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[CT] Severstal - Mercator
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 23-03-2015 22:29
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What is the purpose of sport? To make people enjoy competition? To keep people healthy? To experience physical boundaries of the human body?
Surely, it is all of that. But there is an even more important purpose we never should forget about: Bringing people together. Sport may overcome borders, it is able to unite athletes and fans under a common banner.
Geographically, Russia and Eastern Europe are not far from each other - though politically they are even more. Our message is therefore: What counts are not nation borders, not a difficult history and certainly no political confrontation. What really counts are the people coming closer together.
This is our mission, this is the purpose of this team. We want to unite people living all over the world and especially those in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Edited by Silvio Herklotz on 17-05-2015 02:56
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 23-03-2015 22:29
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| [img-l]https://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j345/SilvioHerklotz/Severstal_Cherepovets_Logo.svg_zps06otn3l8.png[/img-l] | | | Severstal is a Russian company operating in steel industry and steel related mining. Founded in 1993, its headquarters are located in Cherepovets. With roughly 53,000 employees and an annual production of more than 11 million tonnes of steel, Severstal is one of the world's leading steel producing companies. Environmental and social investmens are key issues to the company as well, as almost 250 million dollar were spent on those during the last year. |
| | [img-l]https://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j345/SilvioHerklotz/mercator-logotip-rdec-negative-pokoncen_zps6kthehke.png[/img-l] | | | Slovenian retail corporation Mercator operates not only in Slovenia, but all of South-Eastern Europe. For more than 60 years now it is the biggest supermarket chain in Slovenia, where the headquarters are located in Ljubljana. Running about 1,500 stores overall with roughly 23,000 employees, Mercator offers a good net of facilities for its customers. Care for the customers, employees and the envirenment are key to this socially responsible company - as well as donations and sponsorships for young people living in its operating region. |
| | | |  | | | | | | | | Podravka is a Croatian food company based in Koprivnica offering a huge catalogue of products, among which Vegeta should be the best-known. It delivers nutrition for the riders as well. | | | | The largest Russian brewing company, Baltika Breweries is located in St. Petersburg. They support us not only financially, but also with sport drinks for the riders - and beer of course. |
| |  | |  | | | | | | | Stels supports us with frames and parts. It is the cycling brand of Russian company Velomotors, which also produces motorbikes. | | Bosco produces our jerseys and further clothing. The russian apparel brand is strengthening its focus on sportswear. | | In Uvex we trust when it comes down to our rider's safety. The German company will provide helmets and glasses for the team. |
Edited by Silvio Herklotz on 04-05-2015 18:08
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 23-03-2015 22:30
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 | Jose Mendes | | 30 | | | 120,000 € | HI 78, TT 69 | 4.100 |  | Grega Bole | | 30 | | | 130,000 € | SP 76, HI 74 | 4.100 |  | Jan Hirt | | 24 | | | Loan-In (Becherovka) | MO 75, AC 74 | 3.01 |  | Gabor Kasa | | 26 | | | 55,000 € | TT 74, HI 72 | 4.100 | | Esad Hasanovic | | 30 | | | 50,000 € | MO 74, TT 70 | 4.100 |  | Emanuel Kiserlovski | | 31 | | | 50,000 € | MO 74, HI 71 | 4.100 |  | Ivan Balykin | | 25 | | | 50,000 € | SP 76, FL 73 | 4.100 | | Dmitriy Ignatiev | | 27 | | | 50,000 € | TT 75, FL 71 | 4.100 |  | Michal Golas | | 31 | | | 50,000 € | SP 74, HI 71 | 4.100 | | Aleksandr Mironov | | 31 | | | 50,000 € | SP 75, FI 80 | 4.100 |  | Mathias Belka | | 29 | | | 50,000 € | HI 72, ST 70 | 4.100 | | Luka Pibernik | | 22 | | | 50,000 € | HI 69, AC 68 | 2.13 | | Alexander Foliforov | | 23 | | | Loan-In (Tinkoff) | HI 68, ST 73 | 2.68 | | Luka Grubic | | 26 | | | 50,000 € | TT 69, HI 68 | 2.38 | | Ivan Savitskiy | | 23 | | | 50,000 € | TT 69, SP 69 | 2.24 | | Dalibor Grželj | | 27 | | | 50,000 € | MO 68, FI 79 | 1.66 | | Robert Jenko | | 25 | | | 50,000 € | SP 67, AC 70 | 1.05 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adrian Honkisz | | 27 | | | Loan-Out (Bacardi) | HI 74, ST 73 | 4.12 |
Edited by Silvio Herklotz on 30-10-2015 17:20
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 23-03-2015 22:30
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| 10 Jan |  | Clasico San Cristobal | C2 | | 17-28 Feb |  | Tour of the Middle East | C2 | | 03-09 Mar |  | Tour de San Luis | C2 | | 20-24 Mar |  | Giro del Trentino | C2HC | | 25 Mar |  | GP Tokyo | C2 | | 01 Apr |  | Zimnyanya GP | C2HC | | 11 Apr |  | Cauberg Classic | C2 | | 19-28 Apr |  | Tour de Langkawi | C2HC | | 22-25 Apr |  | Tour de Azerbaijan | C2 | | 01 May | | Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt | C2HC | | 06 May |  | Windhoek ITT | C2 | | 15-18 May |  | Tour de Taiwan | C2 | | 18-23 May |  | Tour of Scotland | C2HC | | 01 Jun |  | GP Herning | C2HC | | 04-08 Jun |  | Circulo de Juarez | C2 | | 09-12 Jun |  | Tour of Iceland | C2HC | | 17-22 Jun |  | Giro del Capo | C2 | | 22 Jun |  | Hanko Classic | C2 | | 02-08 Jul | | Tour de Pologne | C2HC | | 08-13 Jul |   | La Tropicale Amissa Bongo | C2HC | | 19-20 Jul |  | Tour of East Java | C2 | | 25-29 Jul | | Tour de Slovenie | C2 | | 31 Aug |  | Tatranska Klasika | C2HC | | 01-05 Sep |  | Herald Sun Tour | C2 | | 03 Sep |  | Acropolis Cup | C2HC | | 24 Sep | | GP Yekaterinburg | C2HC | | 08-15 Oct |    | Ruta America del Sur | C2HC | | 18 Oct |  | Zuri Metzgete | C2HC |
Edited by Silvio Herklotz on 26-05-2015 18:49
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 23-03-2015 22:30
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 | CT Team Standings | | Top 10 |  | 13th | | Clasico San Cristobal | C2 | Top 10 |  | Win | | Tour de Pologne | C2HC | Top 5 | | 5th | | Tour de Slovenie | C2 | Top 10 | | 3rd | | GP Yekaterinburg | C2HC | Win | | Win |
Edited by Silvio Herklotz on 25-11-2015 21:34
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| Silvio Herklotz |
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 | | | Jose Mendes | | Clasico San Cristobal (C2) | Classic |  | | | Jan Hirt | | Tour of the Middle East (C2) | GC | | | | Gabor Kasa | | Tour de San Luis (C2) | GC |  | | | Grega Bole | | Rund um den Finanzplatz (C2HC) | Classic | | | | Gabor Kasa | | Tour of Iceland (C2HC) | GC | | | | Gabor Kasa | | Tour de Slovenie (C2) | GC | | | | Jose Mendes | | GP Yekaterinburg (C2HC) | Classic |
Edited by Silvio Herklotz on 11-11-2015 21:09
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 23-03-2015 23:03
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Very good introduction, will follow this team closely.
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| nacho63 |
Posted on 23-03-2015 23:27
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Good to see another EPIC manager joining MG, good luck! |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 24-03-2015 07:34
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Welcome to the man-game Silvio. I really like your opening post and philosophy behind your team. Russina market is huge, but beware the king in form of Oleg Tinkov. 
I have soft spot for eastern european teams and tend to see them as friendly competition and partners for developmnent, rather than opponents, so i hope we can have good relationship between our teams. Good luck in transfers
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 24-03-2015 07:52
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Great Intro, will be interested to see where this team goes. 
But isn't the European part of Russia technically considered part of Eastern Europe?
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 24-03-2015 11:55
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@Everybody: Thanks for the kind words, hoping I'll be able to build up a decent team.
@Avin: Yeah, we'll probably have some talks then 
@trekbmc: As far as I know, Russia isn't called Eastern Europe, but I'm not sure.
And we are on twitter now!
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| Selwink |
Posted on 24-03-2015 11:59
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Nice to see a RussianCT team. Just make sure stay away from the Russians
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 24-03-2015 12:50
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Nice intro and looking forward to the jersey
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| matt17br |
Posted on 24-03-2015 14:41
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Good luck Silvio! Loving the intro, one of the best if not the best one so far! I hope you'll keep the HQ updated as you've interestingly done with the other story games
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| Shonak |
Posted on 24-03-2015 18:48
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No Marx and Lenin? Hmpf!
Good luck in MG fellow story-game Genosse!
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| Heine |
Posted on 24-03-2015 18:51
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I like that we have a team that will really compete with Oleg for Russian guys, he has had close to a monoply
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 25-03-2015 18:05
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All our sponsors for this season have now been revealed. The jersey will follow as soon as Bosco (if you wonder who that member is: Read our sponsor presentation!) will be done.
@Selwink: I'm looking forward to meeting you in the transfers. Now you just need to strengthen your primary focus and care less for that stupid Russian co-sponsor
@the_holye and matt: Thanks.
@Shonak: If the MG would have started before EPIC Season 2 you were able to read about all that stuff right here.
@Heine: I'm going to work together with other managers instead of trying to compete (especially when they're in PT  ).
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 02-05-2015 19:14
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Although we are still in the planning process in terms of the riders we will be going to sign, the management chose to present the team's goals for this season. We decided on these in negotiations with our sponsors - therefore our target races display both geographical focuses and what kind of riders we are going to sign.
CT Team Standings - Top 10
The overall CT standings are the most evident sign of how a team does throughout a season. Because we want to perform overall and not just in single races, making it to the top third of the rankings looks like an ambitious, but realistic goal.
GP Yekaterinburg (C2HC) - Win
This is our home race. With only one C2/C2HC race located in Russia, it was obvious for us to go all-in here. That is why we want to win it outright. It won't be easy, but we believe in our future riders already.
Tour de Pologne (C2HC) - Top 5
Although none of our sponsors is from Poland, the networking among all Eastern Europe and Russia is our ambition. This stage race is a very hard one and the spectators will surely scream our guys up those climbs.
Tour de Slovenie (C2) - Top 10
Mercator's home country also has its own race and thus we focus on Tour de Slovenie as well. As it is a little unpredictable due to the question how decisive the little climbs will be, aiming for the Top 10 seems just right.
Clasico San Cristobal (C2) - Top 10
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GP Tokyo (C2) - Top 10
As all the other races are located in our focus regions, we chose to go for another one in the distance. Being renowned all over the world is vital to every team. Thus we are heading out to Cuba/Japan trying to build up some fanbase over there.
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 02-05-2015 21:09
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So Netia, OTP, Severstal and Fablok gonna get so many same targets in both races and riders Well I can only say best of luck and I don't hope we'll cross each other much in the transfer season, as all should get some enjoyment out of the game xD
As I know that your quite good at this from EPIC, I just have the worthy opponent I need
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| matt17br |
Posted on 04-05-2015 12:37
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Hmm we could potentially have the Clasico San Cristobal goal in common, so just hope you choose Tokyo after the transfer season!
But well goals are not the only indication of the orientation of a team so just like mine your team seems to be pretty hill focused and for your information I don't like it 
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