The Rider wrote:
- Atlantius - You did very well. If I remember you correctly you might have been the only one with Hansen on the team sheet.
Nope, I picked Hansen too, but he was in last position. I was actually thinking about moving him way up front but I think I forgot it. Either way, I completely underestimated him. Obviously I regret that now.
Two riders in Flop of the Tournament from Cartoon Network? Yeah, that seems about right.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
The difference is 42 points. Morkov lost 30 points due his fall (75 to 45). So it's less disappointed now I know that fall didn't make any sense. Congrats to Atlantius. IMO it was the best TOTC so far when you look to the GC. There was a great battle between many riders and there was no domination.
Good to have someone in the best and worst teams I have some ground to catch up in the Lifetime Rankings but still 3rd out of the people who have done 3
3 stages wins, points jersey, 10th in GC, 6th in Final Ultra classification...
Cartoon Network has truyl shown its massive potential of #swag... whatever.
Throughout the 3 weeks of T.O.T.C. 4 Cartoon Network was one of the most active, hard-working and ultimately best teams of the race. Incredible competitive and resilient in the sprint stages, eagerly attacking on any opportunity and keeping up at the cobbles as well as in the mountains, the team has perfroemd a stellar all around the circuit. Although our captain Mosquera as well as his luxury domestique in the mountains, Oscar Pujal, abandonend early on, the team fought its way back on top, which started with a stage win by Julian Dean. The cobbles were tough to us but we managed to snatch some points there too. The second week meanwhile turned, similiar to T.O.T.C. 3, into a true feast of point-scoring with stage wins by Julian Dean and Jürgen van de Walle. Numerous top 10 rankings by Cyril Lemoine and Julian Dean topped off this great week.
We were long-time among the three to four best teams, but eventually made too less points in the final week to prevent that other teams overtook us due to the General Classification points. Still, we got some points there too and achieved a total of 363 Points. Cartoon's Network was obviously no joke to be laughed about.
Team manager of Cartoon Network has been so pleased that they would like to nominate each of their riders for the Team of the Tournament. Even Mosquera and Pujol. However, we think that this might be weird, so... yeah.
Pot 1:
Adam Hansen, for winning the damn thing in a very calm manner. T-Mobile looked to have it in their hands, even when Hansen didn't wear the leader's jersey.
Julian Dean: 2 stage wins, numerous top 3 and top 10 rankings, a stackload of points... and the points jersey. This guy was nearly unbeatable thanks to an often-times perfect lead-out. Unfortunately in the third week, he lost a bit of his punch on the final meters and could have won one more stage.
Pot 2:
Cyril Lemoine: Included in the official Tour of the Tournament, Cyril really deserves it. He was basically everywhere. A huge force behind Dean's wins, a surprisingly good man for the mountains and we are sure he could have had the stage win too; it really was in there somewhere. Most surprisingly though is how he easy he overtook the lead from Mosquera, when his captain fell out of the race. Lemoine could have been even higher, hadn't he helped Mosquera one the first cobblestage and lost about 2-3 minutes. Grade A!
Tom Leezer: Taking the jersey on the first, and probably toughest, cobbles stage is great, winning that stage is even better. That's always a certain nomination. He just had to give it away to Dyselinck the next day already.
Dimitriy Muravyev, just like Lemoine he might have been underrated or a real outperformer for his group, as he finished 7th overall and brought some big points to 7up.
Pot 3:
Tadej Valjavec, set of the winning spree of Aviva - Ryan Air and was very active later on.
Hossein Alizdeh, similiar to Aviva- Ryan Air - Alizdeh was the second of Team 7up in a row... and he beat Popovych!
Jürgen Van de Walle, the reason why Cartoon Network could build up such massive sprint trains. And he rewarded himself with a stage win too!
Dmitry Kozontchuk, another very active rider in the mountains.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V