When to fall down the divisions to grab the most trophies · worked out from your own points · as of S79 d3
Score your last points on S79 d35, then stop scoring.
If you score like you did last season until then, any stop day from S79 d30 – S79 d39 gives the same 7 trophy shots; S79 d36 gives up the fewest points. The window moves with your results, so check this page again before you stop. It is rebuilt every update.
Stop on that day and your old points drain away at the right speed: you are in the right division on the day each of these signups opens. "To spare" is how many points you could gain or lose before you'd be in the wrong division that day.
| Trophy | Div | Signup opens | Race | Haul if won | Your total that day | To spare | How you get in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic Oslo | 4 | S79 d60 | S79 d68 | 90 | 784 | 76 | in division 4 on signup day |
| Baltimore Invitational | 4 | S79 d66 | S79 d74 | 90 | 744 | 116 | in division 4 on signup day |
| Orel-Kursk Classic | 4 | S79 d70 | S79 d78 | 100 | 834 | 26 | in division 4 on signup day |
| La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (cup) | 4 | S79 d90 | S80 d8 | 175 | 798 | 62 | in division 4 on signup day |
| Juberri - Pas de la Casa | 5 | S80 d51 | S80 d59 | 85 | 455 | 2 | in division 5 on signup day |
| Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (cup) | 5 | S80 d63 | S80 d71 | 167 | 540 | 72 | in division 5 on signup day |
| La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (cup) | 4 | S80 d90 | S81 d8 | 175 | 427 | 688 | wildcard from last edition |
If your season goes differently: score 20% more than last season before you stop and the best window is S79 d23 – S79 d31 (7 shots); score 20% less and it is S79 d36 – S79 d41 (7 shots).
For comparison, stopping today gives 5 trophy shots for 2,740 points given up by the same date.
Division floors used here (lowest 90-day total in each division, last season's median): Div 2 ≥ 1,308 · Div 3 ≥ 861 · Div 4 ≥ 613 · Div 5 ≥ 453 · Div 6 ≥ 230 · Div 7 ≥ 50.
The day you stop scoring decides everything that follows. Every row is counted up to the same date (S80 d90), so they compare fairly. Same answer on consecutive days is one row.
| Stop scoring | Shots | Pts given up | Trophies |
|---|---|---|---|
| S79 d3 – S79 d6 | 5 | 2,740 | Zell am See (S80), Uttendorf - Matrei in Osttirol (S80), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81) |
| S79 d7 – S79 d11 | 5 | 2,660 | Brebes - Brebes (S80), Zell am See (S80), Uttendorf - Matrei in Osttirol (S80), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81) |
| S79 d12 | 7 | 2,560 | Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S79), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S79), Budapest Meeting Point (S80), Cesko-Slovensky Pohar (S80), Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81) |
| S79 d13 – S79 d22 | 7 | 2,492 | Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S79), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S79), Classico di Siracusa (S80), Cesko-Slovensky Pohar (S80), Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81) |
| S79 d23 – S79 d29 | 6 | 2,412 | Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S79), Classico di Siracusa (S80), Cesko-Slovensky Pohar (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81) |
| S79 d30 – S79 d39 | 7 | 2,222 | Classic Oslo (S79), Baltimore Invitational (S79), Orel-Kursk Classic (S79), La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S80), Juberri - Pas de la Casa (S80), Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (S80), La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S81) |
| S79 d40 – S79 d41 | 5 | 2,182 | Classic Oslo (S79), Cesko-Slovensky Pohar (S80), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81) |
| S79 d42 – S79 d48 | 5 | 1,944 | La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S80), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81), La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (S81) |
| S79 d49 – S79 d59 | 3 | 1,680 | Uttendorf - Matrei in Osttirol (S80), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80) |
| S79 d60 – S79 d64 | 2 | 1,590 | Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80) |
| S79 d65 | 4 | 1,646 | Critérium la Grasse (S80), Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80), Classico di Siracusa (S81) |
| S79 d66 – S79 d70 | 2 | 1,550 | Cup of the Four Rivers (S80), Bali Classic (S80) |
| S79 d71 – S79 d81 | 1 | 614 | Critérium la Grasse (S80) |
| S79 d82 – S80 d2 | 0 | 0 | — |
Every division 3–8 trophy win in our results over the last three seasons, sorted by the division the winning team spent most of the 30–120 days before in. Read across a row to see where that division's trophy winners usually race.
| Trophy div | Wins | From lower divs | Usually that div | 1 div above | 2 above | 3+ above | No record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Division 8 is thin: Zell am See and Giro di Vicenza results are not in our archive.
Why division 3 is left out: it is a judgement call. In division 3 you would be racing teams at your own level rather than below it. If you count those trophies anyway and win them, their points slow your fall, and the best plan becomes 13 shots from S79 d7 – S79 d12.
Win a cup (or finish top 3 on GC) and that rider holds a wildcard for the next edition. It keeps a place for you for the first 3 days of signup, and you can use it even when ranked up to 25% better than the cup allows (50 places at most). The wildcard belongs to the rider and goes wherever the rider goes if sold. In practice that is about one division higher, so a cup you win once can be entered again the next season without dropping as far:
| Cup | Div | Signup | Wildcard up to world rank | That is a total of at most |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle | 4 | d90 (season before) | 135 | 1,115 pts |
| Tian-Shen Stone City Cup | 5 | d63 | 210 | 736 pts |
| Cesko-Slovensky Pohar | 6 | d18 | 290 | 550 pts |
| Cup of the Four Rivers | 7 | d58 | 390 | 319 pts |
| Design av Småland Cup | 8 | d37 | 500 | 90 pts |
One-day classics have no wildcards. For those you have to be in the division on signup day.
Every trophy from division 3 to 8. The calendar is the same every season. Hauls are the median points the winning team took out of each race over the last three seasons (stages and GC for a cup).
| Div | Trophy | Signup | Race | Haul |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Copa de la Historia de los Andes (cup) | d87 (season before) | d5–6 | 210 |
| 3 | Turnai - Turnai | d21 | d29 | 120 |
| 3 | Tour of Hawaii | d29 | d37 | 120 |
| 3 | Rotterdam Classic | d39 | d47 | 120 |
| 3 | Zyte GP | d50 | d58 | 100 |
| 3 | VCK Classic | d61 | d69 | 100 |
| 4 | La Coupe de la Soif Éternelle (cup) | d90 (season before) | d8–10 | 175 |
| 4 | Critérium la Grasse | d32 | d40 | 100 |
| 4 | Classic Oslo | d60 | d68 | 90 |
| 4 | Baltimore Invitational | d66 | d74 | 90 |
| 4 | Orel-Kursk Classic | d70 | d78 | 100 |
| 5 | Classico di Siracusa | d90 (season before) | d8 | 90 |
| 5 | Juberri - Pas de la Casa | d51 | d59 | 85 |
| 5 | Tian-Shen Stone City Cup (cup) | d63 | d71–72 | 167 |
| 6 | Budapest Meeting Point | d2 | d10 | 98 |
| 6 | Cesko-Slovensky Pohar (cup) | d18 | d26–28 | 130 |
| 6 | Bali Classic | d76 | d84 | 98 |
| 7 | Brebes - Brebes | d5 | d13 | 77 |
| 7 | Uttendorf - Matrei in Osttirol | d48 | d56 | 65 |
| 7 | Cup of the Four Rivers (cup) | d58 | d66–68 | 270 |
| 8 | Zell am See | d12 | d20 | 77 |
| 8 | Design av Småland Cup (cup) | d37 | d45–47 | 99 |
| 8 | Giro di Vicenza | d75 | d83 | 77 |
Division 9 has three more (Gevelsberg GP, Draguignan, Entrecasteaux GP), but they need a world rank past 670 and the ranking stops at about 590 teams, so they are left out.