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Another Daft Idea - The "Minor Tours" Challenge...

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TheBigYin
TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
edited June 2016 in Social Groups
No - Not Minotaurs - Minor Tours.

I guess most of us know about the Grand Tour Challenges I run, over the Giro d'Italia, LeTour and LaVuelta. But, while playing with Jason's marvelous CycLeagues website, a thought struck me... Just out of interest, and for a bit of a diversion, why not do something for the Minor Tours as well - the 1 week or 10 day tours that don't get the same attention... And, because its driven from the CycLeagues site, we don't actually have to do much of anything other than Open a thread and paste a screenshot of the results in there... Bonus!

So, as a trial run, I thought I'd do something for the following Tours...

Critérium du Dauphiné 2016 - 5th June > 12th June
Tour de Suisse 2016 - 11th June > 19th June
Route du Sud 2016 - 16th June > 19th June
Tour of Poland 2016 - 12th July > 18th July

More dates may be added... depending on levels of interest...



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  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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    so, today's leaderboard for the Dauphine would look like this...

    osgpyjben2t7.png
  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
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    Sounds like a winning idea to me.
  • narak_lol
    narak_lol Posts: 855 Member
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    Great idea! Love that there is no need to do anything :D
  • m1xm0d3
    m1xm0d3 Posts: 1,576 Member
    edited June 2016
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    narak_lol wrote: »
    Great idea! Love that there is no need to do anything :D

    I SWEAR! Just go out and ride! lol.... loving the cycleagues! Even moreso once Jason adds sprint bonuses to the points calculation. ;)

    Great idea, Mark. You are the glue that holds the CPC community together.
  • Spatialized
    Spatialized Posts: 623 Member
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    Bummer, I thought this was about half-man/half-bull cyclists! Seriously, if it works that easily do it!
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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    Spatialized wrote: »
    Bummer, I thought this was about half-man/half-bull cyclists! Seriously, if it works that easily do it!

    That'd have been the Buffalo Bill Challenge, surely...

    or the one for the Climbers, half man half goat... Billy the Kidd...


    and on those choice puns, I guess I'll Give it a go...



  • cloggsy71
    cloggsy71 Posts: 2,208 Member
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    "If you (or Jase) build it, they will come" ;)
  • ntnunk
    ntnunk Posts: 936 Member
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    I'd be up for it!
  • FitterBody
    FitterBody Posts: 367 Member
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    Is the ToP going to happen 12/7-18/7?
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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    FitterBody wrote: »
    Is the ToP going to happen 12/7-18/7?

    looks like it from their website - http://tourdepologne.pl/en/

    to be honest, as it crosses through the TdF Challenge, it's probably likely to be dominated by people riding that challenge as well... for this incarnation I'll leave it be - but I think perhaps if I was doing this for the full season next year, I'd probably try and get some way of excluding people from being in more than one challenge at once - same as you just can't physically be in france and poland on the same date and time...

  • FitterBody
    FitterBody Posts: 367 Member
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    Sounds reasonable.
  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
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    You know we could have a Minor Tour league points system, just a thought :)
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
    edited June 2016
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    well - as there's been some interest - I'll try and remember to add winners for the rest of the UCI 2.HC tours...


    JUL-03 JUL-10 Int. Österreich-Rundfahrt-Tour of Austria
    JUL-12 JUL-18 Tour de Pologne
    JUL-17 JUL-30 Tour of Qinghai Lake
    JUL-23 JUL-27 VOO-Tour de Wallonie
    JUL-27 JUL-31 Post Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark
    AUG-01 AUG-07 The Larry H.Miller Tour of Utah
    AUG-02 AUG-06 Vuelta a Burgos
    AUG-10 AUG-14 Arctic Race of Norway
    AUG-15 AUG-21 Tour of Colorado
    SEP-04 SEP-11 Aviva Tour of Britain
    SEP-19 SEP-25 Eneco Tour
    SEP-29 OCT-02 Tour de l'Eurométropole


    (details pulled from the steephill.tv world tour calendar page... http://www.steephill.tv/2016/uci-world-calendar/#)

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