What went wrong?

smithy21

Moraygub wrote:

DeVlaeminck wrote:

hypster wrote:

DeVlaeminck wrote:

effillo wrote:

Anyone noticed the 'nothing wrong' option is most popular. Maybe there wasn't actually anything wrong with this years edition.....

27% isn't that popular, you'll always get a few contrarians and a few with sausage fingers who hit the wrong part of the screen.

And what's to stop those with "sausage fingers" voting for "It's the parcours" rather than "There's nothing wrong"? It works both ways.

OK true, but you must have noticed a trend for the better quality posters criticising the race non?

How do you get into this "better quality of poster" bracket and do you have to think that this years TDF was a stinker to gain admission. Curious as i didn't realise that there was some sort of hierachy when it comes to discussing cycling.

I believe you start by reading L'Equipe.

Jez mon

I believe to be a high quality poster you had to be off French Fighters block list? Or maybe the other way around.

I didn't think this tour was that bad. But that may have been because I was following it a bit closer than in recent years, and sport in general is more interesting when you start getting properly into it, so to speak.

Personally, I don't think there was anything wrong with the tour as such. It would have been nice to see more competition for the green and yellow jerseys, but a lot of the ideas for producing excitement seem to come from the Bernie Eccleston last race=double points school of sports administration.

blazing_saddles

Moraygub wrote:

DeVlaeminck wrote:

hypster wrote:

DeVlaeminck wrote:

effillo wrote:

Anyone noticed the 'nothing wrong' option is most popular. Maybe there wasn't actually anything wrong with this years edition.....

27% isn't that popular, you'll always get a few contrarians and a few with sausage fingers who hit the wrong part of the screen.

And what's to stop those with "sausage fingers" voting for "It's the parcours" rather than "There's nothing wrong"? It works both ways.

OK true, but you must have noticed a trend for the better quality posters criticising the race non?

How do you get into this "better quality of poster" bracket and do you have to think that this years TDF was a stinker to gain admission. Curious as i didn't realise that there was some sort of hierachy when it comes to discussing cycling.

10 years in and three and a half thousand posts would do it.

milton50

kleinstroker wrote:

So all the evidence is in! Now how to fix it?

One less man per team - might nobble Sky a bit but just a bit
Change the way winner is calculated - do away with total time and instead allocate points per stage

What do you think?

That's getting a bit too Bernie Ecclestone for me. As viewers have found F1 more boring in recent years he's come out with some wacky races like solutions such as putting a sprinkler next to the track on a timer, double points for the last race, tyres which disintegrate randomly etc.

Ultimately it's up to the cyclists to make it more competitive, not for the organisers to change the rules.

That said, I'd like to see long rolling stages and then relatively short mountain finishes.

milton50

Jez mon wrote:

I believe to be a high quality poster you had to be off French Fighters block list? Or maybe the other way around.

I didn't think this tour was that bad. But that may have been because I was following it a bit closer than in recent years, and sport in general is more interesting when you start getting properly into it, so to speak.

Personally, I don't think there was anything wrong with the tour as such. It would have been nice to see more competition for the green and yellow jerseys, but a lot of the ideas for producing excitement seem to come from the Bernie Eccleston last race=double points school of sports administration.

Great minds and all that...

bobmcstuff

To be fair the reason the green jersey wasn't especially competitive is because Peter Sagan is Peter Sagan.

If he was a bit less good then there are quite a few other contenders like Matthews, GVA etc. who might be tempted to go for it.

Not too dissimilar from Froome's all-round superiority in the Tour this year actually.

above_the_cows

smithy21 wrote:

Moraygub wrote:

DeVlaeminck wrote:

hypster wrote:

DeVlaeminck wrote:

effillo wrote:

Anyone noticed the 'nothing wrong' option is most popular. Maybe there wasn't actually anything wrong with this years edition.....

27% isn't that popular, you'll always get a few contrarians and a few with sausage fingers who hit the wrong part of the screen.

And what's to stop those with "sausage fingers" voting for "It's the parcours" rather than "There's nothing wrong"? It works both ways.

OK true, but you must have noticed a trend for the better quality posters criticising the race non?

How do you get into this "better quality of poster" bracket and do you have to think that this years TDF was a stinker to gain admission. Curious as i didn't realise that there was some sort of hierachy when it comes to discussing cycling.

I believe you start by reading L'Equipe.

Ah yes, the 'I've read the mitherings of some French men so I must be smart' school of cycling analysis. It seems there is some crossover with my day job then.

DeVlaeminck

Moraygub wrote:

How do you get into this "better quality of poster" bracket and do you have to think that this years TDF was a stinker to gain admission. Curious as i didn't realise that there was some sort of hierachy when it comes to discussing cycling.

I'm afraid that if you have to ask...

No_Ta_Doctor

I'm not in the Quality Posters® club.
I'm an anarcho-surrealist subversive splinter cell.

above_the_cows

No tA Doctor wrote:

I'm not in the Quality Posters® club.
I'm an anarcho-surrealist subversive splinter cell.

Welcome. The badge and stencil making corner is that way ---->

blazing_saddles

Also in the Quality Posters® club.







Membership refused......

above_the_cows

Quality Posters®

blazing_saddles

Here's a real Quality Posters®

above_the_cows

My teeth hurt.

m.r.m.

Mondrian Minion

No_Ta_Doctor

Above The Cows wrote:

No tA Doctor wrote:

I'm not in the Quality Posters® club.
I'm an anarcho-surrealist subversive splinter cell.

Welcome. The badge and stencil making corner is that way ---->

Wonderful.

I made this badge of a telephone:

FocusZing

http://inrng.com/2016/07/reengineering- ... er+Ring%29

tailwindhome

Just caught up on the highlights of the last week now.
There was some good racing, unfortunately it was all being done by Pantano, Majka, Alaphilipe etc and not the GC riders

The 'problem' was a lack of rivalry.
Sport needs a rivalry to be entertaining.
Preferably a goodie and a baddie.

The baddie won this one too comfortably.