The game is divided into three sections:
• Grand Tours
• Monuments & World Championships
• World Tour Races and Classics

Grand Tours
Pick 5 rides for the GC. If your selection finishes in any of the top 5 positions, you get points. Taking the example of the 2016 Vuelta, if you guessed the finishing positions as Quintana, Froome, Contador, S. Yates and Chaves, you get points for Quintana, Froome, Contador and Chaves.
Further, for the GTs, you select the winners of each classification (one rider only). If you get it right, you get points.

Scoring
• GC – 40, 20, 15, 10, 5 for 1st to 5th positions, respectively (exact guesses not required).
• Getting the top 5 correct doubles your points for the GC.
• 40 points for correctly guessing each of the other classifications.
• Getting all winners correct, i.e. GC, KOM, Points and Young Rider, doubles your overall points for that GT.
• A total of 600 points to be won per race.

Monuments and World Championships
Pick 3 riders for the race. If your selection finishes in any of the top 3 positions, you get points. Taking the example of last season’s LBL, if your selection was Rui Costa, Albasini and Barguil, you get points for Costa and Albasini.

Scoring
• 40, 20, 10 for 1st to 3rd positions, respectively (exact guesses not required).
• Getting the top 3 correct doubles your points for that race.
• A total of 140 points to be won per race.

World Tour Stage Races and Classics
Rules are the same as the monuments, just the points are less.

Scoring
• 20, 10, 5 for 1st to 3rd positions, respectively (exact guesses not required).
• Getting the top 3 correct doubles your points for that race.
• A total of 70 points to be won per race.

Besides these, there will one (or more) bonus question for each race, which will be worth some points (to be decided at the time of asking). Also, you are encouraged to provide a ‘Story of the Race’ comment to your guesses. This is to make things interesting and get the others in on your thought process. Any other comments for the upcoming races are welcome.


We introduce a new section called Season Long Predictions for Season 2 of Grand High Wizard. There will be set a questions updated at intervals with a previously mentioned deadline. These questions will carry extra points and will reward the players for their farsightedness. Keep following the next post in this thread to keep track of the Season Long Predictions as they are posted. We will, off course, let everyone know when a new set of questions are posted.

For GTs
Rider 1:
Rider 2:
Rider 3:
Rider 4:
Rider 5:
KOM:
Points:
Young Rider:
Bonus:

For Other Races
Rider 1:
Rider 2:
Rider 3:
Bonus:

Post your entries in this format in the thread itself. This will help keep things transparent.

RULES

Questions will be posted in Sets at regular intervals during the season. The points associated to every question will be mentioned in the Set. Send in your answers as a reply in the thread. The deadline for entries of each Set will also be mentioned when they are posted.

1.Who will win UCI WT Rankings?
2.Who will win the CQ Rankings?
3.Who will win Giro d’Italia?
4.Who will win Tour de France?
5.Who will win Vuelta a Espana?
6.Who will win Milan-San Remo?
7.Who will win Ronde Van Vlaanderen?
8.Who will win Paris-Roubaix?
9.Who will win Liege-Bastogne-Liege?
10.Who will win Il Lombardia?
11.Who will be the highest scoring U25 rider in the WT Rankings?
12.Which WT rider will win the most WT stages?
13.Which WT team will win the most WT Race Team Classifications?
14.Predict a rider to retire at the end of the year (not already announced).
15.Predict a transfer for next year (not already announced).

Questions 1-10 carry 50 points each.
Questions 11-13 carry 75 points each.
Questions 14-15 carry 25 points each.

Entries closed for Set 1.

The following races are being considered here for the classics set - Milan-San Remo, Dwars door Vlaanderen, E3 Harelbeke, Gent-Wevelgem, Ronde Van Vlaanderen, Paris-Roubaix, Amstel Gold Race, La Fleche Wallone and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

1.Who will have a better classics campaign - Sagan or Van Avermaet?
2.Who will have the best classics campaign besides Sagan and GVA (might even be better than them)?
3.Will any rider win more than one race? If yes, who?
4.Will Valverde win any of Amstel Gold Race, La Fleche Wallone and Liege-Bastogne -Liege.
5.Which WT team will be most successful in these classics races (most wins)? In case of ties, all answers will given points).

Questions 1,2,4 and 5 carry 25 points each.
Question 3 carries 40 points (15+25), and part points will be awarded.

Entries closed for Set 2.

The following races are being considered here for the Grand Tours set - Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana.

1.Which rider will win the most Grand Tour stages this year? (currently Fernando Gaviria, 4 stage wins)
2.Which team will win the most Grand Tour stages this year? (currently Quickstep)
3.Which rider will finish highest in the GC in their home Grand Tour (currently Vicenzo Nibali, 3rd in Giro)?
4.Which rider, eligible for U25s classification, will finish highest in the GC in their home Grand Tour (currently Davide Formolo, 10th in Giro)?
5.Which rider from a Pro Continental team will finish highest in the GC in a Grand Tour? (current Jan Hirt, 12th in Giro)

Questions 1, 2 and 4 25 points each.
Question 3 carries 15 points.
Question 5 carries 40 points.

Entries closed for Set 3.

Name	Races Entered	Bonuses	Total Points
Raziz	39	800	1825
Selwink	36	765	1570
AbhishekLFC	39	570	1480
jandal7	39	600	1480
Marcovdw	40	485	1305
emre99	35	590	1300
purepasd	30	595	1290
Aquarius	34	255	1115
Croatia14	40	365	710
Luxemburger	7	240	315
Ian Butler	6	50	245
Squire	4	60	100
United Forever	2	10	95
hillis91	3	0	50
trekbmc	2	0	0

Marcovdw wrote:
My first predicition will be that teh Tour of Qatar will be cancelled

Obviously in to defend my title!

Selwink wrote:
2. There are no UCI CQ rankings (though Sagan will win CQ ranking)