Come on, we all know that Matt can't ride at all on ice, have a bit of pity at least

Pity? You should know better than to ask pity from me
Anyway, Matt won his race, so he shouldn't complain

Now seriously, with Ardennes, Matt will be more focused on what's coming up and see Trondheim as a good training for the Ardennes Cross, I reckon


Thanks, shonak!

Well apology declined. You better give me a real apology in the Ardennes. Either that or sleep with one eye open.

Oh jandal, so much to learn...

On a more serious note: with 3 races left, this is how it stands qua podium spots:

Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dries Cornelis	6	6	1
Francis N. Vague	6	3	4
Elliot Cook	4	4	4
Sylvain Lipawsky	3	2	3
Shay Gormley	3	1	3
Hafthor Eldfjallsson	2	2	1
Rudy Verboven	2	1	1
Lachy Bauer	2	0	1
Michael Bollinger	1	3	1
Matt Mazzarelli	1	3	1
James Carlisle	1	1	2
Mikel Hammarling	1	0	4
Mustafa Moli	1	0	1
Thijs Van Lookeren	1	0	0
Robert Wells	1	0	0
Fred Markson	1	0	0
Max Power	0	2	0
Ali Acord	0	2	0
Ronnie Hira	0	1	2
Tariq Faizullah	0	1	1
Kimi Hakinnen	0	1	0
Jack Smith	0	1	0
Christian Schiltz	0	1	0
Andrew McLaughlin	0	1	0
Timi Kokkonen	0	0	1
Sven Welling	0	0	1
Josiah Bennett	0	0	1
Gregory Bernard	0	0	1
Farai Olujimi	0	0	1
Eddie Goldenberg	0	0	1

Also, I'm looking forward to Arenberg with Bakari!

Tronheim is officially my favourite race on the calendar (not biased at all) but in Sylvain's it isn't anywhere near.

I love how he crashed, then attacked a lap later, mustn't of been a bad crash.

Now, Arenberg.

First, Ardennes
And, yes, the crashes on ice are very frequent but usually not very harming, it's not downhill or something.
Can't mention them all but I think just about everyone went down at least once

I never get the hang of those names, Arenberg, Ardennes, there are a few other ones in the area as well.

Now, Ardennes.

Yes! Very motivated for that race. Though I'm happy Trondheim is a personal favorite of yours

I'm happy to see the end of the season approaching. When I started this, it was an ambitious plan. I have always tried to keep the quality high. At some times, that's worked out better than other times, but I'm very happy with what the game has become.

I hope to keep the same active players for season 2 and let them all develop even further, as well as a handful of new active players to add even more depth to the game!

See you later for Ardennes Though I might throw in another Piece of History before the report!

My opinion of Trondheim is not biased in any way.

I think your plan worked very well for this, as the quality is pretty amazing. I don't think I need to clarify that I'll be back next season.

And there will be an update from Sylvain later today.

Well, I went in a different direction with this Piece of History. I'm quite proud of it, hope you like it!

That's a very impressive piece, although quite sad with the death of a young rider.

Also, I was just wondering how transfers were run, do we/the riders decide, or do you, or is it your decision with input from us/the riders?

Thanks, trek!

Well, you control your riders, so mostly it's up to you.
However, I shake things up here and there. I make some transfers with inactive players, but I might also shake things up with a team with active riders. For example; if Cook, Vague and Lipawsky would join the same team, I would take matter into hands and make sure it can't go through, the team has too many leaders and probably can't afford them all.

So I leave it up to you. Those who aren't active or not interested at all where their rider ends up, I will do.

I think that's the best system for this game.

Yeah, ok, I figured it would run something like that. Once the transfers start to come through though, can we get updates about inactive riders and team info to help with working out where our riders are going?

Definitely. I'll be providing the information as organised as I can. Not sure 100% how I'll do everything, but I'll come up with a way
Not sure if I'll do transfers first and then new players or vice versa, though...

Never noticed Bollinger was so succesful until today, wow
I need to hurry up sending my tactics cause I don't want to see Matt fuckin' up the best cross of all, though when he won in the Flanders I didn't send in anything
Also loved that piece of history, always interesting to read they are

24 Riders almost certain to remain in the peloton for season 2015 - 2016:


Riders probable/possible to retire/disappear from the game, unless a PM reaches me within the next few days:


Riders retiring/disappearing from the game:


Riders likely to join the game in season 2015 - 2016:

I'm asking around to see if there is interest for joining in season 2. For those interested, here are a few pieces of active players stating how time-consuming this is for them. (full text coming up when sign-ups open, with their opinion on the game)

And for those interested, the preperations for Season 2 have officially begun! I started a 2nd Excel file, this time for Season 2.

First job: import riders to most likely be part of season 2, in order of their UCI number. Already at 19
Here is a small look behind the screens (though I did cut off the stats, hehe)

If you need help with the calendar just drop me a message

Will do, thanks for offering help!
One thing I can say for sure is that I'll need a second African race, besides Struibaai. And preferably within distance of Struibaai, too, so they can be combined into a weekend!