Tour de France Stage 17 Tourmalet Challenge Question Posted!

Update:  The contest is now closed.  The riders have reached the start of the Tourmalet, so we won’t be taking any new tweeted entries.  We will post the contest results here on the blog later today.

Ready? Here’s the Stage 17 question…

Challenge Question: Pick the top 3 finishers for Stage 17.

Scoring: Answers will be scored based on the Tour de France green jersey competition point system (for a “high mountain” stage):

• 1st Place = 20 points
• 2nd Place = 17 points
• 3rd place = 15 points
• 4th place = 13 points
• 5th place = 12 points
• 6th place = 10 points
• with 1 point decrements all way down to 15th place being awarded 1 point.

The first place prize goes to the person with the highest total score. In the case of a tie, the person who submitted their answer first is the winner. If that doesn’t break the tie, we’ll resort to a random drawing. Second and third place prizes will be awarded to the next two highest scores, with any ties broken as described above.

Here is what you need to do to participate:

1. Send your answer to the challenge question to us via Twitter with the following conditions:

• Follow us on Twitter so that we can follow you back and receive your direct message (if you don’t, you won’t be able to DM us your answer) — http://twitter.com/stravahq
• Send your answer to us via DM (direct message) “d stravahq” and tag it “#tdfquiz”
• Make sure you send it via DM so that others can’t see your answer!

3. The Challenge will be closed to submissions at 33k from the finish on Thursday, July 22. We will announce closing of the Challenge on Twitter and our blog.

4. We’ll announce the Challenge winners on this blog.

Note: we’ll be using the timestamp, or order in which tweets are sent to us, as displayed by Twitter. In the past, there have been some perceived discrepancies in how Twitter timestamps tweets. If there is any discrepancy, we’ll just have to consider it bad luck — kind of like dropping a chain on a climb.