Lockdown PTP - Digital Suisse - 22-26 April
So if you've been missing playing PTP we have a five day digital Tour of Switzerland to look forward to starting tomorrow.
This won't count towards the official PTP, but towards a Lockdown PTP and I'll include any other races that do the same (sorry I missed Flanders).
Basic principle and scoring remains the same. Pick a stage winner each day. Picks in by 4pm UK time each day.
I don't think there is a GC as it appears that each participating team can enter 3 riders each day, but they don't have to be the same riders. The startlist will be posted before each race apparently.
More details at the Digital Suisse website and also on Velon
The Stages:
The Digital Swiss 5: stages
date route km type el. gain winner leader
1 wo 22-4 Moudon – Leukerbad 26.6 mountain 1,192
2 th 23-4 Frauenfeld – Frauenfeld 46,0 flat 150
3 fr 24-4 Fiesch – Nufenen Pass 33.1 mountain 1,512
4 sa 25-4 Oberlangewegg – Langnau 36.8 hills 444
5 su 26-4 Blenio – Disentis 36.0 mountain 950
A stellar list of participants includes Nibali, Yates, Bardet, Roglic, Alaphilippe... a guidance startlist here
Have fun!
This won't count towards the official PTP, but towards a Lockdown PTP and I'll include any other races that do the same (sorry I missed Flanders).
Basic principle and scoring remains the same. Pick a stage winner each day. Picks in by 4pm UK time each day.
I don't think there is a GC as it appears that each participating team can enter 3 riders each day, but they don't have to be the same riders. The startlist will be posted before each race apparently.
More details at the Digital Suisse website and also on Velon
The Stages:
The Digital Swiss 5: stages
date route km type el. gain winner leader
1 wo 22-4 Moudon – Leukerbad 26.6 mountain 1,192
2 th 23-4 Frauenfeld – Frauenfeld 46,0 flat 150
3 fr 24-4 Fiesch – Nufenen Pass 33.1 mountain 1,512
4 sa 25-4 Oberlangewegg – Langnau 36.8 hills 444
5 su 26-4 Blenio – Disentis 36.0 mountain 950
A stellar list of participants includes Nibali, Yates, Bardet, Roglic, Alaphilippe... a guidance startlist here
Have fun!
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https://www.digital-swiss-5.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Digital-Swiss-5-Race-1-start-list-Wednesday-April-22-.pdf
My Pick
Stage 1: Evenepoel
https://bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/52358318
🤷🏼♂️
Yeah Ganna for me too
Honorable mention to Matthews and Pederson
Scores after Round 2 are:
twotoebenny - 90
ocdupalais - 40
dish_dash - 15
Couldn't be bothered with the PTP, since it's not featured on any betting websites and the team lineup seems a bit random it seemed like too much effort to actually try and figure out who even to pick.
Stage 3: Roglic
Didn’t realise that Velon “owns 11 World Tour Teams”, according to the Digital Swiss Tony website... maybe that’s some of famous Swiss humour.
twotoebenny - 90
dish_dash - 55
ocdupalais - 40
At least we now have some semblance of a competition! Last day tomorrow....
We have a winner. Congratulations twotoebenny!
Scores after Round 5:
twotoebenny - 140
ocdupalais - 90
dish_dash - 55
Thanks also to ocdupalais for making this a competition.
Dunno if there are any more of these but will try to pop up a thread if there are any.
Cheers
Could do a PTP but starts in 10 mins...
Streaming free on Eurosport or the GCN app if you're bored.
They've worked on the presentation a bit, it's much clearer what gaps there are etc.. Apart from the powerups and being able to watch the w/kg figures in realtime it wasn't really much different to a real race.