Per every stage: (except TTT's)
1st place rider =30 points 2nd place =24 points 3rd place 20 points
4th place = 17 points 5th place =15 points 6th place = 13 points
7th place= 11 points 8th place =10 points 9th place =9 points
10th place =8 points 11th place= 7 points 12th place = 6 points
13th place = 5 points 14th place = 4 points 15th = 3points
Plus 1 point per rider who finishes at the same time as the stage winner.
Scoring system for TTT Points are awarded to the team rather than individuals
1st place team: 50 points 2nd place team: 40 points 3rd place team: 30 points
4th place team: 25 points 5th place team: 20 points 6th place team: 17 points
7th place team: 15 points 8th place team: 13 points 9th place team: 11 points
10th place team: 10 points 11th place team: 9 points 12th place team: 8 points
13th place team: 7 points 14th place team: 6 points 15th place team: 5 points
Points for final GC:
1st place = 100 points 2nd place= 75 points 3rd place = 60 points
4th place = 50 points 5th place= 45 points 6th place = 40 points
7th place = 36 points 8th place = 32 points 9th place = 28 points
10th place = 25 points 11th place = 22 points 12th place = 20 points 13th place = 18 points 14th place = 16 points 15th place = 12 points 16th place = 10 points 17th place = 8 points 18th place = 6 points 19th place = 4 points 20th place = 2 points
Points for final points classification:
1st place = 60 points 2nd place = 45 points 3rd place = 35 points
4th place = 25 points 5th place = 20 points 6th place = 16 points
7th place = 12 points 8th place = 10 points 9th place = 8 points
10th place = 6 points 11th place = 4 points 12th place = 2 points
Points for final mountain classification:
1st place = 50 points 2nd place = 40 points 3rd place = 30 points
4th place= 25 points 5th place = 20 points 6th place = 16 points
7th place = 12 points 8th place = 10 points 9th place = 6 points
10th place = 3 points
Points for final youth classification:
1st place: 40 points 2nd place = 30 points 3rd place = 25 points
4th place = 20 points 5th place= 16 points 6th place = 12 points
7th place = 10 points 8th place = 8 points 9th place = 6 points
10th place = 3 points
TOTC5: Position guessing game.
At the end of each stage I will state a position in the top 20 and you have to guess which rider finished there based on the report. Multiple people can guess the same rider if they wish. You are allowed one guess per stage, if you guess correctly you will receive 5 UC points.
If you guess the correct rider:
2 stages in a row: you receive 10 UC points on the stage
3 stages in a row: '' 15 UC points ''
4 stages in a row: '' 20 UC points ''
5 stages in a row: '' 25 UC points ""
If you do a team presentation to a high standard you will receive 15 UC points before the racing starts. IN TOTC4 presentations from Jesleyh, Atlantius, Cycleman123, Shonak, mvhoogdalem, Dippofix and Ollfardh are good examples of good presentations which would have been awarded with 15 UC points.
Edited by The Rider on 07-02-2014 15:01
This is in many ways the strongest T-Mobile team ToTC have seen yet. We have the winner of the last edition Adam Hansen. This time around he will most likely be working for Paulinho though. As in the good old T-mobile days we now have ambition in both the GC and the sprints with Hinault coming on board.
The suuport riders have been selected with special attention to the TTT and with focus on them being able to handle both the cobbles without falling completely apart as well as being able to still have some energy in the 4th week.
The team
Iberia is Spain's biggest airlines. It was founded in 1927. It now belongs to one of the 5 biggest Airlines of the world.
Iberia has been participating in the TOTC program since the second edition. We have especially been succesful in the third TOTC, when we were one of the top scorers, with an awesome TT squad.
We have a sixth place in the overall standings, which is decent.
The Leaders
Spoiler
Would have been The Squad if I had the stats
Sylwester Szmyd
Will be our absolute leader. Might be the best climber of the whole field, though he has trouble on the flat and a lot of trouble on the cobbles. Both the hills and mountains will be all his.
We'll be looking for a nice spot in the GC, but we're not sure if he survives the cobbles.
Dmitriy Gruzdev
A TTist, and a fairly good one. He's one of the only TTists than can also climb, and that might be fairly useful in the end. He can go for Top 5s in TTs and will be a great help in the TT.
Oliver Kaisen
Won't be a real leader, but an important rider. He's good on the hills and a good TTist, which is certainly of help in the TTT.
1. TTT - We have a strong TT squad, is it strong enough for a Podium spot?
2. Mountain Stages - With Szmyd, we're forced to do something here.
3. Hilly stages - Szmyd is one of the best puncheurs here, but also, Petrov can also do a lot here, also having a good sprint.
Edited by Jesleyh on 08-02-2014 08:58
"Danny Pate doesn't cycle. He orders the bike to carry him forward."
Correct, Danny Pate will be riding another Grand Tour this year, simply because he's awesome. He will have to share leadership though, as we payed a record high 2.300.000 to contract Johann Tschopp. Rejoining us again as well from previous TOTCs are Juan Manuel Garate, as top mountain domestique and Baden Cooke, who will lead us on the cobbles. Cooke will also launch the sprints for Danilo Napolitano, who is aiming for a stage win. Benoit Drujon will bring our sprint train on the rails. Next we have two experienced allrounders, Aleksandr Kuschynski and Benjamin Noval. These guys know what to do and when to do it to get our leaders in perfect position. Last of all, there's Ondrej Zelinka. He's the retarded nephew of our race director. No one else picked him (for obvious reasons), so we took him in hoping he doesn't ride into a ravine at some point.
The Italian will hopefully be a useful support or aiming for stage wins, either way should be good.
BARGUIL, Warren
The young Frenchman, already winning le Tour de l'Avenir, is going a step higher this year. With his good climbing skills, a nice result should be possible.
KRIVTSOV, Yuriy
The French Ukrainian will be a domestique here. If he wins a stage though, it's not a problem.
MARTENS, Paul
Basically born to hunt stages. The German is a good puncher and has a good sprint and time trial as well. He'll be important for us.
PUZANOV, Dimitri
The Russian puncher will be a domestique here. Hopefully he'll live up to his role well.
SCHEIRLINCKX, Bert
The Belgian will also be domestique here, mainly on the cobbles, to help out his brother.
SCHEIRLINCKX, Staf
Will be the sort-of leader here. In case he gains a lot on the cobbles and doesn't lose much time in the mountains, he could surprise us very well here.
STEEGMANS, Gert
The final rider of our squad. The Belgian sprinter will be helping on the cobbles, but he obviously aims on the sprints. He should be capable of a good result here.
Our goals
1-STAR GOAL
Show attacking spirit by being in at least 5 breaks.
2-STAR GOAL
It may not bring many points, but for the prestige a top-3 in the U-25 classification would be a great achievement for Warren.
3-STAR GOAL
A real success however would be some real results. That's why we want at least 2 stage wins or a top-10 in the GC.
Edited by Selwink on 07-02-2014 13:56
The men behind Cartoon Network have the joy of looking back on two highly successful Tour of the Chosens. Their first participation at the TOTC 3 started a bit off but it ended great with two stage wins in the second week. Cartoon Network has already proved there what they are capable of, and they are ready to fight for everything.
TOTC4 was than nothing short of amazing: A total of 3 stage wins, the points jersey and Cyril Lemoine in the Top 10, despite Mosquera's failure in the overall classification when he dropped out of the race on the cobblestones. The Tour hasn't been kind to the team, but they continued none the less.
Now it's time for Cartoon Network to once more show its strength. What was once a childish joke has become the most feared running gag in the peloton. And this time around, we are sure to be the ones who laugh the most.
This time around it holds up when we say: We spent some big cash! A total of 2.100.000 PCM$ has been invested to secure the services of the three top riders in our team. There's also lots of continuity to be seen, which can also be interpreted as a sign of our gratitude: 3 previous riders from the last T.O.T.C. are at the startline for our team. Cyril Lemoine, Bert de Backer and Jürgen van de Walle surely deserve this opportunity to once more impress.
While our focus has always been to provide much excitement to the racing and be competitive on all sorts of terrain, we believe that this edition sees probably the most balanced squad. We got it all! Supreme climbers, excellent cobblers, time trialist and Cyril Lemoine, a man who has already proven he is capable of just about anything. Especially compared to last edition, we have decreased our TTT weakness and look forward to provide Serpa with a good position after the first week.
Make no mistake: We are still the hungry, stage-hunting big, bad wolf you have come to respect, but with about 28 stages up for grabs even we realize that all the time attacking might not be the best key this time around. And even so, there is only one way for us: Up. This means that we will want to even more improve on the fantastic results on the previous two editions so expect a true assault of Cartoon Network riders and GIFs in the coming weeks.
Borussia Dortmund is the world's favourite football club as they always give 110% and have the best fans in Europe.
After seeing that multiple other Bundesliga clubs have teams in different other sports (like Hamburger SV in handball and Bayern Munich in basketball) the club decided to start their own cycling team.
In the last years the team was always aggressiv and showed their team spirit in the team time trials but this year the squad has changed a bit. We have added a bit more international touch to our squad and invested in both: top-tier riders and young, unknown talents.
Belgacom will make its TOTC debut in the fifth edition of the race. Being provided a jersey by the new cycling jersey manufacturer Gruppetto Azurri, the team is going for making the sponsors proud.
The Team
- The Leaders
G.Henderson
Henderson is the man for the sprints. He is looking for stage wins in the last two weaks, when his good recovery will be a key factor.
A.Moinard
Moinard is Belgacom's man for the Overall Classification. He is aiming for a TOP 10 spot. His biggest handicap is his disability on riding on cobbled sections.
B.Hermans
The only Belgian on the team is the guy for short ascents. In those stages he should be conisdered as one of the main favourites.
- The Leadout -
Ó.V.Grau
T.Thömel
C.Van Heerden
Those three will build the leadout for sprinter Henderson, South African Van Heerden is here the strongest man.
- Uphill Helpers -
G.Brenes
Gregory Brenes will be the key helper of Moinard. In the worst case he would even be able to take his spot as the team leader.
M.Ardila
M.Bono
Ardila and Bono were randomly assigned to the team. Both will be domestiques on uphill roads.
Edited by Bikex on 07-02-2014 23:30
“You are such a stupid bastard, I should never have hired you!
- dear mister Schwartz, how are you today?
- Bad, you can see by yourself, as I am as red as our shirt!
How could you have missed Tschopp and hire this Belgiam moron? We are named Swiss Life not Belgium No Life!
- I have noticed it but I though the goal was to perform the best we could.
- And you think De Weert stands any chance against the great Tschopp? Especially he was not so expensive at the end of the day.
- Well, as a matter of fact I do. I prefer De Weert to Tschopp, we will see if I am right.
- But I have been told you have bid 1,900,000 for Modolo, I mean Modolo, really?
- OK I can explain the strategy. It was my mistake to miss the deadline for Swift then we didn’t have any sprinter and 1,900,000 left, the bids were tactical, either I get a sprinter or I move up in the scale of the unused budget.
- Brilliant tactic poor moron! So now we don’t have good leader, we don’t have sprinter and our TT specialist is just ridiculously weak too!
- I do think we have a great leader and I believe he could easily do better than Tschopp and why not win it all?
- I take your word, if he is not beating Tschopp, you are fired!
- Hm, I was expected to get fired anyway, at least I have a good chance to survive now!
- By the way let’s ear your objectives!
- You know the team, don’t you, but let's have a look in more details:
We have De Weert our leader the plan is for him to start well in Mountain and Hills and to kill the pure climbers in ITT and cobble stages. He could win but a Top 5 is a more realistic objective.
Then we have Bodnar, he can win the prologue, he can get good places in ITT and will have free cards to go in the breaks.
We have 2 sprinters Miyazawa and Cardoso, not the best of the field for sure but good enough to get good places in the sprints.
Then comes a trio of climbers/puncher: Augustyn the strongest, Aldape and our team captain, Valjavec, they will for sure help a lot our leader in needed and can also get in a break and why not win a stage? The real challenge will be to survive the cobble stages.
Finally we have 2 pure fighters: Bernaudeau and Parra, they will be team mates and if they get a shot to a break away they sure will take it!
So we target:
GC Top 5 1 stage win 5 stage Top 10 A top 5 overall UC
Since TOTC 1 started we with a team, every time with a other sponsor. This time have we the support of Sahin Sucuklari. We have many expections and we hope to have a good time.
This is Team Sahin Sucuklari in Tour Of The Chosen 5.
Spoiler
John Darwin Atapuma
John Darwin Atapuma is one of the leaders of team Sahin Sucuklari. He is born at 15-01-1988 in Colombia. His best result ever was in 2008, when he won the national championship of Colombia.
With his high transfer amount of 550.000 have we a lot of expectation of him. He has already a history in Tour of the chosen. In the third tour of the chosen, but he had a anonymous time in tour of the chosen. We hope that he this time a lot more lucky is and win at least a stage and we hope that he can go for a good GC.
Spoiler
Steve Cummings
Steven Cummings is the other leader of Sahin Sucuklari. He is born at 19-03-1981 in England. He start his career as a track cyclist. His first victory as a cyclist on the road was in 2008. His biggest victory was in 2012, when he won stage 13 in the Vuelta a Espana
He is the other rider where we paid a high transfer amount for (750.000). He can climb, he can drive a time trial and prologue, but his specialty are hills. We hope he can attack and take a victory and maybe he can surprise with a good GC.
Spoiler
Thomas Rohregger
Thomas Rohregger has a open role. He is born at 23-12-1982 in Austria. His best result was in the Vuelta a Espana of 2011, when he won with his time the team time trial. He is retired this season, but for Tour Of The Chosen 5 will he make a exception.
He has a open role, but his most important assignment is to assist Atapuma in the mountains and Cummings in the hill stages. He get also a lot of space to attack for his self and fight for a nice classification.
Spoiler
Francesco Ginanni
Francesco Ginanni is our sprinter. He is born at 06-10-1985 in Italy. His best result was in 2007, when he was 7th in Milan San Remo.
He is our sprinter, when there is mass sprint he has no chance, but after a tough hill stage has he a change to win. When there is a hill stage he can also help Cummings or Rohregger when they need it or fight for a stage victory.
Spoiler
Fortunato Baliani
Fortunato Baliani is our foreman. He is born at 06-07-1974 in Italy. His best result was in 2008, when he has a 12th place in the GC of the Giro d’Italia.
He is our foreman, with is age of 39 is he also the veteran of this team. He will help every member of this team in every stage, but also outside the stage is he a very important member of our team.
Spoiler
Ryan Anderson
Ryan Anderson is one of the servants. He is born at 22-07-1987 in Canada.
He is one of the servants, his goals is to help our leaders. His specialty is hills en sprint so he can help there as most.
Spoiler
William Aranzazu
Willian Aranzazu is a other servant. He is born at 01-04-1983 in Colombia. His best result so far is a 2th place in 4th stage of tour the Pyreneans.
He is a other servent, he can help the most in the hills.
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Jonathan Monsalve
Jonathan Monsalve is also a servant. He is born at 28-06-1989 in Venezuela. His best result so far is the 5th stage of the tour of Langkawi.
He is also a servent, he is an important assistant of Atapuma and when there is place for a attack, he can go for his change. He can be the surprise of our team.
Spoiler
Walter Pedraza
Walter pedraza is a servant. He is born at 27-11-1981 in Colombia. He has some good results in south-America, but his best is the first place in the national championship of 2013.
He is a servent who can help in the mountains and hills. When he has team he can do his specialty: attack!
Spoiler
goals
*** top 10 place gc
** 3 stage victory
* many attacks
Edited by tmr96 on 07-02-2014 19:28
Sergio Paulinho
David Boily
Gregor Gazvoda
Adam Hansen
Sébastian Hinault
Martin Keizer
David McCann
Marcel Wyss
- Puncheur/Sprinter
- Sprinter
- SPrinter
- Climber
181. B.Grabsch
183. A.Dowsett
185. J.J.Lobato
188. E.Pütsep
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