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Dubai Tour Forum Game (Purist)
Well, unless someone offers to run this as a race on the game platform, which has already been suggested by Aragonite in another thread, I thought we'd have a Forum Game Competition! 
Based on the success of the 1st one, this should be great!
The competition would cover all stages of the Dubai Tour from Start to Finish.
The rules, like for the first game I proposed, are extremely simple:
Riders will score points if they place in the Top 35 places for the day. The winner gets 35 points. The subsequent riders will receive points (34, 33, 32, ...) until rider No. 35, who will get 1 point. Every day.
No budget is set. You can pick up to 8 riders. No Sprint points, GC, KM, YR or 'Last Man In' points will be awarded. Just points at the Finish Line.
The full Start List is posted here:
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Dubai_Tour_2017_Startlist
After very little research I have posted my team below!
It might be fun to try the Volta A La Comunitat Valenciana the same way!
Right now the full Start List does not appear on ProcyclingStats.com for that race (http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Volta_a_la_Comunitat_Valenciana_2017...).
Deadline is the actual Race Start, whenever that is! I'll post it later! Thanks!
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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Sorry, I just won't have time to do one.
Ok. I'll take Oman since it's the one I'm most familiar with. Do we keep the teams Purists? No transfers?...
I'm keen for all three. Oman is usually quite interesting and the other two are very varied (sprints, summit finishes, time trials) so they'd make for good competition.
Unless other people show an interest (come on other people!), how about we score one each? Same 'rules' as per Dubai?
Oman: 14.02 -- 19.02
Andalucia: 15.02 -- 19.02
Algarve 15.02 -- 19.02
A good idea to run something like this for those races not included in the official calendar. Perhaps a race with a more varied parcours would be a bit less predictable, require a bit more skill and be a bit more interesting!
Oman? Algave? Andalucia?
I'd be up for Oman and Andalucia!
I've never really followed Algave... 
When are they?... 
Just for completenes...the results from Stage 5.
Kittel 35
Viviani 34
Cav 32
Degenkolb 31
Modolo 30
Drucker 29
Groenewegen 26
Blythe 23
Mareczko 19
Renshaw 18 (!!!)
Overall Score
Quicker-Step = 909
dc04dc = 896
enrique = 792
No, thank you.
Thanks for playing, guys!
And thanks for taking care of the scoring, QS! 
Stage 3 Points
Degenkolb 35
Drucker 30
Viviani 29
Groenewegen 28
Blythe 27
Kittel 25
Mereczko 19
Modolo 17
Cavendish 0 (38th)
Renshaw 0 (51st [getting closer!])
Overall Scores
Quicker-Step = 669
dc04dc = 660
enrique = 564
Hatta Dam tomorrow...could be crucial!
Good comic relief!
I can only hope! 
I thought he'd get some (!) placings in the Top 20 after how well he did in the Tour Down Under...
What a waste! 
You guys are doing really nice! 
And Groenewagen is doing really well! 
Stage 2 Scores
Kittel 35pts
Groenewegen 34pts
Mareczko 33pts
Degenkolb 32pts
Modolo 31pts
Cav 29pts
Blythe 26pts
Drucker 25pts
Viviani 16pts
Renshaw 0pts (95th)... what was the thinking behind Renshaw???
Overall Scores after Stage 2
Quicker-Step = 478
dc04dc = 477
enrique = 409
No.3 for Kittel tomorrow...?
Nice! Cool of you to do the scoring, Q!
Stage 1 scores for relevant riders...
35 pts - Kittel
34 pts - Groenewegen
33 pts - Cav
32 pts - Degenkolb
31 pts - Modolo
30 pts - Viviani
29 pts - Drucker
26 pts - Blythe
18 pts - Mareczko
0 pts - Renshaw (90th place)
Overall Score after Stage 1
Quicker-Step = 250
dc04dc = 242
enrique = 208
Cavendish
Groenewegen
Kittel
Degenkolb
Viviani
Modolo
Mareczco
Drucker
Thank you.
We're on!
Only 4 hours and change to go! Race starts at 11:00 am Gulf Standard Time and it's now 6:42 am Gulf Standard Time! 
Cavendish
Groenewegen
Viviani
Degenkolb
Blythe
Modolo
Drucker
Kittel
Cavendish
Kittel
Degenkolb
Viviani
Modolo
Renshaw
Mareczco
Drucker
Stacked!