Eden95 wrote:
Some surprises here, very happy to see Sauber make their way to PCT again, but a shame that we still have never competed in the same division. Maybe next season
Hugo Boss is quite a loss, as well as losing Novatek. I thought before the previous season that Selwink has a decent shot at promoting and if not the next season he’d have a good base to build off. A shame to lose him.
Ayubowan! getting themselves back to PT is good too, a quality team who should do pretty well in the coming season. But as Atlantius said, what’s the go with EA? I’d hate to see SN properly out of the MG and do hope one day he’ll resurface, and would even like his team to live on as some sort of legacy or something even (which I understand would be impossible though because nobody else should manage it).
Besides that, Lierse keeping their spot in PCT is great and hopefully Waeytens can step us finally
I'm not planning on back to back promotions hopefully one day we can be in the same division but that might still be a few years away.
sammyt93 wrote:
It will be nice to get the chance to compete in the PCT next season, it will definitely make my transfer season a lot more interesting, having the bigger budget this year will help our long term plans so much.
With 4 of the disbands being voluntary it's nice to see that there are actually only 4 activity disbands which is massively down on some of the previous years I've been part of the game, showing we have a really nice group here.
Congratulations sammy, it has been a long time coming but well deserved! I'm sure we'll have a lot of overlap in terms of targeted free agents, as well as races. Should be fun though.
Echoing the thoughts of others, great that there is so much continuity with so few disbands occuring. Sad to lose many of those teams that are falling by the wayside, particularly Reddit in the circumstances. On a more positive note, exciting to see quite a few new managers entering the PT for the first time. Quite often majority of change therein can be the same squads bouncing up and down.
Welcome to the PCT to all the CT teams moving on up. Some have a really solid base for building a strong PCT team, others hava a lot of re-working to do; won't say specifically which in my opinion fall into each of these two camps though! Particularly pleased to see that Sauber finally make it out of CT after such a long haul - their focus on developing local riders mean that they are in one of the better positions for stepping up vs. some of the teams that actually finished above them (again imo!).
On the whole promotion/relegation from PCT issue, I think a sensible decision has been reached in the circumstances, although Lierse are damn lucky to be 'saved' at the death on this occasion as other teams have also benefitted previously. Across the season as a whole, the table doesn't lie (although it was damn close!). Every team has numerous outings where they experience frustration with perception of how the AI is conspiring against them. On e.g. Tour of Cyprus, it was obvious pre-season that there was potential for quite odd outcomes occuring with such a crazy parcours - some managers (myself included) concluded that this uncertainty was too much, and hence avoided the event. Funnily enough, after this years edition, I feel it is actually more likely that I would attend in the new season (dependent upon how my roster shapes up after transfers).
Aquarius97 wrote:
Interesting to see confirmation of who is disbanding and what the FA pool is going to look like. I'm afraid with so few top riders available due to very few disbands, we are going to have to highly overpay for even a 75 climber or riders like that
Time for start to plan our transfer season
While I wouldn't fully disagree with this sentiment, keep in mind that all the relegating PT and PCT teams have to slash their wage blls, so quite a few additional tasty riders will likely end up in Free Agency via this avenue. Then of course there are those who are looking to re-build and hence release some older quality riders, and finally those riders whose agents played it tough in contract negotiations, and have ended up on the market rather than re-signed! As every season, the release of the first post-renewals DB is awaited with baited breath to review these situations, and view the rest of the rider development phase (quite a few teams/riders seemed to be missing this in the most recent update it would appear).
Apologies for the wall of text, lot to get through .
Congratulations to the 15 promoting teams!
Especially looking forward to see what the new PT teams will bring to the division.
Like others have noted it's definitely encouraging that there's so little teams disbanding due to inactivity. We have a nice core of people who truly love this game and it's great to see it alive and kicking. I do sometimes worry about the amount of active reporters dwindling though and I kinda feel bad for not having the time to report myself. If someone (who has been in the game for at least a full season) wants to become (or remain) a reporter but doesn't have PCM 2018, let me know.
I'd also like to add that roturn made the right decision regarding the extra PCT spot. Giving the spot to a team based on subjective criteria while there are perfectly valid objective criteria available would have been a strange move. I do feel for the 'victim' of these unfortunate circumstances of course and it's understandably frustrating. But we can't compromise the integrity of the game for this.
DubbelDekker wrote:
I'd also like to add that roturn made the right decision regarding the extra PCT spot. Giving the spot to a team based on subjective criteria while there are perfectly valid objective criteria available would have been a strange move. I do feel for the 'victim' of these unfortunate circumstances of course and it's understandably frustrating. But we can't compromise the integrity of the game for this.
IMO the only alternative to saving Lierse was to continue promoting CT teams. Saving Netia instead would have been insane.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
I kind of agree. It was a bit of a harsh reaction due to feeling very bad for trick. Still, with all the discussions along the season it was a both or nobody situation for me.
I was only picking out Cyprus as there was the active discussion about whether it has to be replayed, which has not occurred to that extent in any other race .
Nothing personal ollfahrd. Your team is a very interesting project. I just don't like the whole situation looking at trekbmcs perspective.
