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[Sand]

FBGs entries for:​

• Velogames Fantasy Itzulia 2025
  (starts Monday April 7
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• 1
  

  Velogames Fantasy Itzulia 2025​

  Jaysus
• 2
  

  Spokes `n Tokes​

  Nick Vermeil
• 3
  

  Armstrong’s Needle​

  Da Raiders
• 4
  

  Squeaky Wheels​

  Cheeseypoof
• 5
  

  Boerum Hill Big Ringing​

  BobbyLayne

Big fan of Jaysus' team name for this one

Ok - two items. First - Ronde is loaded into Sheets. Congrats to Raiders for being 74th/3900! In fact, 7/8 of us were above the 50% mark on Velogames.

Second, can someone throw up a direct link to the Stage race championship FBG page? Maybe I'm nuts, but I can't find the darn thing. I entered Itzulia as just a race, but I can't find the overall Stage Race leaderboard.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Should I change my name to Tadej’s Needle.

YouTube comment

“At this point we should be asking if the drugs are taking Pogi…”

We’ve all seen it before. I say let them dope.

They aren't already?

Oh they are. Always have been.

Looking at you froome

 

[BobbyLayne]

FBGs entries for:​

• Velogames Fantasy Itzulia 2025
  (starts Monday April 7​

• 1
  

  Velogames Fantasy Itzulia 2025​

  Jaysus
• 2
  

  Spokes `n Tokes​

  Nick Vermeil
• 3
  

  Armstrong’s Needle​

  Da Raiders
• 4
  

  Squeaky Wheels​

  Cheeseypoof
• 5
  

  Boerum Hill Big Ringing​

  BobbyLayne

Big fan of Jaysus' team name for this one

Ok - two items. First - Ronde is loaded into Sheets. Congrats to Raiders for being 74th/3900! In fact, 7/8 of us were above the 50% mark on Velogames.

Second, can someone throw up a direct link to the Stage race championship FBG page? Maybe I'm nuts, but I can't find the darn thing. I entered Itzulia as just a race, but I can't find the overall Stage Race leaderboard.

Velogames Fantasy Cycling | Warm Up Championship 2025

Fantasy Cycling games based on the professional cycling season, including Grand Tours and Spring Classics

www.velogames.com

EDIT - perfectly encapsulates how clunky the one-man gang at Velogames can be - URL says index_stage_race_championship_2025 but the text still says Warm Up Championship, the first contest of the year.

To navigate the clunky site, you sometimes have to figure out where you are currently. If you are in the Stage Race Championship, there is a link to Superclasico on the top bar - but not vice versa! If you are in Superclasico Fantasy Sixes, it isn't readily apparent how to get to Stage Race Championship.

To go from Superclasico to Stage Race look in the "Other Games" drop down:

• Fantasy Spring Classics 2025 - think @cheeseypoof might be playing this? most of us said nope
  
  
• Superclasico Fantasy Sixes 2025 - this is our new thing, the 45 races made up of the Monuments, Classics, semi Classics and a sprinkling of Pro Tour races (like Wednesday this week)
  link to the 45 Race Schedule
  
  (Anyone who wanders along is welcome to join at anytime, the more the merrier.)
  
  
• Fantasy Womens Classics 2025 - love watching their races but ain't nobody got time for this eh
  
  
• Velogames Stage Race Championship 2025 - 12 Stage Races including the 3 Grand Tours. All the races are on this page (no separate page), BUT to enter each event you have to click on that particular race and THEN "Visit Team" to edit the riders currently selected, e.g., leftover riders from the previous event. Or if you like doing things the hard way you can do it from scratch by clicking on "Enter Now" and proceeding like this is your first time playing Velogames and you don't have an existing team/league.
  
  (But seriously, anyway who wants to join should start there.)
  
  
• Velogames Warm Up Championship 2025 - IIRC Tour of UAE was the concluding event to this series

Hope all that was as clear as mud!

 

[Sand]

Hope all that was as clear as mud!

Ok, just to make sure I'm not crazy, is there a FBG league page with the overall scores for the Stage Race Championship or is it single races only? I can't find an overall stage race championship page for us. I thought I saw one at some point.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Hope all that was as clear as mud!

Ok, just to make sure I'm not crazy, is there a FBG league page with the overall scores for the Stage Race Championship or is it single races only? I can't find an overall stage race championship page for us. I thought I saw one at some point.

yes, there is, but not until after the entire race completes - to see the current standings you have to go back to the 3rd contest

Velogames Catalunya 2025

right under FBGS click on OVERALL RACE to reveal:

OVERALL RACE | OVERALL STAGE RACE CHAMPIONSHIP
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6 | Stage 7 | End-of-Tour Points

which is:

overall standings Catalunya | overall contest standings after 3 Stage races
the | seven | individual | stage | standings | for | Catalunya | plus the end-of-tour points

click on the OVERALL STAGE RACE CHAMPIONSHIP for the total scores after 3 races - same will be true for the Basque Country page after the race ends

 

[cheeseypoof]

Hope all that was as clear as mud!

Ok, just to make sure I'm not crazy, is there a FBG league page with the overall scores for the Stage Race Championship or is it single races only? I can't find an overall stage race championship page for us. I thought I saw one at some point.

Go to the League page for the current Stage Race, in this case the Itzulia. There should be a little red arrow where it says overall contest. Click that arrow. It takes you to the individual stage pages. The Overall Stage Race Championship scores are there. I think the overall score gets populated after each stage.

To see the current standings/totals you need to go back to the previous stage race page through the "Other Games" drop down on the main navigation bar (on my PC laptop anyways). It's there on the phone somewhere as well. Click the Stage Race Championship and scroll down to the Catalunya contest and proceed as above.

Definitely very clunky and not all that intuitive.

 

[cheeseypoof]

Hope all that was as clear as mud!

Ok, just to make sure I'm not crazy, is there a FBG league page with the overall scores for the Stage Race Championship or is it single races only? I can't find an overall stage race championship page for us. I thought I saw one at some point.

yes, there is, but not until after the entire race completes - to see the current standings you have to go back to the 3rd contest

Velogames Catalunya 2025

right under FBGS click on OVERALL RACE to reveal:

OVERALL RACE | OVERALL STAGE RACE CHAMPIONSHIP
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6 | Stage 7 | End-of-Tour Points

which is:

overall standings Catalunya | overall contest standings after 3 Stage races
the | seven | individual | stage | standings | for | Catalunya | plus the end-of-tour points

click on the OVERALL STAGE RACE CHAMPIONSHIP for the total scores after 3 races - same will be true for the Basque Country page after the race ends

What @BobbyLayne said!!!

 

[Sand]

Hope all that was as clear as mud!

Ok, just to make sure I'm not crazy, is there a FBG league page with the overall scores for the Stage Race Championship or is it single races only? I can't find an overall stage race championship page for us. I thought I saw one at some point.

Go to the League page for the current Stage Race, in this case the Itzulia. There should be a little red arrow where it says overall contest. Click that arrow. It takes you to the individual stage pages. The Overall Stage Race Championship scores are there. I think the overall score gets populated after each stage.

To see the current standings/totals you need to go back to the previous stage race page through the "Other Games" drop down on the main navigation bar (on my PC laptop anyways). It's there on the phone somewhere as well. Click the Stage Race Championship and scroll down to the Catalunya contest and proceed as above.

Definitely very clunky and not all that intuitive.

I think I got it. A bit of a Rube Goldberg website. Thanks!

 

[Jaysus]

Sand picking both Skjelmose and Hellmose Is my all-time favorite fantasy cycling move!

 

[BassNBrew]

I like a lot of these teams. We should see alot of different podium finishes this tour among us

 

[DA RAIDERS]

I like a lot of these teams. We should see alot of different podium finishes this tour among us

Lotta different teams. We’ll see if form is form as they like to say

 

[BassNBrew]

I haven’t looked at them all because Bella games is so clunky, but it looks like most of us got off the cuss train

 

[DA RAIDERS]

I haven’t looked at them all because Bella games is so clunky, but it looks like most of us got off the cuss train

I had him on for a while then took champoussin instead. Had schachman on as well, but dumped him too

 

[Sand]

Sand picking both Skjelmose and Hellmose Is my all-time favorite fantasy cycling move!

Evidently top 5% on Velogames for Stage 1, too!

 

[Jaysus]

Dear Velogames,

I want my assist points.

Thank you, Jaysus (from the internet)

 

[BassNBrew]

Sand picking both Skjelmose and Hellmose Is my all-time favorite fantasy cycling move!

Evidently top 5% on Velogames for Stage 1, too!

• Sand’s Saddle Sores
  BassnbrewSelect your nation
• Team Cost: 100Unused Credits: 0
• Overall Race Score: 221Overall Rank: 1508 of 3268
• Stage Race Championship: 9909Rank: 4

Still top 5 overall. Lost one spot from 3rd to 4th. Feel good about my team.

8th Mattias Skjelmose

33rd Finn Fisher-Black

25th Callum Scotson

3rd Florian Lipowitz

157th Thibau Nys (WTF???)

13th Mauro Schmid

23rd Harold Tejada

14th Isaac Del Toro

42nd Oscar Onley

​

 

[BassNBrew]

Outside of any junk daily GC points, I think I ate a donut today.

 

[cheeseypoof]

Outside of any junk daily GC points, I think I ate a donut today.

Super low scores today

 

[Jaysus]

Outside of any junk daily GC points, I think I ate a donut today.

Super low scores today

 

[BassNBrew]

1
146
RB Brownwings WGUAFC
Jaysus
2
94
One Excuse
Sand
3
78
Squeaky Wheels
Cheeseypoof
4
69
Spokes `n Tokes
Nick Vermeil
5
66
Sand’s Saddle Sores
Bassnbrew
6
58
Armstrong’s Needle
Da Raiders
7
14
Boerum Hill Big Ringing
BobbyLayne

 

[Sand]

I looked at the profiles of this race and figured there is little chance for sprinters in this one, so deliberately passed on Ewan.

 

[BassNBrew]

You guys. Race this morning at 12:45 CEST. Not sure what time that is with tariffs.

@Sand
@BobbyLayne
@cheeseypoof
@DA RAIDERS
@Nick Vermeil
@Jaysus
@brettdj

 

[BobbyLayne]

Not sure what time that is with tariffs.

careful - couple more snarky comments & it's off to Salvadorian mega prison for you

we have always been at war with Eurasia

 

[Jaysus]

I looked at the profiles of this race and figured there is little chance for sprinters in this one, so deliberately passed on Ewan.

He took a planned DNS today.

 

[BassNBrew]

I looked at the profiles of this race and figured there is little chance for sprinters in this one, so deliberately passed on Ewan.

He took a planned DNS today.

Only 3.2% owned and not on any of the top 5 teams.

 

[BassNBrew]

LOL...Lidl-Trek does all that work for a 17th place finish.

 

[BassNBrew]

1	MERLIER Tim	Soudal Quick-Step	200	125
2	PHILIPSEN Jasper	Alpecin - Deceuninck	150	85
3	MOSCHETTI Matteo	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	125	60
4	FRETIN Milan	Cofidis	100	50
5	VAN POPPEL Danny	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	85	45
6	ANIOŁKOWSKI Stanisław	Cofidis	70	40
7	KANTER Max	XDS Astana Team	60	35
8	KRISTOFF Alexander	Uno-X Mobility	50	30
9	BITTNER Pavel	Team Picnic PostNL	40	26
10	WEEMAES Sasha	Wagner Bazin WB	35	22
11	GALVÁN Francisco	Equipo Kern Pharma	30	20
12	GROENEWEGEN Dylan	Team Jayco AlUla	25	18
13	VERNON Ethan	Israel - Premier Tech	20	16
14	VAN DEN BERG Julius	Team Picnic PostNL	15	14
15	TESSON Jason	Team TotalEnergies	10	12
16	BRUSTENGA Marc	Equipo Kern Pharma	5	10
17	THEUNS Edward	Lidl - Trek

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[BassNBrew]

1	ARANBURU Alex	Cofidis	50	50
2	GRÉGOIRE Romain	Groupama - FDJ	30	30
3	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Soudal Quick-Step	25	18
4	ALMEIDA João	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	20	13
5	MAS Enric	Movistar Team	15	10
6	SKJELMOSE Mattias	Lidl - Trek	10	7
7	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	8	4
8	LIPOWITZ Florian	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	6	3
9	CRAS Steff	Team TotalEnergies	3	2
10	VAN WILDER Ilan	Soudal Quick-Step	1	1
11	VELASCO Simone	XDS Astana Team
12	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Tudor Pro Cycling Team
13	JEGAT Jordan	Team TotalEnergies
14	BERTHET Clément	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
15	MARTIN Guillaume	Groupama - FDJ
DNS	CAMPENAERTS Victor	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
DNS	EWAN Caleb	INEOS Grenadiers

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[BobbyLayne]

1-2-3-12-13 for me

EDIT

Scheldeprijs ME​

 

[BassNBrew]

1-2-3-12 for me

YOu should have 13 also.

 

[BobbyLayne]

1-2-3-12 for me

YOu should have 13 also.

Should have squeezed Trentin in for 1-2-3-4 but switched

 

[BassNBrew]

1-2-3-12 for me

YOu should have 13 also.

Should have squeezed Trentin in for 1-2-3-4 but switched

I forgot about the race and slammed something in this morning. in the wee hours. I chose Wellsford over Groanawagon but Frentin was a consideration. All of these guys have burned me and biased my picks.

 

[BassNBrew]

My last Tour Basque switch was GRÉGOIRE Romain for Del Toro. Ouch.

 

[Jaysus]

My last Tour Basque switch was GRÉGOIRE Romain for Del Toro. Ouch.

Double ouch after the relegation of Anabaru

 

[cheeseypoof]

1-2-8 for me at Itzulia. Finally my Aranburu pick pays off. Lol

 

[Jaysus]

1-2-8 for me at Itzulia. Finally my Aranburu pick pays off. Lol

It did not

 

[BassNBrew]

My last Tour Basque switch was GRÉGOIRE Romain for Del Toro. Ouch.

Double ouch after the relegation of Anabaru

That's total BS.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Close the road and where's the lead moto?

 

[BassNBrew]

Sand picking both Skjelmose and Hellmose Is my all-time favorite fantasy cycling move!

Evidently top 5% on Velogames for Stage 1, too!

• Sand’s Saddle Sores
  BassnbrewSelect your nation
• Team Cost: 100Unused Credits: 0
• Overall Race Score: 221Overall Rank: 1508 of 3268
• Stage Race Championship: 9909Rank: 4

Still top 5 overall. Lost one spot from 3rd to 4th. Feel good about my team.

8th Mattias Skjelmose

33rd Finn Fisher-Black

25th Callum Scotson

3rd Florian Lipowitz

157th Thibau Nys (WTF???)

13th Mauro Schmid

23rd Harold Tejada

14th Isaac Del Toro

42nd Oscar Onley

​

Update....hate my team.

 

[Jaysus]

My last Tour Basque switch was GRÉGOIRE Romain for Del Toro. Ouch.

Double ouch after the relegation of Anabaru

That's total BS.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Close the road and where's the lead moto?

The best part is that he went the way that was described in the original road book

 

[Jaysus]

My last Tour Basque switch was GRÉGOIRE Romain for Del Toro. Ouch.

Double ouch after the relegation of Anabaru

That's total BS.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Close the road and where's the lead moto?

The best part is that he went the way that was described in the original road book

UPDATE: It looks like he was de-relagated now? Surely the fact that he is a Basque rider in the Basque race had nothing to do with that, right?

 

[cheeseypoof]

My last Tour Basque switch was GRÉGOIRE Romain for Del Toro. Ouch.

Double ouch after the relegation of Anabaru

That's total BS.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Close the road and where's the lead moto?

The best part is that he went the way that was described in the original road book

UPDATE: It looks like he was de-relagated now? Surely the fact that he is a Basque rider in the Basque race had nothing to do with that, right?

Alex Aranburu was initially disqualified for deviating from the race route at a roundabout. However, after reviewing further evidence—including Veloviewer data, the roadbook, and input from the team—it was clear the Cofidis rider had taken the roundabout correctly. With confirmation of a signage error, the disqualification was overturned and the result upheld.


Lucked out there. Haha

 

[BassNBrew]

My last Tour Basque switch was GRÉGOIRE Romain for Del Toro. Ouch.

Double ouch after the relegation of Anabaru

That's total BS.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Close the road and where's the lead moto?

The best part is that he went the way that was described in the original road book

UPDATE: It looks like he was de-relagated now? Surely the fact that he is a Basque rider in the Basque race had nothing to do with that, right?

I pitched a fit.

 

[BassNBrew]

• League Standings: Stage 12
  OVERALL CONTEST
  Omloop Nieuwsblad | Kuurne - Brussel - Kuurne | Trofeo Laigueglia | Strade Bianche | Milano - Torino | Milano-Sanremo | Classic Brugge-De Panne | E3 Saxo Classic | Gent-Wevelgem | Dwars door Vlaanderen | Ronde van Vlaanderen | Scheldeprijs | Paris-Roubaix | De Brabantse Pijl | Amstel Gold Race | La Flèche Wallonne | Liège-Bastogne-Liège | Eschborn-Frankfurt | Grand Prix du Morbihan | Tro-Bro Léon | Classique Dunkerque / Grand prix des Hauts de France | Brussels Cycling Classic | Duracell Dwars door het Hageland | CIC - Mont Ventoux | Copenhagen Sprint | Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa | Circuit Franco-Belge | ADAC Cyclassics | Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France | GP Industria & Artigianato | Coppa Sabatini | Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | Grand Prix de Wallonie | SUPER 8 Classic | Worlds Elite Road Race | Sparkassen Münsterland Giro | Giro dell'Emilia | Coppa Bernocchi | Tre Valli Varesine | Gran Piemonte | Il Lombardia | Paris - Tours Elite | Giro del Veneto | Veneto Classic |
  

• 1032 points
  

  Boerum Hill Big Ringing​

  BobbyLayne
• 948 points
  

  Squeaky Wheels​

  Cheeseypoof
• 918 points
  

  Sand`s Saddle Sores​

  BassNBrew
• 894 points
  

  Spokes `n Tokes​

  Nick Vermeil
• 792 points
  

  Armstrong’s Needle​

  Da Raiders
• 717 points
  

  45 Excuses​

  Sand
• 564 points
  

  Late to the Party​

  BrettDJ
• 0 points
  

  RB Brownwings WGUAFC​

  Jaysus

 

[BobbyLayne]

Sweet, won the Cat 3 race nobody has ever heard of (Scheldeprijs.)

:confetti:

 

[Sand]

I put in a roster at 3am (thanks to whomever sent out the alert!). That I got any points is a small miracle.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

I had so many iterations of this race chosen. I had aruaburu and lipowitz in there forever and switched them out. Watching the race I couldn’t even remember who was on my team except for slow wheel following mas. And skellly

 

[DA RAIDERS]

These one day sprints are kinda silly. Pick 3 sure things. 1 name out of a hat and 2 nobodies.

 

[Jaysus]

My last Tour Basque switch was GRÉGOIRE Romain for Del Toro. Ouch.

Double ouch after the relegation of Anabaru

That's total BS.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Close the road and where's the lead moto?

The best part is that he went the way that was described in the original road book

UPDATE: It looks like he was de-relagated now? Surely the fact that he is a Basque rider in the Basque race had nothing to do with that, right?

Alex Aranburu was initially disqualified for deviating from the race route at a roundabout. However, after reviewing further evidence—including Veloviewer data, the roadbook, and input from the team—it was clear the Cofidis rider had taken the roundabout correctly. With confirmation of a signage error, the disqualification was overturned and the result upheld.


Lucked out there. Haha

In that case everyone who followed the signs and obeyed the race marshals should be the ones who were relegated, right?

 

[Nick Vermeil]

I'm trying to claw my way back into the sixes. What are the chances I'll remember to do 4 entries while on spring break with the family? About as much chance as Visma this season.

 

[BassNBrew]

These one day sprints are kinda silly. Pick 3 sure things. 1 name out of a hat and 2 nobodies.

Then hope your guys aren't caught up in a crash that isn't their fault.

I'm trying to claw my way back into the sixes. What are the chances I'll remember to do 4 entries while on spring break with the family? About as much chance as Visma this season.

We are assigning lowest entry score to the non-entries each race. Still on my agenda to come up with something to drop a few of our lowest races. Maybe something like 4 lowest Cat3s, 3 lowest Cat2s, and 1 lowest Cat1.