well the tour is underway and there have been some exciting finishes already.  as far as the tipping comp goes, team globalbean is topping the leaderboard across all categories after tipping 2 out of 3 stages.

we also have the first of our category prizes donated by shaw at netplus microcomputers.  a samsung ht-c330 dvd player with home theatre speakers.

i am going to try to organise a few more prizes so each category winner will receive a prize.

this is a fund raiser, however, and since we got 24 players, we have raised $480 towards the belgium trip.

a few housekeeping issues for the comp though.  just remember you cannot tip the same rider within the week (between rest days).  this means if you tipped cav for stage 3 you cannot tip him till stage 10.

also, there has been an issue with the comments not closing out at 6pm.  it seemed to work for the first few stages, but not now (am looking into it).  i will accept the tips for stage 04 that came in late, but you notice that they have a date/time stamp on them.  from now on, even if the comments don’t close out, i will not accept a tip after 6pm.  you have had all day, don’t complain that you didn’t have time.