T100 Triathlon World Tour (PTO 2024)

Ajax_Bay · October 2, 2024, 5:39pm

T100 World Tour 2025

If Gentle goes to Vegas and wins 35 points, Knibb at 2nd would be 28 point, so the difference is 7 points. If that happens Gentle would be on 105 with Knibb on 98 points. Or if Knibb wins, then they swap scores.

Winner for GF gets 55 points vs 45 for second place, or 10 points, then 5 points less per place down to 5th. So no matter what happens, the GF winner takes the whole series (assuming they go 1-2)

If Gentle stays home, she’s on 92 points vs a max of 105 for Knibb. So, she’d need to win the GF and have Knibb be 3rd or below.

Anyone doing Ibiza and Vegas and Dubai gets max a week and a half of training in (its 3 weeks, but recovery + rest for the next one, plus travel), so its a tougher turn around. Then it’s only 4 weeks to the GF, with another tight turn around back to the middle east. Whereas if you skip Vegas, you get 7 weeks between races and don’t have to take 2 transatlantic flights.

So the question becomes: does Gentle risk Vegas, knowing that Knibb currently has her number, or does she put in a solid training block, knowing that Knibb has a big race/travel schedule? (And hope she gets tired).

I guess the answer comes down to a judgement call how she feels Ibiza went vs her potential - whether she can win vs Knibb on current form. But either way the math would be a whole lot easier if they went top 4 count. And if you’re PTO wanting more Gentle vs Knibb matchups, this is what you want, since a 4 scores count system means Gentle goes to Vegas.

My money is on Knibb walking away with the title no matter what Gentle does, so it’s probably all moot anyway

Dev:“Indeed it would be awesome that both are on the line and whoever wins, takes the grand prize!”

Both Knibb and Gentle have clear persuasive motivation to race: both want to go to Dubai with 3 wins (105). Only one can.
Ideally Gentle would want to get that win and force Knibb into fourth so in the GF, Gentle could afford to come second and still win the Tour overall. (if Knibb has 2 x #1 and one x #3 and then wins GF versus Gentle 3 x #1 and second in GF, Knibb wins on tie break)
I fear, given the 1300+m climbing on the LLV bike course (cf 400m at Ibiza) which Knibb will monster and generally spoil the race for everyone including we spectators, this is the faintest of chances for Gentle.

“Knibb has a big race/travel schedule?” Has she? What races is she doing that Gentle isn’t? Not on start list for Torremolinos (which of course directly clashes with Las Vegas).