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| jph27 |
Posted on 11-04-2014 10:21
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Great report Admir, no surprise after reading your stories. 
Surprising but impressive win for Vesuvio there, perhaps Schleck's last big one. However while PCM13 seems more selective, the massive peloton is a little worrying - hopefully it won't happen too often. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 11-04-2014 10:40
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Well that went better than expected 
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| roturn |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:04
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Good 13. by Sanchez. Beating vdhh.  retty
Strong performance by Olivier as well while Roux totally disappeared... weak result for him. I hope the double lead will work better in other races with more selection.
Congrats SN to this big win and thanks admir for that report. Nice season opener. |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:09
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Good work on that report.
As for my team, yup, we're gonna relegate.
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:11
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Great report, and a nice and open race too. Was cheering for Nico, but obviously hasn't quite found his legs yet. Also, the Vesuvio equipment looks so, so good in-game. Really matches the jersey well.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:12
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Shame Gastauer didn't also attack, but at least he must have sprinted at the front of the peloton to ensure an okay placing. No idea why Cyanide thought it was a good idea to have the peloton sit up and do nothing - puts a bit of ranking point allocation down to luck if positions 30-50 are fairly random, while still giving 10 ranking points rather than 5.
Speaking of which, starting with a classic makes it easy to put out the rankings quickly. With 16 of the 22 teams making that front selection, many teams managed to score some sort of points beyond the minimum for finishing. Decent start for the promoted teams too, with 7 of the 8 being in the Top 15. ING the obvious exception, with a best result of 61st.
| 1 |  | Vesuvio - Accumalux | 272 | | 2 |  | Lotto - Australia Post | 209 | | 3 |  | Bouygues Telecom | 196 | | 4 |  | Good Energy | 195 | | 5 |  | Team Vueling Airlines | 152 | | 6 |  | Wikipedia | 138 | | 7 |  | Tinkoff Credit Systems Bank | 118 | | 8 |  | Festina-Canal+ | 103 | | 9 |  | Pokerstars.com | 102 | | 10 |  | VolksWagen-Mapei | 99 | | 11 |  | Rothaus - Aegon | 75 | | 12 |  | Prio - Porto | 74 | | 13 |  | Aker-MOT | 73 | | 14 |  | Pendleton's | 66 | | 15 |  | Team Bpost - Vlaanderen | 63 | | 16 |  | Team B&O | 61 | | 17 |  | Swisscom - UBS | 59 | | 18 |  | Santander | 50 | | 19 |  | Becherovka - Kiwibank | 49 | | 20 |  | Project 1t4i | 45 | | 21 |  | Simply Red Bull | 45 | | 22 |  | ING - Pro Cycling Team | 40 |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:17
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Ride of the day certainly goes to Demare, right?
Congrats SN and thanks admir for a great report (though it misses some fill words like 'a' or 'the' at a few points  )!
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:19
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Very nice report admir, congrats, it's great to see the season on the road.
15th isn't bad from Rui Costa, it could be better but it could be worst. Gratz to SN, Frank still has it in his legs!
Interesting to see how the hilly classics may work this year.
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| Heine |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:20
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An okay start to the season, around what we could expect. I hope that in future classics we will have someone (most likely Preidler) attack mid-race. Could be possible to sneak in a really good result then
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Posted on 08-12-2025 01:41
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:29
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Heine wrote:
I hope that in future classics we will have someone (most likely Preidler) attack mid-race. Could be possible to sneak in a really good result then
I'm afraid PCM13 doesn't really works that way. I played it alot, so I am pretty sure in what I'm talking. Once the peloton smells some attack from an outsider, such as Preidler, guys behind starts crazy chasing at the same moment. There's no way they can let such a rider that easy. I know it's shame that the game isn't more random, but it's Cyanides fault...Not saying that it can't happen, but it most likely won't.
Thanks everyone. I read all the feedbacks in the comments and PMs and I'll surely try to use them in future!
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 11-04-2014 11:47
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Half favourites actually do tend to attack mid-stage. I've only seen it in stage races though.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 11-04-2014 12:08
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Roman wrote:
I have to say I don't really like that PCM13 AI, when peloton just gives up to do anything.
We will see shitload of this, it is the well known main feature of PCM13. 
Congrats to Vesuvio, i think they expected much worse from Frank. Nice reward for SN to make 2014 season possible.
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| ember |
Posted on 11-04-2014 13:00
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That was very, very disappointing. Hopefully not a sign for what is to come this season. Though, a nice read, thanks for the report |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 11-04-2014 13:04
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Roman wrote:
I have to say I don't really like that PCM13 AI, when peloton just gives up to do anything.
We will see shitload of this, it is the well known main feature of PCM13.
Unfortunatelly, yes. They implented this feature with PCM12 and i will never understand why. It's the most annoying thing ever and will certainly destroy someone's races somewhere. Other than that, PCM13 will be better than 12 anyway.
Congrats SN. Huge opener!
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| Rin |
Posted on 11-04-2014 13:12
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First goal went there with 3rd instead of 1st, but 2nd in team rankings is great.
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 11-04-2014 13:14
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That was a very clever attack by Frank! Congrats
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 11-04-2014 15:44
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Lame! But good to see my 7 PTjerseys/equipment teams shining (especially Vesuvio and Good Energy!)
EDIT: Vesuvio is already out of the Favourite Man-Game Jersey Contest  and if I hadn't voted Good Energy would already be out of it too! What an idiots  I might be a little biased!
Edited by OlegTinkov on 11-04-2014 15:51
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 11-04-2014 15:52
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GoodEnergy has to win this contest, Oleg
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 11-04-2014 15:57
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I agree, but it depends on how you look at it, if you just see the jersey (2d) Pendleton's probably looks best, but ingame I would say GoodEnergy.
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 11-04-2014 16:18
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Very disappointing
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