Best Rider

Agreement here, so the nominees are final.

But there is room for one more if we would like

Yes, basically 1 from each specialty (first post)

Checking: Nothing jumps out as a problem, so looks good to me. This is all assuming that it is typical to nominate at least one 'type' of rider rather than multiple sprinters (for instance)?

(A much easier checking job. Thanks Don & Holwerda!)

(If multiple of the same type can be on the table, two possible late considerations:
-Vidar Kleven - 3 wins, 9 other results
-Kristiaan De Mayer - 3 wins, 3 2nds - AV 47(!!) in Div 1)

Although Borges looks to have this sealed up easily.)

The nominees:

Name: Valentins Pilskalns
Team: PEKAC B
OCM Tour Rank: 15
OCM Tour Points: 1090
5 wins (4 div 1, 1 div 2), including Alpe d`Huez Classic (div 1)
3 other results (2 div 1, 1 div 2), including 2nd Ainet – Bruggen (div 2) and 7th Critérium La Provence (div 1)

Name: Shu Jin
Team: Opium Fueled
OCM Tour Rank: 21
OCM Tour Points: 980
4 wins (3 div 1, 1 WT-A), including Essex Tour and Vuelta de los Castillos
6 other results (all div 1), including 6th Germany Tour

Name: Rodrigue Cros
Team: LoleursLovers
OCM Tour Rank: 6
OCM Tour Points: 1240
3 wins (1 div 1, 1 div 1.1, 1 div 2)
6 other results (3 div 1, 1 WT-A, 2 div 2), including 6th Cymru Taith (div 2)

Name: Fabio Borges
Team: Team AEK
OCM Tour Rank: 1
OCM Tour Points: 2580
14 wins (all div 1), including Germany Tour SC, Helsinki GP, Copa Salsa de Cali
8 other results (all div 1)

Name: Benjamim Fontes
Team: Cokol Breakaway Team
OCM Tour Rank: 2
OCM Tour Points: 2080
7 wins (5 div 1, 2 div 1.1), including Antwerpen – Huy (div 1)
7 other results (3 div 1, 1 div 1.1, 3 div 2), including 2nd Minsk CBGP (div 2), 3rd Astana GP (Div 1)

I think leaving out the TT'ers is not a shame this season, Vogl for sure isn't good enough, and I didn't see any of the others do anything special either.

My list for now:
Benjamim Fontes (CB)
Valentins Pilskalns (CL)
Rodrigue Cros (HL)
Fabio Borges (SP)
Shu Jin (Tour)
Colin Vogl (TT) ??

Please let me know what you think of this. I will also wait for the WC Road Race before finalizing the nominees.

Community Pre-Nominations (of course you still decide if you want to nominate them):

Benjamin Fontes, reason: not given

- No more than 2 riders from same specialty (except for exceptional performances)
- At least 1 rider from CL, SP, TT, CB, HL specialties (except for exceptional under performance of a specialty)

After last season showed this category was hard to do in the new format, we will just use the old rules for this one only, and work with 5-6 nominees and no committee vote on them.


Name:
Team:
OCM Tour Rank:
OCM Tour Points:
wins, including  mention classic and tour wins, do not mention stages (Divisions in which races were won)
other results, including mention classic and tour results, do not mention stages (Divisions in which results were achieved)

Example:

Name: John Doe
Team: Invisible Riders
OCM Tour Rank: 135th
OCM Tour Points: 700
2 wins, including Tour of Hawaii, and Kangaroo GC (both Div3)
5 other results, including 7th place Mito-Tokyo (1 Div1.1, 2 Div2, 3 Div3)

Please do it exactly like this, just don't nominate John Doe