Less than two weeks separate us from the 2009 Mountain Bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia. All year long, every race we're at, people have asked how they can get a Cyclingdirt T-Shirt. The Answer is, "You're either a Cyclingdirt employee, or you win a contest." Well, here's your chance. The 2009 MTB Worlds Prediction Contest!




Rules:

1. Predict the finishing order of the top 5 NORTH AMERICAN Elite Men and Women. Not their actual place in the race, just their ranking amongst each other. For each one you predict right you earn one point.

         Example: 1. Todd Wells                1. Georgia Gould
                         2. Carl Decker               2. Catherine Pendrel
                         3. Derek Zandstra          3. Judy Freeman
                         4. Max Plaxton              4. Willow Koerber
                         5. Sam Schultz             5. Heather Irmiger

2. Predict the finishing order of the top 3 NORTH AMERICAN U23 Men and Women. Again, not their actual finish place in the race, just their ranking amongst each other. For each one you predict right you earn one point.

3. Predict the finishing order of the top 2 NORTH AMERICAN Junior Men and Women. Not their actual finish place... get it? For each one you predict right you earn one point.

4. Predict the OVERALL winner of the Elite Men's and Women's race. This is the Man and Women who go home with the rainbow jersey... For each one you predict right you earn three points.

5. The tie breaker. Predict the winning finish time of the Elite Men's race to the second. Example: 1:56:47 (it's up to you if you want to look up details on the course or maybe the times from the World Cup held there last year...)

6. Post your predictions in the comments section below. All predictions must be in by Monday, August 31st. And you MUST BE LOGGED IN TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN. If you don't have a user name, take 15 seconds and get one HERE.

7. See the full team roster for:
CANADA: http://www.cyclingdirt.org/articles/view/1332-cca-announces-eliteu23junior-team-for-2009-mtb-xc-world-championships
USA: http://www.cyclingdirt.org/articles/view/1336-usa-announces-2009-mtb-world-championship-team


09/05/09: The Final Points Tally
1. Bryan Allen 11
2. Luke Yantis 8
3. Jeff Kerton 8
4. Ed Warner 7
5. Jimmy Klose 7
6. Marty Copllea 7
7. Steven Noble 6
8. Daba Ouellette 6
9. Dave C 5
10. Derek Hermon 5
T11. Williams, McElveen, Rahn, Zilla 4
T12. Garrigan, Bean, Farqason, Gray 3

Congrats to everyone who picked! Looks like Bryan Allen is the smartest man on this website! In the end, it was his good picks in the non-elite categories and his pick of Kalentieva as the women's winner that put him over the top! For the rest of you, this wont be your last chance at a shirt...