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Tour of Tasmania Discussion
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 04-10-2025 14:28
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OK-ish start by Szarka... Getting beaten by Hofstetter isn't great, otherwise the guys ahead of him are faster - but was still hoping to beat some of the lower flat-stat guys. AKA with his low acc surprisingly high up, maybe acc doesn't matter anymore? Clearly didn't expect him to hold Groenewegen's wheel with a 6 points acc difference...
Schmid way down in the pack doesn't look great, but at least Ferreyra and Setiawa ended up amidst some of the top TTers, so there might still be some hope for the GC.
Congrats to Aker, looks like they found a pretty good leadout formula.
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| Bikex |
Posted on 04-10-2025 15:07
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Happy for Patompob to start with a top 10. Now let's see how this game handles multiple leaders. I hope Gidich can do something in the hilly stage and should be a GC option in case it is selective and else Mano and Ganna should be there in the TT. |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 04-10-2025 15:08
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Good enough start for Hofstetter. He found a good wheel and had enough in the tank despite his wheel losing his own leadout's wheel early in the sprint. Couldn't realistically have asked for more from this stage.
Congrats to ember and thanks for the report 
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 04-10-2025 19:26
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Fantastic way to start the year for us! I wondered quite a bit this offseason if keeping AKA on at his current salary was doing me a detriment. Of course, releasing him was never an option, but I thought there was a good chance it may just be sunk cost given his low acceleration and stamina after decline. Well, very small sample size obviously, but great ROI so far! He's at the very least still in the mix. Seems like his flat is still good for positioning, and his acceleration didn't hinder him that much. Definitely a bit strange that Groenewegen didn't blow him off the wheel entirely, but I think slipstream has always been pretty hard to lose in PCM since forever, and it was clear AKA didn't have any jump to come off the wheel.
On a general note, was cool to see a bunch of sprint trains and one actually work! Congrats to Aker. And thanks for the report!
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 04-10-2025 19:46
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Here we go! 
Best of the outsiders. Curious what Leknessund can do here and what our depth scoring will look like.
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 04-10-2025 22:25
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Excited about the season start! Big race first up, Dunbar with an important race to start off our second foray into the big leagues. Also, Dunbar’s first race against the team that seems to have been cooked up in a lab with W & W. Mohoric is an interesting choice to accompany them as stated by others already. Hoping for a podium here to start things off, excited and terrified to see how stage 2 plays out + the TT on stage 3 - interested to see if if they’re as straight forward as the last game version.
Thanks for the preview!
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 04-10-2025 22:37
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A very promising start, it seems like the sprint worked well. Congrats to ember for the best start to the season you can hope for! Groenwegen never looked in doubt there, his lead out worked really well. Interesting that LPH attempted a train with a team not super well suited to a lead out, it’ll be interesting to see how leadouts work throughout the season.
Dunbar safe in the pack is all we can ask for
Thanks for the report Cunego!
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| Heine |
Posted on 05-10-2025 07:41
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Congrats Jakstar! Great win for Kelderman and Spark on that stage!
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| knockout |
Posted on 05-10-2025 08:08
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Herregodts and Plapp both made the first group which is very important to see. Unfortunately Foss didnt but he is the least important one here so thats fine. I would have liked to see more of a selection since this result keeps a lot of the stronger tt rosers in the mix which will be punishing tomorrow as the likes of Würtz or Oliveira and all the others will push my guys down.
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Posted on 05-12-2025 11:08
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 05-10-2025 08:27
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Congrats on a great win, Jakstar! Hopefully Kelderman is able to repeat this result in the non-wildcard races!
The stage itself was clearly not optimal for us (apart from the breakaway action by Pringle and Akhmaev) with APP finishing anonymously in the pack and Kung just dropped from the first group. Some minor GC results should be in it nonetheless.
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| ember |
Posted on 05-10-2025 08:56
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Thank you for the report, cunego!
That was the best possible stage for Groenewegen! Sneakily raking 6 points to most likely secure the green jersey for this race was absolutely brilliant to see
Zmorka gapped should open the fight for the GC podium quite a bit. Are we looking at the season’s first Vesuvio 1-2 GC in a TT race? 
Edited by ember on 05-10-2025 10:03
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| cio93 |
Posted on 05-10-2025 09:51
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Well, at least everyone gets 5 points for finishing the race, and Groß scored one in the sprint.
WHAT THE FUCK
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 05-10-2025 11:21
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Congrats to Jakstar on taking the wildcard stage win! Thanks for the race to this point cunego as it has been quite fun. It's nice to see Buchmann and Muller mixing it up at the front. Hopefully it's a sign that this game version will be kinder to Muller.
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| SotD |
Posted on 05-10-2025 12:04
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Yeah. Back to the PCT it is…
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 05-10-2025 12:49
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Great to see Formolo still has that fighting spirit despite the decline. Too bad the stage wasn't more selective given Remco was one of the strongest riders today, but a top 10 in the GC should still be on the table for him.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 05-10-2025 13:01
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Woah, Kelderman! Awesome result!!!
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 05-10-2025 13:28
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The lack of selection here is going to have some implications tomorrow but it should still be a pretty straightforward 1-2 for EA.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 05-10-2025 13:59
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There was always a danger of Zmorka getting dropped as it happened last year, so not a huge surprise there although it is disappointing nonetheless. Hopefully he still has some motivation to get into the Top 3/5 on the final stage.
Kelderman with some late career zing. Lovely to see. Congrats to Jakstar and thanks for the report.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 05-10-2025 14:10
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Well, I guess we've seen the first abomination of PCM 24 AI here. Us and Puma dropping back to support extremely poor climbing sprinters who have no chance for GC at all is very worrying. For me it's not horrible because we only lost Eg who might have scored some minor GC points, and everyone else wasn't really that important to us anyway. I do wonder if Norsgaard makes the front group with some support, but he was always far enough down the pecking order to be forgotten. But for Puma to lose Kamna that way is insane and mind-boggling. And it worries me because this was not a bug I took into account in planning at all, including races where I did bring Skjelmose or Carthy. I was happy to put sprinters in stage races because this has never been an issue before.
With Norsgaard dropping too, it'll be minimum GC points for us. But Krigbaum going out and stealing the KOM is a great coup for us points wise. Love his aggression and that he used his good all-around stats to do well in the break. A Norsgaard minor TT result would be icing on the cake, but honestly, this has already been a solid race for us given we (unfortunately) had no GC ambitions.
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 05-10-2025 14:33
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Glad Leknessund, Aleotti and Malecki all made it into the first group. There's potential for some ok depth scoring now.
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