I'm running (for the 4th year in a row) a bike race "winner" pick contest. Unfortunately, the first round was last week: Milan San Remo. But each entrant can throw out a number of low scores equal to half the races run so far (rounded down), so it's not too much of a handicap. No prizes, no entry fee -- just for fun.
Basically you just pick the top 3 from races on the schedule, which is as follows... the code indicates the priorty of each race:
[font=Courier New][font=Courier New] March [/font]
[font=Courier New] 24 MSR: Milano - Sanremo (1A) [/font]
[font=Courier New] April [/font][/font]
[font=Courier New] 8 RVV: Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres (1A) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 11 GW: Gent - Wevelgem (1C) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 15 PR: Paris - Roubaix (1A) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 22 AG: Amstel Gold Race (1B) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 25 FW: La Fleche Wallonne (1C) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 29 LBL: Liege - Bastogne - Liege (1A) [/font]
[font=Courier New] May [/font]
[font=Courier New] 1 - 6 TDR: Tour de Romandie (2C) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 12 - 3 GDI: Giro d'Italia (2B) [/font]
[font=Courier New] June [/font]
[font=Courier New] 10 - 17 DL: Criterium du Dauphine Libere (2C) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 16 - 24 TDS: Tour de Suisse (2C) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 17 AUS: Austin Men's International (1D) [/font]
[font=Courier New] July [/font]
[font=Courier New] 7 - 29 TDF: Tour de France (2A) [/font]
[font=Courier New] August [/font]
[font=Courier New] 4 SS: Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian (1B) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 8 - 16 GER: Deutschland-Tour (2C) [/font]
[font=Courier New] September [/font]
[font=Courier New] 1 - 23 VAE: Vuelta a Espana (2B) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 26 TTW: World TT championships (W) (1C) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 27 TTM: World TT championships (M) (1B) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 29 RRW: World RR championships (W) (1B) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 30 RRM: World RR championships (M) (1A) [/font]
[font=Courier New] October [/font]
[font=Courier New] 7 ZUR: Zuri Metzgete (1B) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 14 PT: Paris - Tours (1B) [/font]
[font=Courier New] 20 LOM: Giro di Lombardia (1A) [/font]
For communication on the game, I have set up a mailing list:
groups.google.commp3cyclingOpen ↗
I also have a web site, which will eventually be updated for this year's
contest (not yet):
mp3.djconnel.commp3.djconnel.comOpen ↗
To enter for Flanders, send your top 3 picks as follows, in the body
of an email:
[font=Courier New] RVV 1 Thomas Voeckler
RVV 2 Laurens Ten Dam
RVV 3 Enrico Gasparotto [/font]
send the email to: [font=Courier New]mp3_at_djconnel_dot_com[/font]<--- SEND EMAIL HERE (don't reply to this message)
where the names are pasted from CyclingNews.com (in this case,
cyclingnews.comrvv07Open ↗ ).
It's important the entry be formatted in this way -- the race code
tells my parser that it is reading an entry line. Otherwise it just
assumes a line is part of the virtually endless stream of junk most
emails contain in headers, attachments, etc....
If you're interested, please subscribe to the mailing list:
groups.google.commp3cyclingOpen ↗
thanks,
Dan