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If you made a donation during the 2018 "Support the Future of Velogames" campaign, many, many thanks once again for your support.
I do not expect you to reach into your pocket again this year!
All donors for that campaign should now have received an email (via the GoFundMe platform on Friday 28th August) with information on how to upgrade your account to Supporting Member status - free of any extra charges. If you did donate in the previous campaign and have not yet received an email, please contact me using the Contact Velogames link in the footer and I'll make sure to investigate and upgrade.
Your donation (of any amount) makes you a supporting member of Velogames Fantasy Cycling for the remainder of the 2020 season!
For the 2020 season, there are two sets of benefits awarded to supporting members - a guaranteed ad-free experience and entry into several experimental leaderboards.
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Right now, there are no advertisements running on site and, on the whole, I'd like to keep it that way.
But depending on the success (or more specifically, otherwise!) of this current donation campaign, I might introduce advertising at any point in the future.
All supporting members, when they are logged into their upgraded user account, will get a guaranteed ad-free experience until the end of the 2020 season.
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An all-new bonus contest, the Triple Crown leaderboard will considate team scores across the three major stage race contests of the 2020 season.
Each supporting members' scores for the Velogames Big Bike Game XXII, Velogames Italy 2020 and Velogames Spain 2020 will be combined.
Each supporting member can therefore compare performance across all three major tours in the global Triple Crown leaderboard, and also with their supporting-member league mates.
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We all hate losing a rider (or lots of riders!) early in a Grand Tour.
The Triple Crown Second Chance leaderboard allows your team to have a suffer a total nightmare performance during any one of the major stage race contests (being Velogames Big Bike Game XXII, Velogames Italy 2020 and Velogames Spain 2020) and still have skin in the game.
This ranking will therefore take the combined total of the best two scores gained for Supporting Member teams in those previously-mentioned contests.
The score for one of these contests can be dropped - the other two will still count and it is those two scores combined which will provide the basis for the Triple Crown Second Chance leaderboard.
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The Toppers Leaderboards, which rank the highest ever daily scores for each team, is pretty straightforward.
Each supporting member has one ranked entry in the leaderboard, equal to the highest single day score gained by that member during any Velogames contest throughout the year
Each contest will have a Toppers Leaderboard specific to that contest only.
There will also be an Overall Toppers Leaderboard to combine all the highest daily scores across every contest, from the start of Velogames Big Bike Game XXII until the end of the Fantasy Classics campaigns in November.
It is likely that the top scores in the Overall Toppers Leaderboard will be a spread of daily stage scores in the three major stage races of the year, mixed in with the best daily scores for each individual event in the Fantasy Classics contests.
The Toppers Leaderboards will be contested by all supporting members, with daily scores becoming eligible from the day they become a supporting member - so get in early in case you miss out on a jackpot score!
End-of-tour overall classification ranking points are not included in any Toppers Leaderboard calculation.
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There are two big contests featuring the one-day classics on the Velogames Schedule this season.
SUPERCLASICO is a season-long, quick-fire contest where team directeurs select a new team of six riders ahead of each event.
The Velogames Fantasy Classics Squad Game (which usually runs in the Spring, but in 2020 will start with La Fleche Wallonne in late September) is the traditional Velogames Fantasy Classics game format, where users select a squad of 12 riders at the start of the series and can make a limited number of transfers throughout the campaign.
The Combined Classics Leaderboards adds the scores for eaach of these competitions together, to come up with the undisputed king of One Day Race fantasy cycling season.
Users will be entered into this leaderboard, combining full scores gained (and backdated) in the SUPERCLASICO and Velogames Fantasy Classics Squad Game contests, as long as they become a Supporting Member before this season's Amstel Gold Race on 10th October.
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