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| roturn |
Posted on 04-09-2012 07:24
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Yet another strange race just like so many this season... 
Congrats to Oz. Ford really surprised this season with some good results.
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Posted on 04-09-2012 07:44
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What a shitty race that was... Not the reports, but the race itself. Extremely boring throughout, and with no one willing to do anything of the big names.
Can't be unhappy with 9-11 (oh dear), seeing how this progressed. Team, not available, with Boonen i charge will get MY 5th place in the PT though, and thus making me miss 4/5 goals. Shit season.
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 08:56
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Yes - it was an extremely lame race. Hilly AI is just so hit and miss. |
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| Heine |
Posted on 04-09-2012 09:20
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Gogo William Ford! Didn't he win a PT stage race last season aswell?
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| CountArach |
Posted on 04-09-2012 09:36
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Heine wrote:
Gogo William Ford! Didn't he win a PT stage race last season aswell?
Tour of Qatar.
Congrats to Oz but yes... very odd race. I guess it was less to do with the AI and more to do with the fact that Oz just don't have the firepower to be able to chase the breaks back.
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 10:37
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Which should have meant the favourites attacking them in the latter part of stages. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 10:59
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fenian_1234 wrote:
Which should have meant the favourites attacking them in the latter part of stages.
Yes, it was extremely lame. No “mass“ attacks of favourites in order to form a select group and when someone got away like Bakelandts, he hangs on to a weaker breakaway rider.
But by far the most awkward was Gilbert, who performed a whole lot of attacks in the middle part of a stage (can't recall which one) which went:
He attacks
He is about 30 in-game seconds in front
He stops attacking
He magically decelerates to ~35 km/h and get easily reeled in by a not chasing pack.
Repeat every 5-10k
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 12:03
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Dammit. A win from Sieberg would have saved the race for me.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 04-09-2012 12:38
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CountArach wrote:
Heine wrote:
Gogo William Ford! Didn't he win a PT stage race last season aswell?
Tour of Qatar.
Congrats to Oz but yes... very odd race. I guess it was less to do with the AI and more to do with the fact that Oz just don't have the firepower to be able to chase the breaks back.
Just our tactics  Tbh, indeed a weird race, would have expected the hilly stages to be (more) selective, but I guess we all know by now, that "PCM11 + Hilly stages = Naaaaa, this won't work".. well, I won't complain here 
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| SotD |
Posted on 04-09-2012 15:51
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Oh and. Congrats Tsmoha of course. Well deserved win, and I can only hope for more success to you and your team 
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 22:16
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Ventoso coming 4th in a stage is ok, but it's a pity the breaks were not chased as those sprints really could have suited him.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 04-09-2012 23:06
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Thank you, Heine, roturn and SotD! I guess, I will have to update my HQ soon Ford is definitely Oz's hero this year. He and Bobridge had some very good results, so I'm glad that he was the one, who took that surprising victory.
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| jph27 |
Posted on 05-09-2012 07:29
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tsmoha wrote:
Thank you, Heine, roturn and SotD! I guess, I will have to update my HQ soon Ford is definitely Oz's hero this year. He and Bobridge had some very good results, so I'm glad that he was the one, who took that surprising victory.
I find it funny how a team that has less points in the CT than the best Div2 has in less races and with higher points available won a PT race. Congrats though, first a classic for the CT teams and now a whole race. |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 05-09-2012 16:46
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9/10 times Reimer would have won that 2nd last stage in a situation like that  |
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| mattiasgt |
Posted on 05-09-2012 22:08
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The AI really made this race boring. It's like nobody else than Oz wanted to win. Nice with a surprise winner though.
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| dave92 |
Posted on 07-09-2012 02:25
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Odd race but I'll certainly take the 3rd place from Bookwalter. Congrats to Oz!
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| SotD |
Posted on 07-09-2012 10:43
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I have been nerding away, in order to check up on my possibilities to stay in top 5 (like always).
Just discovered a small "mistake" if you want. The Young rider classification isn't listed in the correct order, so you might want to check that, if you haven't already noticed. Some interesting point scores this time around imo. Very equal to many aswell.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 20-09-2012 23:03
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SotD wrote:
Just discovered a small "mistake" if you want. The Young rider classification isn't listed in the correct order, so you might want to check that, if you haven't already noticed.
Dont need to have worried - while its annoying for me, luckily I can read numbers, so the right results go into the rankings!
Speaking of which...
| 1 | 1 | | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 8857 | | 2 | 3 |  | Pearl Adidas | 7604 | | 3 | 2 |  | Santander | 7544 | | 4 | 4 | | Sony Ericsson | 7499 | | 5 | 5 | | Festina - Conec | 7046 | | 6 | 9 | | Nestlé Cycling Team | 6962 | | 7 | 6 | | Bacardi - Ignis | 6640 | | 8 | 8 | | Pendleton's Twicer | 6630 | | 9 | 7 | | Jack Wolfskin | 6608 | | 10 | 10 | | Milka - Vittel | 6354 | | 11 | 11 | | Wikipedia | 6239 | | 12 | 13 | | UBS - La Pierre | 6176 | | 13 | 12 | | Wiggle - San Pellegrino | 6028 | | 14 | 14 | | Team B&O | 6017 | | 15 | 15 | | Webeffect | 5420 | | 16 | 16 | | Café de Colombia | 5273 | | 17 | 17 | | Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom | 4900 | | 18 | 18 | | Spyker Cars | 4870 | | 19 | 19 | | Warner Brothers | 3001 |
And the top individuals below. Boonen may have stormed through the early part of FBD, but even that wont be enough to catch Madrazo
| 1 | Angel | Madrazo | ESP | Santander | 2874 | | 2 | Tom | Boonen | BEL | Nestlé Cycling Team | 2405 | | 3 | Riccardo | Ricco | ITA | Bacardi - Ignis | 2378 | | 4 | Damiano | Cunego | ITA | Café de Colombia | 2226 | | 5 | Yuri | Trofimov | RUS | Sony Ericsson | 2149 | | 6 | Aleksandr | Pluchkin | MOL | Team B&O | 2118 | | 7 | Jan | Bakelants | BEL | Pearl Adidas | 1986 | | 8 | Taylor | Phinney | USA | Wikipedia | 1985 | | 9 | Emanuele | Sella | ITA | Webeffect | 1739 | | 10 | Frank | Schleck | LUX | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 1713 | | 11 | Sam | Bewley | NZL | Milka - Vittel | 1676 | | 12 | Alberto | Contador | ESP | Festina - Conec | 1527 | | 13 | Robert | Gesink | NED | Jack Wolfskin | 1449 | | 14 | Simone | Ponzi | ITA | Wiggle - San Pellegrino | 1429 | | 15 | Philippe | Gilbert | BEL | Pendleton's Twicer | 1410 | | 16 | Justo | Tenorio | ESP | Santander | 1407 | | 17 | Beñat | Intxausti | ESP | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 1374 | | 18 | Sergio Luis | Henao Montoya | COL | Milka - Vittel | 1302 | | 19 | Simon | Spilak | SLO | Warner Brothers | 1225 | | 20 | Andrei | Amador | CRC | UBS - La Pierre | 1222 |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 20-09-2012 23:07
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Oh, sorry. Totally forgot about that, which could have corresponded to it being 4 AM when I implemented the results 
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 20-09-2012 23:09
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Down to third, I'm still hoping I can hang onto the top 5.
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