“...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
“...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
Here I am with the results of stage 1! bbl and Croatia didn't join for S1 (or 2), but are always welcome to come stage hunting at any time (of for just a nice remontada in general).
Everybody picked Magnier, Andresen and Milan, nobody guessed Mihkels (60 points missed), Gudmestad, Walscheid or Van Gestel. The difference was made with Vernon (16 pp), Lonardi (25pp) and Ackerman (13pp). As knockout had the former and the latter, he scored just enough to finish above kandesbunzler26 (with a great new abbreviation) and Ollfardh, who both picked Lonardi.
So, knockout starts as he finished the final GT, and Ollfardh is clearly ready to defend his title. seancoll has the honour of being the first red lantern. Not too bad, since red and pink really aren't that different. Today might already see him rise back to the top, we'll find out this afternoon
A fun finale (well, except for the Belgians who wanted Van Eetvelt to win the stage) also made sure the S2 rankings are different than what they could have been. One Belgian slightly happy with Van Eetvelt not winning might be Laurens. He correctly predicted the winner, third, fourth, fifth and eight place, scoring just below the magic 100 points to win the stage.
The other two people also picking Silva among their ten riders are Dane Bramage and kandesbunzler26, and they're also the other ones on the stage podium thanks to point from respectively Ciccone and Scaroni. Imladrik and knockout went for a different outcome and score zero points during stage 2.
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Silva
Stork
Ciccone
Scaroni
Pellizzari
Sobrero
Leknessund
Christen J.
Tjotta
Rondel
Laurens
33
20
17
20
7
97
Dane B.
33
20
53
kabu26
33
17
50
Ollfardh
17
20
7
44
Ulrich
40
40
Abhishek
20
20
40
seancoll
20
7
27
Nemolito
17
7
24
knockout
0
Imladrik
0
No big surprise in the total ranking, as Laurens now takes over the pink jersey. Kandesbunzler and Ollfardh the other two names on the podium, with Imladrik now as the new red lantern.
A stage win and a zero score. Starting the race in style
Nothing better than a nice pattern. A win, a zero pointer, and then... another win!
Just like Laurens on stage 2, 97 points does the trick for knockout! Mostly thanks to a 50-pointer from Blikra. But also predicting the entire top-3, like most of us, as well as Malucelli and Andresen were obviously helpful. Good performance by kandesbunzler as well with 81 points, whereas the three Belgians are on the bottom of the stage table. Komaan mannen!
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Magnier
Milan
Groenewegen
Mihkels
Malucelli
Blikra
Ackermann
Ballerini
Andresen
Zanoncello
knockout
10
9
11
15
50
2
97
kabu26
10
9
11
14
15
10
2
10
81
Ulrich
10
9
11
14
10
2
56
seancoll
10
9
11
15
2
47
Abhishek
10
9
11
15
45
Imladrik
10
9
14
10
2
45
Dane B.
10
9
14
10
2
45
Nemolito
10
9
14
2
35
Ollfardh
10
9
11
2
32
Laurens
10
9
11
2
32
In the GC, kandesbunzler's consistency (2-3-2) gets rewarded with the pink jersey! Laurens remains on the podium after a not so great stage, and knockout also comes back to said podium. Imladrik remains the red lantern, but still close enough to first place to get catapulted there on a good stage.
