u/Rommelion

The Bingo is upon us! With the help of a bunch of you contributing ideas I compiled a list for this year's TdF Bingo. Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed (even if not all suggestions made it into the final cut).

This is a fairly standard bingo game with 3x3 cards. You basically "win" when you cross out all of the bingo events.

The centre tile for everyone is a virtual freebie "Fans being idiots": running dangerously, pushing riders, crashing riders, showering riders, being Borats, (almost) blocking the roads, ... you know, all the good stuff.

Here's a quick generator for your bingo cards. Opening this link will already give you a filled out bingo card at the bottom. Feel free to link your cards for proof - this is my card.

I will be updating the progress in here and in every post-stage thread, where I will always link this thread. If you notice anything amiss or that a Bingo event happened and I missed it, please point that out and I'll verify at the first opportunity.

If you start participating after the beginning of the Tour, that's fine - there are no prizes.

p.s. - I added a spoiler warning just in case when this thread is still on or near the first page tomorrow. It shouldn't be a problem later on, but it's going to be spoiler-y, so tread carefully!

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Bingo events:

1 Remco TT win
2 Pogačar TT win
3 Pogačar wins 3+ stages
4 Pogačar wins uphill sprint finish
5 Pogacar wins a stage with a long range solo [at least 2 categorised climbs back to back, or 30km+]
6 Vingegaard holds Pogačar's attack all the way to finish
7 Seixas descent attack
8 Seixas keeping up with Pogi and/or Jonas [whoever pulls away]
9 A sprinter sprints too early and loses the sprint
10 Breakaway specialist wins from break [valid for: Abrahmsen, Cort, Healy, Simmons, Lenny Martinez, Gregoire]
11 Alaphilippe briefly reminds everyone how good he was years ago, then implodes

12 Riders from different teams sharing drinks/gels/ice
13 Team inexplicably riding against itself
14 Domestique leaves his GC captain behind (Movistar drops Cian Uijtdebroeks in stage 1 TTT)
15 leadership role changing in a team
16 GC captain abandons
17 A superdomestique wins a stage
18 Sprinter OTL
19 GC contender responds to GC attack and blows up
20 G2 doing G2 things
21 Breakaway caught in the final kilometer
22 Breakaway holds off the chasers (riders dropped from break do not count and the bunch has to be making an effort to close)
23 Rather unknown youngster wins a stage
24 Older rider that everyone forgot about wins a stage
25 National Champion stage win (Isaac del Toro, stage 2)
26 Race jersey (yellow, green, polka, white) wins stage
27 Yellow jersey exchanging hands
28 Invited Pro Team stage win (TotalEnergies, Caja Rural)
29 unorthodox stage win celebration (a la Del Torro)
30 French win on Bastille day
31 Peloton gives breakaway 7+ minutes gap.
32 Invited team in a TV break

33 Yellow card issued (to UAE staff member, stage 2)
34 Rider fined for littering
35 Rider fined for peeing during the stage

36 Rider goes the wrong way
37 Rider protest
38 Stage paused/delayed due to a non-rider protest
39 Extreme weather protocol (heat, thunderstorm, ...)
40 Sticky bidon (3+ seconds) (Pablo Castrillo, stage 2)
41 Rider accepting a beer from fans during stage
42 Mechanic repairing a bike while rider is riding it, or rider doing it himself
43 Rider riding an evidently too big/too small bike

44 Motorbike blocking a rider
45 Camera missing important attack
46 Camera shot of temporary landmarks in the Tour theme (haybale bicycles, groups of people imitating bicycles for aerial shots, etc.)

47 Animal on the road
48 Cows watching the race
49 Horses running along the race

50 Fans being idiots [free space]

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Bingo participants and their cards:
/u/Rommelion - 5, 7, 10, 20, 23, 39, 44, 47 - card
/u/vertblau - 5, 7, 19, 36, 40, 43, 44, 45 - card
/u/eingeisterpanda - 4, 5, 25, 30, 32, 40, 44, 49
/u/Dancing_mayflies - 9, 13, 14, 18, 20, 28, 45, 49
/u/I_like_pasta_themost - 1, 9, 12, 18, 23, 30, 33, 38
/u/ser-seaworth - 4, 6, 15, 18, 22, 31, 38, 43
/u/ssfoxx27 - 2, 4, 16, 27, 29, 34, 42, 45 - card
/u/Dancing_mayflies - 9, 13, 14, 18, 20, 28, 45, 49
/u/Mel_stopmakingsense - 13, 17, 21, 26, 31, 42, 46, 47
/u/HattrickMahomes - 6, 9, 13, 15, 23, 26, 32, 33

headsup: I'm writing out numbers in order from smallest to biggest because there's no scoring of any kind, it's basically only do you cross out everything on your card or not. Technically the order is important in a classic bingo, but not here.