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After he gave us the this decade's 20 best GT stages for men and women, our very own u/ewanswilson brings us the 3rd installment of what turns out to be a very entertaining off season series. So get out your keyboards and start arguing about the best men's classics so far this decade: https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/the-21-best-mens-one-day-races-of-the-2020s-so-far

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The live presentation can be seen on the TdF club page (you need to have an account) facebook and twitter. But it's also live streamed on Sporza, the NOS and Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO Max (and maybe Flosports or whoever has the north American rights)

Links for the routes (when they'll go live at the end of the presentation):

TDFF route: https://www.letourfemmes.fr/en/overall-route

TDF route: https://www.letour.fr/en/overall-route

WSRFL and SRFL results for the 2024 Season and Tours of Guangxi

WSRFL

• Overall, we did well in this year's game: over 50 players sent in more than 750 entries and succeeded on 75% of them. Five of them entered once, got skunked and never came back :'(. On top of the results sheet, there was a titanic battle between our top two contenders who both beat the field by over 500 points. u/epi_counts surged to an early lead on the strength of improbable but wholly predictable picks of Marianne Vos. But as the season moved away from the classics, the balance of power began to shift towards our final victor...

• Topping Overall Standings with an all time high score of 2769.2 points was u/AwakenTheBacon_ ! Congratulations on a very well played season!

• The One Day Races classification remained u/epi_counts until the very end with a winning score of 1305.6! Gefeliciteerd!

• Gigantic results at the Giro and Tour powered u/AwakenTheBacon_'s overall win and delivered them a second victory in the Stage Races classification.

• The winner of the Best Pick not only had the top single race score for the season, but the best possible score in the game: 780 points. That's right, u/Salty-Level had a unique pick of Kasia Niewiadoma when she won the TDF Femmes.

• Not only that, but they took the Saganth victory for the post points from second placed riders at Romandie, the Giro, and UAE Tour. Wow!

• There is no better strategy than consistency. The Lucky in Love winner u/Team_Telekom excelled there with points in 25 races, narrowly beating u/fewfiet by having 29 entries to their 27. Well done!

• No one scored more points (or on more picks) from a single rider than our Love Struck winner. u/YourBeneluxOverlords picked Lotte Kopecky 13 times, succeeded 11, and won 1354.2 points from her results. We bow down!

• Unique picks score points and while u/nahgoe16 made 20 unique entries they were outscored by My One and Only winner u/Divergee5 who had 13 unique picks on just 18 unique entries. Fantastic!

• Finally, the Heart of Gold goes to the player with the most podiums. Naturally, u/AwakenTheBacon_ and u/epi_counts led this with 9 podiums apiece with the former taking the tiebreaker with 4 outright victories. Again: excellent work!

Full Results!

Tour of Guangxi!

SRFL

• After 132 players, over 2000 entries, and a 62% success rate, this year's SRFL season came down to the wire. u/sharkbait_hahaha led for much of the late season, jockeying with u/AwakenTheBacon_, u/Judas_Bishop and a few others for the top spot. But danger lurked lose behind with u/fewfiet, team pick-the-favourites captain making up ground steadily. But despite them putting up 100 points in the final event, the ultimate the final victory would go to another member of the mod team...

• Winning the Overall Standings required 1477.9 points and a lot of Duvel. But 25 years after Frank Vandenbroucke stormed the castle walls in Spain, u/in the is none of than u/Avila99 achieved another historic victory as the 2024 SRFL champion! Congratulations!

• It was a tight battle in the One Day Races standings. The final margin of victory: just 15.3 points. The winner: u/ssfoxx27 who just held of u/BWallis17's final surge. Hooray!

• The Stage Races classification even closer as 3 players went into the final race within 20 points. In the end u/Judas_Bishop emerged in front by just 8.5 points and scored the category win. Whew!

• The Best Pick of this years game was for a unique selection of Ben O'Connor at the Vuelta. Well done to u/yellow52 who scored 545 points for just that one race! Right on!

• That choice also propelled them to the top of the Saganth leaderboard where they total 622 points from 3 second-placed riders. Nice!

• u/fewfiet didn't miss a single event this year and won the Lucky in Love game with 33 successes on 39 entries while scoring exactly 0 bonus points. Truly, a purist!

• u/JDdieSonne picked one rider the most times of anyone with 11 separate entries for Matteo Jorgenson. But u/vbarrielle won the Love Struck game after picking the notoriously inconsistent but perfectly nameed Valentine Madouas after scoring on 529.4 points from 5 of 9 selections. Congrats!

• u/nahgoe16 is great at fantasy minigames and ran away with the My One and Only game. They had 15 unique picks on 20 unique entries absolutely blowing away everyone else. Well played!

• And just as in WSRFL, u/AwakenTheBacon_ won the Heart of Gold award after 6 podiums: 3 first, 2 seconds, and 1 third. Poetic!

Full Results!

Tour of Guangxi!

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For all your pro cycling-related questions and enquiries!

You may find some easy answers in the FAQ page on the wiki. Whilst simultaneously discovering the wiki.

There are many outlets reporting this, and as I didn't want to favour one over the other: https://www.idlprocycling.com/cycling/dutch-super-cyclist-van-der-poel-beats-a-rally-car-in-a-spectacular-duel-in-spain https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/video-mathieu-van-der-poel-vs-professional-rally-driver-showdown-in-spain https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/news/mathieu-van-der-poel-raced-against-a-car-and-won/ https://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Mathieu-van-der-poel-remporte-un-duel-face-a-une-voiture-de-rallye/1516631

The 2024 season has come to a close, and the 2025 season has already begun! The first r/peloton fantasy games for 2025 are still months from beginning though so we have a bit of time to relax, but before we do it is time for an end of season update to conclude our competitions! (We may still have a fantasy games round up post in the works in the future, but we also may not.)

• RFL standings
• WRFL standings
• Velogames Sixes standings

RFL

As forecast in our last update /u/derwipok was able to easily hold on to the GC win, and there were no changes to the podium behind them: lurkingx came 2nd and nahgoe16 came third.

BSantos57 was also able to avoid a podium placing at Guangxi to earn the coveted Ghost Flair for the upcoming season!

The only other outstanding competition is Not Cut Out For GTs, which was won by RaylanGivens8, ahead of our GC top 2.

WRFL

Again we forecast well in our penultimate update, tipping u/Schnix for the win and indeed they were able to hang on! Again there was no change in the podium, with BWallis17 and RaylanGivens8 rounding out the places of honor.

The Ghost flair goes to Seabhac7, who successfully avoided scoring any Points Competition points at Guangxi.

Our final RFL games flair is for Queen of the Falling Leaves, and this goes to MrR2D, who did just enough at Guangxi to win the flair by one point ahead of RaylanGivens8.

Velogames

After awarding all of the other Velogames flairs the last remaining competition was the Super Sixes, which was won by u/BWallis17!

Congratulations to all of our flair winners this year, and to all of our competitors! Thank you for participating and here's hoping you will cherish your new flairs as soon as we can get around to assigning them. As always, please check traditional Reddit to see them, as we may not be able to update them in the redesign, but also give us a little bit of time to sort them all out.