Hello all,
Just a note to say I have a number of new entries in my inbox, but I will have to wait until tonight to get them all in the spreadsheet. I will also have to reconcile the spreadsheet with all the non-starters in the Tour, and roll in the alternates.
If anybody enters after today's stage, they just need to ensure none of their riders have scored any points in the Pool. Happy Tour watching!
In the meantime, the Canadian championships are underway here in Quebec City ...
Before I drag myself to bed, here are the 69 entries so far in the Tour Pool (you'll notice I haven't had time to draft up my own team, though I have no lack of inspiration). Tour starts tomorrow -- what new scandals will the bright sun of the morning bring?
Ian Dalling
Natasha Elliott
Derrick St. John
Nat Faulkner
Glenn Robinson
Steve Proulx
Joan Hamer "Team Wheelywotten"
Marc Boudreau
Donnelli
Kate Scallion
Vicki Thomas
Craig Hawkes "Sith Riders"
Meylina Kandov
Team Damdom
Rob Grondin
Alex Lai
Jamie Bryan
Jeffrey Furry
Julie Deschenes-Furry
Rob Kerr
Dave Shirley
Doug Hamer "Barnet CC"
Phil Brun del Rey "The Lucky Lucky Nine"
Paul Crowley "Team Blood Wash"
Blaine Penny
Paul Scafel "Team Venga Venga Venga"
Dominic Hamer "Team Damdom"
Jay "Son of Rudy" Heins
Ross Knight
Luise Sander "No Euros Here"
Reed Archer
John Fee / Cynthia Phelan
Peter Metuzals
Lori Meyers
Neil la Plante
Linda Gilligan
Kiwi Mike
Peter Metuzals "Mr. Stevens Picks"
Adrian Das
Stefan Sander
Helena DeVeer
Deb Hine's Most Excellent Picks
Mike Larochelle
Gordon Dalling
Andrew Randell & Matt Hansen "D.O.P.E. Downplaying Operation Puerto Evidence"
Spencer Campbell "Texless"
Chris & Storm
Grimpeur George
J to the U
Les Boyz
Chris Holzauer
Eva Ortega "VillaEva"
Doug Hinan
Dave "anb@bnet.nb.ca"
The Cyclery
Los Spics
SUPERFAN
Sheri Jay
Julie Jay
Operation Spain
Josh Hall
Matt Toulouse
Larginski
Chris White
Yellow Dopes "Grubby Rabbit"
Mhairi Gilmore
Ed Makarchuk
Musky Ninja
Jennifer Garrett
Thanks to everyone who has entered the Cyclery 2006 Tour Pool so far! I'm sure you're all following developments over there with interest, so I thought I'd just clarify the situation vis a vis our Pool. Anyone whose rider doesn't start the Tour (for whatever reason) will have that rider replaced with one of the alternates submitted. When all is said and done, any entry that still has fewer than nine riders will be asked to submit additional alternates until their team is full. If we have to do this after the Tour starts, you just have to submit riders who have not yet scored any points in the Pool.
That's all for now, enjoy the scandalous reading ...
It appears there have been some problems accessing the online registration, so, if you haven't already done so, to enter please just send me directly your entries to kwestwood@rogers.com.
Please don't forget to include your name, your entry name (if you have one), your email address if it has changed or if you are a new entry, your nine main picks, your three alternates, your team pick and your guess of the total number of finishers. Also, please indicate your method of payment (Paypal, cash at the store, I've even had one person say "Vince said he'd pay for me ... ").
Please forward this to anyone who might be interested in entering! With T-Mobile excluding Jan Ullrich because of his connection with Operation Puerto, things are starting to get interesting ...
For those of you who haven't had the time to brush up on the Tour, here is a full list of entrants (teams, plus riders with country and team code) from the event website (www.letour.fr), including alternates.
Note that the Wurth team (formerly known as Liberty Seguros - Wurth, and more recently as Astana - Wurth) has been asked not to come to the Tour because of the doping scandals, but it looks like they will come anyway. Their team code is LSW, by the way.
DISCOVERY CHANNEL TEAM
TEAM CSC
T-MOBILE TEAM
AG2R PREVOYANCE
WÜRTH TEAM
GEROLSTEINER
RABOBANK
DAVITAMON - LOTTO
PHONAK HEARING SYSTEMS
LAMPRE-FONDITAL
CAISSE D’EPARGNE-ILLES BALEARS
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
CREDIT AGRICOLE
EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI
COFIDIS CREDIT PAR TELEPHONE
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
FRANCAISE DES JEUX
LIQUIGAS
BOUYGUES TELECOM
TEAM MILRAM
AGRITUBEL
GUSEV Vladimir RUS DSC
DEVOLDER Stijn BEL DSC
BARRY Michaël CAN DSC
SAVOLDELLI Paolo ITA DSC
RUBIERA José Luis ESP DSC
POPOVYCH Yaroslav UKR DSC
PADRNOS Pavel CZE DSC
NOVAL GONZALEZ Benjamin ESP DSC
MARTINEZ Egoi ESP DSC
HINCAPIE George USA DSC
EKIMOV Viatceslav RUS DSC
AZEVEDO José POR DSC
CUESTA Inigo ESP CSC
CANCELLARA Fabian SUI CSC
ARVESEN Kurt-Asle NOR CSC
ZABRISKIE David USA CSC
VOIGT Jens GER CSC
VANDEVELDE Christian USA CSC
SCHLECK Frank LUX CSC
SASTRE Carlos ESP CSC
O’GRADY Stuart AUS CSC
LOMBARDI Giovanni ITA CSC
JULICH Bobby USA CSC
BASSO Ivan ITA CSC
NARDELLO Daniele ITA TMO
IVANOV Serguei RUS TMO
BERNUCCI Lorenzo ITA TMO
SINKEWITZ Patrik GER TMO
SEVILLA Oscar ESP TMO
ROGERS Michael AUS TMO
MAZZOLENI Eddy ITA TMO
KLÖDEN Andréas GER TMO
KESSLER Matthias GER TMO
HONCHAR Serhiy UKR TMO
GUERINI Giuseppe ITA TMO
ULLRICH Jan GER TMO
NAZON Jean-Patrick FRA A2R
KRIVTSOV Yuriy UKR A2R
CALZATI Sylvain FRA A2R
USOV Alexandre BLR A2R
MOREAU Christophe FRA A2R
GOUBERT Stephane FRA A2R
GERRANS Simon AUS A2R
DUMOULIN Samuel FRA A2R
DESSEL Cyril FRA A2R
ASTARLOZA Mikel ESP A2R
ARRIETA Jose Luis ESP A2R
MANCEBO Francisco ESP A2R
OSA Aitor ESP LSW
BARREDO Carlos ESP LSW
BARANOWSKI Dariusz POL LSW
SANCHEZ Luis ESP LSW
NOZAL Isidro ESP LSW
KASHECHKIN Andrey KAZ LSW
JAKSCHE Jorg GER LSW
DAVIS Allan AUS LSW
CONTADOR Alberto ESP LSW
BELOKI Joseba ESP LSW
BAZAYEV Assan KAZ LSW
VINOKOUROV Alexandre KAZ LSW
ZBERG Beat SUI GST
SCHUMACHER Stefan GER GST
HASELBACHER Rene AUT GST
WROLICH Peter AUT GST
WEGMANN Fabian GER GST
TOTSCHNIG Georg AUT GST
SCHOLZ Ronny GER GST
LANG Sebastian GER GST
KOPP David GER GST
FOTHEN Marcus GER GST
FÖRSTER Robert GER GST
LEIPHEIMER Levi USA GST
ELTINK Theo NED RAB
DE GROOT Bram NED RAB
ARDILA Mauricio COL RAB
WEENING Pieter NED RAB
RASMUSSEN Mickael DEN RAB
POSTHUMA Joost NED RAB
FREIRE Oscar ESP RAB
FLECHA Juan Antonio ESP RAB
DEKKER Thomas NED RAB
DEKKER Erik NED RAB
BOOGERD Michael NED RAB
MENCHOV Denis RUS RAB
ROESEMS Bert BEL DVL
MERTENS Pieter BEL DVL
DOCKX Bart BEL DVL
VANSUMMEREN Johan BEL DVL
VAN BON Leon NED DVL
STEEGMANS Gert BEL DVL
RODRIGUEZ Fred USA DVL
MC EWEN Robbie AUS DVL
HORNER Christopher USA DVL
BRANDT Christophe BEL DVL
AERTS Mario BEL DVL
EVANS Cadel AUS DVL
ELMIGER Martin SUI PHO
PENA Victor Hugo COL PHO
MOOS Alexandre SUI PHO
MOERENHOUT Koos NED PHO
MERCKX Axel BEL PHO
MARTIN PERDIGUERO M.Angel ESP PHO
JALABERT Nicolas FRA PHO
HUNTER Robert RSA PHO
GRABSCH Bert GER PHO
LANDIS Floyd USA PHO
FIGUERAS Giuliano ITA LAM
CORIONI Claudio ITA LAM
VILA ERRANDONEA Patxi ESP LAM
VALJAVEC Tadej SLO LAM
TIRALONGO Paolo ITA LAM
RIGHI Daniele ITA LAM
COMMESSO Salvatore ITA LAM
BRUSEGHIN Marzio ITA LAM
BENNATI Daniele ITA LAM
BALLAN Alessandro ITA LAM
CUNEGO Damiano ITA LAM
CARRARA Matteo ITA LAM
PRADERA Mikel ESP CEI
PEREZ ARRIETA Aitor ESP CEI
JULIA CEGARRA José Cayetano ESP CEI
ZANDIO Xabier ESP CEI
PORTAL Nicolas FRA CEI
PEREIRO SIO Oscar ESP CEI
KARPETS Vladimir RUS CEI
GARCIA ACOSTA Vicente ESP CEI
GALVEZ Isaac ESP CEI
BRARD Florent FRA CEI
ARROYO David ESP CEI
VALVERDE Alejandro ESP CEI
TRENTI Guido USA QSI
NUYENS Nick BEL QSI
CRETSKENS Wilfried BEL QSI
VERHEYEN Geert BEL QSI
VASSEUR Cédric FRA QSI
TOSATTO Matteo ITA QSI
TANKINK Bram NED QSI
RUJANO José VEN QSI
POZZATO Filippo ITA QSI
GARATE Juan Manuel ESP QSI
DE JONGH Steven NED QSI
BOONEN Tom BEL QSI
VOGONDY Nicolas FRA C.A
FOFONOV Dmitriy KAZ C.A
BOTCHAROV Alexandre RUS C.A
LE MEVEL Christophe FRA C.A
HUSHOVD Thor NOR C.A
HINAULT Sébastien FRA C.A
HALGAND Patrice FRA C.A
ENGOULVENT Jimmy FRA C.A
DEAN Julian NZL C.A
CHARTEAU Anthony FRA C.A
CAUCCHIOLI Pietro ITA C.A
BODROGI Laszlo HUN C.A
PENA Aketza ESP EUS
ANTON Igor ESP EUS
ALBIZU Joseba ESP EUS
ZUBELDIA Haimar ESP EUS
VERDUGO Gorka ESP EUS
LOPEZ GARCIA David ESP EUS
LANDALUZE Inigo ESP EUS
ISASI Inaki ESP EUS
HERNANDEZ Aitor ESP EUS
ETXEBARRIA Unai VEN EUS
CAMANO Iker ESP EUS
MAYO Iban ESP EUS
FERNANDEZ Bingen ESP COF
BESSY Frédéric FRA COF
AUGE Stéphane FRA COF
WIGGINS Bradley GBR COF
VERBRUGGHE Rik BEL COF
PARRA Ivan Ramiro COL COF
MORENI Cristian ITA COF
COYOT Arnaud FRA COF
CHAVANEL Sylvain FRA COF
CASPER Jimmy FRA COF
BERTAGNOLLI Leonardo ITA COF
MONCOUTIE David FRA COF
GIL PEREZ Koldo ESP SDV
DE LA FUENTE David ESP SDV
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose ESP SDV
VENTOSO Francisco ESP SDV
SIMONI Gilberto ITA SDV
RINERO Christophe FRA SDV
RICCO Riccardo ITA SDV
MILLAR David GBR SDV
LOBATO Ruben ESP SDV
GOMEZ Jose Angel ESP SDV
FRITSCH Nicolas FRA SDV
CANADA David ESP SDV
LARSSON Gustav SWE FDJ
GUESDON Frédéric FRA FDJ
FINOT Frédéric FRA FDJ
VAUGRENARD Benoît FRA FDJ
MOUREY Francis FRA FDJ
MENGIN Christophe FRA FDJ
LÖVKVIST Thomas SWE FDJ
JOLY Sébastien FRA FDJ
GILBERT Philippe BEL FDJ
EISEL Bernhard AUT FDJ
DA CRUZ Carlos FRA FDJ
CASAR Sandy FRA FDJ
SPEZIALETTI Alessandro ITA LIQ
FAILLI Francesco ITA LIQ
ANDRIOTTO Dario ITA LIQ
QUINZIATO Manuel ITA LIQ
PAOLINI Luca ITA LIQ
MUGERLI Matej SLO LIQ
GARZELLI Stefano ITA LIQ
DI LUCA Danilo ITA LIQ
CARLSTRÖM Kjell FIN LIQ
CALCAGNI Patrick SUI LIQ
BACKSTEDT Magnus SWE LIQ
ALBASINI Michael SUI LIQ
MARTIAS Rony FRA BTL
KERN Christophe FRA BTL
FLICKINGER Andy FRA BTL
VOECKLER Thomas FRA BTL
SPRICK Matthieu FRA BTL
ROUS Didier FRA BTL
PINEAU Jérôme FRA BTL
LEFEVRE Laurent FRA BTL
GESLIN Anthony FRA BTL
FEDRIGO Pierrick FRA BTL
BROCHARD Laurent FRA BTL
BENETEAU Walter FRA BTL
DEN BAKKER Maarten NED MRM
CADAMURO Simone ITA MRM
BECKE Daniel GER MRM
ZABEL Erik GER MRM
VELO Marco ITA MRM
SCHRÖDER Björn GER MRM
SACCHI Fabio ITA MRM
POITSCHKE Enrico GER MRM
ONGARATO Alberto ITA MRM
KNEES Christian GER MRM
GRIVKO Andriy UKR MRM
CELESTINO Mirko ITA MRM
CANOUET Gilles FRA AGR
BUFFAZ Mickaël FRA AGR
BERGES Stéphane FRA AGR
SALMON Benoit FRA AGR
PLOUHINEC Samuel FRA AGR
MERCADO Juan Miguel ESP AGR
MARTINEZ José Alberto ESP AGR
LAURENT Christophe FRA AGR
GONZALO RAMIREZ Eduardo ESP AGR
DUENAS NEVADO Moises ESP AGR
COUTOULY Cédric FRA AGR
CALVENTE Manuel ESP AGR
We have our first entries for the 2006 The Cyclery Tour de France Pool! Congratulations to the following for getting their picks together already:
Ian Dalling
Natasha Elliott
Derrick St. John
Nat Faulkner
Glenn Robinson
So, study up and get your picks together before the Tour starts on Saturday. Remember, half your $10 entry goes to prizes, the other half to the Seenite Sports young rider bursary in Ottawa. We will also have a number of merchandise prizes to announce soon.
Cheers,
Kris W.
PAYMENT OF ENTRY FEES:
You can either pay in cash at the Cyclery (please address yourself to Kiwi Mike) or through PayPal, by going to www.paypal.com.
The fee for this is 11$ 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.
**NOTE** This address was mistyped in the original Tour Pool Entry page and has been corrected.
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