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Introduction

Welcome to the Tour du Monde on Wahoo RGTTM brought to you by OTR e-racing, Paul Nicholls’ Magic Roads and Samir’s Magic Roads!

This is a twelve-stage* competition for teams and individuals that will be raced on RGT Magic RoadsTM, over a sixteen day period from Saturday 7th January 2023 until Sunday 22nd January 2023 (please also see note on the teams competition, below).

We encourage teams and individuals at all levels of ability, genders and ages to enter and compete. Races within races will soon begin to form and you will quickly identify your close competitors and the game will be on!

The Tour du Monde will take you to every corner of the globe, to iconic to the inaccessible or otherwise unrideable areas that only Magic Roads can reach. Challenging remote climbs to the deserts of North Africa, through Oceania and beyond, this will be an adventure to remember!

So grab your friends and form a team or just ride for personal glory, we’ll see you on the start line.

Entering a Team

Teams should be of between three and six riders. To enter as a team, you must ride the TTT prologue stage, raced as per a standard OTR LOVE TTT round, i.e. you can ride when you want and have from 31st December 2022 until midnight GMT on Friday 6th January to ride the prologue course and register a time.

Please see here team registration and additional guidance (copy/paste into your browser if clicking doesn’t work:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGWtJEvCSJqC0Ffzkmbfw3Z7pOSH9LHqjSSC9QqNd2C2BTCQ/viewform

Although teams are limited to six riders per team, clubs are allowed to enter more than one team but riders will not be allowed to switch between teams and team names should be different e.g. My Club A, My Club B.

Important – the person registering the team must be able to create events on RGT and RGTDB.com, please check in plenty of time before the tour, or ask someone who has the necessary access.

Individual Entry

You can compete as an individual across the entire tour, racing for the individual GC, points and mountain competitions or for your choice of stage, perhaps aiming for a stage win.

No registration is required for those riding as individuals, just join the events and ride as usual, we’ll do the rest.

Competitions

Individual

Individual GC – cumulative time across the entire twelve stages Individual Mountains – cumulative points gained from mountain stages Individual Points – cumulative points gained from points stages

Points stages 3, 5, 8, 10, 11 Mountain stages 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12

Teams Competition

Teams gain points each stage based on the finishing position of their third rider, compared to the third rider of the other teams. For example, the third rider on Team A is in 23rd place on the stage and the third rider from team B is in 31st place; Team A is leading over Team B.

Teams may not vary from those registered in the prologue. Not all riders in the team need ride every stage, but if any team that drops lower than three members on any given stage, they will be out of the team competition. Riders may ride in different time zones, if that suits their personal circumstances.

Points and Mountains Competitions

Points will be awarded in the points and mountain competitions based on overall finishing position of the amalgamated results from all four slots on the days’ stage. The announced leader of each competition on the day, may ride in the appropriate jersey of that competition the next day (see RGT App for jerseys), rolled down should the GC leader also be leading the points and/or climbing competitions.

The point scoring scheme is listed in the appendix.

To claim the overall points or mountains title, riders must complete the full tour. Stages

There will be twelve stages (plus the prologue for teams). Each stage will be scheduled in four separate time slots in order to cater to competitors located in different time zones. Stages are classified as “Flat”, “Hilly” or “Mountain”. Flat stages (with the exception of the stage 1, ITT) will count towards the points competition only. Mountain stages will count towards the mountain competition only. Hilly stages count toward either points or mountains competitions, depending on the amount of elevation involved (see below). All stages will count toward GC.

Points competition stages 3, 5, 8, 10, 11 Mountain competition stages 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12

Timeslots will be (GMT) 00:00hrs, 06:00hrs, 12:00hrs and 18:45hrs

Prologue - Team Time Trial The prologue is for teams only and points scored count towards the team competition only. No time is recorded against GC for any of the riders. Riders competing as individuals and not taking part in the team competition should not ride the prologue stage.

As per the above instructions, one person per team is responsible for registering the RGT and RGTDB.com event codes via the TTT online registration form. Details of the RGTDB process can be found in the guidance, accessible from the registration page.

The prologue is in LOVE TTT, “Ride when you want” format. Teams can complete a ride anytime between 31DEC2023 and 06JAN2023 (midnight GMT). In case of technical failures etc. teams may ride more than once but must register for each new attempt and must inform the race director (James Ogilvie) via direct message on Messenger.

Stage 1 – Individual Time Trial

The individual Time Trial will be a mass start stage and will be non-drafting for all participants. You will be able to see in real-time where you are on the road in relation to the other riders in your chosen time slot.

Results

The GC, stage result and updates to the team, mountain and points competitions will be announced as soon as possible after the last rider has finished the final time slot of that stage. The results will be published to the OTR Virtual Events Facebook page (please join for immediate updates) and shared to RGT Community News and other outlets shortly thereafter.