VELOGAMES FANTASY TOUR DE FRANCE 2010
VELOGAMES PREMIUM ACCESS
In addition to entering a team for free in the main game, and enjoying all the usual Velogames features, consider upgrading your account to Premium Access.
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At a cost of £3.00 (approximately 4 euros or 5 dollars) to last for the duration of the Tour de France, Velogames Premium Access expands your enjoyment of the game by offering access to extra competitions and time-trial live scoring!
Read on for more information!
PREMIUM COMPETITIONS!
The main reason to subscribe to Velogames Premium Access is the opportunity to compete in the extra Premium Competitions, that are only available to Premium subscribers from stage 6 onwards.
All players in the game will be classified in these competitions for the opening five stages, so you can see what the competitions are all about before subscribing to Premium Access.
Full details of the Premium Competitions can be found on the Premium Competition Rules Page.
Each competition is summarised below.
Yellow Jersey Competition
The Yellow Jersey Competition is scored using the revolutionary principle of scoring by time rather than points!
On each day of racing, the top three members of your team across the finish line will have their aggregate time recorded.
Each team's stage score will be determined by adding the finishing time of their top three riders, rather like the Teams Classification in the real Tour de France.
Additionally, there are time bonuses available at each intermediate sprint and at the finish line that will reduce your total stage time.
The winner of the Yellow Jersey competition will be the team with the lowest aggregated time total for all stages in the Tour, less any bonuses their riders have accrued on the way to Paris.
The Green Jersey Competition
The Green Jersey competition follows the scoring system of the Tour de France Points Classification, with the exception that points are not awarded for time trial stages and riders keep their points even if they subsequently abandon the Tour.
Points are scored based on finishing positions of riders in each stage, and also each and every intermediate sprint on the road.
The winning team is likely to include several fast finishers, so sprint stages are all important. But there are still lesser points available in the mountains, so the winning directeur have had to have covered all the bases for the three-week event!
The Polka Dot Jersey Competition
The Polka Dot Jersey Competition follows the scoring system of the Tour de France King of the Mountains classification, with the exception that points are not awarded for time trial stages and riders keep their points even if they subsequently abandon the Tour.
Points are scored based on the positions of riders across each classified mountain climb in the Tour de France. The climbs are classified into five categories based on the height, length and difficulty of the climb.
Unlike in the main Fantasy Tour competition, the Mountains Competition includes all climbs in the race, including those pesky 3rd and 4th category climbs, so you can follow your team on the road as they rack up summit victories.
The winning directeur will likely favour the little thin climbers, but will also need to take heed of the big general classification favourites as, just like in the real tour, summit finishes score double points!
The Medal Race
The Medal Race is a competition of Velogames' own devising which returns for the second year!
It rewards stage victories and podium positions for riders as the first three riders across the line each day will be allocated a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal.
On each stage (including Time Trials), the winner of the stage is allocated a Gold medal, the runner-up is allocated a Silver medal and the third place finisher is allocated a Bronze medal.
Teams are ranked in the Medal Race based on the number of medals won by the riders in their team, with Gold medals taking precedence over Silvers, and Bronze being the final tiebreak, just like in the Summer and Winter Games medal table. If the leading directeurs are still tied at the end of the 3 week Tour then 4th, 5th and 6th place could come into the equation.
The Medal Race will reward the directeurs who select stage winners, as no intermediate stage points or assists are awarded here. And who knows, that quiet, mid-race transition stage could be the victory that provides the winning gold medal for your team!
MINI LEAGUES ENABLED WITH PREMIUM COMPETITIONS
Mini Leagues are of course open to all users in Fantasy Tour de France, but Premium subscribers will also have a mini league classification for the extra Premium Competitions. So you can compete against your friends and colleagues across five unique mini league leaderboards. Note that only other Premium users in your mini-league will be included in these classifications after the Stage 6 cut-off.
TIME TRIAL LIVE SCORING!
A first for Velogames, time trial points will be updated at regular intervals during the Prologue stage and the long final time trial stage on the last Saturday of the Tour!
Premium Subscribers will be the first to see the points accumulate on the opening Saturday, with provisional stage leaderboards showing up after the first riders have finished their blast around Rotterdam.
Follow your team and its rivals on the Grand Depart, and be the first to see the opening day scores. On the final time trial, stage scoring will also update live.
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