All Things Vital Downhill Fantasy

Edit: Nvm

Hyped for the final rounds boys. I already have a couple picks in mind provided they qualify with a decent time. 

I suppose most are mathematically out of like top 3 or 5 overall by now, including me. 

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I did that for one round and the results were just ok. Kinda parity with my other good rounds. I think it's a good strategy if you DON'T know the riders very well and like... How they may go on a track, etc.

For people who have a bit more insight it's like, a good base line just to know the numbers. But there are quite a few names I can ring off that go GREAT in TT and qualies, and disappear in finals. And the vice versa of course.

Ya know I complained that Ryder Lawrence had his value boosted up too much, so hadn't taken him. But I guess he got the last laugh. Because I'm quite sure at his current price he still went 'net positive' on points with that finish. Props to the local kid. He made me the fool by outperforming his cost even after a price raise.

What could have been.  Ronan and Gracey I’m sorry. 

I picked Luca and he still went P2 so... Truly we removed the curse at that one round. You're free, Luca (sheds tear) Fly FREE!!

I probly ate dogsh!t again but I'd like to go up in rankings for once instead of down since the second half of the season. If I'm out of the top 50 now I'm bummed. I already blew it and got smoked by Jason, unless he just forgot to play this round. :/

I had Camille Blanche (13th) and Loic Bruni (DNS) after not picking Bruni the entire season. RIP

GAH i made up 11 spots but I think Jason did as well. GG

My strategy fell off a cliff last half of the season and I'm not even sure why tbh. My Palazarri pick was bad, Lou Ferg didn't pan out, I just realized Mille went 0 did I screw up my pick from qualies or did she have an issue?

Luke Mallen pick didn't pan out but I'm not mad at that, low cost anyway. My junior girls picks were okay but more so break even... I need to double check the points scaling for juniors cuz... I'd thought I'd do better. I guess the Mille situation really borked my build.

Best possible picked 7 juniors so... They're clearly not 'broken'. And only 8 elite so. Parity seems nearly perfect, at least for this round's results.

I think I got caught focusing on mid range 'value' picks and then when they just finish mid range, and break even, it doesn't do anything special for your score. As the bot picked 3 winners (just not Jackson).

Kye Ahern was the sniper pick of the round... For sure. And Medcalf which I'm sure everyone who wanted to try to win picked...

Thanks @sspomer  and the rest of the Vital crew for putting on such a great Fantasy Downhill competition again this year!

And what a great season of racing we have had!

These last few rounds have been nerve racking, but I am beyond stoked to have somehow held on to the lead in the standings 😅.

Here's to another great season of racing/fantasy next year 🍻

Just recieved my prize yesterday (OneUp handlebar and stem) and got 2nd in yesterdays Fantasy. It starts to making fun 😅

Thanks to the Vital Crew for putting up the fantasy and to all the sponsors for supporting this.

Big ups to sspomer and the rest of the vital crew and sponsors for this round. Has been super fun.

A thing I was thinking about was some kind of silly season fantasy. A bit late now when team changes are already starting to be announced but could be fun for next year. Maybe some format similar to polymarket could be interesting. Just throwing the idea out there...

Yeah shout out to sspomer and the vital crew, fantasy was loadsa fun this yr. Fantasy + RAW (shout out Lawlor) + UCI Live Timing + the Downtime pre/post races shows have made for a killer season 🙌

This is fun , third time playing and dam I suck it it . Would have done better last round but my big money rider took a knee 

Big thanks to Vitalmtb, Spomer and One up Components. Just received my package all the way down here in NZ. Legends. Now how can this mail from Canada arrive quicker than half my work orders for materials im only getting sent from one end of this country to another???

Sick. Unreasonably stoked to get my silver Supervillains. Got a SS Esker Japhy ready and waited for them

Thanks Vital + Deity 🤙

@sspomer Did the MSA winner outreach happen already? Just want to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Cheers 🤙

Hello, Has there been any movement on overall prizes?

I haven't received any notifications.

"some have asked about overall prizes. we're not rolling an official overall prize list this year, but maybe we can come up with something special." - Spomer

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I'm jonesin' for fantasy this season. @sspomer are you guys putting it on again? Prizes?

I still havent received my brakes from winning the first round last year in poland, what is going on ?

Hell yeah, thank you so much dudes. I had no idea how addicted I would get to DH fantasy last season. And all due respect to PB, but this format is 1000x better. It's way more fun to always have horses in the race, and also to learn what's what with juniors too.

Any ETA on when picks open up? I'm jonesin

UCI has now posted the start lists.

Men Elite: https://chronorace.blob.core.windows.net/webresources/20260501_mtb/skor_dhi_me_startlist_q1.pdf

Women Elite: https://chronorace.blob.core.windows.net/webresources/20260501_mtb/skor_dhi_we_startlist_q1.pdf

Junior Men: https://chronorace.blob.core.windows.net/webresources/20260501_mtb/skor_dhi_mj_startlist_qr.pdf

Junior Women: https://chronorace.blob.core.windows.net/webresources/20260501_mtb/skor_dhi_wj_startlist_qr.pdf

Let the Fantasy Fun (tm) begin!

[Edit: I just now noticed that @iceman2058 posted the lists on the 2026 South Korea World Cup thread at https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2026-south-korea-world-cup?page=3 . Sorry, I hadn't seen that when I posted this set of links.]

It seems I messed up the password for our local league.

Is there a way to change it?