It seems the golden dust has barely settled on last year’s battle for the highest honour awarded by C.C.Coglioni, and yet already we must turn our attention to this year’s contest. The season-opening Christmas Handicap has been run and won, and thoughts are turning to the Freo Gift. Can Digger emulate Ted’s double, having already repeated his performance of winning the handicap from limit? Will your humble scribe finally make an appearance at this C.C.C. event, reckoned by some to be as tough as any of the Ardennes classics? Will O’Dirty’s lungs end up on the menu at Gino’s?
All this only time will tell, but what I can now reveal is the points allocations system for this year’s Golden Goolies, and the standings following our kick-off event. The formula is largely unchanged from last year except that I am dispensing with the Fibonacci bonus system in favour of fixed allocations for the podium positions in club events. This is largely due to my disappointment that none of the mathematicians took advantage of this system to take a firm grip on the Goolies. (If, for example, Ted had press-ganged ten of his finest students into turning up for the Gift but staying behind him then his winning bonus would have been 10946 points instead of the paltry 89 points he garnered for being the best of eleven starters.)
| Event | Points |
|---|---|
| Kalamunda Christmas Handicap | 50 points |
| Freo Gift | 50 points |
| ANZAC Day Two-up TT | 50 points |
| Cyclosportif rides | 100 points (regardless of entry distance) |
| Cyclosportif associate rides | 50 points, except that as we are defending champions in the Golden Spokes team and individual ladies events, 100 points will be allocated for entrants in these events |
| Other rides | As deemed by the C.C.C. G.G. 2010 committee |
| Podium bonus | 50/25/10 points for 1st/2nd/3rd in ALL events. For team/pairs events each rider will get the full allocation. |
| Hosting your fellow Coglioni to breakfast after a ride (or similar display of hospitality) | 50 points - limited to one such hosting per person |
“Associate rides” are any mass-participation events where a quorum of C.C.Coglioni riders is present. A quorum could be as few as one, and the determination is completely at the discretion of the C.C.C. G.G. Committee. This might include the Freeway Bike Hike and the Great Perth Bike Ride in addition to the Golden Spokes. The committee will also look favourably on any Coglioni spotted riding the Tour Down Under Mutual Community Challenge on Friday. Note that for this year ONLY I am regarding the Five Dams ride as a CycloSportif ride with 100 points on offer for participation. In future it will probably be classified as an “associate” ride.
Finally, here are the standings following the Christmas Handicap:
| Golden Goolies 2010 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rider | KCH | Total | |
| 1 | Digger | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Spunker | 75 | 75 |
| 3 | Bif | 60 | 60 |
| 4 | The Doctor | 50 | 50 |
| Gaz | 50 | 50 | |
| Paddles | 50 | 50 | |
| Stuey | 50 | 50 | |
| Babel | 50 | 50 | |
| Ted | 50 | 50 | |
| O’Dirty | 50 | 50 | |
| Blinder | 50 | 50 | |
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