Well, there it is, 6 years after the 1903 Tour de France, let's get the 1904 edition going!
This is a Terminator tournament, open to premium 1000+ players, involving 3-6 games.
A brief piece of history:
Of course 1903-winner Maurice Garin was present again a year later, immediately winning stage 1 (Paris-Lyon, 467km). His main rival Hippolyte Aucouturier got slammed back, but managed to win the next 4 stages. However after the final finish in Paris, the top 4 of the table were disqualified as rumours were too strong they took the train now and then...
However, those 6 stages will be done again in this tournament. Every stage will be simulated by playing 1 Terminator game. After 3 stages, the top 12 will continue to stage 4. Stage 5 will only have 10 players left, and the last stage 6 will have 8 players remaining.
Set up:
All players will play 3-6 games, according to the 6 stages of the 1904 TdF. Every game will be Terminator, Sequential, Automatic, No Spoils, Chained, Foggy and with a 20RL. So every stage will consist of several separate multi-player games (5-8 players per game, depending on the total number of sign ups and randomly filled). Stages will start within one week from eachother.
How to win the 1904 Tour de France?
Now the scoring part makes this one interesting... Your result in every stage is based on the number of points you win/loose in that specific game. After the games in a stage are finished, every player will have a game score. The player who performed best will be declared stage winner. For every single point you performed worse than the stage winner, you will loose 1 second in the General Classification.
A simple example with 4 players:
A won 50 points
B won 12 points
C lost 15 points
D lost 23 points
Here player A has won the stage. B took second place, 38 seconds (points) down. C took third place, 1 minute and 5 seconds down. D took 4th place, 1 minute and 13 seconds down. So yes, the higher your current score, the harder it will actually be to win this Tournament!
All players without a kill, alive at the round limit will receive a Game Penalty of 12 points/seconds.
To encourage attacking play, in every game you can gain Time Bonification. The first player to make a kill will receive a 20 second bonus, the 2nd player to make a kill will receive 12 seconds bonus and the third player to make a kill will receive 8 seconds bonus. Every player can only take one bonus in every single game.
In Stage 6, the final one, all points/seconds will be doubled!
The Stages/Maps
[spoiler]Stage 1: Paris-Lyon, 467km, France 1789
Stage 2: Lyon-Marseille, 374km, Orient Express 1883
Stage 3: Mareille-Toulouse, 424km, France
Stage 4: Toulouse-Bordeaux, 268km, Europe 1914
Stage 5: Bordeaux-Nantes, 394km, Flanders 1302
Stage 6: Nantes-Paris, 461km, Napoleontic Europe[/spoiler]
Player List:
[spoiler]Nr. Players
1 PereiroSaus - Óscar Pereiro Sio (Esp) | winner Tour de France 2006
2 Mad777 - Fabian Cancellara (Sui) | winner Paris-Roubaix 2006, 2010, 2013
3 2007spaceodyssey - Luis Herrera (Col) | winner Vuelta à Espagna 1987
4 rmjw10 - Greg Lemon (USA) | winner Tour de France 1986, 1989, 1990, World Champion 1983, 1989
5 caymanmew - Matthew Hayman | winner Paris-Roubaix 2016
6 RobbieDub - Henri Cornet | winner Tour de France 1904, Paris-Roubaix 1906
7 DJENRE - Maurice Garin | winner Paris-Roubaix 1897, 1898, Tour de France 1903
8 molespe - Lucien Petit-Breton | winner Tour de France 1907, Milano-San Remo 1907
9 william tennant - Yohann Gene | winner La Tropicale Amissa Bongo 2013, 2017
10 ZaBeast - Alberto Contador | winner Tour de France 2007, 2009
11 identity shaker - Chris Froome | winner Tour de France 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
12 HerrZ - Puck Moonen | winner Best Looking Sportslady The Netherlands 2017, google her away...
13 Shiz - Karl Dreis (Ger) | Invented a bike, so must have won the first race on it
14 badmoon - Philippe Herman (Lux) | 9th National Championship Luxembourg 2011
15 Silly Knig-it - Floyd Landis | almost winner Tour de France 2006
16 Scarlet Lady - Victoria Pendleton (GBr) | winner Olympics Sprints 2008 & Olympics Keirin 2012, World Champion Sprint 2005, 2007, 2008, 2012
17 tkr4lf - Mario Cipollini (Ita) | winner...[/spoiler]
Please sign up adding your favourit cyclist, or we will have to assign one to you...!
The 1903 edition (winner Alberto Contador - Marshallbobby):
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147364
