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Classics Fantasy Game 2025
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 27-01-2025 09:09
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Team Manager
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Yes! I was thinking about this when putting up the awards stuff, thanks for the bump.
Name: cunego59
Team name: Cunego's Comrades
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| seancoll |
Posted on 28-01-2025 22:28
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Domestique
Posts: 542
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PCM$: 500.00
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Name: seancoll
Team name: Seancoll Spokes
Team nation: Germany (we take my country by birth this year after the disaster of America)
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| seancoll |
Posted on 28-01-2025 22:28
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Domestique
Posts: 542
Joined: 20-12-2022
PCM$: 500.00
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Name: seancoll
Team name: Seancoll Spokes
Team nation: Germany (we take my country by birth this year after the disaster of America)
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 30-01-2025 07:25
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World Champion
Posts: 14739
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PCM$: 10300.00
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Last day to sign up!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 31-01-2025 08:37
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World Champion
Posts: 14739
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Draft Order
Thanks to today's sponsor Random.org, we have the draft order for this year:
1) Seancoll Spokes
2) KB Cobblers
3) Fab's Fearless
4) UU L
5) Ollfardh Mariners
6) BBL's Bonkers
7) Marcovdw GPTs
8) Alexkr's Racoons
9) IE Ice Tulips
10) Jaxika Turuls
11) Imladrik's Inspectors
12) Cunego's Comrades
13) Nemolito Pacifiers
14) Laurens147 Hornets
We will start with the first three rounds. Reminder to read the rules so you send in valid picks! Every odd round with start with the Spokes and end with the Hornets. Every even round will start with the Hornets and end with the Spokes. So for now I need:
R1: A rider who has never won a monument
R2: Any rider with a World Championship medal, any category or discipline
R3: A rider from your home nation
Let's try to send these in by Wednesday 05/02 08:00 normal europe time. Let me know if there are any problems. Make sure to check your outbox that the PM is sent! Make sure you have enough names as well, we have a record number of 14 signups!
Please make your list in the following format, this will make my job a lot easier:
MERCKX Eddy
INDURAIN Miguel
HINAULT Bernard
ANQUETIL Jacques
Also, the next rounds are:
Spoiler R4: A rider born 01/01/2002 or later
R5: A rider with a GT Stage win
R6: A rider from a country bordering your home nation (pick only one country for your list)
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 31-01-2025 15:36
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Classics Specialist
Posts: 3516
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Looking at R2, I definitely can't complain with being nr. 13 
Procyclingstats, here we come.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 03-02-2025 07:26
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World Champion
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About half the PMs received so far, but there's still a few days to go.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 04-02-2025 13:23
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Tour de France Champion
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I'll set a reminder to get this in tonight. The mid-round position is never great early on in the draft, but we'll manage.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 04-02-2025 19:13
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Still a few PM's missing 36 hours before the deadline, be sure to check your outbox
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 05-02-2025 09:02
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World Champion
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Just Nemolito missing now (and we all know how much tilme he spends on this forum  ), so it's looking good!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Ad Bot |
Posted on 17-03-2025 23:47
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 05-02-2025 09:04
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Classics Specialist
Posts: 3516
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Ollfardh wrote:
Just Nemolito missing now (and we all know how much tilme he spends on this forum ), so it's looking good!
Ah shit, so you were right when you told us to check our outbox. Saying this in plural so it doesn't look like I was the only one to forget to press send.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 05-02-2025 09:09
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World Champion
Posts: 14739
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Deadline is tomorrow morning, relax
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 05-02-2025 09:18
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Grand Tour Specialist
Posts: 4850
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Ollfardh wrote:
Let's try to send these in by Wednesday 05/02 08:00 normal europe time.
Guess I'm living in a parallel universe where it's only Tuesday now
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 05-02-2025 09:23
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World Champion
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I may have confused myself at some point 
Anyway, all names are in so I guess I'll start the draft 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 05-02-2025 10:53
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World Champion
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Draft R1-3
First off, I always make a few mistakes with this, so sorry in advance. Just let me know here or in PM and we'll fix it. I will always correct my mistakes, even if it impacts others. So yeah, please bear with me.
Pedersen and Hirschi were the most popular names in Round 1, all in all very similar lists. 4 people got their first choice. I think Laurens had to down to 7th pick, which is more or less ok as he was 14th to draft.
R2 was mostly Mathieu vs. Pogi, with some people lower on the list not even bothering  As always I congratulate those who found some obscure track medals, and even a gravel medal!
R3 saw the overload of Belgians teams hurting each other as usual, while other managers were cursing some earlier picks.
| Spokes | Cobblers | Fearless | L | Mariners | Bonkers | GPTs | Racoons | Ice Tulips | Turuls | Inspectors | Comrades | Pacifiers | Hornets | | R1 | HIRSCHI Marc | DE LIE Arnaud | PIDCOCK Thomas | PEDERSEN Mads | LAPORTE Christophe | VAN GILS Maxim | JORGENSON Matteo | MATTHEWS Michael | GIRMAY Biniam | MERLIER Tim | COSNEFROY Benoit | KUNG Stefan | KOOIJ Olav | SKJELMOSE Mattias | | R2 | VERMEERSCH Gianni | PITHIE Laurence | MORGADO Antonio | SHEFFIELD Magnus | MOHORIC Matej | POLITT Nils | HAYTER Ethan | STUYVEN Jasper | SEGAERT Alec | EVENEPOEL Remco | ALAPHILIPPE Julian | VAN AERT Wout | VAN DER POEL Mathieu | POGACAR Tadej | | R3 | SCHACHMANN Maximilian | MADOUAS Valentin | SCHMID Mauro | MILAN Jonathan | PHILIPSEN Jasper | POWLESS Neilson | TEUNS Dylan | VAN BAARLE Dylan | VAN POPPEL Danny | VAN EETVELT Lennert | GENIETS Kevin | DEGENKOLB John | LAPEIRA Paul | BERCKMOES Jenno |
I will need the next round by monday morning, so 10/02 at 08:00. I'll try to remember the actual date this time.
Please send in:
R4: A rider born 01/01/2002 or later
R5: A rider with a GT Stage win
R6: A rider from a country bordering your home nation (pick only one country for your list)
After this, the next round will have 4 lists
Spoiler R7: A rider from a PCT team
R8: A rider who was in a PCT team last year
R9: A rider from your home nation or a country bordering it (pick only one country)
R10: Free pick
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 05-02-2025 11:05
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Grand Tour Specialist
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Oh shit... I thought 3rd in the draft would be enough to get Hirschi, really sad to not have him 
Pidcock should be fun as well, though, obviously heavily depending on his schedule. AlUla Tour was pretty impressive already. And if I can't get a Swiss rider, at least get one from a Swiss team
Morgado wasn't the prime choice, but definitely an interesting pick for the cobbles.
And Schmid was the 2nd pick after Küng, who even made R1 and therefore was never within reach. Last year was a disaster, and TDU was awful - but winning GORR is a pretty good statement. So hopefully some more points than last year ^^
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 05-02-2025 11:21
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Would've loved to get Politt, but that was always unlikely. Happy to be rooting even more for Degenkolb than I would've anyway, though Looks like Küng's race calendar is still up in the air, but if he does the usual races and performs similarly to the last two or three years, he should be a decent scorer. And Wout is of course great to have, I expect he'll be a very consistent source of points.
Cobblers and Mariners look very strong to me, Bonkers potentially as well with a favorable Powless schdeule, I think. Interesting to see quite a few potential R4 picks already taken in R2, that does diminish the value of Pick 3 a little bit, but still some good riders available.
Also, how on earth has Pedersen not won a monument yet?
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 05-02-2025 12:24
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Laporte was my 5th pick, so I guess you know who the other 4 were. I didn't expect to get Mohoric, so kinda happy there. Although I have a history of selecting over their peak riders who disappointed me in the last seasons (Alaphilippe, Sagan, Asgreen). Philipsen is a big question mark if he can repeat last year, but he should win something at least.
Cobblers looking good so far, with lots of cobblers. Pacifiers have great potential, but I'm not sure if Kooij is getting a lot of opportunities. Racoons also have 3 good picks in the middle.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 05-02-2025 12:29
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Classics Specialist
Posts: 3516
Joined: 20-04-2020
PCM$: 425.00
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Not unhappy with Kooij, think he is a strong sprinter and will go to some classics so good. Also as teammate from Van Aert, so possible extra points if he can't sprint himself.
Van Der Poel obviously not a bad rider, hopefully he does enough classics and if he just wins everything again i'm fine with it.
And Lapeira seems to have quite some point scoring potential as well in the bigger classics looking at his results of last year, and might join some smaller ones as well as semi-favourite being a Frenchman in a French team.
Fun to see some great names in R1 that I would have obviously liked as well but never even though of/noticed when going through some riders on pcs/my mind.
Thanks for the work, Ollfardh!
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 05-02-2025 13:13
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World Champion
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I'm ready to get hurt again by Van Baarle. He broke his collarbone in Down Under so that's actually very likely to happen.
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