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Update #32: Akuryo has a week to remember

With Laurens De Plus having a breakout win at the BinckBank Tour, the 24 teams who picked him were bound to be happy this week. As always, rounding out that pick with riders who did well in the other races of the week (Burgos, Arctic Race of Norway) is crucial to win the week.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank   Team   Points this week
1   Akuryo   843
2   Jon_Ezeitza   772
3   vladimir   753
4   Jakob747   752
5   Leadbelly   725

Akuryo has a fantastic week, especially for mid-August, clearing 800 points. Their team was led by De Plus' 252 for winning BinckBank, and Barguil's 148 points for allllmost winning Arctic Tour of Norway (he's on 12 teams). Aside from that, Lucas Hamilton (10 teams) had 105, Garcia Cortina (14 teams) had 95, and a smattering of riders contributed a handful each. Jon Ezeitza has a fine second place showing, with of course De Plus but also 226 from Ivan Sosa (3 teams) and 126 from Marc Hirschi (10 teams). vladimir just squeezes into third over Jakob747 thanks to De Plus, Barguil, and 117 more from the gift that keeps on giving to 3 teams, Mike Teunissen.

This Week's High Movers

Rank   Team   Up/down
1   Leadbelly   (+18)
2   Jakob747   (+15)
3   vladimir   (+13)
4   Jon_Ezeitza   (+12)
5   HelgeBlendet   (+11)
5   Eyeballs Out   (+11)

A different champ here, as Leadbelly leaps 18 spots to claim the biggest jump of the week, benefiting from having a number of unique and rare picks hit this week. Of course De Plus is the power, but Calmejane (115, 2 teams) and unique picks Krists Neilands (109 points), Michael Kukrle (73 points) and Matteo Badilatti (44 points) sure help out. Jakob747 does make the podium on this one, with De Plus/Hamilton/Eg/Cosnefroy leading the way. vladimir repeats on the podium here as well.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank   Team   Total
1   armchairclimber   211
2   ruvu75   192
3   TheArt   190
4   MADRAZO   185
5   Kryvo   177

Kryvo scores 14 points on the week to squeeze team skidmark out of the top 5; aside from that, no scoring by the overall leaders.

Top 10 Overall

Rank   Up/down   Team   Points
1   (-)   fauniera   11918
2   (-)   karaev   11872
3   (+4)   Kryvo   11120
4   (-)   Tigerion   11094
5   (-2)   SafeBet   11074
6   (+8)   Hakkie2   10868
7   (-1)   ruvu75   10857
8   (-)   skidmark   10841
9   (-4)   shalgo   10815
10   (+2)   Eric10   10759

Things are interesting at the top - neither of the top 2 had a particularly good week, each finishing outside the top 80 scorers. However, karaev gained 56 points on fauniera and is now just 46 points back. Those two are in a class of their own, but below it's quite tight, with less than 50 points separating 3rd from 5th, and just over 100 points separating 6th through 10th. Hakkie2 and Eric10 jump into the top 10, while TheArt and DFA123 slide out.

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