Kissena Forum Archive

dstearns · Sep 04, 2012 at 01:19 AM

And out of nowhere, the Cinderella story with the busted ticker!!!

Jeff Condon · Sep 04, 2012 at 01:40 AM

Yeah, you had a great stage today. I think you got it all tied up now.

Sent from my iPhone

Jules · Sep 04, 2012 at 02:48 PM

Ryan J said:

Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado is not to be forgotten, by the way

NBC showed Zabriske puking!

link?

Jeff Owens · Sep 05, 2012 at 02:47 PM

Holy shit, anybody watching this? Contador is the climbing version of Cancellara, love them or not, at least they attack like madmen and make the race entertaining. This is fucking awesome.

mperlberg · Sep 05, 2012 at 03:02 PM

reading the live updates. better than this meeting!

dstearns · Sep 05, 2012 at 03:51 PM

Contador dusted them today - holy crap.

mperlberg · Sep 05, 2012 at 09:28 PM

seriously. guess he got a blood transfusion on the rest day.

dstearns · Sep 06, 2012 at 05:55 PM

that's some delicious bistec they have in Spain. I hear the churrasco might be "tainted" though.

mperlberg · Sep 06, 2012 at 07:36 PM

Although, JV posted some interesting thoughts:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Benotti69

Yeah. Did you watch La Vuelta yesterday! No change.

NO! Poor assessment, on your part. Andrew Talansky finished approx 1 minute down on the top guys. This over a 40+ minute climb. Talansky's VAM was sub-1600, or around 5.9 w/kg, this would put the leaders at perhaps 1650 VAM and 6.1 w/kg. This is not exceptional. 6.1 w/kg gets you around 15th place in 2001 Tour de France.

Jeff Owens · Sep 06, 2012 at 10:07 PM

Mike, I think you're FIRMLY ENTRENCHED (get it?!) in the #1 dick spot of fourth. Congrats!

Jeff Owens · Sep 08, 2012 at 01:30 PM

Contador rocking the 36/27? Sweet.

Van Den Broeck you still suck.

Ryan J · Sep 08, 2012 at 03:56 PM

God that was cool.

dstearns · Sep 10, 2012 at 02:57 PM

top step!

Jeff Owens · Sep 10, 2012 at 04:10 PM

HOT! Good job Stearnsy. I replicated my real life finishes by placing mid-pack. Ryan won like 5 stages no one else did and still sucked it up. Haha

dstearns · Sep 10, 2012 at 04:33 PM

coming next: fantasy kissena club championship. i've got jim nelson plus the points.

Ryan J · Sep 10, 2012 at 04:34 PM

Yeah, I'm wondering what the hell is wrong with the scoring system when I win 4 stages with Degenkolb, who no one else had and 1 with Menchov who only two other people had. That's almost a 3rd of all stages in the event and I get 8th out of 11!

This aggression will not stand, man!

I plan to write a sharply worded letter expressing my displeasure with this tomfoolery.

Craig Zolan · Sep 10, 2012 at 04:39 PM

David - great job. You are a worthy competitor. The others, well, ......

dstearns · Sep 10, 2012 at 04:57 PM

maybe not having purito or valverde is what cost you.

i think the points include not only stage wins/top 10s but standings in GC at the end of each day. so if you had any 3 of rodriguez, froome, contador and valverde that would have been points on top of points every day they were top 5-6 in GC, etc.....

Jeff Condon · Sep 10, 2012 at 05:25 PM

Yeah it is a bit odd. Most of the points come from stage placings but there are points for everyday GC placings plus a lot of points for overall GC. Also points for mountains, sprints, etc. everyday and overall.

http://velogames.com/vae/scores.php

I've played another fantasy Grand Tour game where it's only tied to the finishes for each stage down to 15th place. No GC points at all. It's a lot more difficult IMO.

Can I point out that our Fantasy Tour winner finished last in Fantasy Vuelta? I guess he needed more time for recovery.

jim_nelson · Sep 10, 2012 at 05:35 PM

I'd like to claim that it was because I was the only one willing to risk not picking Contador except that when you add his 2052 points to my score I'm still in last place!

Jeff Owens · Mar 14, 2013 at 05:54 PM

No not my disgusting dream life, velogames seems to be doing a spring classics fantasy league.

Anyone interested?

dstearns · Mar 14, 2013 at 11:54 PM

I'm in. LeakyGas rides again!

jim_nelson · Mar 15, 2013 at 12:14 AM

Let's do it.

dstearns · Mar 15, 2013 at 03:46 AM

Jeff "the commish" Condon set up a league in a different thread -

Jeff Owens · Mar 15, 2013 at 03:50 AM

Woah man I'm top loaded with a bunch of crap for the bottom 6. Kinda like dating, eh?

Jeff Owens · Mar 15, 2013 at 03:50 AM

I'm already winning.

dstearns · Mar 15, 2013 at 03:56 AM

Owens!

Craig Zolan · Mar 15, 2013 at 01:11 PM

What are the stakes? A water bottle...

WilliamDC · Mar 15, 2013 at 01:43 PM

WDC, Joe Mueller, Domenico Pozzovivo and Allison Brie

wait

am i doing this right?

Jeff Condon · Mar 15, 2013 at 03:05 PM

didn't realize there was another thread. Can everyone access the Kissena mini league? I haven't pulled together my team yet - still doing my research.

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