Hi guys, I'm Colombian, i want to share with you my new story and my first one with PCM 2015, i played for last time (1 or 2 years ago) the PCM 2014, so, this is going to be my first experience with PCM15.
I play with the PCMDaily Pack (that is awesome) with some stats that i edited by myself.
Why this team? Easy, Fernando Gaviria
I hope you enjoy it and thanks in advance to every one who will follow and read mi story.
Edited by canojuancho on 19-03-2017 15:27
Career Mode. Extreme Difficult. National Team: Germany
TEAM PRESENTATION
Leaders and their most important racing calendar
Fernando Gaviria
Sprinter leader for Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-Sanremo, Giro d'Italia, Paris-Tours, also he will ride some cobbled races.
Marcel Kittel
Sprinter leader for Dubai, Qatar, Oman, Paris-Nice, Scheldeprijs, Tour de France, Eneco Tour, Cyclassic Hamburg.
Tom Boonen
Flanders Classics leader for Omloop, E3, Gent, Ronde VV, Roubaix.
Support sprinter for Kittel in Paris-Nice, Tour de France, Scheldeprijs, Eneco Tour and Cyclassic Hamburg.
Julian Alaphilippe
Ardennes Classics leader in Brabantse Pijl, Amstel, Fleche Wallonne, Liege-B-L also San Sebastian Classics and Il Lombardia. He will ride Tirreno-Adriatico, Pais Vasco, Dauphine and Tour de France.
Daniel Martin
GC leader in Paris-Nice, Catalunya, Pais Vasco, Romandie, Giro d'Italia. Also he will be our Co-Leader for Fleche Wallonne, Liege-B-L and Il Lombardia.
Tony Martin
Our I.T.T. leader, besides he will be the train leader for Kittel in Dubai, Qatar, Paris-Nice, Tour de France, Eneco Tour and Cyclassic Hamburg. Also he will ride Cobbled Classics.
Co-leaders and important riders
Zdeněk Štybar
He will be the Co-Leader in cobbled classics. Also he will be the Co-leader for Milan-Sanremo and Amstel. Leader for Strade-Bianche, Bretagne Ouest France, Quebec, Montreal and GP Wallonie.
Niki Terpstra
Same than Stybar in cobbled classics but with the support role for Boonen.
Petr Vakoc
Support role in Ardennes Classics and maybe with the opportunity in minor classics.
Matteo Trentin
Support Sprinter for Gaviria in Tirreno and Giro, and an important rider in Cobbled classics.
Gianluca Brambilla
Support rider for Dan Martin in Giro and Alaphilippe in Ardennes Classics.
Bob Jungels
Our secondary I.T.T specialist, as same as Tony in Tour, Bob will lead the train for Gaviria in Giro and a support role in Ardennes Classics.
Stage 2 » San Luis › Villa Mercedes (181.9k) Profile
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Results
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A perfect sprint train with Van Keirsbulck and Richeze to put Gaviria to the front and sprinted for the victory.
Stage 3 » Potrero de Los Funes › La Punta (Cabildo) (131k) Profile
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Results
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With a tricky final, we put Gaviria and Richeze in the front of Mirador del Potrero and then in the downhill to obtain a great position. 2nd victory for Gaviria this time against Nizzolo.
Stage 4 » Terrazas del Portezuelo › Cerro El Amago (140k) Profile
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Without a GC rider in our team, we tested to anticipate the final climb, but it was so hard for Bouet and De la Cruz.
Stage 5 » Renca › Juana Koslay (168.7k) Profile
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Results
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It seemed another victory for Gaviria, but Nizzolo accelerated so strong and he took us the victory.
Stage 6 » La Toma › Merlo (159.5k) Profile
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Results
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Another hard stage and was harder than Stage 4, so nothing to do.
Stage 7 » San Luis › San Luis (119.6k) Profile
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Results
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Final stage and 3rd victory for Gaviria, this time against Demare.
Without an strong sprinter in our team, flat stages were so difficult, M.Trentin top ten. We want to fight for the GC.
Stage 2 » Unley › Stirling (132k) Profile
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Results
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In the last 10 kms, Gerrans attacked and Stybar followed his wheel, but the favourites group catch us and Stybar was empty for the sprint. 6th with the same time, not bad.
Stage 3 » Glenelg › Campbelltown (139k) Profile
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Results
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Last climb, Montacute Hill, decided the stage winner, Stybar at the front, Gerrans and others attacked at the top of the climb, but thanks to his downhill stat, Stybar has counterattacked and won the stage with a short advantage.
Stage 4 » Norwood › Victor Harbor (138k) Profile
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Results
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An easy victory for Cavendish. Stybar top 10.
Stage 5 » McLaren Vale › Willunga Hill (151.5k) Profile
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Results
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The Queen stage. Willunga hill, the judge of the race.
Final climb to Willunga and the breakaway was caught.
Some favourites attacked but Stybar save his energy. Pozzovivo was still at the front.
Before the last km, Stybar attacked.
Last corner and nobody could followed him.
Great victory for Stybar! and the new race leader.
Stage 6 » Adelaide › Adelaide (90k) Profile
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Results
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The final stage, i was not interested in the breakaway, just control the gap and Koen de Kort takes the victory.
With the amounts of wins already, I would like to see your game on a higher difficulty, or else wins will be casualties soon. I know quickstep does take a lot of wins, but with a team that good, you should make it a challenge Otherwise, reports looking good, I don't need a lot of information for minor races/stages. Good luck
purepasd wrote:
With the amounts of wins already, I would like to see your game on a higher difficulty, or else wins will be casualties soon. I know quickstep does take a lot of wins, but with a team that good, you should make it a challenge Otherwise, reports looking good, I don't need a lot of information for minor races/stages. Good luck
Indeed, is the first time that i play with PCM15 and i'm testing my skills in game, if next races the victories still so easy, i will rise to extreme difficult.
Last stage, just 74 kms and very strong wind, so i controlled since the biggining of the stage to prevent any surprise, with 15 kms to go, all Gaviria teammates lost all their energy bar, so, i put Stybar to work for Gaviria more than 10 kms. Then Gaviria sprint for the victory but Van Genechten was so close.
The race started with a TTT was hard to bet the favourites time but it wasn't bad at all.
Results
1 Team Sky 17'00
2 BMC Racing Team + 0
3 Orica - GreenEDGE + 1 4 Etixx - Quick Step + 14
5 Astana Pro Team + 14
6 Team Katusha + 15
7 Dimension Data for Qhubeka + 18
8 Team LottoNL - Jumbo + 18
9 Stölting Service Group + 19
10 Trek - Segafredo + 22
11 Fortuneo - Vital Concept + 22
12 Gazprom - RusVelo + 31
13 FDJ + 32
14 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA + 33
15 Bardiani - CSF + 35
16 CCC Sprandi Polkowice + 37
17 Wilier - Southeast + 39
18 Skydive Dubai - Al Ahli Club + 43
19 UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team + 50
20 Stradalli - Bike Aid + 51
Stage 2
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The peloton didn't want to catch the breakaway and there was very strong wing, so, i put all my team to work and reserved Boonen and Kittel for the last 10 kms.
The breakaway was caught and thanks to the high pace Boonen and Kittel separated to the peloton and made an 1-2 for the team.
Another hard day, nobody else want to catch the breakaway so my time was empty 15 kms to go, but Boonen protected Kittel very well, Ewan anticipated the sprint but Kittel bet him.
OK, this PCM 2015 difficult seems equal to PCM 2014, so easy to win with this team, I was thinking it wasn't, and although the bars are spent much more than in other editions of the game and the other teams seem all against my team, I will raise the level of difficulty, to extreme, for the next races.
Thanks for continue following my story.
Edited by canojuancho on 22-03-2017 02:00
This day, i took the control in the last kms, Martin and Terpstra put Kittel in front and in the 4 last kms, Kittel make a gap and sprint easily to win.
Top 5
1. M.Kittel
2. C.Ewan
3. D. van Poppel
4. M.Renshaw
5. F.Cancellara
Stage 6
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Last stage and a strange behavior of the rivals team, nobody want to caught the breakaway, just my team in front, so, Martin, Terpstra and Boonen were empty at the finals kms (Martin lost GC podium because of that), Kittel without team support and lost his energy bars at the final km.
Zdeněk Štybar Matteo Trentin Fabio Sabatini Petr Vakoc Pieter Serry Iljo Keisse Laurens de Plus
Result
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I put Serry in the breakaway but the peloton caught us 30 kms to finish. Several attacks were at the last 15 kms, i tried to followed them with Stybar and Vakoc but was so difficult.
Pantano took the victory attacking in the last climb and the subsequent downhill.
A great sprint train to put Kittel in front and won the stage.
Stage 2
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A hard profile in the finals kms, Valverde attacked and Martin followed him but he was faster at sprint.
Stage 3
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A hard day with strong wind, Demare was faster than Kittel
Stage 4
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The queen stage, Green Mountain was so hard for Martin he stayed with the favourites group but in the last km he couldn't followed him. Pinot and Henao attacked.
Stage 5
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Peloton let the breakaway won, Roche took the victory. Valverde attacked in the last five kms, Martin tryed to followed but he can't.
Stage 6
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The last stage, Hivert won at the breakaway. Martin attacked the last five kms he made a gap but no difference in time for him.
With an strong team, was easy to control the race. I tryed to attack with Trentin and Alaphilippe but the peloton catched us. So, i reserved Stybar and Vakoc for the last climb, when Vuillermoz attacked, so Vakoc followed his wheel and go with the frenchman. Pantano also tryed to follow us but he couldn't.
Last km, the peloton tryed hard to catch us at the downhill. Vakoc behind Vuillermoz wheel.
700 mts to go, Vuillermoz launched the sprint but Vakoc was faster and overpass him. The peloton was near.
This time, i went to this race looking for a Victory with Gaviria and Boonen as co-leader.
Like 35 kms to go and with 2 laps to go at the final circuit all my team was empty trying to caught the breakaway, also Boonen at this moment, couldn't help Gaviria, so, was Gaviria against the peloton and the breakaway, such a hard scenary.
25 kms to go, the breakaway lost the gap, but guess who was working at the front of the peloton...yes, Gaviria, alone.
Then, at the start of the last lap, BMC increased the pace of the peloton, Gaviria was saving his energy, the bars were at the half.
5 kms to go, BMC at the front and Gaviria on Drucker's wheel, Asbroeck and Thwaites behind him.
Last km, Gaviria at the front waiting for the right moment to launch the sprint.
He launch the sprint with 700 mts to go and took the victory! What a race...last 40 kms was an insanity.
Fernando Gaviria 
Marcel Kittel
Tom Boonen
Julian Alaphilippe
Daniel Martin
Zdeněk Štybar
Niki Terpstra
Matteo Trentin
Bob Jungels
Ariel Maximiliano Richeze
Carlos Verona
Łukasz Wiśniowski
Martin Velits
Fernando Gaviria
