Vuelta 2023 - 9h: The one and only chaos Vuelta

[Schnuggeritos]

Welcome to the one and only choas.
Schnuggeritos will start to win or to lose. Depends on how we and the other teams ride. Let's see!

#1 Pakal Ixpiyacoc
#2 Luca Cippola
#3 Chaac Cumux
#4 Oliver Brotherhood
#5 Jemaine Clement
#6 Nils Verheyden
#7 Hopper Rick
#8 tbd
#9 tbd

Last two spots are open and will be clear after tomorrows morning race.

[Chemnitz Pro Cycling Team]

The Saxons will join, but since some already known meetings we won't be online every day.
So we won't have specific goals and will take what we can get.

Very easy to nominate a team since I just have 9 riders which can end the tour.

#1 Stefan Kurzig - first GC as the road captain, will hopefully develop during the race
#2 Alex Poertel - maybe more successful as a helper than as a captain, will be useful with his strong reg
#3 Niklas Warmund - will help in the mountains and try to get a stage
#4 Christian Brackhammer - we won't be online enough to earn another sprint jersey, so will mainly help and also try to get a stage
#5 MinJun Kim - good trainings the last weeks, so he qualifies for being the best flat helper. Strong dh is always nice
#6 Ahmed Haddad - no pavé in Spain? Unfortunately
#7 Marco Vorsatz - here to gain experience
#8 Danil Vassilyev - already has experience, but normally not in tours (weak reg is the reason)
#9 Bohumil Kundera - will bring his own stock of Trdelník

[Chemnitz Pro Cycling Team]

It seems like AGF will start with a 720k team...

[Bright]

My team:

1) Flopp Mcmell (team leader and GC)
2) Jape Thayer (Classic)
3) Jay Thayne (Sprinter)
4) Gize Mules (Main TT)
5) Erwin Ploegers (Help TT)
6) Giles Moulin (Flat and help TT)
7) Hans Geurtbraaij (Helper)
8) Marny Sheep (Helper)
9) Pim Shorts (Helper)

Goals:

1) Wearing all jerseys (Failed already as yellow and green are out of sight)
2) Win the TTT (failed)
3) Win any other stage
4) Top 8 in final standings
5) Earning 2 million overall

Added later: Winning the Mountain jersey.

First Reviews sep 1st:
1)Very disappointed in my loss in the TTT, expected much more there, clearly I didnt know what was a good strategy
2) Flopp is doing fine in GC and seems to have a good chance of being in top 8.
3) Missing a real classic so seriously hoping Jape will pop twice during vuelta, making him a stronger helper

[Bright]

My team:

1) Flopp Mcmell (team leader and GC)
2) Jape Thayer (Classic)
3) Jay Thayne (Sprinter)
4) Gize Mules (Main TT)
5) Erwin Ploegers (Help TT)
6) Giles Moulin (Flat and help TT)
7) Hans Geurtbraaij (Helper)
8) Marny Sheep (Helper)
9) Pim Shorts (Helper)

Goals:

1) Wearing all jerseys (Failed already as yellow and green are out of sight)
2) Win the TTT (failed)
3) Win any other stage (Done)
4) Top 8 in final standings
5) Earning 2 million overall

Added later: Winning the Mountain jersey.

First Reviews sep 1st:
1)Very disappointed in my loss in the TTT, expected much more there, clearly I didnt know what was a good strategy
2) Flopp is doing fine in GC and seems to have a good chance of being in top 8.
3) Missing a real classic so seriously hoping Jape will pop twice during vuelta, making him a stronger helper

Sep 2nd: Yes! Managed to grab a win!

Sep 3rd/4th: Reflection on the rest day
1) Wearing all jerseys: Sadly became impossible for me. Managed to grab both Polka (several days) and White (1 day), but unable to get the other 2. Won't get them further on either .
2) Completely did the TTT the wrong way and paid the price sadly
3) won a stage with Jape (Really cool)
4)Flopp in P3 (will fall down after the TT but P8 looks entirely possible
5) 880k made (Nice! looking solid towards the 2 mln)
(6) added goal: I'm in a decent form towards the Polka jersey have a 40 point lead and will try to build on that moving on.

All in all its ups and downs, but In the end, good week.
As Goals 1 and two have failed, I'll revise my goals from now on:

1) Win a stage in the remainder of the vuelta (so 2 total) done!
2) Win the Polkadot Jersey
3) Make 2 million
4) Flopp in top 8

On finished Goals I'm 2/4 so hope to make it 5/7

2) Unlikely
3) on 1.48 so should be possible
4) on p8 so possible

Gonna be close next few days