PTP 2025 has a new home!

[red.rider]

Welcome (back) to the 21st Annual PTP Competition​

This long-running competition has been a staple for BikeRadar forumites, and we want to bring it with us following the exodus of the sinking ship.

We will restart the season from Milan-Sanremo with a blank scorecard for all.

If you are new to this competition, you simply have to select the rider who you think will finish highly in a select group of WT and 1.Pro races. Points are accumulated over the season, and after the Lombardy the player with the highest points gets the bragging rights.

Calendar changes for 2025​

Now that 4/5 monuments (come on Lombardia, keep up) have a women's race on the same weekends as the men's race, I've added those to the calendar.

How to Play​

Playing along with PTP is extremely simple - you don't have to sign up or join anything other than the CycleChat forum. If you're already a member here, that means you're already eligible to play.

A few days before each of the chosen races, a PTP thread will be started in the Pro Cycling forum. That thread will contain a selection of useful links - start lists, race maps, past winners and so on. All you have to do is consider who you think is likely to win and post their name in that thread. It's that simple. If the race in question is a stage-race, you also get to predict the daily stage winners.

Post your pick in the relevant PTP thread before the cut off. If you change your mind then please post as a new post rather than editing your old post.

As you play, your scores will be added up and the overall season rankings will be updated in this thread. The scorer's will do their best to ensure scores are accounted for accurately, but ultimate responsibility lies with each player to make sure their points are correct.

PTP Calendar​

DATE | RACE | ACRONYM | SCORER
01/03 | Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | OHN | red.rider
02/03 | Kuurne Brussels Kuurne | KBK | red.rider
08/03 | Strade Bianche | SB | red.rider
09-16/03 | Paris-Nice | PN | red.rider
10-16/03 | Tirreno-Adriatico | TA | red.rider
22/03 | Milano-Sanremo (M+W) | MSR | twotoebenny
28/03 | E3 Saxo Classic | E3 | mididoctors
30/03 | Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields | GW | gregster04
06/04 | Ronde van Vlaanderen (M+W) | RVV | twotoebenny
09/04 | Scheldeprijs | SP | mididoctors
12-13/04 | Paris-Roubaix (M+W) | PR | twotoebenny
20/04 | Amstel Gold Race | AGR | red.rider
23/04 | La Flèche Wallone | FW | red.rider
27/04 | Liege-Bastogne-Liege (M+W) | LBL | red.rider
29/04-04/05 | Tour de Romandie | TdR | ducknumber1
09/05-01/06 | Giro d'Italia | GdI | gregster04
08-15/06 | Critérium du Dauphiné | CdD | mididoctors
15-22/06 | Tour de Suisse | TdS | red.rider
05-27/07 | Tour de France | TdF | red.rider
02/08 | Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa | SS | red.rider
23/08-14/09 | Vuelta a Espana | VaE | ducknumber1
21-28/09 | World Championships (RR + TT) (M+W) | WC | red.rider
04/10 | Giro dell'Emilia | GdE | red.rider
11/10 | Il Lombardia | IL | red.rider

Scoring​

Scores are already included in the following Google Sheets templates (use of templates not mandatory, but it can make life easier): One day races, Stage races

Footnotes​

Doping​

Points are finalised once the race organisations publishes their results. No adjustments will be made if it later emerges that a rider has failed a drugs test or if a rider has wins retrospectively removed from their palmares.

Prediction Cut-off​

Always the contentious one! The cut off is 12pm (noon) UK on the day of the race. This is strict so predictions at 12.01 won't be counted (exceptions made for split-stages, evening prologues etc. as described in each race's thread). No GC selections will be accepted once a stage race has begun.

 

[mjr]

What's PTP short for?

 

[cycling_mike]

Good news

 

[cycling_mike]

What's PTP short for?

Pro Tour Pundit alternatively
Pick The Puncheur or....

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

What's PTP short for?

Because he's got short legs!

It was originally launched in the days of the (now long forgotten) ProTour, which was Hein Verbruggen's idea for how the cycling season should be organised and ended in acrimony

 

[mididoctors]

I've been volunteered..... Someone better help me with Google docs

 

[gregster04]

Present and correct - reporting for scoring duty

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I suggest you might want a rule about post editing - as there doesn't seem to be much of a time limit. Can't remember how that worked on old BR (pre the less flexible software)

 

[mididoctors]

I suggest you might want a rule about post editing - as there doesn't seem to be much of a time limit. Can't remember how that worked on old BR (pre the less flexible software)

People were not that invested to cheat ..I think if you changed your mind you reposted with time stamp rather than edit?

 

[mididoctors]

If you cheat at PTP. You need to stop ...look in the mirror and take a look at yourself. then question your life priorities