Many of you are already experiencing great gameplay with this new mode so I wanted to make this thread to combine all those 'stories'. Now this is all happening in the general be a pro discussion thread, but I think the stories can have a place of their own, here.
So what is this thread? A place to tell the story of your pro without having to make a real story (thread) of it, a combination of short stories if you will.
There are only 2 rules:
1. No general be-a-pro discussions. This is only to tell your story and comment on others. No discussions about the gameplay or whatever, that goes in the general be-a-pro discussion thread.
2. If you post season per season, for example, please link (back and) forth to your (previous and) next posts (seasons). Use the URL-codes for this. I ask you to do this, because it makes things easier and because --->
I will put everyone's first post (starting his "story") on the second post. So we'll have the collection of stories (links to the first part of the story) right here. Therefor I want you to continuously link back and forth to your other seasons, so I only have to include one link (to the first post). Practically, this works like this:
You post season 1 of your rider (or an introduction). Then you post season 2 a week later. You go back to your first post and edit it with a sentence or whatever, linking to your new post. It's optional to also link back in your second post to your first post, but not obligatory. This is just an example, but I think season per season works best for this thread. But it could also work per half-year or any period you want to, really.
If anyone has any questions, ask them. If not, you can post your first experiences and I'll update them in the 2nd post from time to time. I'll also reserve a third post for a "Hall of Fame" of completed stories with a summary of the story or something.
Update 1: You can choose a title to your story. I refer to a story in this order:
1. A title (if there is no title, see 2)
2. The name of the rider (if there is none given, see 3)
3. The nationality + specialty (e.g. The American Climber)
Edited by Ian Butler on 21-06-2015 18:10
Great idea! I'll just recap what I wrote in the other thread so it's all here.
I started as a 19 year old GC rider from Denmark. In my first season I rode with Trefor-Blue Water, but I got a few big results and progressed well, so at the end of the season I signed with Androni.
In my first season with them, which I've just finished, I rode very well, hardly noticing a difference in level. My main results were top 10s in the GC in San Luis, Settimana, and Tour of Austria, and a mountain jersey in Trentino. After that I focused on Tour de Pologne, where I got second overall after Pozzovivo. I carried my good form through the rest of the season, getting top 10s in almost all the small italian one day races in the autumn.
Now I've renewed my contract with Androni, getting a wage rise form 2500 to 12000. I've just started the new season, and I'll be making my GT debut in the Giro, where I can hopefully go for the young riders jersey and a top 10.
Game Rules: Normal Difficulty and I Quick Sim 99% of Stages.
Season 1 (AWT GreenWay): Orrantia takes the CT Tour by storm on a 1,000 euros per month salary. He takes 18 victories (14 stage wins), good enough for 6th best in the world. PCT and PT teams are knocking at his door wanting his signature. He decides to head back home and race in the PCT.
Top 3 Notable Results
Ronde Van Vlaanderen U23
1.Ncup
1st
Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux
2.2U23
1st
Giro Belvedere di Villa di Cordignano
1.2U23
1st
Season 2 (UnitedHealthCare): Absolute complete struggle but gets paid a hefty 1-year, 10,000 euros salary. Orrantia can't handle the stiff PCT competition. He finishes the season with just 2 victories under his belt, but is proud that he repeats as U23 RVV Champ. His potential abilities catch the eye of PT teams.
Top 3 Notable Results
Ronde Van Vlaanderen U23
1.Ncup
1st
Valence Drome Classic
1.1
1st
GP de Denain Porte de Hainaut
1.1
2nd
Season 3 (Cannondale - Garmin): Signs a 2-year deal worth 20,000 euros per month. Orrantia wins a lot of lower level stages where he doesn't met up with the top PT sprinters, but finishes around 10th when he does come up against them. He finishes with 8 victories and wins the U23 RVV for his 3rd and final time as he will be 24 years old next season.
Valentin Duarte France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Turned pro as 19 years old Climber Team Marseille-13-KTM
Bio Valentin Duarte is one of the upcoming french stars. He turned professional this year with Team Marseille-13-KTM as a hopeful climber. With his 168 cm and 58 kg, he has the perfect structure as a climber, and therefore, his biggest dream also is to conquer the record of the most Tour de France mountain classification wins, which is currently held by Richard Virenque with 7 wins.
Season 1 (2015) - Team Marseille-13-KTM
In his first seasons as a pro, Valentin Duarte had an anonymous spring with non noteworthy results. His first ever stage race-win was the U23 race Course de la Paix in May.
In June, Valentin Duarte conquered the mountain classeficiation in Route du Sud, while finishing in 10th overall.
End July he takes his first ever race win in the U23 race Trofeo Almar.
The greatest goal of the season all along had always been the Tour de l'Avenir, which he took with storm, as he won 5 stages and conquered the first place overall.
Valentin Duarte France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Turned pro as 19 years old Climber Team Marseille-13-KTM
Bio Valentin Duarte is one of the upcoming french stars. He turned professional this year with Team Marseille-13-KTM as a hopeful climber. With his 168 cm and 58 kg, he has the perfect structure as a climber, and therefore, his biggest dream also is to conquer the record of the most Tour de France mountain classification wins, which is currently held by Richard Virenque with 7 wins.
Starting his career with a win in his very first race (Cya Cup 1), McCormack looked destined to be a succes from the start. However, after that very first win he struggled a lot, mainly riding races that didn't really suit his puncheur capabilites. His main results through to March were nothing to write home about, 9th on a stage at the Volta Costa Vicentina being the best he could manage.
Then, when his form began to pick up, the tides changed for him. He first took stage 1 of the Volta Alentejo, followed by a remarkable U23 weekend, where he took Trofeo PIVA on Saturday and the Giro Belvedere on Sunday. To round off a great month, he also won the U23 version of his favourite race, LBL.
He then took a little break, before coming back in to full swing at the Oberösterreichrundfahrt. Here he managed to not only win the hilly stage and the GC, but also take 2nd on the flat stage, his first notable result in a bunch sprint. At the start of July, he travelled to his biggest race so far, the Tour of Qinghai lake. Allthough he lost a lot of time early on, he didn't give up on himself, finally manageing a win on stage 7, following a close 2nd on stage 5. This would remain his biggest result of the season.
Somehow achieving the logistic feat of starting a race in Italy the day after Qinghai, he was back on the U23 circuit, for his first taste of real mountains. Eventhough expectations were low, for he wasn't a climber, he still dominated the race. He won stage four, the green jersey, and the polka dot jersey, but only finished 2nd in the GC behind Norwegian mountain goat Sindre Lunke.
Coming off the back of that, he travelled to Eastern Europe, where he emphatically won the GP Miskolc, then the GP Kranj. These would be his last wins with An Post, eventhough he came close in the 1.1 rated Tour du Doubs, finishing second.
Small update: you can include a title to your story if you want. I'll refer to your story in this order:
1. a title if there is one.
2. The name of the cyclist if there is one.
3. Nationality + specialty if there is no title nor name given (e.g. The Danish Sprinter)
Some nice lay-outs already, I like that
Reminder: Please also link forward to your newest post. This is actually more important than linking back. Because in the 2nd post if this thread I only link your first post, so people can then use that post to 'click' forward and read your story. They won't read it back, but forward so if you post a 2nd post, go back to post 1 and insert a link to post 2 there!
Edited by Ian Butler on 21-06-2015 18:16
Do you play it with the patc which decreases speed of development of the stats? I think only carer which are started after the patch have decreased speed of stats,no?
Edited by Damiano-Cunego-Fan on 21-06-2015 18:50
Damiano-Cunego-Fan wrote:
Do you play it with the patc which decreases speed of development of the stats? I think only carer which are started after the patch have decreased speed of stats,no?
Damiano-Cunego-Fan wrote:
Do you play it with the patc which decreases speed of development of the stats? I think only carer which are started after the patch have decreased speed of stats,no?
Damiano-Cunego-Fan wrote:
Do you play it with the patc which decreases speed of development of the stats? I think only carer which are started after the patch have decreased speed of stats,no?
But to answer it, I've been told it wasn't necessary to restart your career, but I'm not sure
I just wanted to know how this careers have to be rated but if it is bot necessary to restart it doesn't matter of course.
If it's not necessary to restart, those who have leveled before the patch still had a boost
But I don't see this as a challenge/match for best rider, so I guess that's no problem
1. No general be-a-pro discussions. This is only to tell your story and comment on others. No discussions about the gameplay or whatever, that goes in the general be-a-pro discussion thread.
2. If you post season per season, for example, please link (back and) forth to your (previous and) next posts (seasons). Use the URL-codes for this. I ask you to do this, because it makes things easier and because --->
And i'd really appreciate any feedback on my writing/rider!
Maxime Oget - Quest to be the best American Rider
Age
24 Years Old
Money Earned
€1,491,167
Rider Type
Northern Classics
2020 Team
(A Sponsor Replacing Cofidis)
Favorite Race
Ronde Van Vlaanderen/Paris - Roubaix
Wins
36 Wins
Rider's Team History
Year
Team
Division/Team Rank
Wage (Per Month)
2015
Chambery CF
u23
€1,000
2016
MTN - Qhubeka
PCT (1st)
€2,500
2017
MTN - Qhubeka
WT (14th)
€13,000
2018
Cofidis Solutions Credits
PCT (4th)
€49,000
2019
Cofidis Solutions Credits
PCT (3th)
€49,000
2020
(New Sponsor will replace Cofidis)
(TBD)
€108,500
Rider Stats (As of start of 2020 Season)
FL
MO
HI
TT
STA
RES
REC
COB
SP
ACC
FI
DH
PL
80
63
77
74
79
72
64
81
74
75
72
67
81
Season Recaps Season 1 (2015):
Spoiler
July 15th, 2015. Maxime Oget waited by the phone. Awaiting a call from the only team that was willing to bring him up from the u23 season despite a fantastic u23 season. There we questions about his talent, weather his all-around abilities would ever be able to translate to a bigger stage. But first, lets take a look at the road he took to get to that point.
Growing up in a French-speaking family in the United States, Oget was exposed to many sides of european culture. Everything from Soccer to taking 2 hours to eat dinner. But he never took interest in cycling. Well, he followed cycling but all the stories about Doping and such really pushed him away from the sport. However, he still rode a bike every where. Now, he never rode a bike further than 5 miles, because as a teenager, you dont wanna be all sweaty. So really he didn't have the look of a future pro cyclist. However, as he followed more and more cycling, he love the exciting mountain stages more and more. Finally, he decided to start riding with his school's bike club.
As time passed, he spent more time on his bike, and finally one year while on vacation in france, he decided to tryout for the French u23 cycling team Chambery CF. Now Chambery was very desperate to have enough riders to be eligible in the u23 circut. So they quickly signed Oget to a minimum deal of a thousand Euros per month.
As the season started, Oget raced few races for Chambery CF. However, he got his big break with the USA u23 squad. There were only 9 americans in the u23 ranks, the ninth and worst being Oget. However, when the Paris - Roubaix Espoirs rolled around Williams, the USA team leader, went down with an injury. this pushed Oget into the line-up.
Before I continue, let me explain that the national u23 races were absolute trash with most good u23 rider opting to skip them to ride with their WT or PCT teams. However, that's not to say that the startlists were full of bums. But just not thaaat good. So back to the story.
Paris - Roubaix u23 was supposed to be a terrible race for Oget. He had ridden cobbles a few times. Not too badly, but still he was seen as a mountain helper. However, it was a dream race for Oget. He broke away with 3 other riders with 20 km left in the race and out sprinted them for the victory.
This victory pushed him to ride more national u23 races as a leader, allowing him to win La Cote Picarde by a half a wheel in the final sprint but more shockingly. He took a monstrous u23 Ronde Van Vlaanderen victory by over 2 minutes to the second place rider. Oget was emerging as a force in the u23 ranks. However, there were still questions about his ability against tougher competition and wether he had much potential as a rider in the upper ranks.
Oget was the sole american Chambery rider, so when the USA championships came around he had to participate without any team mates. However, this might have played into his hands and when he attacked and solo-ed off from the beginning. No one took his break seriously as he was virtually unknown in the higher ranks of cycling. The panic for the rest of the team began with 10k left as they frantically tried to real him in. But it was too late, Oget took the USA Championships with a 15 second lead over the rest of the pack.
His amazing performances all season pushed him into the USA u23 tour de l'avenir line up. Where he took the victory in the 3rd stage during a late attack. However, he was forced to abandon after having cramps during stage 5, which once again raised some concerns about his ability.
l'Avenir was his final race of the season and he recieved exactly 2 offers for the next season.
Oget literally could not afford to live off 1k for another year. So he called up Mtn - Qhubeka to tell them he was going to accept the deal. However, they said they were contemplating moving in a different direction and that they would contact him the next day.
that's where the story started: Maxime Oget waited by the phone. Awaiting a call from the only team that was willing to bring him up from the u23 season despite a fantastic u23 season. There we questions about his talent, weather his all-around abilities would ever be able to translate to a bigger stage. Then the phone rang...
Season 2 (2016):
Spoiler
2016 was bound to be an interesting year for Oget after singing with MTN. They team was already stacked with cobblers such as EBH and even Ciolek and Farrar a bit.
Oget was set to ride all the early season classics along with the american races along with u23 races. Oget ended up dominating the u23 races he was enlisted in. However, he struggled all season in the senior circut. And once again his ability was questioned as he wasn't doing well in most of his races. The one race he did well was the Tour of America, where he took the Tour of California's KOTM jersey. But it all downhill from there for Oget.
By the end of the season apart from a win from a break in Tro Bro Leon and the GC win in Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, Oget became an after thought. Oget's season showed absolutely no development which was very very shocking and disappointing from MTN - Qhubeka's stand point.
As the season ended, MTN struggled with money, and had trouble resigning many good riders. However, the team was still able to promote to the World Tour for the 2017 season.
Season 3 (2017):
Spoiler
Oget had something to prove. He was set to be a crappy rider a crappy World Tour team. All this after dominating the u23 races. In his mind, he had the potential to win at a high level in the future, but so called cycling specialist didn't agree. After the terrible 2016 season people around the cycling world didn't think he would amount to anything and that he had reached his ceiling.
Fortunately for him, MTN - Qhubeka didn't have the money to resign many of their good riders. Which put Oget into a position to be a free rider in many of his scheduled races.
Oget rode in many small races as well as once again dominating the u23 Ronde Van Vlaanderen. He also won la Cote Picarde. However, it was the third straight season this had happened, and the third straight season that no one cared, because he still struggled in the WT cobbled classics.
However, He did very very well in the USA races taking a stage in the Amgen tour of California as well as the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in front of his familly. Those two stage races may have saved his career. More and more people started talking about him as a potentially fantastic rider. After the season, Cofidis and AG2R approached him with a contract.
Now the choice doesn't seem that close, and really there was no way Oget was going to pick AG2R. However, these next 2 years were bound to be crappy as Cofidis was struggling to keep riders of any value. However, it was a team, at it was the opportunity Oget needed.
Season 4 (2018):
Spoiler
The Dream season. This season was exactly what Oget needed. This was the Dream season for him.
From the start of the season, the season went just Oget's way. Florian Senechal terminated his contract with the team as they were relegated from the WT. This forced Oget to be the team's leader in the Cobbled classics.
From the start of the season, it looked like it was gonna go great. As Oget ook the victory in the first two Cyanide Classics. Top 10s and Omloops and Kruune - Bruxells - Kruune showed off his great form.
Finally the real big cobbled races rolled around, and in E3, Oget broke away with Degenkolb but got outsprinted and finished for the 2nd spot
now you know when I said "the dream season", yea that wasn't exactly true.
The next big chance for Oget was the Ronde Van Vlaanderen, he won the u23 version 3 years in a row. this was his chance to prove to the world he belonged.
kilometer 20 = Crash, out for a month
yea, so he didn't get his chance in Ronde or Paris Roubaix, it was still a great start of the season considering his last few seasons.
As the season rolled along, Oget realized he needed more than just cobbling to get him results. He began to expand as a better prologue/TT rider as well as sprinter.
Clearly his training payed off as he won the first 4, yes 4 stages of the Tour de l'Avenir including the points and Kotm competition.
That was the season that really put this young american 24 year old on the cycling map.
Season 5 (2019):
Spoiler
hehehe, you already know
you already know
You already know that this was Oget's season.
Alright im not gonna get ahead of myself, there would be many better seasons in the future. But still, this season pushed Oget towards the upper echelon of riders in the world.
Now, he did struggle in the cobbled classics. However he won 13 stages, yes 13 stages.
the biggest out of all of them was the Tour de France. In his first stage in a GT, Oget won the tdf prologue beating everyone. It was quite the race for Oget. He did loose the Yellow Jersey on stage 3 after degenkolb took it after time bonuses. But on stage 4, oget put 47 seconds on degenkolb on the sole cobbled stage of the race. This put Oget into Yellow for another 3 days, totalling 5 days in the yellow jersey in his first GT. the end of the season was also a success as he finished in the top five of both Canadian Classics as well as taking the victory in the GP Ouest France.
It was a great season for the 24, soon to be 25 year old as he was getting closer and closer to fulfilling his universally appreciated potential.
This resulted in a 108.5k per month extension for 2 years with the same team. However, it wouldn't be Cofidis as they decided not to continue their sponsor ship with the team.
Gotta say to everyone who uploaded their story so far - insanely nice design/layout! I love that
@maxime86,
Really excited that youre already in 2020, nice job man! Very good results so far, and I like the fact that your rider has some nice stats, but are not "overpowered" in somehow. Can you tell me what level you are?
Only minus for me would be the first update, 2015-update, is a little too long, but i get it of course - it is the start and everything
Hayden Orrantia 
Ronde Van Vlaanderen U23
Giro Belvedere di Villa di Cordignano
Valence Drome Classic
Vuelta Ciclista a La Rioja
Course de la Paix U23 
Internationale Österreich Rundtfahrt 
so if you post a 2nd post, go back to post 1 and insert a link to post 2 there!
Martin Larsen
Japan Cup: 8th 
Tour of Oman: 1st overall, 1st mountain classification, 1st youth rider, 1stage win
Tour de San Luis: 1st overall, 1st youth rider, 1stagewin
