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”

  4. Eyes, brain and fingers remain unconnected as usual…..as previously mentioned just visualise the chaos of the final sprint moments of Djamolidine Abdoujaparov and you’ll get the picture!

  6. @San Tonio

    There’s this one as well

    Ok that one is equally dire…with the exception of the one legged, no hands, dancing on rollers which pretty much blew me away!  That is some serious bike handling skills there!

  7. After that orica video need some serious brain bleach. The marketing firm must b on  a bender now, wondering if they’ll b employed again… Perhaps the riders as well. Ouch.

  9. @San Tonio

    This reminds me that when @Nate lost his VSP Winners Badge last year, he also went back to the Vuelta badge. The Vuelta is my least-favorite event, but it seems to be critical for the VSP crown.

  11. @frank

    @San Tonio

    This reminds me that when @Nate lost his VSP Winners Badge last year, he also went back to the Vuelta badge. The Vuelta is my least-favorite event, but it seems to be critical for the VSP crown.

    That’s right.  And I still don’t have much love for the Vuelta, either.

  12. @Sky Yes – I figured that out after putting in my entries. As I said, had I a clue I might have done better, but presumably this is how one learns…

  13. @frank

    I just noticed that as well. I was hoping to retain the jersey throughout the season. At least I still have the Red Vuelta Jersy til August, or maybe I’ll win another one before then.

    No idea how that danish harlem shake video got posted twice it’s like the plague it never goes away.

  14. Duh it’s a screen grab.

    Congrats to @napolinige Enjoy the VSP Leader’s Jersey while you can

  15. Does anyone know where and when we will be able to submit our picks for Strade Bianche?

  16. @Jhortua there’ll be a dedicated article that gets posted where you can enter your picks, based on last week’s timetable I’d expect it around Wednesday or Thursday (assuming Frank’s got nothing better to do).

  21. @Sauterelle The only non grand tour stage race is the Tour de Suisse, which is a bit longer than the numerous week long races like P-N, T-A, Dauphine and all those Spanish races.

  23. @Frank just curious – but I had two picks in the top 5 – but no points?

  24. @TOM.NELS2120

    Check your picks, by clicking the arrows next to your picks. You can dispute it there if you didn’t get the points you think you should. Sometimes they don’t get mapped to the right rider.

    Please note that we will not manually go check your picks – use the dispute mechanism. Its impossible for us to manage otherwise. Thanks for your help in this!

  25. @motor city

    @Sauterelle

    @motor city I thought it was. Wondering why it’s not this year.

    i’ve emailed frank & marko to see. there is probably still just about time to include it…

    We decided to leave it out this year; maybe we should have included it, but we didn’t. We’re making this up as we go along. Seems like the race has lost prestige the last few years.

  26. @frank Interesting point.  It seems like T-A has the stronger field this year.  Although it’s hard to disparage a race that was Sean Kelly’s personal stomping ground for so many years.

  27. @Nate

    @frank Interesting point. It seems like T-A has the stronger field this year. Although it’s hard to disparage a race that was Sean Kelly’s personal stomping ground for so many years.

    That’s the point – it doesn’s seem like the race that signals the future Tour contenders anymore. Not that Kelly ever was, but aside from him, it used to be a window into wh ocould win the Tour later in their career.

  28. Any idea when the VSP standings are going to be updated with the weekends fun and games?  Have we got multiple disputes going on,  The scores look very low and mine is certainly wrong at present so I am assuming they have not mapped over to the totals/stsanding yet?

  31. @Chris

    La Femmes

    Race
    Dates
    Country

    Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    23 February
    Belgium

    Ronde van Drenthe
    9 March
    Netherlands

  33. @frank

    @Nate

    @frank Interesting point. It seems like T-A has the stronger field this year. Although it’s hard to disparage a race that was Sean Kelly’s personal stomping ground for so many years.

    That’s the point – it doesn’s seem like the race that signals the future Tour contenders anymore. Not that Kelly ever was, but aside from him, it used to be a window into wh ocould win the Tour later in their career.

    Man, just saw this.  You mean that you threw that comment out there 4 days ago and no one commented on it???  Man, we’re slipping aorund here!  Never a TdF contender??? 

    I bet Fignon, LeMan and Hinault might disagree with you!  He must have had them a bit worried in ’84 and ’85.

  34. @Buck Rogers

    @frank

    @Nate

    @frank Interesting point. It seems like T-A has the stronger field this year. Although it’s hard to disparage a race that was Sean Kelly’s personal stomping ground for so many years.

    That’s the point – it doesn’s seem like the race that signals the future Tour contenders anymore. Not that Kelly ever was, but aside from him, it used to be a window into wh ocould win the Tour later in their career.

    Man, just saw this. You mean that you threw that comment out there 4 days ago and no one commented on it??? Man, we’re slipping aorund here! Never a TdF contender???

    I bet Fignon, LeMan and Hinault might disagree with you! He must have had them a bit worried in ’84 and ’85.

    Or Wiggins…

  35. Has anyone been watching Boonen leading the peloton across France for the last few days on Paris-Nice? Sweet jebus, he just stays on the front and hauls ass. I’m thinking Tomeke will be just fine by the time Flanders rolls around. And he might do MSR for the training. More 300km rides, that’s what what we all need.

  36. @Gianni

    Has anyone been watching Boonen leading the peloton across France for the last few days on Paris-Nice? Sweet jebus, he just stays on the front and hauls ass. I’m thinking Tomeke will be just fine by the time Flanders rolls around. And he might do MSR for the training. More 300km rides, that’s what what we all need.

    Yeah.  It’s been fun fun seeing him try to make up for the early season racing he missed but I bet a bunch of the peloton would not agree with me!

  38. @Buck Rogers

    Tomeke hammering in the front, wet, cold gray day and he looks right in his element. No knee or leg warmers for him. And Talansky winning a stage, a very impressive day of riding all around. Except for the Sky rider who high sided it on a wet descending corner. ouch.

  39. For all you Jens fans, he is in a break of 4 in P-N, about to hit the final climb on an uphill finish.

  40. On Sporza, being annoyed by pop-ups from my own organization.  Fundraising is going to get an earful.

  44. @seemunkee

    Whens the VSP going up for the Ronde van Drenthe?

    Indeed!  By the way have I missed something….I was just wondering why Paris – Nice was not in the VSP? Go Jensy Go!

  49. Of course its one less chance for people to gain points on my 2nd place in the VSP.

  50. @San Tonio

    Of course its one less chance for people to gain points on my 2nd place in the VSP.

    Oh 2nd place… I hadn’t noticed.

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