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:
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| Milano Sanremo: |  |
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| VVomen’s Ronde van Vlaanderen: |  |
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| Men’s Ronde van Vlaanderen: |  |
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| Paris-Roubaix: |  |
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| Leige-Bastogne-Liege: |  |
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| Giro d’Italia Leader: |  |
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| Giro Rosa Leader: |  |
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| Tour de France Leader: |  |
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| Vuelta a Espana Leader: |  |
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| Giro di Lombardia: |  |
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| 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 |
| 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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[vsp_gc year=”2015″/]
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[vsp_gc year=”2013″/]
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[vsp_gc year=”2011″/]
2010 VSP G.C.
*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.
@frank
“There is something I do not understand here. There is a pain between my ears.” VSP points disappear. Vanishing Sucker Points 8 and 13 new points be 21. The 2 batches are not getting together in a cumulative sense.
@unversio
Mine looks a little funny too, although my brain is so addling I cannot be absolutely sure.I thought I had over 40 pts before this weekend and was in 21st. Post VSP where I had 3 for the mens (dan the man in 4th) and 8 for the womens (vos boss in first and johansson out of position) and I am still only on 47…BUT…I have moved up the rankings to 15th….I could be being a complete fuckwit here which is why I had not raised it, but with others having queries it seems sensible to check….Aidez Moi si vous plait..
@Deakus It’s a crazy world we live in.
Couldn’t it all just be thrown out and start anew?
Manually keeping track of VSP on a napkin is one way to capture points. 25
If you haven’t seen Wiggo’s bike toss at Trentino today… you should take a moment…
http://video.eurosport.se/cykel/bradley-wiggins-had-problems_vid274038/video.shtml
@unversio
I’m going to do a spreadsheet I think…..just to double check…….
@Deakus Do not use a computer. Napkin.
@Erik
Brilliant toss though. Couldn’t park it better if I tried.
@Deakus, @unversio
Two events were marked as provisional and not final by accident, which means they don’t get added to the overall GC. That’s been corrected and the results have been updated.
Thanks.
It’s looking pretty good to me right now. I’m sure that will change after LBL
@frank “You’re a great American!” And thanx for wrestling with code and numbers on our behalf.
@frank
Thanks Frank!
Want to get excited about the Giro? Read this fanastico preview from //INRNG http://inrng.com/2013/04/giro-guide/
I take it we aren’t picking the women’s Tour Languedoc Roussillon which starts tomorrow??
I now see on Podium Café that the race may be cancelled as of tonight.
@dancollins
That would be convenient as we completely spaced it. WHo does a single day race on Friday, FFS?
@dancollins
Yes, cancelled. Ceased to be. Pushing up the daisies…
We were aware of that. The VSP generator is all seeing, all knowing. It knew it was cancelled before the promoters did.
@Gianni
The Girls, presumably so they don’t clash with the boys riding up big hills. May mean they get 2cm of column space, but probably not.
Had to do some research on twitter as the regular bicycle news outlets didn’t even mention this, but apparently it is still on just starting a day late.
Rabobank-Liv/Giant team have pulled out of the race in protest of the shoddy organization.
Seems like a huge mess and it’s a sad day for women’s cycling for sure.
http://prowomenscycling.com/2013/05/17/on-the-cancellation-of-the-tour-of-languedoc-roussillon/
@San Tonio
Foooock me! Missed that one. I pick Vos for the win.
@Buck Rogers isn’t Vos on RLG?
@frank nah, Rabo Ladies.
@Mikael Liddy
It’s not called Rabobank Ladies, it is Rabobank-Liv/Giant. Which means Vos is not racing which brings me back to my jab at @Buckin’ Bronco.
@frank
Yes, but the point is that she is still going to win.
I only noticed because I was looking to see if I could swap out Wiggo for DNSing today.
I think Vos is racing the MTB XC world cup in Germany on Sunday, not road.
What’s the sitrep on the wimmins Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik on May 26th (aujord’hui) ?
Er……women’s Gook due vsp today? Any sign of the vsp going up?
@Deakus
I would have picked Emma Johnasson. Can I have some points?
@Bianchi Denti
Turns out everyone would have picked Emma Johnasson, so you all get the same amount of points. No change to the VSP.
Sorry that one slipped by us… but there was another race going on and we got distracted.
@brett
We still on for Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile VSP?
Ruhndfart in 3 days…time to roll the dice and guess the women’s sport once more!
@Keepers – Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen is due tomorrow. Can we have a VSP up please?
@Deakus
Cough…nudge…kick in the shins…is this vsp happening?
Guess there is no Thüringen Rundfahrt der Damen VSP? very difficult to find a start list, but if I had to pick it would be:
1. Emma Johansson, 2. Evelyn Stevens, 3. Elisabeth Armitstead, 4. Emma Pooley, 5. Ellen VanDijk
Are there any female riders whose first name doesn’t start with an “e”?
The women’s start list for Thüringen is on “Women cycling fever”.
@dancollins
Yeah, I knew that, just sayin’ it was not mainstream…
I was hoping for the points from this race to pull ahead of you…
@sprider You will have plenty of other races to do that!
@Deakus
I guess that one came and went then….anyone have any idea of who won it (I mean in real life)…? That was my one chance to claim back some points whilst all the rest of you Delgado’d and the Keeper let me down….
@Deakus
Um, it just started today, it’s a 6-day stage race…
The woman’s international ass fart race? I saw something about that on cycling news. Johansson and Armistead for a one-two finish today. Guess Vos is not racing it.
@Buck Rogers
Yeah, disparage the efforts of the women, pay them less, don’t post a VSP when one is scheduled, WTF? Most of those female pros could reduce you to tears in a cycling competition…can we give them some respect??
@sprider
Dude, lighten the fuck up. Any race named rhinefart or whatever the fuck it is, men’s or women’s, would elicit the same completely irreverent response from me.
And be careful about bitching about missed VSP’s, you might find yourself running the next one.
@Buck Rogers
Dude, I didn’t post it as a part of the VSP, that was the keepers. My point is still valid, let’s give the women some respect…
@sprider
No disrespect to the women; I’ll remind you that we took the VSP to the women last year with people kicking and screaming. Now its a fun mainstay of the series, which we’re incredibly proud of. We simply just missed it, races don’t normally start on a Monday and we just fucked it up – accidents happen. For the record, we have missed various Mens events as well; these things happen.
Each of us have full time jobs and are doing this when we have time – aside from everything else that goes into running a community which has grown completely beyond what we ever imagined and are trying hard to keep this place independent and fun, without advertising or asking for sponsorship from outside parties. It takes a commitment from the Keepers that I cannot describe to you, and one which you would struggle to comprehend without being on our side of the fence.
We are up nights, weekends, skipping rides, and missing out on family fun in order to keep this place running and free. We missed the VSP, but I take great offense to your comment that we are somehow not being respectful to Women’s racing. We have led the fucking way, so either curb your attitude, or fuck off.
@frank
Anyone who watched your hour attempt would have realised how much riding time has been stolen from you by this site.
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…
@Marcus
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.
@Marcus
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.