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Just a few hours until lock in. I fear I’ve tried to be a bit of smart ar$e this time with my “big gun” choice.

Tell me that Till Alran is a better choice than anyone else in the same budget save for Finn? He won juniors here last year and seems to be going well, albeit there are no action photos on PB of him so that means he isn’t figuring in the mix. . I foresee me bottling it and going again with Amaury.
 
RustyMTB said:
But it's DH, anything could happen.
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Lenzerheide happened for me, went from in the mix to obscurity :ROFLMAO:

Just need 2500pts this round :cool:

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I've rolled the dice this time, I find it tricky to finesse the lower order riders after picking the obvious big dogs. Same for everyone but ending up with just enough budget for George Madley & Jackson Connelly makes it interesting.
 
RustyMTB said:
I've rolled the dice this time, I find it tricky to finesse the lower order riders after picking the obvious big dogs. Same for everyone but ending up with just enough budget for George Madley & Jackson Connelly makes it interesting.
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Round 1 was a smorgasbord, its going to get a bit trickier as riders get look at the podium and their price hits 300k+.

I dont mind the fantasy format this year so far, couple of potential guns and a couple of hopefuls. The Women as usual are a bit easier to score with as the qualifying is a better bet.

The race format not so much, probably the best watching of the weekend would be qualifying, both Q1 and Q2. Leaving the rider who won the last round... or two could be watching from the sidelines.

I didn't like the protected rider rules but as mentioned by Cathro, maybe riders should have 1 or 2 wildcard tokens each season that if they failed to qualify due to a mechanical or crash, they could play their token and get to race finals. It wouldn't matter if there were 30 or 33 in finals as long as we got to see the best runs.

Dunno, there are a lot of bigger brains than me with money and the future of DH invested trying to work out a fair way of getting the best riders down the mountain.
 
Something Needles mentioned on a podcast was how the UCI don't re rank the racing order after qualy so that you can have the fastest qualifier drop in the middle of the race, leading to an anticlimax. Needles' stock in trade is axe grinding, it's good for business but on that I think he's right. One thing we have lost is the build up to the fastest racers as the day wears on.
 
RustyMTB said:
Something Needles mentioned on a podcast was how the UCI don't re rank the racing order after qualy so that you can have the fastest qualifier drop in the middle of the race, leading to an anticlimax. Needles' stock in trade is axe grinding, it's good for business but on that I think he's right. One thing we have lost is the build up to the fastest racers as the day wears on.
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100%, fastest man on the mountain can make a mistake in Q1, quals in Q2, then sits on the hot seat while the whole 20 x Q1 guys come down and no one gets close.

The other issue with this is the weather over the 2 hours can change dramatically as well as the state of the track, so the Q2 quali guys could either benefit massively or fail miserably.

They should be amalgamated into the respective time slots to make a complete 30 on qual times alone, not Q2 before Q1.
 
Dunno how you'd solve the weather problem except get them all to drop at once, turn it into stock car wacky races 30 cross or something.

Actually, now I think about it, that's a format I would crawl over broken glass to watch. :unsure:
 
Four through Q1 for me. Matt Walker just missing out in 21st having been up in the first two splits & Anna Newkirk crashed, going by the PB comments section.

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Qualy appears to be dragging on, such a dearth of information coming out but my guess is someone crashed hard & they've had to stop things for a medivac?
 
Dropping out of the top 10 hurts. Only 2 riders got points with a 2nd and 3rd. Onwards and upwards for next round.

Halfway through the comp. Time to pick up some decent points in the 2nd half of races.
 
Long way to go yet, plenty of twists & turns to come. No one looks dominant in mens, which keeps it interesting. I keep thinking Henry Kiefer is the next guy but then he falls short, same for Ethan Craik and Bodhi Kuhn who I've picked twice now.Such a puzzle to work out.
 
RustyMTB said:
Long way to go yet, plenty of twists & turns to come. No one looks dominant in mens, which keeps it interesting. I keep thinking Henry Kiefer is the next guy but then he falls short, same for Ethan Craik and Bodhi Kuhn who I've picked twice now.Such a puzzle to work out.
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All I know is...it's nice to be off the bottom for a change.
 
So another weekend of racing looming and, again, I’m going to have make an early call on it as I’m at Goodwood FoS from Thursday, so I will be distracted by very fast, very expensive, cars and motorbikes.
 
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