Thanks for the Great Story Atlantius. It is not often that one manages to write a 159 page story with so many views and so many replies.
Congratulations
sutty: Thanks. And thanks for following right from the first day!
Dippofix: I hope that as well
Shonak: You pretty much hot the nail there In terms of seasons I think this might be the longest "classic" team-story. Petronas has more posts and things like the 2100-project and several one-rider stories have more seasons.
Ian: You will soon know more about that
The Rider: In deed. I couldn't improve the season without gwtting rediculous, all my captains stay on the team and no one important is declining, so now was the time. The save will live on!
And "thanks" for putting this in my head:
Spoiler
Miguel: All good things must come to an end
Jesleyh: Thanks. Let's se if the next few days will answer your question...
the_hoyle: Thanks. Both the team and the story did in deed evolve quite a bit since the beginning.
The Hobbit: You're welcome and thanks for the kind word. It won't be long until a continuation of sorts arrives
TMM: Yeah Petronas was immensely long (post wise), but I think I have more seasons. Obviously 2100 and several one-rider stories beat this in terms of season, but I thinkthis might be the longest-spanning classic teamstory with 5 full seasons.
welker: You're welcome - even though you almost make me blush
LLS: 160 pages with your post
Thanks for everyone who have followed along the way and thanks for everyone who voted me for the inaugural story of the month award and especially the teams story of the year. It would not have been the same without you!
I will post and of season rankings and stuff over the day.
Obviously that means that Euskaltel - Euskadi and Omega Pharma - QuickStep will get relegated while Het Nieuwsblad - Willems Veranda's and Statoil - Stoerensoe will get promoted.
It's worth noticing that Volkswagen miss out on promotion in spite of scoring more WT-points than 5 current WT-teams.
This was absolutely amazing story and it's real shame that it's finishing(?) here, but just as you said few posts above , all good things must come to an end.
Since the journalists tend to vote for either the winner of teh World Tour or the winner of the Tour de France and Nibali won both it's not a huge surprise...
National Championships
A number of nations haven't held actual national championships, but have awarded the titles now based on Chrono des Nations for the ITT and the CQ-ranking for the RR. These are the results:
Seeing as the world continues I thought I'd just post the main transfers 2016/17. The most important being the best riders leaving from each WT-team and the CT-profiles.
This story has been active since around the same time I started on this forum. It was one of the first stories I read, and along with Dienblad's, this is an absolute legend.
When I saw that it was stopping I felt more sadness than when Dienblad stopped his, because this one has always had a special place in my heart, ever since it's first steps as a ambitious CT team.
Lasse Bøchman
Argentina
Belarus
Brazil
Bulgaria
China
Costa Rico
Croatia
Curacao
Finland
Hungary
Iceland
Iran
Latvia
Malaysia
Mexico
Qatar
Serbia
Slovakia
South Africa
Tunesia
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
. Just kidding. Sad to see this finishing but it was a great story, one of the best IMO 
