Fantasy Vuelta Overall - Bertie Best, Rouleurs Rule

Well that was the Tour of Spain then.  And quite an entertaining little race it was - If you’re willing to overlook the fact that two-thirds of the podium have been banned for doping, and I have to admit that I am.  So the win went to likeable steak-munching-cheater, Alberto Contador. 

How did it all finish up then? Well, stage 20 was yet another steep uphill finish, and the win went to old timer ‘Dirty Dennis’ Menchov, who got the better of Sky’s Richie Porte.

 

The “big three” came in behind the remains of the break, and although there were a few seconds traded here and there, it wasn’t enough to change the overall.

 

And then we had the final stage into Madrid, and seeing as I didn’t say he’d win, John Degenkolb won.

 

Sneaking in shortly after him was crafty cheater Alejandro Valverde, who managed to steal the points jersey away from poor J-Rod at the last minute.

 

But who really cares about the real race?  The Fantasy Vuelta is the one everyone really wants to win.  And now that the final scores are in, it should come as no surprise to anyone, to see that Rouleurs have won, which may go some way towards making up for a dismal Tour De France.  Not far behind was Mungo, and rounding out the podium, we're the Bile Beans.

MINI LEAGUE SCORES

Tour De Pance

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		tdm911	Rouleurs	9289
2		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	8441
3		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	8193
4		TEAM ITV4	Andrew Danson	7695
5		Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	7238
6		GB expects	Warwick Anderson	7049
7		Dangerous Rogues Under Grey Skies	Blinddrew	6793
8		ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	6462
9		Charmers	Craigatron	6226
10		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	5335
11		Bertie Frooms all Flavour Beans	Mark	5318
12		Evil Penguinbots	Evil King Penguin	5294
13		Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	5122
14		Hell of the North	Vincent Lavallee	4322
15		Ph.Dizzles	Ben	4027
16		Team MacDream	Elizabeth MacKenzie	3117

 

I hope you all had fun, even if your team totally sucked.  That might well be it for the Fantasy road calendar this year, but it looks like there’ll be some Fantasy Cyclocross action still to come from Velogames.  I did it last year, was mostly rubbish, and didn’t know who anyone was, but I did learn that it’s good to have Kevin Pauwels in your team.  If only it was Fantasy Georgia Cyclocross, all you’d have to do was pick Thomas Turner, and watch the points roll in.

Fantasy Vuelta Stage 19: Gilbert Winning Races Again

It looked for a little while that Degenkolb might get himself another stage today. He sneaked away in the closing kms with some other guys, only to have everyone fly past him just before the line. Timing it all quite nicely was Phillipe Gilbert, who seems to have remembered how to win races just in time for the Worlds in a few weeks. 

Not much impact on the scores then, unless you had Gilbert in your team. In which case, well done you.

MINI LEAGUE SCORES

Tour De Pance

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		tdm911	Rouleurs	6379
2		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	5866
3		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	5525
4		TEAM ITV4	Andrew Danson	5308
5		Flying Hutchmen	Hutch	4909
6		GB expects	Warwick Anderson	4588
7		ENRICO 666	Eric Mortier	4472
8		Dangerous Rogues Under Grey Skies	Blinddrew	4460
9		Charmers	Craigatron	4215
10		Evil Penguinbots	Evil King Penguin	3588
11		Bertie Frooms all Flavour Beans	Mark	3568
12		Cofeedis	Tom Fee	3525
13		Haxby Group Pharmacy	Richard Harrison	3393
14		Hell of the North	Vincent Lavallee	2962
15		Ph.Dizzles	Ben	2896
16		Team MacDream	Elizabeth MacKenzie	2216

 

The race is nearly over, but there’s still one more day of climbing tomorrow. If Bertie can make it through this one, then he should have it in the bag.