalty of 5 GBP each.
    What do I favour? More fiails means more money for Demelza…. Anyway another opportunity to guide the unitiated.

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    Which Izagirre?

    0

    Ion

  35. @MangoDave

    @Teocalli

    One more needed to confirm Tour du Suisse will count……….@cary @kogalover @mangodave @sthilzy @baltosteve

    @wiscot seems to be Delgado twice

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    I wanted to, but every time I tried to load the site it was dead. Sunday afternoon I got it to load, but too late. Not so much of a Delgado, I believe, but more like a newspaper strike blocking my entrance.

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    You can always email me entries, I think you have my email address – or look up the FB page for the VSP if you are on FB.

  36. I’ve emailed @Teocalli, but so everyone knows my picks for the Women’s Tour [of Britain]*:

    1. Hannah Barnes
    2. Coryn Rivera
    3. Marianne Vos
    4. Amy Pieters
    5. Kasia Niewiadoma

    Also, so I am so psyched that Storey Racing are on the roster, even if Sarah isn’t racing.

    *the only reason the “of Britain” is missing from the name is because British Cycling – not the race organisers, British Cycling – own the trademark to “Tour of Britain” and apparently it’s not a Tour of Britain unless there are penises. Fuck you, British Cycling.

  37. Let’s try this again (failed to upload yesterday).

    Ovo Energy:

    1. Blaak

    2. Niewiadoma

    3. Rivera

    4. D’Hoore

    5. Hosking

  39. My OVO picks:

    1 – Chantal Blaak

    2 – Katarzyna Niewiadoma

    3 – Lisa Brennauer

    4 – Ellen van Dijk

    5 – Amy Pieters

  41. @Teocalli

    So I have……

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    Just in case you haven’t got this covered in your workbook, both Hannah and Alice Barnes are racing.

  43. @sthilzy

    OVO picks – (or Delgado me!)

    1. Niewiadoma

    2. Blaak

    3. Longo Borghini

    4. Gracie Elvin

    5. Vos

    0

    With all the issues accessing the site you get a pass.

  44. @Teocalli

    @sthilzy

    OVO picks – (or Delgado me!)

    1. Niewiadoma

    2. Blaak

    3. Longo Borghini

    4. Gracie Elvin

    5. Vos

    With all the issues accessing the site you get a pass.

    I assume I’m good since I posted my picks on the 12th.

  45. @chuckp

    @Teocalli

    @sthilzy

    OVO picks – (or Delgado me!)

    1. Niewiadoma

    2. Blaak

    3. Longo Borghini

    4. Gracie Elvin

    5. Vos

    With all the issues accessing the site you get a pass.

    I assume I’m good since I posted my picks on the 12th.

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    Yup all good.

  46. Quintana could not stay with Porte up to the finish today.  Is he still to peak or just not in decent shape for the TdF?

  49. @Rick

    Thanks to @Teocalli, who did a world class job of packing, my Giro prize has arrived!

    Thanks @Teocalli for all you do!

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    Excellent!  Good to know it arrived OK.  I was just thinking about that on my coffee stop this morning.

  50. @Rick

    @Teocalli

    That last little climb appeared to be short and punchy, perhaps not well suited to Nairo’s talents.

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    Happen you are right watching today’s replay.  Would be happy if they finish per today’s GC standings.

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