There's still time to join the Fantasy Le Tour Game. Register your teams now and win some amazing prizes! You can join until stage 6 begins and there's ample time to learn how the game works. There is no disadvantage in joining the game once the Tour has started so try the game out for FREE until stage 6 begins. Experiment with different team selections and see how they fare every day live here at Cyclingnews.
Jeff's Hot Picks
We asked our very own Fantasy team expert here at Cyclingnews, Jeff Jones, for his thoughts on this year's game:
"With so many of the favoutites out of the running I think the Tour game is going to present some really hard choices for Fantasy Managers this year. After my recent near prize win in the Giro game I'm not sure I want to tell you all who I'd reccommend for this year's Tour (and yes I do know I'm not allowed to actually win the prizes!). If I were to pick some riders and share them with you all I'd have to include Leipheimer, Valverde and Evans. More than that would be telling too much too soon...Good luck everyone."
The Fantasy game is a great way to get to know the Tour in more detail, as you take on the role of being a team manager during each day of the Tour, making the best of your team selections as the Tour unfolds stage by stage. Depending on how the riders finish each stage in real life you will score points for your Fantasy team to win some great prizes. You'll get a much more intimate knowledge of the lesser seeded riders as you watch their progress in your own teams and in other Fantasy manager's teams each day. You'll also get a much more in depth insight into how the riders perform over the coming weeks through the sprints and the mountains.
Remember you can change your 15 riders right up until stage 6 begins so there is no need to worry about the recent changes to the start list. There is plenty time to get your team right before the game closes to registrations.
The full Le Tour Fantasy Game Prize List
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Grand Prize from Giant TCR Advanced T-Mobile Team bike. Daily Prize from BBB Parts - 21 pairs of BSG-23 Winner Quick-Step World Champion glasses designed for Tom Boonen. Runner-up Prizes - Set of wheels from Reynolds. - Cirro SV KOM carbon wheels Runner-up Prizes - Ten pairs of tyres from DedaTre. Runner-up Prizes - Handlebars from Deda Elementi. Runner-up Prizes - Three Giro Atmos helmets. Runner-up Prizes - Three sets of Speedplay's Zero pedals. Runner-up Prizes - Three fi'zi:k saddles. Runner-up Prizes - 6 complete sets of Santini ProTour replica team kit.
Play for FREE in the Fantasy Le Tour 2006 game
Remember you can play for free for the first 5 stages! Try the game out and see how best to play. It's easy to play the Tour games - all you need to do is pick your dream team of 15 from the riders racing in this year's Le Tour start list. Then each day pick 9 riders to race for your fantasy team from these 15. You'll need a good combination of climbers, sprinters and general classification riders.
For more details go to the rules section of the site. There're also some great tips and tricks in the downloads and winners sections of the site. It's a great way to follow Le Tour 2006.
