Whenever you create a race, you will receive a PM with offers from sponsors, these will have a monetary offer as well as some clauses and general information, certain sponsors will give you more money but the race will be less popular, for some it's vice versa and this is largely dependant on the region you choose (Sponsors from the UAE for example would give a lot of money but not too much popularity).

On top of that they could have some additional clauses, this could be something like that the race name must contain the sponsor's name or that the race must be located in a certain city.

Finally, each sponsor will have their importance for three categories, these are Nationality, Quality of Racing and Quality of Startlist, the sponsors will calculate your budget according to how well your race matches their wishes in those three sections and they will also influence your race's popularity.

An explanation of the three categories:

Nationality: The performance of the home nation in the race
Qualitiy of Racing: Pretty self-explanatory, though it's worth noting that a flat race will be judged separately from a mountain race for example, because they have different expectations, also stage races will often score more here.
Quality of Startlist: How popular the riders on the startlist are.

These are of course subjective and will be scored by me after each race, just as in real life how popular a race is is largely subjective.

After you select your sponsor, you'll need to think about how you will spend the small amount of money you have after paying the mandatory Race Licensing Fee and Initial Organisational Fee. You can spend it on Advertising or Prize Money to influence your team's popularity (remember that the benefit of advertising will also give you half the additional popularity next season, while Prize Money is a one-off) you'll also have to spend some per stage you organise. Finally you can set the participation fee, a secondary source of income which is how much teams pay to you to compete. Also, any money from your initial budget that you do not spend will be kept for next season as well as any profits.

The Prices of all this is available in the Costs Document: https://docs.goog...sp=sharing



At the same time, you will be able to submit the route for your race, this can take two forms, either you can submit a zces and cds (preferably containing the zcts) file for the race (either PCM16 or zcts of PCM15) which has been made by you or somebody else or you can choose to create your own route and request that I make it, this will be done without any graphics and with me placing an emphasis on finishing as fast as possible, so you must clearly outline where there are different road surfaces (like cobbles or dirt) and any other details you want me to remember like sprints.

There are three important things to remember in terms of designing your route:

1. The route must have DEM files.
2. Remember the limitations for PCM, for example a lap in a lap race must be longer than 5km and a route can not immediately double back on itself.
3. The route must be made on real roads that are really in your chosen country (I'm not going to be a stickler, but if your race doesn't look like it could really exist in that country, especially if you submit a zces/zcts then I may refuse it).
4. Remember that PCM, as a rule, likes to break, so even if you comply with these guidelines, I may simply have to request you make a new route because PCM simply won't allow a route to be created.

You can also choose the Race Rules, the obvious rules that need setting are format (Road Race, ITT, TTT), Max. and Min. Number of Riders per Team and Max. Number of Teams (no more than 24). But if you think of anything else you can make a note to change that as well and if you really wish you can even submit an XML file (you can be creative here too, maybe a 'points' race by giving huge time bonuses at every sprint? Whatever you want within reason). Finally you can choose what date(s) your race will be held on.

At the end of each season, you may choose to make whatever route changes or race rule changes as you like, however you will incur a small popularity penalty if you make a very large change such as: Changing the Date by more than 10 days, moving the race considerably from it's original destination (new country, region, city if it's held only within one, etc.), changing from a one-day race to a stage race and vice versa, changing format, etc.



Your race will promote and demote based on two factors, popularity and the amount of money in your bank account at the end of the season, these combine to make your promotion score and the formula can be seen in the Costs Google Doc. If you exceed or equal the promotion score, I will send you an offer to promote, which you may refuse or accept, however if you drop below or equal the relegation score, you will be forced to relegate.



The season will be a career simulated by me it will be played on PCM16 and begin in 2017, using the PCM.Daily 2017 EP. I will present the season in monthly or bi-monthly updates, with each race owned by a player 'reported', I am yet to decide if the reports will be simple text reports or videos, though I am leaning towards the latter. I will also share the results of major races so that we don't lose touch with the Pro Cycling World, you can also request the results of a specific race or the results of a specific rider if you wish too.

Aside from our races, I will do minimal DB editing throughout the career, I may override some PCM transfers if I don't like the way they are going or I may relegate some races to .HC or remove them entirely if I feel we have created too many real races for the WT races to fit in.

First there is the Company Sheet, this shows 3 things for each season, the total initial budget of all your races, your total final budget and your total End of Season budget.

The Initial budget is the sum of all the money sponsor(s) have given you for your races.

The final budget is the budget after you have bought advertising, decided on prize money amounts, payed all your fees, etc. This may be negative, though it is generally advised against going too far negative.

The End of Season budget will be the same as the final budget for now, however, once your race(s) has been run, it will be updated to include the amount of money you have gained from race fees, if this is negative at the end of the season, your company will go bankrupt! Otherwise it will roll over into the new season.

More relevant is the races sheet. This is where you make your decisions.

in the 2017 section, you can set details for your race, the licensing and initial organisational fee have already been entered by me and you can enter the Advertising and Prize Money depending on how much you want to pay (in the costs sheet), you can then in the Advertising Pop. and Prize Money Pop. section enter the change in popularity you incur depending on how much you have spent.

The stage fees section is the sum of how much you pay to organise each stage of your race, the prices for which are available in the costs sheet. Note that if the stage is ridden on less than 40km of different roads (a circuit race or time trial, for example) the cost is different.

There is also race fees, this is the amount you charge each team to compete, set this in the same way as the advertising and Prize Money, but note that it is a positive for you which won't affect your budget until the end of the season. You can also enter the popularity change of the cost as per the Costs sheet.

Finally, in cells E3:E6, you can enter the max. and min. number of riders per team, as well as the maximum number of teams (no more than 24), you can write any details about the format, if it's a simple road race, just write Road Race.

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