I'm gonna tell you right now what a fail I did. I forgot to export the results and forgot some things. So sorry.
Stage 1
Today's stage is a 6 km prologue from around Liege to shake up the GC before the first week.
The TDF has started! Off goes a Vaconsoliel rider to start it off
Nicholas Roche sets off for us. He would falter around the 1 minute mark
David Zabriskie set the early best time in the American Champs jersey
Another one of our riders finishes behiind the canvas
None of our guys did much today, but the cameraman got a good look at Minard
Richie Porte took the best time from Captain America about half way through by a millisecond
The painful expression of World champion Tony Martin, who crushed Porte by 19 seconds to take the provisional win
Another great shot here of Hinault. Not a TT guy, he finished at 1:13
No one could touch Martin until Spartacus crushed it by a whopping 13seconds!
Peraud in the starting ramp. Not much today for him. He had bad form and finishd 22nd at 33 seconds back. There was a huge clump of riders pooled around him
Wiggins fixed his visor and exploded, finishing witht the 3rd best time, 15 seconds back
Evans secured a top 5, but the man of the hour was Spartacus taking the prologue
General Classification
1. Fabian Cancellara
2. Tony Martin +13
3. Bradley Wiggins + 15
4. Cadel Evans +22
5. Andreas Kloden +23
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22. Jean Christophe Peraud +33
I forgot to export like I said, so I had to copy the results by hand.
Edited by baseballlover312 on 05-07-2012 04:07
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
It is ok you will get better with experience, still some nice screens and JCP didn't lose a lot of time. Good stage
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
baseballlover312 wrote:
I 'm just haveing a hard time taking good screens and trying to get good results.
The lack of spectators doesn't help.
Just kidding, don't want you to feel any pressure whatsoever. Doesn't matter about results or anything, just keep on going and hopefully you'll make it the whole way. Maybe if you wanted you could skip the flat stages since you have no sprinter? Whatever you like, keep on going.
baseballlover312 wrote:
I 'm just haveing a hard time taking good screens and trying to get good results.
The lack of spectators doesn't help.
Just kidding, don't want you to feel any pressure whatsoever. Doesn't matter about results or anything, just keep on going and hopefully you'll make it the whole way. Maybe if you wanted you could skip the flat stages since you have no sprinter? Whatever you like, keep on going.
Hey, it's AG2R, then you have to be in the BOTD in every flat stage!!!
baseballlover312 wrote:
I 'm just haveing a hard time taking good screens and trying to get good results.
The lack of spectators doesn't help.
Just kidding, don't want you to feel any pressure whatsoever. Doesn't matter about results or anything, just keep on going and hopefully you'll make it the whole way. Maybe if you wanted you could skip the flat stages since you have no sprinter? Whatever you like, keep on going.
My PC doesn't have good graphics. It can handle max on riders, but backrounds it can't handle. Sorry.
Well, I was going Hinault for top tens cause he has 97 form, and BOTDs as well with the domestiques, since I won't need them for a train. I just have to remember to export. And the screen size is really small. I used Imageshack, but the next size screen wouldn't fit the page. Any ideas? I wanna get stages 2 and 3 up today.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
My tips would be to play the game with "full screen" turned off, as it makes everything easier, and reduces the workload of the PC, A second tip would be to swap to photobucket, it's easier to use than Imageshack, and the picture are more easily accessible for readers
I tried it, but it doesn't help for me. However, I can get it to work witht the backround on 1 for all, it just lags a lot. This is weird cause my game can put textures on 4 with no force
ANyway, I'll do that for stage two, see how it works out. I have it on a very high resolution, as my screen is HD but my video card is crap.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Team Plan: Get into the break, may work out, may not. We'll try.
Todays stage is fairly hilly and finishes on a slope for the last km. It may spoil the sprinter's day, it may not.
Sensing an opportunity, we sent Riblon into the break of 10 men: Marzano, Vansummeren, Riblon, Malacarne, Sprick, Marcato, Koren, Leverlet, Roux, and Nick Nuyens. Koren won the first mountain sprint, gaining two points with Nuyens in second.
Meanwhile, Leonardo Duque of Cofidis tries to bridge the gap, and eventually does.
At the second mountain sprint, Nuyens doensn't contest. Neither does Koren, but Roux taking it means Koren with wear Polka Dots tomorrow.
Back in the pack, a crash occurs and Marcel Kittel (Project T14I) and Chris Froome (Team Sky) involved.
At the sprint point, we just had Christophe hang on. Malcarne takes 20 points. Strangely, the field didn't contest for 12th place.
The gap stalled at 2:30, and Leverlet, Sprick, and Vansummeren attacked the others with 18 km to go.
This wouldn't pan out however, and the riders strung out. Riblon was in 6th position,and had full energy.
Nuyens, who was in 2nd position at the start launched early and jumpd away as Riblon found Roux's wheel. Riblon launched as the road kicked up and forced his way all the way up... But Nuyens pips him on the line! Riblon takes 2nd, and moves into fourth in the GC.
Cancellara leads the pack home, a beaten man.
Anthony Roux takes yellow due to the prolouge, followed by Nuyens and Koren.
King of the Mountains Classification
Rank Name Team Mountain General
1 Kristjan Koren Liquigas - Cannondale 2 2
2 Anthony Roux FDJ - BigMat 1 1 1
3 Nick Nuyens Team Saxo Bank 1 1
Young Riders Classification
Rank Name Team Time General Time
1 Anthony Roux FDJ - BigMat 4h47'32 4h55'58 (1)
2 Davide Malacarne Team Europcar s.t. + 12 (2)
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen Sky Procycling + 2'31 + 2'19 (
4 Tejay Van Garderen BMC Racing Team s.t. + 2'29
5 Tony Gallopin RadioShack - Nissan s.t. + 2'40
Team Classification
Rank Team Time General Time
1 Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team 14h52'50 (1)
2 FDJ - BigMat s.t. + 11 (2)
3 AG2R La Mondiale 14h27'38 + 13 (3)
Edited by baseballlover312 on 05-07-2012 18:40
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Geezar10 wrote:
Nice stage for Riblon but unlucky with losing the screenshots
Yeah I took good ones too, I don't know what happened. And I should have le tRiblon go earlier. Misjudged the slope, he still had a little red bar left at the finish. Edited by baseballlover312 on 05-07-2012 18:43
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Team Plan: We'll be lookin to get another guy in the break as well as get Hinault a decent result at the finish.
Todays stage is flat for the most part. The sprinters should take it unlees the peleton misjudges the breakaway catch.
Our man for the break today was Maxime Bouet. He jumped as soon as the peleton relaxed. However the peleton whipped it back up and caught a 16 man group.
Nick Nuyens took this opportunity to attack with Maarten Wynants. Bouet was caught out and had to bridge the gap.
The breakaway was monitored due to the high GC of Nuyens, and never got more than 4 minutes on the peleton.
Nuyens won the sprint, Wynants and Bouet came after.
Back in the pack, the green contenders were heated up. Greipel was trying to come around Cav for 4th place.
To no avail! Cav takes it in front of Greipel and Farrar.
Nuyens saw the weakness in his breaaway companions and set off, immediatley getting a 1 minute advantage. Wynants chased but cracked soon after, so Bouet sat up.
Wait! An attck came from the peleton. It was former leader Fabian Cancellara and Stuart O'Grady!
Meanwhile Bouet was caught and would eventually be dropped.
Hinault was ingood shape and had disrupted the leadout of Farrar, but by strange logic, Farrar just squeezed him off leaving him out to dry and hurting.
Cancellara, Nuyens and O'Grady were caught with only 12 km left, and the sprinters claimed the win.
Greipel had his leadout on the right, with Cav on his wheel, while most other sprinters pooled on the left. hinault was at the back and dead. He would finish 21st on the stage.
Cav launched off of Greipel easily and J.J. Haedo made a surprise appearence by picking the right leadout as well. Farrar was in a bad position and had no momentum.
Cav opens his account for the 2012 Tour over Greipel and Haedo!
