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 [email protected]
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. Amstel

    Philippe Gilbert

    Michael Matthews

    Michal Kwiatkowski

    Nathan Haas

    Vincenzo Nibali

  2. Partly with my heart, partly with my brain – but mostly without a clue…….

     

    Amstel Gold M Kwiatkowski Valverde Alaphilippe Nibali Vanmarke

     

    Amstel Gold W van der Breggen Pieters van Vleuten Blaak Borghini

  3. @Teocalli

    Partly with my heart, partly with my brain – but mostly without a clue…….

     

    Amstel Gold M Kwiatkowski Valverde Alaphilippe Nibali Vanmarke

     

    Amstel Gold W van der Breggen Pieters van Vleuten Blaak Borghini
    0

    Never let Valverde into your heart…

    And oops I forgot the women’s race.

  5. @RobSandy

    Yeah I left him out all last year on principle – cost me loadsapoints.  Not that it would have made much difference!

  6. @Teocalli

    @RobSandy

    Yeah I left him out all last year on principle – cost me loadsapoints. Not that it would have made much difference!

    0

    I didn’t pick him at all due to my unshakeable principles and won.

    That statement is probably a complete lie but we don’t need none of them facts ’round these parts.

  7. @RobSandy

    @Teocalli

    @RobSandy

    Yeah I left him out all last year on principle – cost me loadsapoints. Not that it would have made much difference!

    0

    I didn’t pick him at all due to my unshakeable principles and won.

    That statement is probably a complete lie but we don’t need none of them facts ’round these parts.

    0

    As I said “Not that it would have made much difference”………………..

  8. Amstel Gold Men

    1. Sagan

    2. Gilbert

    3. Nibali

    4. Alaphilippe

    5. Kwiatkowski

     

    Amstel Gold Women

    1. van der Breggen

    2. Borghini

    3. Blaak

    4. Pieters

    5. Niewiadoma

  9. Amstel picks

    Men:

    Sagan
    Nibali
    Dan Martin
    Valverde
    Tim Wellens

    Women:

    Moolman
    Neiwiadoma
    Blaak
    Van der Breggen
    Wiles

    Thanks!

  10. Ah-ha. The Amstel. Normally I’d go for Jan Raas, but he’s retired.

    Here goes nuttin.

    MEN

    Kwiatkowski

    Alaphilippe

    Benoot

    Mollema

    Nibali

     

    WOMEN

    Van der Breggen

    Blaak

    Borgini

    Pieters

    Niewiadoma

  12. @wiscot

    Ah-ha. The Amstel. Normally I’d go for Jan Raas, but he’s retired.

    Jan Raas was a super badass. I wish I could be a bit more like him. Not just as a cyclist but as a person.

  13. @RobSandy

    Amstel Gold

    1. Sagan

    2. Alaphilippe

    3. Kwiato

    4. Phil Gil

    5. Benoot

    Sagan’s put himself into the race which I think means he thinks he can win it. And I refuse to pick BadShit.

    0

    @Teocalli

    Apologies, re-jig. I’ve backed down somewhat. Sorry Peter.

    1. Phil Gil

    2. Sagan

    3. Alaphillippe

    4. Kwiato

    5. Benoot

     

  15. @RobSandy

    @wiscot

    0

    Hey! Thanks for posting. And to make that awesome picture ever more awesome, his glasses have holes drilled around the edges of the lenses.

  16. @RobSandy

    It’s Jan (Dutch for John), not Ran.

     

    Picks: Men

    Sagz

    Valverde

    Quiet Cough Ski

    Niki Terpstra

    Bauke Mollema

     

    Women

    VD Bragging

    C Blaak

    Long Borgho

    New I ad Oma

    Roxanne Kneet (the daughter of)

  19. Amstel Gold Women’s

    1. van der Breggen

    2. Niewiadoma

    3. Moolman-Pasio

    4. van Vleuten

    5. Longo Borghini

  22. Amstel Gold Women:

    1. van der Breggen
    2. van Vleuten
    3. Niewiadoma
    4. Moolman-Pasio
    5. Longo Borghini

  26. @Teocalli

    @RobSandy

    I can just imagine your work colleagues…….”It’s a WHAT?!”…………

    0

    I had imagined it to be just…only… a little bigger and heavier…?

  30. My Amstel picks …

    MEN

    1 – Sagan

    2 – Valverde

    3 – Alaphillipe

    4 – Kwiatkowski

    5 – Nibali

    WOMEN

    1 – van der Breggan

    2 – van Vlueten

    3 – Niewiadoma

    4 – Moolman-Pasio

    5 – Blaak

  31. Current status – a few need to check that their alarm clocks are not labelled “Stolen from Mr Delgado”……

  32. Where is everyone? Am I too late, have they started without me?

    1. Van der Breggan

    2. Niewiadoma

    3. Pieters

    4. Black

    5. Guarnier

    1. Alaphilippe

    2. Valverde

    3. Sagan

    4. Nibali

    5. Haas

     

  35. Well, that looks like an epic collective fail by the Velominati in the womens’ race.

    Which works for me as I can’t lose any ground when we’re all shit.

  36. @chris

    Well, that looks like an epic collective fail by the Velominati in the womens’ race.

    Which works for me as I can’t lose any ground when we’re all shit.

    A few of us picked Chantal Blaak to be top 5 but not win, so not total shite.

  37. @chris

    Well, that looks like an epic collective fail by the Velominati in the womens’ race.

    Which works for me as I can’t lose any ground when we’re all shit.

    0

    It’s a good thing we’re not betting on this…

     

  38. @chuckp

    @chris

    Well, that looks like an epic collective fail by the Velominati in the womens’ race.

    Which works for me as I can’t lose any ground when we’re all shit.

    A few of us picked Chantal Blaak to be top 5 but not win, so not total shite.




    0

    To be fair, she’d get picked most weeks so it’s not like it was a particularly skilled, insightful choice.

     

  39. @chris

    @chuckp

    @chris

    Well, that looks like an epic collective fail by the Velominati in the womens’ race.

    Which works for me as I can’t lose any ground when we’re all shit.

    A few of us picked Chantal Blaak to be top 5 but not win, so not total shite.

    To be fair, she’d get picked most weeks so it’s not like it was a particularly skilled, insightful choice.

    As if any of our other picks are???

  40. @chuckp

    @chris

    @chuckp

    @chris

    Well, that looks like an epic collective fail by the Velominati in the womens’ race.

    Which works for me as I can’t lose any ground when we’re all shit.

    A few of us picked Chantal Blaak to be top 5 but not win, so not total shite.

    To be fair, she’d get picked most weeks so it’s not like it was a particularly skilled, insightful choice.

    As if any of our other picks are???

    0

    True but if I’m right only one person managed to place a rider on the correct step of the podium in either race this weekend. That must be an all time low.

  42. Correct we were shite this weekend!  @chris – who did you think you had in the correct place?  Did I mistype something?

    We were so shite I don’t think any of us deserves a 1st= flag for either race……

  46. @Teocalli

    @chris – who did you think you had in the correct place? Did I mistype something?

    0

    Not me, I meant only on of us managed to correctly place one rider out of both the Men’s and Women’s races – @freddy with a 5th place for Sagan.

    There may have been some late picks as well but the report card would still say “…could do better.”

  47. @chris

    @Teocalli

    @chris – who did you think you had in the correct place? Did I mistype something?

    0

    Not me, I meant only on of us managed to correctly place one rider out of both the Men’s and Women’s races – @freddy with a 5th place for Sagan.

    There may have been some late picks as well but the report card would still say “…could do better.”

    0

    The result I pick up was 4 Sagan, 5 Valverde which means everyone missed – unless my result feed was wrong as I’ve been out today.

  48. @Teocalli

    @chris

    @Teocalli

    @chris – who did you think you had in the correct place? Did I mistype something?

    0

    Not me, I meant only on of us managed to correctly place one rider out of both the Men’s and Women’s races – @freddy with a 5th place for Sagan.

    There may have been some late picks as well but the report card would still say “…could do better.”

    0

    The result I pick up was 4 Sagan, 5 Valverde which means everyone missed – unless my result feed was wrong as I’ve been out today.

    0

    No, you’re most likely right, I was going from an early result on a ticker.

    What inept fuckwittery!

  49. Current thoughts for what they are worth…….

    Fleche Wallonne M
    Landa
    Wellens
    Henao
    Fuglsang
    Alaphilippe

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