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HOW TO PLAY GRAND TOURS GAMES


In fantasy.cycling-games.com you manage one or more teams of 15 riders for any or all of the 2008 Grand Tours. There are prizes for each Tour.

The 3 tours are:
Giro D'Italia, 10th May - 1st June, 2008
Tour de France, July 5th-27th, 2008
Vuelta a España, 30th Aug - 21st Sept, 2008

In a real to life experience, you will take up the challenge of using your tactical skill and knowledge to win an array of exciting cycling related prizes.

Sections of the game rules:

Overview of the competition
Getting started
Managing your teams
Points
TTT - Team Time Trials
Prize Placings
Joining Mid-Tour
Stages 1-6
Local Deadlines

 
 

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPETITIONS

There are THREE COMPETITIONS to enter with major prizes to win:

The Giro D'Italia competition
The Tour de France competition
The Vuelta a España competition

There are prizes on offer for playing each of the individual tours. You do NOT need to take part in all three tours to win great prizes.

You build points for your team by competing in the following FOUR SECTIONS per tour:

General Classification
Mountain Classification
Classification by Points
Stage by Stage

The sum of your points from these four sections then makes up your total tour points. The team with the highest tour points wins the individual tour prize.

The points system is based on UCI scoring method. See the POINTS section and the UCI website www.uci.ch for further details.

 
 

GETTING STARTED

You sign up per individual Tour and create your teams of 15 from the official racelist of approximately ~200 listed UCI riders. Each tour will have a different racelist specific to that tour. You can compete in one tour or in all three tours. There are excellent prizes on offer in all three indidivual tours.

 

Managers have 8500 points allocated to build each tour team.
 

There is no transfer of points from one tour to the next if a manager does not use all their points in selecting the 15 riders in one specific tour. Each manager receives points to buy their team of 15 riders with.
 

Create as many teams as you want. Try as many teams as you like for free during stages 1-6. You only need to pay for the teams you want to enter in the game by stage 7, Sat 6th Sept. In the Grande Tours you need 21 credits to enter one team.

 
 

MANAGING YOUR TEAMS

Once you have selected your team of 15 you then have to pick the best 9 riders to compete in each of the FOUR sections per tour.

How to select your riders per section:

img_cross_expand.gif Section 1: General Classification:

img_cross_expand.gif Section 2: Mountain Classification:

Click to Expand Section 3: Classification by Points:

Click to Expand Section 4: Stage by stage points:

Click to Expand Helpful hints in selecting your riders

 

POINTS

The scoring is based on UCI points system. We have adapted it for game play purposes to keep the game exciting and competitive and to give an authentic and real to life experience of managing a race team.

The points scoring system is simple. Some general details to remember are:
 

The only section you are awarded points from on a daily basis is the stage-by-stage competition.
 

These stage-by-stage points are based on the top 15 fastest riders in each stage and the extra bonus score for winning a tour while being overall tour leader.
 

The General Classification, Classification by Points, and Mountain Classification sections award points at the end of the tour based on UCI points allocations.
 

You will not receive points for any of your 15 riders that are not amongst the selected 9 for each competition.

Stage by Stage points summary
 

You get stage-by-stage points if one or more of your riders are in the top 15 fastest stage times.
 

You also get 20 bonus points for being the overall tour leader (fastest overall time).

Scoring examples

Based on having the following team of 15:

1. Lance Armstrong (USA)
2. Fabio Baldato (Ita)
3. Tyler Hamilton (USA)
4. Stuart O'Grady (Aus)
5. Dario Frigo (Ita)
6. Kevin Livingston (USA)
7. Massimo Donati (Ita)
8. Rubens Bertogliati (Swi)
9. Rik Verbrugghe (Bel)
10. David Millar (GBR)
11. Kevin Livingston (USA)
12. José Azevedo (Por)
13. Laurent Brochard (Fra)
14. Jakob Storm Piil (Den)
15. Rik Verbrugghe (Bel)

Click to Expand EXAMPLE 1: Points scoring for stage by stage:

Click to Expand EXAMPLE 2: Points scoring by General Classicisation:

Click to Expand EXAMPLE 3: Points scoring by Mountain Classification

Click to Expand EXAMPLE 4: Points scoring by classification by points

TTT - Special Stages - Team Time Trials

TTT are special stages where whole teams sprint together over a set distance.

TTT points are scored on an individual rider's time. Effectively points are scored in the team trial stages as in any other stage. Where the race organisers release individual riders' times we will use them.

However where these are not available (e.g. Giro 2006 stage 5) we will give the points to the Team Leader of the top placing Teams. For more information see EXAMPLE 5 below. The GC, PTS and MTN elements of the game will be updated and followed as normal.

Click to Expand EXAMPLE 5: how stage points are determined in a TTT stage

Prize Placings

Final placings for each of the Grand Tours is determined by the sum of:

Total Stage-by-stage competition points
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General Classification points as awarded by UCI at Tour end
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Classification by Points points awarded by UCI at Tour end
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Mountain Classification points awarded by UCI at Tour end

Click to Expand EXAMPLE 6: Total points per tour

Any ties in ranking for prizes will be resolved by awarding the team with the highest Stage then GC points the relevant prizes accordingly.

 
 

JOINING MID TOUR

If you join a tour after the start date you can still take part with just as good a chance of winning as a manager who joined before stage 1. All you need to do is to make sure you select 9 riders for each of the stages 1-6 before the deadline. See the Stages 1-6 section below for more details.

Once you sign up you will then create your own team of 15 riders and select your 9 riders to partake in each of the four sections per tour.

You will not however be able to join the game after the following stage time
  Stage 7, Sat 6th Sept after 12:55 UTC+2

If you have any questions you may find answers in the HELP section.

Alternatively you can email our help team who will be happy to assist with any questions.


Stages 1-6

You can re-edit and re-enter teams for stages 1-6 of the Vuelta a España Game 2008 competition up until stage 7 begins. It is worth doing this because even though you can change your selection of 9 riders the points still count.

This gives you the following benefits:
 

An opportunity to understand how the game works
 

The chance to experiment with team and rider selections for free
 

Try out combinations of riders for all 4 sections
 

Only pay for the teams you decide to continue with
 

Ensures you are happy with your final team selection for stage 7 and onwards when the competition really begins

You must have paid your race fees for your teams before stage 7 commences (by 12:55 UTC+2) to enter the competition. The payment of these fees is by use of a "race credits" system. You must first purchase some credits via our new Google Checkout system, via your own PayPal account, or with our dedicated online credit card processing at Netbanx.

Before stage 7 begins you need to decide on your finalised teams of 15 riders. You will also decide on your finalised 9 riders within the General Classification, Mountain Classification, and Classification by Points sections.

The 9 riders for the stage-by-stage section can of course be changed, from your 15 riders, on a stage-by-stage basis up until the last stage.

If you change your 15 riders before stage 7, you keep only those points accumulated by the your selections of 9 riders from your final 15.

We will send you an e-mail a few days before to remind you to have a think about which finalised teams you’re going to continue with.

 


LOCAL DEADLINES

Click on your region below to see the cut-off times for registering a team in the competition in your local time zone. This cut off time is for taking part in the full blown competition. Please note that this time is not the same as the Stage Deadlines for submitting your selection of 9 riders each day. These are detailed individually in the MANAGE TEAM screens.
UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time. It is the same as GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

Click to Expand Europe

Click to Expand USA

Click to Expand Canada

Click to Expand Australasia

 

Good Luck!

The fantasy.cycling-games.com Team

 

 

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