fun-only bike race picking contest

djconnel

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:

March
24 MSR: Milano - Sanremo (1A)
April
8 RVV: Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres (1A)
11 GW: Gent - Wevelgem (1C)
15 PR: Paris - Roubaix (1A)
22 AG: Amstel Gold Race (1B)
25 FW: La Fleche Wallonne (1C)
29 LBL: Liege - Bastogne - Liege (1A)
May
1 - 6 TDR: Tour de Romandie (2C)
12 - 3 GDI: Giro d'Italia (2B)
June
10 - 17 DL: Criterium du Dauphine Libere (2C)
16 - 24 TDS: Tour de Suisse (2C)
17 AUS: Austin Men's International (1D)
July
7 - 29 TDF: Tour de France (2A)
August
4 SS: Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian (1B)
8 - 16 GER: Deutschland-Tour (2C)
September
1 - 23 VAE: Vuelta a Espana (2B)
26 TTW: World TT championships (W) (1C)
27 TTM: World TT championships (M) (1B)
29 RRW: World RR championships (W) (1B)
30 RRM: World RR championships (M) (1A)
October
7 ZUR: Zuri Metzgete (1B)
14 PT: Paris - Tours (1B)
20 LOM: Giro di Lombardia (1A)

For communication on the game, I have set up a mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/mp3cycling

I also have a web site, which will eventually be updated for this year's
contest (not yet):
http://mp3.djconnel.com/

To enter for Flanders, send your top 3 picks as follows, in the body
of an email:

RVV 1 Thomas Voeckler
RVV 2 Laurens Ten Dam
RVV 3 Enrico Gasparotto

send the email to: mp3_at_djconnel_dot_com<--- SEND EMAIL HERE (don't reply to this message)

where the names are pasted from CyclingNews.com (in this case,
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/apr07/rvv07/?id=startlist ).

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:
http://groups.google.com/group/mp3cycling

thanks,
Dan