Wednesday, July 30, 2014

TDF 2014 - End of Race Roundup

The 2014 Tour De France is well and truly over and now the finish is in sight for me as well.  I just have to do the end-of race round-up.


I don't need to tell you that Vincenzo Nibali won the 2014 Tour De France, but I will anyway. 


Out of the big 3 challengers for the race, Nibali was the only one I crossed off my list of potential team picks.  If Team Sky have taught us anything, its that you need to be winning races in the run-up to the Tour.  Nibali had been struggling for form, with only a win in the Italian Championships over Davide Formolo (no, I don't know who he is either) to his palmares this year.  Froome and Contador may have fallen by the wayside, but it is a historic win and the first time that the Tour has been won by an Italian Groupset in many a year.


And it's been a long time since a Frenchie was on the podium, let alone 2 of them.


Not to mention AG2R took home the team prize.


No surprise to see the Green Jersey to to Sagan.  


And Makja won the Polka Dots because somebody has to.


Stages are stages, but the biggest stack of points on offer in Velogames World, are the end of Tour points.  Here's how they stacked-up in the mini-league.

TEAM
DIRECTEUR
RANK
SCORE
Vinny PL
1
1255
Vestan Pance
2
1135
Evil Dr Chan
3
1020
Ed Rawlings
4
890
OJ
5
885
Mungo
6
850
tdm911
7
760
Richard Harrison
8
670
Jan Van Belleghem
9
650
Oliver Wilkens
10
640
Hutch
11
620
Mr Smug
12
456
Craigatron
13
376
Andrew Ramos
14
345
Patches O`Houlihan
15
310
Isabel Harrison
16
305
Eric Mortier
17
290
Late night meds from
18
290
Dave
19
290
Drew Stephenson
20
270
Jonathan Wilcox
21
190
Helen S
22
185
Mark
23
180
Warwick Anderson
24
175
Den
25
130

They may not have topped the end-of-tour table, but Olliepops had enough of a lead to take the overall title in the mini-league this year.  I suppose congratulations are due to OJ, but if it wasn't for those damn Olliepops, it would have been me on the top-step of the podium.

TEAM
DIRECTEUR
RANK
SCORE
OJ
1
6309
Vestan Pance
2
5983
Vinny PL
3
5303
Mungo
4
5275
Evil Dr Chan
5
5262
Richard Harrison
6
4974
Jan Van Belleghem
7
4330
Ed Rawlings
8
4316
Hutch
9
4119
tdm911
10
3843
Oliver Wilkens
11
3532
Eric Mortier
12
3512
Warwick Anderson
13
3327
Andrew Ramos
14
3198
Isabel Harrison
15
3082
Drew Stephenson
16
3051
Mr Smug
17
2859
Late night meds from
18
2802
Den
19
2798
Mark
20
2694
Craigatron
21
2503
Dave
22
2373
Jonathan Wilcox
23
1695
Helen S
24
1551
Patches O`Houlihan
25
1335

But before any of us become too pleased with ourselves for our performance in the small-pond that is the Tour De Pance mini-league, let's see what things look like at the top of the overall Velogames leaderboard.


I think you'll agree, that's a lot of points.

Anyway, I'd like to finish off by thanking George Chapman for all his Velogames work.  And all of you for playing along at home (or, let's admit it, at work).  If you're one of my regulars, then I'll probably see you at the Vuelta (which should have plenty of big names this year) and if you're not one of my regulars, then maybe I'll see you at the Tour next year when you take a short, 3 week interest in pro bike racing.