Virtual Directeur Sportif Impending Deadline Alert!
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 25, 2011 8:58 PM EST
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EDIT- Yo! Get your team in pronto! You got like three hours by my clock to submit your team! I'm talking to YOU Lurker McLurkerson! And you, you and you Grater, rothko, mafra, Tommy Ventoux, and discolite! And were the **** is the Bruce gap now Bruce Suomi? Where's your team? Don't make me go to Finland to drag it out of you!
And Sui Juris. I am ashamed of you. You used to be cool. You've changed, man. What happened? Sui's cool now.
And The Mammoth, brunopitton, PeterV, txinplas, artemis, Bikenik, pedros, Dalek Cav, trounder, and SpecialCheese: time to get off the pot! And everyone else-get those teams in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pedros- excellent timing!
YOU GOT 3 HOURS OR YOU WILL REGRET IT. MAYBE NOT TODAY BUT DEFINITELY TOMORROW AND ALL SPRING AND SUMMER, NOT TO MENTION FALL AND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
-ursula
Hey you slackers... the deadline is 9pm Pacific time TODAY, a/k/a midnight Saturday Eastern US, a/k/a 6am in some or all of Western Europe. For Australia I think it was last week. Not sure. More info about how to play HERE. And if you made a team, remember -- it doesn't count until you hit submit!
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yeah, yeah, yeah
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
If you log in at the VDS website
and go to the My Team page (that’s where you end up when logging in, anyway) you will see a link near the top of the page: “Check the submission deadline!” It links to a popup window with the submission deadline and the EXACT hours, minutes and seconds remaining.
Great. Time to help the kid throw together a Doctor Who-themed team
which we’ll do in about 20 minutes—and if history repeats itself, his team will beat my agonized-over-for-weeks by at least a couple hundred points.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
After many, many, many, (...), many last minute changes...
…team Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Fabian and His Motor is now registered.
I feel so free now. And then, Saturday, the regrets will start to kick in.
That's why I pulled the plug a few days ago.
I needed to relieve the stress of the looming submit button.
by ZoeRochelle on Feb 25, 2011 11:23 PM EST up reply actions
I couldn't use my name from last year (Edvald in the Sky with Diamonds)
But I kept the Beatles theme
I decided Less Than Optimal was a little too apt for last year's team...
…had to retire that one.
My last choice was between my current team name
and Mean Mr McQuaid.
Both seemed good… and there is always next year for the one I didn’t use.
I need help
Is Lance riding both the Giro and Tour this year or just the Tour? Only sincere answers, please!
I think three things will determine this:
1. The Feds doping case progression
2. RadioShacks early season performance
3. Sponsor sitaution in late April
My current view on prob.
None: 85%
Tour : 10%
Both: 5%
Seriously,
the retirement announcement was unofficial (shhh) and is really just a great big sandbagging ploy. He’s planning on showing Contador how to do the triple. If you don’t put Lance on your team for 6 measly points you’ll regret it.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
+1
come on people. put lance on your team.
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
I hit submit last night
and have been in doubt ever since. I was so sure I had found the perfect combo, but now I keep seeing names of riders I want to add. Can I have a 50 man VDS team please?
I like tinkering with the boys.
- majope
only 50?
I think I have picked at least 80 riders in the last month… now the final team is done. I’ll wait until this night (euro time) if someone crash in Sardegna, and then… submit! How many belgians in your team? Ten italians for me :-)
I have about that many Australians :(
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
11 Belgians
I am very proud of myself for going so international.
PS – 3 Italians!
I like tinkering with the boys.
- majope
I may have two Belgians this year...I'm feeling very chuffed...
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
I love that word "chuffed"
I wish we used it in the USA…. but then the more I consider this I realize it wouldn’t be as cute to me if it was commonplace.
by ZoeRochelle on Feb 25, 2011 11:25 PM EST up reply actions
I may have an Italian on my Ed's League team.
Regular VDS team make up:
4 each Australians and Hollanders
3 each Americans and Flandrians
2 each Brits and Germans
1 each Austrian, Canadian, French, Luxembourger, Kiwi, Norwegian, and Slovakian.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
I've stacked my team with Brits
mainly as I have heard of the British riders who are worth 2 or 4 points, but not those from further afield.
It’ll help me remember who to cheer for as well.
12 different countries for mine... was interesting to check out from where
5 Belgians, Italians
3 australians
2 Swiss, Dutch, German
1 Kazak, Lithuanian, Russian, spanish, Norwegian, Austrian
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
I have 12 too
5 Belgians
4 Frenchies
2 Germans, Australians, Spaniards, Russians, Netherlands, Italians
1 Lithuanian, Tunisian, Swede and Norwegian
by Vlaanderen90 on Feb 25, 2011 10:26 PM EST up reply actions
Lucky 13
5 Belgians
5 Germans
3 Americans
2 Norwwegians
2 Austria
1 Spain
1 Italy
1 NZ
1 France
1 Latvia
1 Netherlands
1 Denmark
1 Glorius Aussie
"It was getting colder and colder as we went up. About halfway up, I started to go a little backwards and as I passed Thor he looked at me and said, "If you lose my wheel I will smash you." I took his wheel and found an extra gear." João Correia
13 nations for me too
4 Australians
4 Spanish
3 Dutch
3 French
2 Belgians
2 Italians
1 Slovak
1 Swiss
1 Irish
1 British
1 Russian
1 Canadian
1 German
10 Italians? You're going to rule the Giro.
And tgsgirl is going to rule the Sep Vanmarcke fan club.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
LOL
You should see my Editor’s League team, I think almost the whole thing is Italians.
Good luck :)
Only if, like, Woutieri Weylandtano and Matti Breschelli count as Italian.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
I can't find it in the list :-(
Otherwise I noted some funny italian team names… at least I hope not to finish last among my countrymen :-)
.. Meow ..
6 spaniards
4 each Americans & Aussies
3 Belgian
1 Italian
1 Dane
1 Argentine
1 Nederlander
1 Canadian
1 Frenchman
1 Columbian
and
1 Jens!
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist has a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Feb 26, 2011 1:19 PM EST up reply actions
hey, chris, do we get points for a race the uci cancels due to riders protesting race radio bans... as has been mentioned by phat pat for omloop?
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
I say yes,
depending on how serious the race was. But I’m just a cubicle worker. BTW, that’s my red stapler.
Superted - prairie doggin at his cube.
Sooo…you kept the Swingline when they switched to the Boston?
A bike should have a voice... it should speak to you, and you should hear it, and what it should say is: "Attack!" - sminer
Yes, this is what Chris said in the Omloop post
If the organizer posts results
we will accept them for the VDS. UCI recognition is not one of my criteria. But if they don’t race, or don’t really race, that’s another matter.
My bags are guaranteed sand-free.
right
we’ll see what sort of event they have. Inclination is to give points.
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 25, 2011 10:15 AM EST up reply actions
Hi
I didnt see tour of Beijing on the calendar. anything i missed?
I think it will be a World Tour race this year.
Velonation is carrying a story about the course getting approval. But I’d swear I looked for the race on the UCI website and it wasn’t there a few weeks ago.
The UCI website currently has an asterisk next to the event as they haven’t received their license to run the event yet.
The skills really do go away if not practiced, and I don't mean to brag but I was getting very mediocre. - Tejay Van Garderen
Arghh!
I just submitted my team last night with almost no thought at all….haven’t had time to do research recently – not of the cycling kind anyway! I pretty much just picked guys I like and ones with good names. Hopefully it will turn out better than last years carefully planned out team, though. Would be hard to do worse…
My team from last year disagrees with you...
Much to my shame. I think I still owe you an album from our side bet.
For this is cycling where suffering and success travel inseparably together - Jen See (poet)
by omnevelnihil on Feb 25, 2011 9:51 AM EST up reply actions
you might have beaten me, omnevelnihil
I can’t remember. It was a near thing, either way.
Careful, any second now SuperTed will look it up
and shame us both again!
For this is cycling where suffering and success travel inseparably together - Jen See (poet)
by omnevelnihil on Feb 26, 2011 1:02 AM EST up reply actions
Team Azenarioa p/b Txakoli is now official.
The team presentation was held last night in Upminster Church Hall. Much txakoki was imbibed. Today, however, the training started. I took them up the fearsome Old Church Hill on the outskirts of Basildon, which separated the men from the boys.
Dos cervezas por favor!
And once you had them separated, you did what with them?
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
That is classified information.
the ‘boys’ will be climbing better next time though.
Dos cervezas por favor!
separated with a crowbar?
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist has a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Feb 26, 2011 1:24 PM EST up reply actions
leap too long into the abyss, and the
… Oh, hang on, that’s not it.
"Unsubmitted" (dir. Clint Eastwood, 2011)
Deserted main street of a frontier town, rusting bicycle wheels lean against the hitching post.
Discarded gel wrappers flutter in the dry wind that blows in from the prairie.
A young man hurries along the dusty street, and looks nervously around before pushing open the swing doors to the saloon.
A wizened old timer looks up from a corner table, then goes back to his whiskey bottle.
Alone at the bar sits a tall, lean figure in a poncho and cowboy hat, hunched over a cup of steaming black coffee. A large coffee pot stands on the bar next to him.
“Hey mister!” says the young man, who we now notice is dressed incongruously in tightly fitting lycra.
“Hey, are you Mister Voigt?”
Slowly, Jens! (for it is he) turns his head, and looks the young man up and down.
“Boy, you should leave here and return home. There is much pain in this place.”
“Mister, Uncle Fabian says you was the meanest goddamn son of a bitch alive. And if I ever wanted a partner for a killing, you were the worst one.”
by straw dog on Feb 25, 2011 11:16 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
bravo!
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Feb 25, 2011 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
Briljant!
Oh, I love this place, no one understands my sense of humor like youse guys do! Is it Saturday morning yet? \o/
You wouldn't think a little rain would stop the God of Thunder. Although maybe he’s conflicted now that he has to wear a rainbow. -Majope
to quote another ds, "fuck it", the team might as well lose has been submitted (with only 2 returning 2010 riders on the roster).
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Where the f*** is Rujano?
I’ve been holding off on submitting to see if he would surface somewhere.
He’s supposed to be riding the Giro for Androni, and he was at the team presentation… but he hasn’t ridden a race yet, and he’s not on any of their rosters for the upcoming races (whilst Serpa has been very visible). I guess we have to assume he’s gone of the rails again, I thought he be fun to have on the team, but I can’t pick him unless I see he’s actually riding a bike somewhere.
Anyone know?
He's training at home in Venezuela.
Can’t remember if his first race is T-A or Trentino. One of them. At any rate there’s nothing wrong with him.
ursula-
it could not have been said any better. edit of the year.
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
is that your final answer?
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
Bruce submitted his team a week ago
but since he exists so far in the future, our time has not caught up to it yet. FYI, he already knows who wins everything through Monte Paschi Eroica.
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
almost 700 teams...
We need to waste some time speculating on the statistics…
Most popular rider? – might have been the 2pt carrot until he was pureed, maybe the 1pt carrot? or maybe Sagan overtook them both in a late run
The 2 pt carrot is not the top rider picked
He might have lost some popularity when he had his boo boo.
Care for a 2nd guess?
Phinney
"It was getting colder and colder as we went up. About halfway up, I started to go a little backwards and as I passed Thor he looked at me and said, "If you lose my wheel I will smash you." I took his wheel and found an extra gear." João Correia
Lance
"It was getting colder and colder as we went up. About halfway up, I started to go a little backwards and as I passed Thor he looked at me and said, "If you lose my wheel I will smash you." I took his wheel and found an extra gear." João Correia
Phinney, you mean this guy?
DOH!
"Gold medal, silver medal, bronze medal; for me, potato." - Emil Zatopek
Really? over Skype? BAHAHAHA
hinney was able to ride home before undergoing a remote medical examination from Testa.
"We did some simple tests for balance and coordination over Skype, which he passed," Testa said.
by ZoeRochelle on Feb 25, 2011 11:36 PM EST up reply actions
As near as I can determine...
…his crash happened at exactly the same time I hit submit, with him on my team.
I’d like to take this opportunity apologize to Taylor, his family, and all the other VDS’s who were counting on him.
So not the 1-pt carrot either? he also stuck out, because he was the only 1-pointer with 100 points in 2010 I think? (although I didn’t pick him myself, just to be cool and sophisticated)
if not Egoi or Sagan, then…. maybe Michael Matthews because he was so in-your-face early in the year?
If you're going to correct yourself, what exactly is my role here?
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Scorn
and derision
"It was getting colder and colder as we went up. About halfway up, I started to go a little backwards and as I passed Thor he looked at me and said, "If you lose my wheel I will smash you." I took his wheel and found an extra gear." João Correia
Not for ursula!
I’ve seen his team, and feel nothing but the deepest sympathy.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
who else was there a lot of love for?
Cam Meyer possibly – there were so few obvious 1-pointers, that maybe?
Some of the riders there are surprising
Picked by only one team include Kevin Ista, Jens Mouris, and Lastras (I sense an Ed’s league trend there),
Romain Felliu
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
Hoogerland
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
I give up
Is there a vast lurking majority who automatically pick
George Hincapie
because he’s the only rider they know aside from Lance?
Dude was also on fire last year...
…and his price is reasonable given the upside that still seems to be there.
Seems foolish to pass on him.
I’m not arguing, 1’m one of the 243, but it was easier to have another opinion before this week, he’s still very young
I'm with Jimbo below...
…I never even questioned having Sagan. That was an absolute no-doubter.
Well, Gesink also seems like a deal...
…to me at least.
I may live to regret having Boss Hog...
…when I could have had GHH and Oss for the same price, but we shall see.
I wouldn't say that
Clearly he showed great potential last year
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
lulu?
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
I'm guessing Michael Matthews is very popular...cheap, young and on Rabo.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
what about the opposite? who has no love?
Most expensive rider who is on no teams?
If it’s not too early to ask of course
Highest priced rider (riders actually) on no teams costs 4 points
and there are 5 of them, with these country/uci codes:
ESP ACG
SUI TT1
FRA SAU
ESP CJR
GER OLO
It's actually pretty cool that the most popular rider is only on 36% of teams.
That means you did a good job on the pricing.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Het Nieuwsblad smack talk starts in 1 hour, 43 minutes.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Note that Dalek Cav got his team in, too.
He’s such a good boy.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Hey Ted
Are you just going to toss out all complete, but not yet submitted teams?
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
I had to delete my super-administrative team Sep with 25x Sep
because it led to double hiring on other teams.
I might have at least one of those...
…depending on a few things.
So somebody was making an all-doper VDS team, right?
I came across this story from 2008 the other day,
does anyone remember this?
Apparently Basso tried to start up a REAL all-doper team.
Awesome idea.
http://www.europeloton.com/2008/04/basso-ullrich-others-to-start-pro-conti.html
Some great team names...
Martin L. Buber Memorial Pie & Awning Co.
Unaffected by commercialism
REVOL LORETUBNELC
Milet Fignon
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
Whoa--the most appalling stat of the night
is that 4 people think VDS is more fun than pie. Than pie.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Yeah, I have no idea why anyone thinks anything is more fun that pie.
I just put it in the poll just to put a ceiling. I had no idea…
Not me, but my wife
She hates pie. Actually that’s why I married her. More pie for me!
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
Has she voted 11 times now?
Because really, there’s no other explanation.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
depends which pie
You don’t want me to proselytise for pie floater again, do you?
(That’s a rhetorical question.)
Some high priced guys on few teams
Just scanning the list…
Gusev-3
Ricco-5
Martens-5
Navarro, Paolini, Gaspa-7
Larrson, Ale Jet, -9
Visconti-10
Garzelli, Contador-11
Marcato-12
Chicken-15
Got to feel very sorry for anyone who picked Contador.
They’re gonna have a lousy year.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Sometimes he's slow, but he gets there...posted in July '09:
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Wow
11 people actually think Conta’s going to be racing by July…
I’m slightly amazed.
Spread thick
Numbers are price and price divided by number of teams.
ESP MOV Pablo Lastras 6 6.0 RUS KAT Vladimir Gusev 12 4.0 ITA KAT Giampaolo Caruso 4 4.0 ITA XYZ Angelo Furlan 4 4.0 ESP XYZ Serafin Martinez 4 4.0 NED VCD Jens Mouris 4 4.0 ITA XYZ Enrico Rossi 4 4.0 ITA XYZ Franco Pellizotti 10 3.3 ITA SKY Davide Appollonio 6 3.0 POR XYZ Rui da Costa 6 3.0
well 5 of them are on the team sponsored by Xylophone Zone...
…I think it’s that online music store that went bust
The 3-way tie at 2nd place for most popular pick has been broken by the latest entries.
2. Sylvain Chavanel 235
3. Heinrich Haussler 234
4. Robert Gesink 233
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Lots?
I’ve been on some live threads lately on other forums here that have gone 1000+ posts and there were no problems.
Cool. So no need for Jens around here anymore then.
by ZoeRochelle on Feb 25, 2011 11:58 PM EST up reply actions
meh
I find that seperate threads give definition to the race
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
10 minutes
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
5 Minutes
BRUUUUUCE
BRUUUCE
BRUCE
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
Hey, the Ricco crowd got a slight bend of the rules...
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Make a gap for Bruce and let him in!
I’d be foursquare and imbibed about it too if I had any idea what those words actually mean.
how many more than last year is that?
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
just over 1.5x then
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
All my riders are shared by at least one another team...
So much for being original.
Ted, would it be possible (some time, not necessarily now) to find which team as the most riders that are only on that team? (aka: the most original team)
6 scrumpy Etta Roules 4 AmatoreP Fides Fidelity and a poopoo picked squad of guys I... 4 yesisaidyes Kwai Tuzi 4 ackack40 25 Nations Under AckAck 3 4estru Heavy Metal Penguins 3 jenoboyle34 Dope City 3 Tim Stansbury maulers moncaí ramhar 2 Phil H. syringe binge 2 Basil II Tour de Flatus 2 brunop Dopers gone wild! 2 MagnificentSimon The Sander Army 2 rashomon Knight's Move 2 Tpg2114 Awesomicans 2 mclaren Mclaren 2 bookends tallboys 2 potzu Sorry Sirs 2 the waffler team waffles
and 68 more with a single unique rider.
you should do the sums on the team you would have submitted
not quite the same, especially if you match last year’s effort, but still worth doing
Hey! I'm coming first!
Equal first, sure. But why let logic get in the way?
Night,all--see you in the morning for the RACE.
If you’re bored in the meantime, the HN VDS smack thread is now up.
It's really cool--Heinrich Haussler, on Barbie Barbie
Kings of Eritrea picks
1 Syl. Chavanel 240
2 Gesink 237
3 Matthews 231
4 van Garderen 185
5 Boom 158
6 Viviani 147
7 R. Feillu 136
8 Bennati 103
9 Oss 100
10 Menchov 94
11 Brajkovic 76
12 Taaraeme 65
13 Bole 59
14 Mollema 51
15 Farrar 49
16 Poels 30
17 Kittel 25
18 Ulissi 24
19 Felline 18
20 Belletti 15
21 LSH 15
22 Langeveld 13
23 Marcato 12
24 Pardilla 9
25 Teklehaimanot 2
Well, at least there are 4 riders I share with you
…and at least 49 other folks.
YEEEESSS I made it!!! Thanks guys!
F#¤%&%¤# internet not working almost caused me a heart attack.
This saved my life this morning:
Nooooooo! I didn't make it.
In fact, I completely forgot about it until just now. I was researching riders last tuesday or so, feeling like I’d get my team in well before saturday, and then I got a job, and a family member ended up in hospital and I just completely forgot about it until I visited the website today.
Having said that, Ted or anyone with an admin login would be able to see that the riders I’d assembled (42 of them, hadn’t made my final cuts) weren’t exactly going to put me in reach of the podium.
Ah well, next year…..
by LurkerMcLurkerson on Feb 28, 2011 2:49 AM EST up reply actions
If you like, you're more than welcome to share my disgrace
If I only had to endure half the shame of a normal VDS season, it’d be a pretty successful year.
For this is cycling where suffering and success travel inseparably together - Jen See (poet)
by omnevelnihil on Feb 28, 2011 8:13 AM EST up reply actions
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