Summary: The tale of young riders coming up through the ranks all on one team, ONCE Cycling team. This month all they did was win, no matter what. So much so that baia had no choice but to bumped the difficulty up to extreme. However, it had little effect as they continued winning once again. Pun intended. Not only have the results been great lately, the pictures and use of the flag codes adds a nice touch to the reports. But the best feature I saved for the unique section below.

Younger riders need guidance, so to get you ready for the key stages baia hands out the blind man tactics. It's an image of the profile with makers pointing out what the team plans to execute throughout the stage. Helpful, funny, and very original.

Summary: Qatar Optics picked up steam this month earning The Rider back to back month nominations. Where to start? The 2019 TdF won by a guy named Kenny, the overachieving performance by the team at the Vuelta, or perhaps the team riding high on the rainbows at Nurnberg. And yet, so many more moments I can all summarize. The story sure moved quick this month as transfers were already cleared and Qatar Optics is already racing the 2020 season.

Not only have the speed of the reports been outstanding, the pictures have gotten even crazier since last month. I didn't even think that was possible but The Rider has rightfully proved me wrong.

Summary: The return of Salvatore Puccio, after being gone for over 6 months, was unexpected yet magnificent. Andy222c felt bad for leaving Puccio so he decided to end what he started by wrapping up the 2012 season. It's completed with a very detailed season review, and a look forward into maybe continuing into the 2013 season. Lack of motivation seems to hinder this story, so hopefully this nomination will help.

Although the story only had a few updates in it's return, the format is world-class. Lengthy, detailed, and stylish reports give Puccio the edge for this nomination over the honorable mentions that may have produced a few more updates this month.

Summary: Our other back to back nomination will be seeking revenge as it came just a few votes short of winning the award last month. Bunzl-Centrica has been one of the most active stories this month putting out 23 new videos and accumulated 20 new pages in it's thread. It's quickly become one of the best community rider stories of all-time, not like it had much competition. I would try to recap it all but there is just so much, so I'll let you go check it out for yourself.

Take a break from reading and sit back and enjoy hours of PCM footage. Stages are highlighted just with the main events so you get to see a few races in each video, plus you get access to all the extra footage that text based stories find hard to include.

Summary: Starting two months ago, Plussbank would have probably been nominated as a "New Story of the Month" last month if the award existed then. But here it is now in the main event, so it's all good. The team is full of weak Norwegians trying to make a name for themselves. Considering Nordic Cycling won last month, we might find ourselves a trend. The end of the first season is approaching fast so head over and check out how the team is doing.

The report format is what really sticks out, not as impressive as Puccio but still great. Also the detailed reports resemble Man-Game report quality, I wonder where FroomeDog picked that up from? Hmm...

Summary: Taking an anderspcm and bwiggins team pack and making a community rider story seems like the way to go these days as Ian Butler made his return to writing by following in brewers90's footsteps. Except with an added twist using the FIFA Be a Pro Mode stat upgrade formula. The story has pushed into February of the first season but computer problems and "lack of motivation" has hindered it's progression.

Mr. Butler sure knows how to write stories, he is a seasoned veteran by now and his reports show that. Mostly know for his one-rider stories, he carries that style in this story helping it have more depth then a normal team story would have.

Summary: Strange to see Ian going up against two one-rider stories. The first follows Argentinian Fabio Melani on his journey to winning the Tour de France. The story so far was gotten to the Giro del Trentino and continues pumping out report after report in great detail.

The detail and constant updates gets Cycleman123 a new story nomination. Could use some work in formatting though but not everything can be perfect when starting a story. For example, all three new story nominations failed to mention which DB they were using (or at least I couldn't find it). How dare you!

Summary: The other one-rider story follows Tomasz Kowalski, a 21 year old cyclist from Italy born in Poland. We get a heavy back story and immerse ourselves into the life of Kowalski. So far no PCM reports but the history is diffidently worthy of this nomination. It's different, which sometimes draws readers away but take the time to get know TK.

The story uses an episode based reporting style, I wonder where TomC picked that up from? Hmm... It's got a long ways to go in order to match the bar set for these types of stories but it started off on the right foot so I wish it the best of luck.

lluuiiggii wrote:
In my opinion it's partly because of the voting per PM (although it's nearly the same 'difficulty', I think there'd be quite more votes if it was a thread pool), partly for lack of 'announcement'. For example, I didn't even read the new posts in this thread because I usually don't scroll down that much in the forum to see the "PCM.daily initiatives" forum. If this thread was moved to the Stories forum/made sticky while the vote was going + mentioned in Weekly News, like TMM pointed out, I think there'd be more votes. With so much people following stories around Daily, it's indeed surprising that there only a few more than 10 votes this time...

Mresuperstar wrote:
B. How do you guys check for "new" news? Through roaming the discussion forum? I have always clicked new posts and get to see everything I missed while I was gone. CrueTrue made this new thread for this (and betting), so I doubt it will be moving anytime soon.

baseballlover312 wrote:
I really haven't been following stories so if I vote it would be bias and hurt the credibility of the winner.