Breakaway stage and one entry less because Ulrich forgot his prediction, so big points on the table! In the end, seancoll wins the stage with a nice 133 points, mostly because he was the only one to correctly predict winner Valgren in his ten names. Abhishek is second today with five correct picks, as knockout finishes third, mostly because of being the only one predicting Vlasov in the top-10.
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Valgren
Leknessund
Caruso
Vlasov
Rubio
Arrieta
Garofoli
De La Cruz
Narvaez
Donovan
seancoll
100
18
12
3
133
Abhishek
18
26
30
12
3
89
knockout
70
10
3
83
Nemolito
26
12
30
68
Laurens
18
12
10
3
10
53
Imladrik
18
26
3
47
Ollfardh
30
10
40
kabu26
18
10
3
31
Knockout stays in the lead as expected, but there's a change on the podium. Seancoll's stage win catapults him into third ahead of Laurens, as a bit further below Urich's zero pointer sees Ollfardh rise to seventh.
Vlasov saved the day for me yesterday. The lead feels quite comfortable at this point but things can still change quickly with day 1 classifications coming in at the end.
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A. Roy
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably."
A. Roy
Ranking update! The stage was not the easiest the predict, as it could have been one for the (stronger) sprinter, the rouleurs/baroudeurs, a bigger breakaway, etc. In the end, master predictor knockout does it again and takes the win! He correctly predicted numbers two, three, five and seven on the stage, accounting for 125 points. Imladrik also did quite well, scoring just a bit lower with 116. Seancoll and Laurens had a bit more faith in a breakaway/puncheur type of riders, and finish the day with ten points.
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Magnier
Zambanini
Milan
Busatto
Strong
Silva
Mihkels
Magli
Loland
Kubis
knockout
45
40
20
20
125
Imladrik
33
40
23
20
116
kabu26
45
10
55
Ollfardh
23
20
10
53
Ulrich
33
20
53
Nemolito
33
10
43
Abhishek
23
23
Laurens
10
10
seancoll
10
10
In the GC, the (previous) numbers three to five score low, and most stays the same. Imladrik keeps on improving. Going from the last place recently to the left side of the table now, as he takes over fifth place from Abhishek, and the podium is now well within reach!
Knockout's 1512 points after 18 stages already would put him fourth, 12 points of last year's podium after every point had been handed out. 1870 was Ollfardh's total in the end back then, it's very unlikely that knockout won't break it. Can he reach over 2000 points?
