[Crit Race] The Herald Cycle Series
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roturn |
Posted on 23-01-2013 09:25
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The Bay Classic series proved to be very exciting and a nice addition. So next stop is South Africa: Port Elizabeth for the Herald Cycle Series.
Soon we will see some of the very best PCT puncheurs to fight for the win in the Tour de South Africa. Beforehead we will give some riders the chance to get a special preparation.
All four stages take place in the South African city Port Elizabeth. The Crit Series contains 3 flat and 1 hilly stage. The top 10 of each stage collect points, which will be counted together for the overall classification.
14 Teams with 5 riders each are invited to this Crit Series. Most of them will come from the African continent with Eritrea, South Africa and a mixed African team are having the maximum of 2 teams. Algeria, Kenya, Morocco, Tunesia and Rwanda will have one team. Only 3 teams from outside of Africa will participate. These are Latvia, Slovakia and Iran.
All PT/PCT/CT managers are able to nominate their riders. If many managers want to nominate riders for a specific country, I will try to form a well balanced team with riders from several teams. Some managers obviously will have more riders due to an African focus than others.
The maximum average is 72,99. This will secure that mainly these riders will participate that don`t get many chances to ride on their own in other races.
3 teams will have the chance to start as their own team due to their high number of African riders. These are Jaguar (Eritrea), Kenya Airways (Kenya) and MTN (South Africa).
The 2 mixed African teams will contain riders from Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivory, Cameroun, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabun and Namibia.
Points collected in these criteriums will also be added to the overall criterium ranking, which will be updated from criterium to criterium. More exact information about the overall ranking might follow at a later time.
So if you have appropriate riders, feel free to nominate.
You have time to nominate your players until 28th of January, 10:00 CET, so that I can race and report the stages right behind and ahead of the Tour of South Africa.
Edited by roturn on 23-01-2013 17:27
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roturn |
Posted on 23-01-2013 09:26
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Team South Africa 1 | MTN - World Bycycle Relief (RSA) | 1. Christiaan Kriek | 1. Johann Rabie | 2. Dylan Girdlestone | 2. Louis Meintjes | 3. Christoff Van Heerden | 3. Tyler Day | 4. Jason Bakke | 4. Herman Fouche | 5. Jaco Venter | 5. Johannes Christofel Nel | | | Team Eritrea | Jaguar - Eritel (ERI) | 1. Meron Amanuel | 1. Daniel Teklehaimanot | 2. Awit Gebremedhin | 2. Tesfar Teklit | 3. Tesfay Abraha | 3. Daniel Abraham | 4. Natnael Berhane | 4. Araya Medhin Dawit | 5. Jani Tewelde | 5. Elias Afewerki | | | Mixed African Team 1 | Mixed African Team 2 | 1. Ngock Yves Ngue | 1. Bassirou Konte | 2. Lotto Petrus | 2. Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay | 3. Cherif Abdallah | 3. Issiaka Cisse | 4. Charles Anguilet | 4. Salfo Bikienga | 5. Heiko Redecker | 5. Oumaru Minoungou | | | Team Algeria | Kenya Airways - Barclays (KEN) | 1. Hichem Chaabane | 1. Zakayo Ndbri | 2. Abdelmalek Madani | 2. Suleiman Kangangi | 3. Ben Youcef Abdalla | 3. Daniel Njorge | 4. Adel Barbari | 4. Hillary Kiprotich | 5. Youcef Reguigui | 5. Mujtaba Hussein | | | Team Morocco | Team Tunesia | 1. Tarik Chaoufi | 1. Ahmed Ben Matoog | 2. Essaid Abelouache | 2. Rhiad Ghdamsi | 3. Adil Jelloul | 3. Ali Akkouche | 4. Soufiane Haddi | 4. Souheil Khederi | 5. Mouhssine Lahsaini | 5. Maher Hasnaoui | | | Team Rwanda | Team Iran | 1. Joseph Biziyaremye | 1. Hossein Alizadeh | 2. Nathan Byukusenge | 2. Vahid Ghafari | 3. Rafiki Uwimana | 3. Mahdi Sohrabi | 4. Javier Hadi | 4. Rudolf Zhilenko | 5. Nicodem Habiyambere | 5. Alireza Ashgarzadeh | | | Team Slovakia | Team Latvia | 1. Matej Vysna | 1. Aleksei Saramotins | 2. Martin Velits | 2. Arturs Ansons | 3. Marek Canecky | 3. Armands Becis | 4. Robert Gavenda | 4. Martins Trautmanis | 5. Michal Kolar | 5. Ingus Eislers |
Edited by roturn on 28-01-2013 10:18
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fjhoekie |
Posted on 23-01-2013 09:29
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Oh great, I'd like to nominate Arturs Ansons for Team Latvia.
Looking forward to the Crit Series, will be fun
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Bjartne |
Posted on 23-01-2013 09:30
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Really nice Roturn!
Is there any maximum limit for nominees pr team?
If not, I would like to nominee the following 7:
| ALG | Hichem Chaabane | | ERI | Tesfay Abraha | | RSA | Dylan Girdlestone | | IRN | Mahdi Sohrabi | | SVK | Robert Gavenda | | MIX | Salfo Bikienga | | MIX | Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay |
Edited by Bjartne on 23-01-2013 09:38
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ggDonovan |
Posted on 23-01-2013 09:33
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Nice!
I want to nominate:
Adel Barbari -> Team Algeria
Soufiane Haddi -> Team Morocco
Edited by ggDonovan on 23-01-2013 09:34
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felix_29 |
Posted on 23-01-2013 09:33
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Too bad i don't have any rider who can participate but it will be fun to follow nonetheless.
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SportingNonsense |
Posted on 23-01-2013 09:48
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Could be a fun crit series for Jaguar
My nominated Eritrea squad is: Teklehaimanot, Abraham, Teklit, Dawit, Afewerki
With 2 Eritrean teams, the only way to fill them with contracted riders would be to take more of my Eritreans, but I leave that up to you.
And again, looking at other countries where 5 contracted riders wouldnt be reached without Jaguar:
Algeria: Madani, Reguigui
Morocco: Lahsaini, Abelouache
Rwanda: Hadi
Tunisia: Khederi
Theres 13 contracted riders eligible for 10 mixed teams, 4 of them are Jaguar - so I would definately like to nominate Konte. Anguilet, Cisse and Petrus will be happy to jump in if space remains for them.
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tsmoha |
Posted on 23-01-2013 10:03
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@Bjartne and SN: For this crit series, we won't give a limit on the nominees per team, as we wanted to fill up/balance the teams as best as possible. So expect all of your nominations to be accepted where needed. It's still up to roturn to balance the teams, but we prefer taking as many contracted riders as available here.
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Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 23-01-2013 10:16
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Sadly our only South African is too good on average, so again same situation as Down Under with Haijun Ma, noone from Metinvest present.
Anyway nice series, good luck to all.
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Mhaley45 |
Posted on 23-01-2013 10:47
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AMEXpc has just a single rider to submit. Maher Hasnaoui is a two time Tunisian National champion.
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ember |
Posted on 23-01-2013 11:20
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Biziyaremye would be happy to join the team from Rwanda. |
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MrDemus |
Posted on 23-01-2013 11:22
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Ekspla-Cision nominates. Aleksei Saramotins and Ingus Eislers for the latvian team
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roturn |
Posted on 23-01-2013 12:03
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@ Avin: Surely you will get more chances in later crit races.
@ SN: I thought quite long about Eritrea. But it was the only real Nation next to South Africa with enough riders under contract, which I prefer over free agents. Had 4-5 different start lists but this looked the most interesting/realistic. And with a long Eritrean row of contracted cyclists I though about this scenario. One mixed and one Jaguar team. So feel free to nominate a few more.
Will start to add some obvious riders into the team post. Some Nations will have to wait for their final squad as it will be decided when looking at all nominations, so that a lot of managers will have chances to have one rider.
Edited by roturn on 23-01-2013 12:34
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kumazan |
Posted on 23-01-2013 12:06
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None of my riders meet the requirements, so I'll follow this only as spectator. Hopefully it'll be as fun as the previous one.
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aidanvn13 |
Posted on 23-01-2013 13:49
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Team MTN - WBR:
Herman Fouche
Tyler Day
Johann Rabie
Louis Meintjes
Cherif Abdallah
Edited by aidanvn13 on 23-01-2013 13:49
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aidanvn13 |
Posted on 23-01-2013 13:54
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Other riders I would like to nominate:
Ngock Yves Ngue
Ben Youcef Abdallah
Rafiki Uwimana
Heiko Redecker
Johannes Christofel Nel
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tsmoha |
Posted on 23-01-2013 13:56
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aidanvn13 wrote:
Team MTN - WBR:
Herman Fouche
Tyler Day
Johann Rabie
Louis Meintjes
Cherif Abdallah
You may also nominate a 5th South African for your MTN-team, just for the case, that Cherif Abdallah has to ride for a mixed African team But anyway, looking forward to what Tyler Day will show here.
Edit: Okay, you did
Edited by tsmoha on 23-01-2013 13:58
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wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 23-01-2013 13:57
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Any chance of Oumaru Minoungou of Burkina Faso taking part? |
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roturn |
Posted on 23-01-2013 14:27
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
Any chance of Oumaru Minoungou of Burkina Faso taking part?
Sure. Will be in one of the mixed teams. |
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Miguel98 |
Posted on 23-01-2013 14:29
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No riders feet the criterium to sign up from my team. |
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