2020 is here and the Spring Classics are less than a month away! First up on February 29th is Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.


Edit: Thank you Tri_joeri for this.

The tally will be updated here: https://docs.google.com/...03270#gid=1993129568


The rules have changed a little bit compared to last year, hopefully making things a bit more fair/interesting, especially with regards to the flyer picks. Sometimes the odds were a bit ridiculous unfortunately.

- There will be 4 individual picks for each round: - 3 podium picks, submit them in a,b,c order with a being your pick for 1st place, b for 2nd place and c for 3rd place
- 1 flyer/wildcard or whatever you want to call him, who has to have worse than 50:1 odds

I went over the betting odds posted last year and in my honest opinion, the guys that were worse than 50:1 are the ones who I truly see as a wildcard for the win. I'll try to post the odds 3 days up front and try to keep them from the same website if possible so there is at least some consistancy on that part. The odds are what they are, we're not going to be argueing about them.. Up to you to use them to your advantage.

I will post the odds below in this post.

- If any of your 4 picks end up in the top 5, you get 1 point for each of them that makes it into the top 5. If any of your podium picks end up on the podium (in any order) you get an extra point for each of them that make it onto the podium. If you get the order correct as well, you get an additional point extra for each of them. If your flyer/wildcard makes it onto the podium, you get 3 points!

- The winner will ofcourse be the one who scores the most points. We will be doing 13 of the Classics race in total so be sure to put up picks for all of them.

- All picks have to be in by 4h before race start. They start in the morning Central European Time so everyone that posted his picks or edited his post after that timeline will unfortunately not be elligible to get any points from that race.

- In case of a draw, these will be the tie-breakers: - Number of points from the 4 monuments (Milano-San Remo, De Ronde van Vlaanderen, Paris- Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège)
- Number of winners from all events
- Number of winners from the 4 monuments
- Number of podiums from all events
- Number of podiums from the 4 monuments

Of course the real winner is the one who enjoys his speciality beers whilst watching the race after a hard training in the morning (or at least morning in case of us Europeans), which is hopefully almost everyone in this thread ;)

If something is not clear, let me know and I'll try to update this post to make things more clear. English isn't my native language so I'll do my best ;)

Enjoy everyone, I think we're up for a fascinating one if the races that are going on right now are anything to go by.