Thank you for the great and quickly corrected final PT write-up of the season!
We started the previous transfer period with a plan, sell all our riders we didn't level up ourselves over the course of two seasons, ideally do a relegation bounceback in the second season and come back with a maxed Ayuso to PT.
Always thought staying in was a small possibility if everyone scored according to their capacities, but as the season went on, apart from Higuita, this didn't seem to be happening either. But actually some very nice GT's from the different stage racers as well as Halvorsen with a great Philadelphia win brought us over the line in the end. Not sure how exactly to continue the project we had in mind now, as relegating in the next season should lead to some big cap issues in the one after that, but we have time to figure that out.
Very nice from Gazelle to stay in PT after it looked a bit bleak after Praha, but definitely heartbreaking for Sony, who definitely deserved to stay in as well and have a great project going on, combined with their nice and local youth. Already looking forward to seeing them back in PT, hopefully in 2027 Same goes for other relegated teams, can see all of them do well in the off-season and immediately make a push back to PT if they want to.
To everybody who did well a big congratulations, and the biggest congratulations of them all obviously to knockout for winning the PT for the first time. Not saying he'll win it next year and for every year to come, but this certainly was not his final win
See you all soon in every other thread and on discord!
Most of all congratulations to Knockout on the win, entirely deserved.
Sympathies to all the relegated mangers but mostly to my fellow admin Abhi on falling just short.
The silver lining is that if he had stayed up and I had gone up with KB, we would have had a problem with reporters on PT races next year. So really neither of us failed, we just fixed things for the good of the game.
Apologies for the PT scoring snafu. I completely forgot monuments have their own point scale. Luckily Fab is going to improve the tool for next year so it doesn't require me to enter the race types, since I am clearly not capable of doing that correctly. Or perhaps someone wants to volunteer for this job - with the new tool it should be really easy.
First of all, a big thank you to all reporters, preview writers and everyone else who helped keep the season on track and finish with zero delays! Incredible job by everyone involved! Also thanks to kb for this update, having to do it basically twice in two days!
A big congratulations to knockout on the well deserved and much awaited PT title win. The win looked quite secure for the second half of these season, with a little scare right at the end. All's well that ends well
Coming to ourselves, I had assumed we'd go down after the transfers as I felt we were one top rider short. That was how it seemed but TDF onwards the team really picked up momentum, and almost pulled of the big save. Sucks to come so close and fall at the final (two) hurdle(s), but I'm happy the team pulled their weight across the board to try to stay in the division. Possibly two bad days from Haig in two different races in the first half of the season, is the main reason for our fate, but can't really assign the blame to a single place, as we did have some luck elsewhere. Also, I didn't really consider the reporting considerations of not relegating, so would like to thank Ulrich for pointing that out
Thanks for everyone for another season wrapped up. Unfortunately Gidich couldn't do anything about us getting 4th in the end. So congrats to Alex and Rabobank for their podium spot. A result of some great team building in the last years.
And also of course congrats to knockout for finally getting that title.
Looking at my team I feel like especially my two captains Gidich and McNulty underperformed their potential. The standout rider for sure is Mano with his 839 points. I'm very happy about that.
Same goes for other relegated teams, can see all of them do well in the off-season and immediately make a push back to PT if they want to.
