PCT teams have a total of 163 race days, including their and PTHC race days.
CT teams have a total of 140 race days.
So PCT teams first need to select the PTHC and HC bands as seen in the announcement threads and then start to use the remaining race days in C1 and C2.
Same for CT teams, which though can use the 140 race days in C1 and C2 but also in HC races (not bands).
PCT teams will be required to sign up to at least 6 C2 race days. The restrictions on riders they can enter into C2 races are as following: It will be a maximum OVL of 74.49, with stat restrictions on Cobbles and TT/PRL having a max of 76 in any of those categories in races that feature this terrain.
To select a race, put a '1' in the bordered box by each race. (Columns E, L, S, Z)
- PCT teams must put a 1 by all races in each of their six bands of the revealed HC bands.
- PCT teams must put a 1 in the box by the name of their three PTHC bands.
Priorities
There is a Priorities column for each race category, which becomes very important this year. (Columns F, M, T), which is necessary, because you will not be guaranteed entry into every race you want to ride - due to the limit of 24 teams per race.
PCT teams receive prioritised entry into C1 races by default.
CT teams receive prioritised entry into C2 races by default.
This effectively means you have guaranteed entry into those races.
PCT teams: You need to put a priority marker next to every C2 race you wish to enter. Put "P1" by your top priority race, "P2" by your next priority, and so on. With the amount of CT teams this year, please give enough priorities for C2 as many races will be quickly oversubscribed.
CT teams: You need to put a priority marker next to every C1 and HC race you wish to enter. Put "P1" by your top priority race, "P2" by your next priority, and so on. Again, pleae give quite a few priorities there.
All teams should then include at least eight additional NX priority markers "N1", "N2", "N3", "N4", ... next to races you have not signed up for in your initial selection. These represent your back-up races, in case you do not receive entry to your initial selections. They can be in any category, although for PCT teams, they should only be necessary for C2 races. This will help to quicken the race assignment process, although in each case, you will be asked to confirm you are happy with the proposed change - and have the opportunity to change your mind.
It may be that eight extra races are not enough. In that case, we will follow up for additional choices. However, note that for any additional races, you will no longer receive prioritised entry into your main divisional races over teams from the other division. Feel free to send in a longer backup list to speed things up.
Without a C2HC division, the amount of races freely selected by CT teams is bigger. IF you fail to send a priority and backup list, you very likely will miss some of your aimed races, which makes this list very important!
Example of how this works:
Spoiler
CT team.
They choose their 140 RDs wherever, and by the C1 races they pick, they put P1 next to the one they want the most; then P2; then P3, etc for however many C1 races they went for.
Then they have 8 NX choices. These need to go by races they haven't selected.
So lets say e.g.:
N1 for Tour de Romandie
N2 for GP Lugano
N3 for Hanko Classic
N4 for Tour of Britain
N5 for Volta a Catalunya
N6
N7
N8
If you fail to add priorities to your file, you are more likely to lose out on your aimed races!
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Scenarios:
1) They wanted to be in Celtic Chrono, but it was full. Two CT teams wanted in, the other team gave it P1, this one only gave it P7 - so will lose out. We can't give them top choice Romandie as that is 6 RD, so we give them a space in GP Wallonie instead.
2) They are rejected from 6 C1 RD. We give them Romandie, which isn't full.
3) They are rejected from 6 C1 RD, but Romandie is also full. We give them GP Lugano and Hanko. Hanko was full, but we kick out a PCT team. The CT team still needs 2 more RD to fill, and no other options, so we need to ask them.
They say they want Roma Maxima. But this is also full, and as it wasn't in their 8 NX choices, we will no longer kick out a PCT team, they need to pick something else.
Keep in mind that while the Tour of America is C1 rated, it will be given HC point scale!
Submission is uploading the file to your Dropbox folder and PMing ManGame-Admin (https://pcmdaily.com/profile.php?lookup=51454) to say your C1/C2 choices are done.
A question on PT wildcards: Is there a way of specifying "if I get race X, please don't give me race Y"? For example, if I'd prefer not having two clashing PT races, should I just put this in the PM when saying I'm done with wildcards, or will this not be considered?
Other question: Should the priorities have a specific format, like in C1/C2 selection (P1...PX), or just plain numbers?
Just standard numbers has been the way for PCT Wildcards.
Usually would be avoided anyway to award clashing wildcards - but no harm in including a reminder. Probably better as an annotation in the row below the priority fields in the file, than in the PM.
Hum...
Actually already uploaded the wildcards file, but just noticed something strange. On sheet 1, there are plenty of entries already - guess last year's WC distribution? Sheet 2 has a clean table where I did my entries - but now I just saw that the actual WC category selection is on sheet 1...
Could you provide us with a clean version, or should we just use Sheet 1 and ignore everything that's already there?
Fabianski wrote:
Hum...
Actually already uploaded the wildcards file, but just noticed something strange. On sheet 1, there are plenty of entries already - guess last year's WC distribution? Sheet 2 has a clean table where I did my entries - but now I just saw that the actual WC category selection is on sheet 1...
Could you provide us with a clean version, or should we just use Sheet 1 and ignore everything that's already there?
Good question, I did only see sheet 2, did my selections in there. Hope that's fine... WC category selection is in the transfer sheet at least, should be good I guess?
Manager of Team Popo4Ever p/b Morshynska in the PCM.Daily Man-Game
3 managers in PCT and 6 CT managers haven`t yet uploaded their C1C2 Race Selection File. This includes some new managers, which is not a good start to the game.
In worst case you will lose your priority on C1 (PCT) / C2 (CT) races as no manager can get their race planner file otherwise.
