Welcome to the 2006 The Cyclery Tour de France Pool!
The Tour Pool is back for 2006, and this is going to be an exiting year with a wide-open Tour after Lance Armstrong took his ball and went home. Reflecting the completely changed nature of the Tour, there is an important change to the Tour Pool: no more handicaps! Now you can pick any rider you want – but be careful! Some of the guys expected to step up where Lance left off might crack under the pressure. Add a huge drug investigation in Spain, crashes and injuries and we have the makings of a very exiting Pool.
The Cyclery’s Tour Pool rules have not changed from last year (except deleting the handicaps, and of course there’s no team time trial), so what we need from you is the same: your nine chosen riders, three alternates, your chosen team, a guess at the total number of finishers overall, and $10. Kevin Field is setting up an online registration form which should be ready Tuesday. In the meantime, work on your picks! Here are the rules and points scales.
Please distribute this to anyone you think might be interested in joining this year.
Cheers,
Kris Westwood
kwestwood@rogers.com
2006 The Cyclery Tour de France Pool Rules:
• Each participant must pick 9 TDF riders and one team, and pay the $10 entry fee. Read the points scales before making your picks! Entry fees are pooled to form the Purse.
• Each participant may also pick 3 reserve riders in case his or her first picks do not start the Tour. Since the final start list will only be known on the day of the first stage, in a worst case scenario additional changes may be made up to that evening.
• Participants will be awarded points based on the performance of their riders and team in each stage and in the final overall standings (see points scale tables on back of sheet).
• For the Team Time Trial and the final team GC, only the results of the participant's chosen team will be scored.
• BASTILLE DAY RULE: a French rider winning the stage on July 14 and/or wearing the yellow jersey ON THAT DAY (ie. leading after the July 13 stage) scores double points for those respective classifications.
• The winner of the Pool is the participant who scores the most points.
• In the event of a tie, best GC rider decides, followed by number of stage wins, number of second places etc.
• In the event that two participants pick identical riders and teams, the tie breaker will be the participant whose guesses closest to the total number of finishers. If there is still a tie, the participants will share whatever prize they have won.
• The winner of the Pool will receive 25% of the Purse; 2nd will receive 15% and 3rd will receive 10%. The remainder will be donated to the Seenite Sports young rider bursary.
• In the event of the Tour being canceled due to a drug scandal, all entry fees will be returned minus a 5% administrative fee, which will be funneled into a beer fund.
• In the event of a dispute, Kiwi Mike's and Kris Westwood's rulings are as God's law, and damned be all who take them lightly!
• Scoring for the Pool is administered by Kris Westwood and his pool of trustworthy assistants. Daily updates will be available through email subscription, details to follow.
PAYMENT OF ENTRY FEES:
You can either pay in cash at the Cyclery (please address yourself to Kiwi Mike) or through PayPal, by going to www.paypal.com.
The fee for this is 11$ and not $10 - Paypal does not do this service for free so the extra 1$ is to offset that charge. The email is tdf2006@magma.ca. Please be sure to include your name or team name with this payment so that we can match up who has sent the money. Any questions or need further clarification, please don't hesitate to write to Richard Thomas at that address.
HANDICAP SYSTEM
Lance Armstrong is no longer racing, so this year’s Tour is a wide-open affair. We have decided not to handicap any riders this year. Remember, it’s often the lesser-known riders who rack up the big points, especially in the early running.
THE CYCLERY 2005 TOUR DE FRANCE POOL POINTS SCALES
After each stage, points will be awarded according to the following scales:
Stage result:
Winner: 15 points
2nd 12
3rd 10
4th 8
5th 6
6th 5
7th 4
8th 3
9th 2
10th 1
Best team: 3
Mountains: 2
Young rider: 1
Most aggressive: 1
Abandon: -5
Positive drug test: -25
Arrest for drugs or abandoning to avoid arrest: -50
Classification leaders:
Overall (yellow jersey) 7 points
Points (green jersey) 5
Mountains (polka dots) 5
Team 7
Young rider 5
note: a reminder of the BASTILLE DAY RULE: points are doubled for a French rider winning the stage or wearing the yellow jersey on July 14
At the end of the Tour, points will be awarded according to the following scales:
Final overall GC:
Winner 25 points
2nd 24
3rd 23 etc.
… 25th and all other finishers 1
Team classification winner 25
Team classification 2nd 15
Team classification 3rd 10
Team classification 4th 6
Team classification 5th 3
Team classification 6th 1
Points classification winner 20
Points classification 2nd 10
Points classification 3rd 5
Points classification 4th 2
Mountains classification winner 20
Mountains classification 2nd 10
Mountains classification 3rd 5
Mountains classification 4th 2
Young rider winner 15
Young rider 2nd 7
Young rider 3rd 3
Any team that finishes with all 9 riders 20
Biggest gap to second place on a stage 20
Lanterne rouge (last finisher) 15
Winning 3 or more stages 10