General Messages

Thanks for organizing again, Llotyhy and Don!

Thanks for the great work everyone, the form is up and running!

Would love to make the form at the end of today (European time), so please finish any checks before then.

In the list of categories in the first post you find your name behind categories that you will have to check.

What are we supposed to do then? Check our own categories or check categories from others???

Made a checking schedule, and also moved forward the planning by a day, so everyone has until the end of day 5 to check their categories.

Sorry for the late response. Both me and Llotyhy were on holiday during the weekend, but I'm back now to finish things off.

'Last season it was also mentioned who would check which category. Are we doing the same this time? It worked very well as I remember correctly.'
Yeah, I will divide the categories either this evening or tomorrow. Just got back and have a thesis that needs priority so not much energy/time yet.

'Best rider and best rider outside top div. On which criteria is this (or should it) be based?'

Tour/Classic/Cup results>rank>wins>consistency is what I usually look at. And also the achievements relative to the rider's specialty. A sprinter ranked 6th with no big wins is not better than a cobbler with a classic win in 16th, for instance.
I always try to get all big specialties represented.
Also when it's really close between 2, strength of support, but that's not something that should be used often.

Best rider and best rider outside top div. On which criteria is this (or should it) be based?

My proposal is to skip the Best Manager outside Top Div award. See the thread for my argument.

Last season it was also mentioned who would check which category. Are we doing the same this time? It worked very well as I remember correctly.

Make sure to make a long list of possible nominees (14 or something) without working on their details yet for Young Team, because I need to check if they are eligible (only teams without a former team are), and it would be a shame if you wasted time on teams that aren't.

For me best young team and Best rider outside of topdivision!

My bad, fixed.

I thought I said Young Rider instead of Young team. I could do them both if needed

For me Best Sprinter and Best Manager Outside Top Division please

Best regards,
Lamme

Best DHer and Best Cobbler for me please.
My 2 favorite categories, or simply the only ones where I have some knowlege :-)

Best Young rider and Best Old rider please.

As a newbie I understand specialist rider type categories are best for me to start so I'll happily take Best Hiller and Best Climber if everyone is ok with that?

I would like
1 TT
2 U23

Due to badly planned holidays I will only be able to do WT Manager and the Community Contribution category. Thanks to Llotyhy for doing the hard work so far, and luckily I will be back in time to make the forms.

The planning:

Day 89 to 1: Nominating (preferably on 89 and 90 because of the rankings being clean on those dates)
Day 3-5: Checking
Day 6-9: First Round of community voting
Day 10-16: Final Round of community voting

Confirmed Members:

Don Hamstre (Chairman)
Llotyhy (Co-chairman)
PJM
Platedefend
Frank Holwerda
AnnoDomini
LammeFrans
Moose Machines

Best Manager Outside Top Division - Lamme Frans (Checking by Don and Moose)
Best Hiller - Moose (Checking by Frank and Llotyhy)
Best Sprinter - Lamme Frans  (Checking by Don and Moose)
Best Climber - Moose (Checking by Frank and Llotyhy)
Best Cobbler - AnnoDomini (Checking by Platedefend and LammeFrans)
Best Time Trialist - PJM (Checking by Frank and Moose)
Best Young Rider - Holwerda (Checking by AnnoDomini and PJM)
Best Rider Outside Top Division - Platedefend (Checking by Don and Llotyhy)
Best Rider of the Season - Llotyhy (Checking by AnnoDomini and LammeFrans)
Best Manager - Llotyhy (Checking by AnnoDomini and LammeFrans)
Best Old Rider - Holwerda (Checking by AnnoDomini and PJM)
Best WT Manager - Don Hamstre (Checking by Platedefend and PJM)
Best Downhiller - AnnoDomini (Checking by Platedefend and LammeFrans)
Best U23 Rider - PJM (Checking by Frank and Moose)
Best Young Team - Platedefend (Checking by Don and Llotyhy)
Community Contribution Award - Don Hamstre (Checking by Platedefend and PJM)