* Only pause to take pictures – and never adjust anything in the gameplay while doing so, everything will be done in real time.
* Only action regarding planning will be choosing riders for races, the premade “training” “rider goals” ect. cannot be modified, but I will be allowed to negotiate team goals – as it might be hard to make great results.
* Not allowed to make “trains” of more than 3 riders at the same time.
* Only one rider can be on dot at any point during the race
Measures to save time (shorten the season)
* Will only make full report form WT races and selected HC races.
* The other races will be played at high tempo with use of a lot of automated, as little interference as possiable - and short reports
Too distinguish between these to type of reports:
If there is a preview there is no riders automated, everything is manual.
Setup
This will allow me to race the 2019 season with PCM.daily 2019 DB, something that also made me want to start again.
Level: Extreme
Crash Ratio: 0.7
2019
Amstel Gold Race - Win - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Tour of Turkey - 2nd - Jakob Fuglsang
Paris - Roubaix - 7th - Alexey Lutsenko
Dwars door Vlaanderen - 8th - Alexey Lutsenko
Brugge - De Panne - 8th - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Brugge - De Panne - 10th - Alexey Lutsenko
Volta a Catalunya - GC win - Pello Bilbao
Volta a Catalunya - Points - Yevgeniy Gidich
Volta a Catalunya - U25 - Yevgeniy Gidich
Volta a Catalunya - Team
Volta a Catalunya -stage win (1) - Pello Bilbao
Milano – San Remo - 2nd - Omar Fraile
Milano – San Remo - 4th - Luis León Sánchez
Tirreno-Adriatico - GC 2nd - Ion Izagirre
Tirreno-Adriatico - GC 6th - Alexey Lutsenko
Tirreno-Adriatico - Stage win (4) - Miguel Angel Lopez
Paris–Nice - GC 5th - Jakob Fuglsang
Paris–Nice - Stage win (1) - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Het Nieuwsblad - win - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - 6th - Alexey Lutsenko
UAE Tour - GC win - Miguel Angel Lopez
UAE Tour - Team
UAE Tour - Stage win (6) - Miguel Angel Lopez
Great Ocean Road Race - 7th - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Tour Down Under - GC 3rd - Miguel Angel Lopez
Tour Down Under - GC 6th - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Tour Down Under - U25 - Miguel Angel Lopez
Tour Down Under - Team
Tour Down Under - Stage win (4) - Luis León Sánchez
Tour Down Under - Stage win (3) - Miguel Angel Lopez
Edited by Tamijo on 21-06-2020 09:18
2019
Scheldeprijs - 4th - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Kuurne–Brussels-Kuurne – 2nd - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Kuurne–Brussels-Kuurne – 4th - Alexey Lutsenko
Volta ao Algarve - GC 4th - Jakob Fuglsang
Vuelta a Andalucia - GC 7th - Ion Izagirre
Vuelta a Andalucia - Stage win (3) - Artyom Zakharov
Clasica de Almeria - 4th - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Tour of Oman - GC 3rd - Omar Fraile
Tour of Oman - GC 4th - Gorka Izagirre
Tour of Oman - KoM - Yevgeniy Gidich
Tour of Oman - Stage win (3) - Gorka Izagirre
Edited by Tamijo on 15-06-2020 07:03
2019
Vuelta a Castilla y Leon - 6th - Omar Fraile
Vuelta a Castilla y Leon - KoM - Nikita Stalnov
Route Adélie de Vitré - 5th - Laurens De Vreese
Coppi e Bartali - GC 4th - Merhawi Kudus
Coppi e Bartali - GC 5th - Hugo Houle
Coppi e Bartali - U25 - Merhawi Kudus
Coppi e Bartali - Team
Coppi e Bartali - Stage win (5) - Manuele Boaro
Le Samyn - 7th - Alexey Lutsenko
Dwars door West-Vlaanderen - 2nd - Omar Fraile
Tour du Rwanda - GC 9th - Jan Hirt
Royal Bernard Drome Classic - win - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Royal Bernard Drome Classic - 2nd - Alexey Lutsenko
Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise - 2nd - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise - 6th - Dario Cataldo
Trofeo Palma - 7th - Gorka Izagirre
Herald Sun Tour - GC 10th - Miguel Angel Lopez
Herald Sun Tour - GC - 9th - Ion Izagirre
Herald Sun Tour - Team
Tour of Indonesia - GC 2nd - Daryl Impey
Tour of Indonesia - GC 8th - Omar Fraile
Tour of Indonesia - GC 10th - Dario Cataldo
Tour of Indonesia - Stage win (1) - Magnus Cort Nielsen
Edited by Tamijo on 23-06-2020 06:03
Winners
5/1 Patrick Bevin New Zealand N.C. ITT
7/1 Patrick Bevin New Zealand N.C. RR
7/1 Jack Haig Australian N.C. ITT
9/1 Luke Durbridge Australian N.C. RR
@purepasd: Thanks and yes I expect to have a hard time at least at first, trying to get used to my new playstyle, but I don't mind. No way I can compete with Astana in reality they are so strong right now
@Kiserlovski01: Thanks , this will be quite a different season compared to 2018, here and in reality, my guess is that Astana is stronger now, especially in stage races.
The stage starts in North Adelaide an original suburb of the city from 1837, just 3 km north of the city center. From there the peloton will travel into the Adelaide Hills, to set the first KoM at Snake Gully, then three loops of Paracombe, Inglewood and Houghton including two points sprint in Inglewood, before heading back for the finish at Port Adelaide.
St Peter's Cathedral in North Adelaide, the seat of the Archbishop of Adelaide was founded in 1869, designed by British architect William Butterfield (1814 – 1900).
Top 5 media favorites:
Arnaud Démare - Peter Sagan - Elia Viviani - Pascal Ackermann - John Degenkolb
St Peter's Cathedral
Race
Km: 106
Marco Frapporti (Androni) opens the race, with Nico Denz (Ag2r) and Sep Vanmarcke (Education First) at wheel. Soon to be joined by Julien Duval (Ag2r) and Alex Dowsett (Katusha)
Heading into the Adelaide Hills Luis León Sánchez attacks but was not allowed to get away.
Frapporti has participated in the Giro five times, first in 2010 and latest last season, but without any noteworthy results
Km: 104
Approaching the only KoM climb the distance was 1’58”
Nico Denz attacks from 400 meters and load over the KoM, taking the overnight lead in that competition.
A few kilometres after the climb Marco Frapporti can’t keep up with the high pace, he was dropped and will never get back.
Nico Denz won his last race in 2018, Tour de Vendée (1.1) the first professional win by the 24 years old French riders
Km:50
The two points sprints in Inglewood was both won by Sep Vanmarcke, he will wear the Point Jersey tomorrow
With about 25 km left the pace was further upped by the peloton and as a reaction also in the peloton dropping Julien Duval, and never mind the others was caught before the 10 km banner.
Most of the hard part of the pursuit was provided by Bernhard Eisel and Janse V. Rensburg from Dimension Data and Yves Lampaert from Quick Step.
Sep Vanmarcke haven’t seen his best results the previous two seasons, but in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad he took a podium in both editions
Km: 2.7
The sprinter teams are ready for the final kick:
It is Pascal Ackermann for Peter Sagan with Mark Cavendish, several other riders attempting to join the train, Arnaud Démare and Alexander Kristoff the closest.
On the right side on their own Jens Keukeleire for Caleb Ewan
Pascal Ackermann in his own right a top sprinter, leading Peter Sagan today
Km: 0.0
With an impressive line-up of top sprinters, Sagan – Bennett – Ackermann, BORA with the first WT stage of the season.
Peter Sagan first to cross the line in front of Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan
This was Peter Sagan’s 2nd win in TDU, the first was stage 4 last season
Astana Pro Team
All in all we are fine with the result, Davide Ballerini showed some great potential with a top 10 result and the setup was ok just came slightly late to the front getting Magnus Cort Nielsen caught in some traffic
The stage starts in Norwood an Adelaide suburb 4 km east of the city center, from there we move north east into Adelaide Hills via Athelstone, for a relative early KoM at Checker Hill Road just south of Kersbrook, after that a relative flat route going mostly north towards the finish in Angaston, over two points sprints in Birdwood and Springton.
Norwood was laid out in 1847 just 10 years after the foundation of Adelaide. Norwood Town Hall and Concert Hall is an iconic landmark located on Norwood’s main road “The Parade”, originally from 1859 the current Town Hall has was constructed in 1883, the concert hall celebrated its first 100 years of existence with a series of concerts in 2015.
Top 5 media favorites:
Peter Sagan - Alejandro Valverde - Michal Kwiatkowski
Michael Matthews - Sonny Colbrelli
Norwood Town Hall
Race
Km: 128
Just before we hit the Adelaide Hills we have seen two groups of escapees, in front Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (CCC), Marco Frapporti (Androni) and Nils Politt (Katusha.
In between Ivan Garcia Cortina (Bahrain), Alessandro Bisolti (Androni) and KoM holder Nico Denz (Ag2r).
Soon also Astana’s Yevgeniy Gidich will attempt a solo persuit.
Guillaume Van Keirsbulck opens today’s race, the 27 years old Belgian transferred to the new CCC World Tour Team build on the former BMC licence
Km: 108
The two first groups unite before the KoM climb, Van Keirsbulck attacks the KoM from 900 meters getting a small gap, but just like yesterday Nico Denz was the stronger rider on the hill and increase his KoM lead.
Denz also wins the early point sprint.
Finally after fighting alone for 25 kilometre Yevgeniy Gidich makes contact, at this point the peloton is at 3’16”
German Nico Denz have been riding for AG2R La Mondiale his entire professional career, from 2011-2014 he participated in many junior and amateur races
Km:12
We get a crash in the peloton taking Astana’s stage hope Magnus Cort Nielsen down, also Dimension Data’s Enrico Gasparotto involved. 16 riders crashed but the all get back before the 2nd intermediate sprint.
Ivan Garcia Cortina takes the sprint in front of Nils Politt and Marco Frapporti.
The peloton up the pace, it is Jack Bauer and Alexander Edmondson (Mitchelton) Ryan Gibbons and Giacomo Nizzolo (Dimension Data) doing the final high pace pursuit bringing back the breakaway just before we get to the 10 km banner.
A crash takes down Magnus Cort Nielsen but seem to be no fatal injurie on the riders involved except some superficial scratches and the extra energy used to get back
Km: 0.0
It will come to the mass sprint finish, almost 100 riders in the peloton when the sprint starts.
It is again BORA – hansgrohe in front Sam Bennett opening the sprint in front of Peter Sagan from 2.1 km, but others are stronger today.
Mark Cavendish wins a breath taking slightly uphill sprint in Angaston. Also taking over the race lead.
Ben Swift 2nd and Marcel Kittel 3rd.
With this Mark Cavendish has a stunning 147 wins, moving up to shared 9th on the all-time most win list, he shares with 67 years old former World Champion, Belgian legend Freddy Maertens
Astana Pro Team
A very hard and stressful stage for the team, where nothing turned out as we had planned, now time to forget and move on, luckily no one was damaged.
Croatia14 wrote:
Let me just tell I love the set up you are playing on!
Thanks
I have done some 5 stages by now and I can say it is a great fun, can recommend it, or something similar to anyone using PCM18.
Have to plan ahead and be fast with the mouse to do any kind of counters, I miss about 3/4 Haven’t used gel at all, simply haven’t got the time to remember - but it is far from impossible to get fine results…….as you will see soon.
The trick is off course to use the “Pull Peloton” on important riders not in the (max 3 rider) train, guess the effort and just hope they won’t lose time
Sending rider in break is crazy – huge risk of losing someone somewhere – but again great fun.
On a side note it helps me that i have to pause for PrintScreen, even though i cant change anything I notice any riders falling back etc. - would be harder completely without pauses - but then no story Edited by Tamijo on 19-02-2019 13:51
The stage starts in Lobethal, taking two loops on a short circuit route including two intermediate sprints, both in the small town Charleston. Then we are heading northeast towards Cudlee Creek but turning back south before we get there, for the KoM on Fox Creek road.
After the KoM, further southeast passing Lenswood heading directly for the finish in Uraidla, where we a going to take seven laps on a very undulated circuit between Carey Gully, Piccadilly and Uraidla, taking up about 2/3 of the stage and making this stage expected to be one of the most decisive of the tour.
Lobethal was settled in 1842 by Prussian immigrants, the German influences is seen in the original layout of the town.
The opening circuit of the race is identical with the Lobethal Circuit, hosting Major motor car races from 1937 to 1940 and two races in 1948. Most famous the 1939 Australian Grand Prix
Top 5 media favorites:
Alejandro Valverde - Michal Kwiatkowski - Michael Matthews
Julian Alaphilippe - Peter Sagan
1939 Australian Grand Prix winner Western Australian Allan Tomlinson in his Morris MG T-type
Race
Km: 128
Mitchell Docker (Education First) opens the stage joined by another three riders, closing in from behind another 12 riders, soon to form a 16 rider breakaway including riders like Sep Vanmarcke (Education First) riding in the points Jersey, Dylan Van Baarle (Sky), Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE) Alex Kirsch (Trek) and Luis León Sánchez (Astana)
Mitchell Docker takes the first point sprint, Alex Kirsch the 2nd.
32 years old Australian Mitchell Docker took both of his two professional wins in 2010, Route du Sud and Tour Zeeland
Km:
The peloton does not like the size of this breakaway, too dangerous with so many strong riders out in front and set in a relentless pursuit, soon reeling in the first few escapees.
Kirsch with an early attack for the KoM, but Vanmarcke with a splendid last 500 meters over the top first, only 4 riders left in front of the peloton, the other are Alex Kirsch, Lukasz Owsian (CCC) and Sánchez, distance 58”
This is Sep Vanmarcke’s first participation in TDU, he usually start the season in February
Km:25
With everyone except Kirsch and Vanmarcke reeled in the peloton slows today to fill the bottles and get some food, allowing a 2’50” gap, but that was just for a short while and with little under 70 km gone by, the original break was over.
The pace is now quite extreme and many rider are dropped, Astana loses Davide Ballerini.
With 45 km left a dangerous and also surprising attack, it is Chris Froome, as you might expect Movistar is not going to accept that and bring him back fast, at the same time using the situation to make a counter move.
Might say even more dangerous we now got two Movistar riders José Joaquin Rojas and Alejandro Valverde leading a group with Enrico Gasparotto (Dimension Data) and Dylan Teuns (Bahrain), 16 riders left behind them 25 km to go.
José Joaquin Rojas burning calories for teammate Valverde
Km: 4
14 km left, Froome sure want to test the legs today, he gives it another go but in vain.
Under the 5 km banner another attack, Dylan Teuns with Peter Sagan clued.
The favourite group now just 11 riders: Gorka Izagirre, Magnus Cort Nielsen, Miguel Angel Lopez, Sonny Colbrelli, Julian Alaphilippe, Anthony Roux, Michael Albasini, Alejandro Valverde, Enrico Gasparotto, Chris Froome, Michal Kwiatkowski
Dylan Teuns with a dangerous late attack, but he has to get rid of Sagan somehow if he is racing to win this
Km: 0.0
Astana’s Gorka Izagirre just manages to close the gap for his teammates before he cracks.
Clearly everyone is at their limit after all those late attacks, but seemingly four riders have something left, on a line over the road from left to right Peter Sagan - Magnus Cort - Michael Albasini - Miguel Angel Lopez, the latter have been leading for Cort since Gorka cracked.
Lopez opens, he can hardly believe it, they must all be done as no rider is passing.
Miguel Angel Lopez takes a narrow win in Uraidla, in front of Michael Albasini and Peter Sagan
This was Miguel Angel Lopez first win since he won a stage in Vuelta a Burgos back in August
Astana Pro Team
A beautiful day for the team, claiming the first stage win of the season, Lopez had reported good legs all day, but we honestly believed that he was not the perfect rider for a stage like this.
and yes I expect to have a hard time at least at first, trying to get used to my new playstyle, but I don't mind. No way I can compete with Astana in reality they are so strong right now 
