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The Rules

Here's roughly how the game works:

• Pick 1 rider for each stage.
• You may select a maximum of 1 rider from each team.
• That rider's time is added to your total time.
• The points of that rider in the points and mountains classifications are added to your total.
• The person with the lowest total time at the end of the Tour wins the General Classification.
• You can use a joker 1 time.
• A joker protects your rider against a total off-day. With a joker, the potential gap to the stage winner is a maximum of 90 seconds.
• A joker also doubles the points earned in the points and mountains classifications for that stage.
• A submitted choice is final and cannot be reversed, even if you picked a rider who is no longer participating.
• Too late or no pick = time and points of the last rider.

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Jonas picks Cees Bol for Stage 1. Cees Bol completes the stage in 3 hours, 53 minutes and 50 seconds. Jonas receives this time in the general classification.

Leontien picks Sepp Kuss for Stage 1. Sepp Kuss completes the stage in 3 hours, 58 minutes and 29 seconds. Leontien receives this time in the general classification. She is now 4 minutes and 39 seconds behind Jonas. The standings look like this:

In Stage 2, Jonas picks Adam Yates. Adam Yates completes this stage in 4:52:41. This time is added to Jonas's time from Stage 1.

Leontien picks Mathieu van der Poel for Stage 2. Van der Poel completes the stage in 4:45:29. This time is added to Leontien's time from Stage 1. The standings now look like this:

Joker example:

In Stage 3, Jonas picks Ben Healey. He completes the stage in 3:21:18. Leontien picks Jonathan Milan, who has a complete off-day and finishes the stage in 4:36:03.

Fortunately, Leontien had used a joker. As a result, her time is a maximum of 90 seconds slower than the stage winner. The stage was won by Primož Roglič in a time of 3:18:20. Thanks to the joker, Leontien's time is now 3:19:50.

We don't know what a good tactic is. It comes down to knowledge, skill, insight and pure luck.

There are 21 stages and 23 teams. You may only pick one rider per team. That means there are 2 teams you never have to pick from at all. And whether it's smart to pick a sprinter from team A or a climber from team B, we don't know either. It's entirely up to you to figure out and decide.

The same goes for using the joker: we don't know what a good tactic is there either.

But in the end, things always turn out differently than planned anyway.