Conquer Club

Well, there's a first time for anything. So my first Tournament will be designed after the first Tour de France, which goes back to 1903. French bastard Maurice Garin took 3 of the 6 stages and the overall classification. In those days, the french actually were able to perform in their own Tour .

Set up:
All players will play 6 games, according to the 6 stages of the 1903 TdF. Every game will be Terminator, Sequential, Automatic, No Spoils, Chained & Foggy. So every stage will consist of three separate 8 player games, filled up using random.org. Depending on speed of play, stage 2 will start 1 or 2 weeks after stage 1, and so on.

How to win the 1903 Tour de France?
Now the scoring part makes this one interesting... Your result in every stage is based on the number of points you win/loose in that specific game. After both games in a stage are finished, every player will have a game score. The player who performed best will be declared stage winner. For every single point you performed worse than the stage winner, you will loose 1 second in the General Classification.

A simple example with 4 players:
A won 50 points
B won 12 points
C lost 15 points
D lost 23 points
Here player A has won the stage. B took second place, 38 seconds (points) down. C took third place, 1 minute and 5 seconds down. D took 4th place, 1 minute and 13 seconds down.
So yes, the higher your current score, the harder it will actually be to win this Tournament!
All players without a kill alive at the round cap (end of round 16) will receive a Game Score of -12.

To encourage attacking play, in every game you can gain Time Bonification. The first player to make a kill will receive a 20 second bonus, the 2nd player to make a kill will receive 12 seconds bonus and the third player to make a kill will receive 8 seconds bonus. Every player can only take one bonus in every single game.

Final results:

Stage 6:

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Final General Clasification:

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The Stages/Maps

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Stage 1: Paris-Lyon, 467km, France 1789
Stage 2: Lyon-Marseille, 374km, Orient Express 1883
Stage 3: Mareille-Toulouse, 423km, France
Stage 4: Toulouse-Bordeaux, 268km, Europe 1914
Stage 5: Bordeaux-Nantes, 425km, Flanders 1302
Stage 6: Nantes-Paris, 471km, Napoleontic Europe

Player List:

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Nr. Players
1 PereiroSaus Óscar Pereiro (ESP)
2 torres44cm Lance Armstrong (USA)
3 General Bax Laurent Fignon (FRA)
4 Fewnix Steve Bauer (CAN)
5 traffic133 Eddy Merckx (BEL)
6 jjmracing Elvis Presley (USA)
7 Gunn217 Gianni Bugno (ITA)
8 rmjw10 Greg Lemond (USA)
9 scottishleave Anthony Charteau (FRA)
10 dagdam0r Evgeni Berzin (RUS)
11 calicus Andy Hampsten (USA)
12 arno30 Bernard Hinault (FRA)
13 Risk_Averse Fernand Picot (FRA)
14 Marshallbobby Alberto Contador (ESP)
15 perchorin Octave Lapize (FRA)
16 GreenBaize Robert Millar (SCO)
17 sventastic Tom Boonen (BEL)
18 blindman30 Floyd Landis (USA)
19 Blitzkrieg Frank Cadel Evans (AUS)
20 istrici Marco Pantani (ITA)
21 Leitz Philippe Gilbert (BEL)
22 italianipastido Juan Antonia Flecha (ARG)
23 mpjh Tyler Hamilton (USA)
24 Scottyboymck Mark Cavendish (ENG)

Results & standings:


Results Stage 5:

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Stage 5 Results

Nr. Players

1 PereiroSaus Óscar Pereiro (ESP) 0
2 Marshallbobby Alberto Contador (ESP) 0'14
3 calicus Andy Hampsten (USA) 0'25
4 arno30 Bernard Hinault (FRA) 0'32
5 Leitz Philippe Gilbert (BEL) 0'32
6 Fewnix Steve Bauer (CAN) 0'33
7 jjmracing Elvis Presley (USA) 0'34
8 GreenBaize Robert Millar (SCO) 0'37
9 sventastic Tom Boonen (BEL) 0'38
10 Scottyboymck Mark Cavendish (ENG) 0'42
11 traffic133 Eddy Merckx (BEL) 0'43
12 bragsie Octave Lapize (FRA) 0'46
13 italianipastido Juan Antonia Flecha (ARG) 1'14
14 torres44cm Lance Armstrong (USA) 1'14
15 Blitzkrieg Frank Cadel Evans (AUS) 1'14
16 cookie0117 1'19
17 scottishleave Anthony Charteau (FRA) 1'20
18 rmjw10 Greg Lemond (USA) 1'21
19 Risk_Averse Fernand Picot (FRA) 1'23
20 General Bax Laurent Fignon (FRA) 1'23
21 Gunn217 Gianni Bugno (ITA) 1'24
22 tkr 1'26
23 istrici Marco Pantani (ITA) 1'32
24 blindman30 Floyd Landis (USA) 1'40

Results Stage 4:

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Stage 4 Results

Nr. Players

1 sventastic Tom Boonen (BEL) 0
2 Scottyboymck Mark Cavendish (ENG) 0'10
3 Marshallbobby Alberto Contador (ESP) 0'12
4 Risk_Averse Fernand Picot (FRA) 0'13
5 calicus Andy Hampsten (USA) 0'14
6 blindman30 Floyd Landis (USA) 0'22
7 PereiroSaus Óscar Pereiro (ESP) 0'26
8 GreenBaize Robert Millar (SCO) 0'28
9 italianipastido Juan Antonia Flecha (ARG) 0'31
10 istrici Marco Pantani (ITA) 0'51
11 rmjw10 Greg Lemond (USA) 0'58
12 torres44cm Lance Armstrong (USA) 0'59
13 Fewnix Steve Bauer (CAN) 0'59
14 traffic133 Eddy Merckx (BEL) 0'59
15 scottishleave Anthony Charteau (FRA) 0'59
16 arno30 Bernard Hinault (FRA) 0'59
17 bragsie Octave Lapize (FRA) 0'59
18 cookie0117 0'59
19 General Bax Laurent Fignon (FRA) 1'01
20 tkr 1'03
21 jjmracing Elvis Presley (USA) 1'04
22 Gunn217 Gianni Bugno (ITA) 1'13
23 Blitzkrieg Frank Cadel Evans (AUS) 1'14
24 Leitz Philippe Gilbert (BEL) 1'19

General Classification after Stage 3:

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Results Stage 3:

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General Classification after Stage 2:

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Results Stage 2:

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Results & General Classification after Stage 1:

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In please, favorite rider-Lance Armstrong

in pls - Laurent Fignon

Steve Bauer

in please eddie mercs

in please/ elvis

in

Gianni Bugno

in please

in please Anthony Charteau

in please, Evgeni Berzin

sign me up

in, bernard hinault
thanks

in please Maurice Garin france and the original winner 1903

In pls,

Picot

Since 1952,[2] after every stage the most combative cyclist was given an award, and an overall competition was recorded.[3] At the end of the 1956 Tour de France, André Darrigade was named the most attacking cyclist. [4] At this point, the award was given the same importance as the award for the cyclist with the most bad luck, Picot in 1956.

Risk_Averse wrote:In pls,

Picot

Since 1952,[2] after every stage the most combative cyclist was given an award, and an overall competition was recorded.[3] At the end of the 1956 Tour de France, André Darrigade was named the most attacking cyclist. [4] At this point, the award was given the same importance as the award for the cyclist with the most bad luck, Picot in 1956.

Nice! Runner up in two tages and points classification. In the years after he finished twice as 2nd and 3rd as well
Had to look this one up though...

sign me in please - favorite ryder Alberto Contador

I'll play, but I don't have a favorite rider. let me search the wiki for one and I'll get back to you!

OK, I'll be Octave Lapize, 1910 winner of the Tour de France and WWI fighter pilot.

In plz, Robert Millar 1984 King of the Mountains

GreenBaize wrote:In plz, Robert Millar 1984 King of the Mountains

You are aware he/she is named Roberta nowasdays ?

in please, Tom Boonen

in please. IF you want you can pick anyone it really doesnt matter to me

In please as Cadel Evans the Aussie who will win 2011 tour, also two time runner up, 2009 world champion, Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour de Romandie wins. And in flying form with a 2nd last week int he Criterium du Dauphine in France. GO AUSSIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in please - Pantani