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USA Pro Cycling Challenge Discussion
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 17-12-2014 12:40
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Really happy no gaps were made, Efimkin around the 100th position is just bad.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 17-12-2014 13:09
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At this rate Oz is going to win the PCT. This is an incredible hot streak. The only thing that can stop them is getting to cocky and celebrating to early. 
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 17-12-2014 13:28
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Laughable AI.
Edit: took another good look at the profile. To be fair; it's actually not that strange that such a relatively easy finish produces no gaps. Still a shame that the puncheurs don't even try though.
Edited by DubbelDekker on 17-12-2014 13:38
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| roturn |
Posted on 17-12-2014 14:35
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Oz must have found a new super drug. Or the game is paying back the effort tsmoha is putting in with all those reports.
Also Heineken always winning stages no matter the rider. Great depth when it comes to those kind of stages. And it's always nice to see the home team winning a stage.
A pity that your two teams will probably replace my team in the PT by the look of last rankings. Would have loved to race against you next season.  |
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 17-12-2014 17:25
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| 5 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Kappa-ENI | s.t. | | 6 | Oleksandr Polivoda | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Yevgeni Nepomnyachsniy | Kazzinc Procycling | s.t. |
Now that's an order we'll never see again on a mountain stage... 81 MO > 77 SP > 77 MO,51SP
PCM, you are drunk today.
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 17-12-2014 17:27
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Wow, the most underwhelming stage of the season. What a let down.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-12-2014 17:28
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TheManxMissile wrote:
The USAPCC is probably consistantly the worst AI race in PCM. The profile of the stages just doesn't work well with how the game works and it leads to a poor race. (At least in 13 and 14). If we are looking for races to cut this should be very high up the list.
It's a shame because it is nice to have races with an unconventional route as they are harder to predict, but yes, it just isn't working out in this case.
Well, at least Bibby got 2nd and lost no ground on his main rivals. We could be looking at a first Stage Race win for a Mongolian though here.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 17-12-2014 17:29
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Well I was completely wrong - what a woeful mountain stage. Mountain climbers WTF were you doing?
Even more frustrating I would imagine for a lot of managers not so though for Michael Rogers - he could be big favourite now.
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 17-12-2014 17:37
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Docker riding very nice could be on for an okay result here if he gets time bonus on the sprint stages. |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 17-12-2014 17:49
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Let's keep this short: a day, on which i didn't feel like posting those two reports 
Congrats, DD. But this wasn't fun to write up. Even though it may help Rogers eventually.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 17-12-2014 17:51
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Oh wow.. That was shit. |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 17-12-2014 17:57
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I thought Ndbri was clear when reading the report, shame he was caught just after his attack it seems before the peloton sits up. Shame that was such a poor mountain stage. |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 17-12-2014 18:01
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
I thought Ndbri was clear when reading the report, shame he was caught just after his attack it seems before the peloton sits up. Shame that was such a poor mountain stage.
Oh, sorry if I wasn't that clear on his "attack". He just went for the sprint and sat up then. The peloton didn't exactly sit up, but just failed big time
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 17-12-2014 19:24
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Holy crap, I got extremely lucky there. I still think the most logical explanation is that the AI sometimes punishes the passive human player (control team) by not chasing hard enough. Winning like this doesn't feel good. 
Interesting fact for the remainder of the race: the team I sent here sucks. It's mostly young talents. So the jersey might be hard to defend. My crazy Mongolian domestique does have 73 hill though, so he won't be easy to drop in stage 6. He was an important part of my hilly support squad last year, so nice to see him in the spotlight, despite the circumstances.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-12-2014 19:47
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Pretty stupid tactics today, but nice to see Sano up there again. Shame there was no time-gap as that would have surely put Sano in a Top 10 spot, with the possibility he could hold on to that.
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| jaxika |
Posted on 17-12-2014 21:38
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A little bit borig, but maybe this way Kangert will have a chance |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 17-12-2014 22:20
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Would have thought these stages would be perfect for Sonnery if not selective - clearly not |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 17-12-2014 22:41
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Honestly this is the worst race in PCM AI history (not this specific edition but the USAPCC in general) and i will be happy to never see it again after this season please.
Praying for a lucky B3B breakaway to get something from this race otherwise we'll continue a horrible run of form and behind-the-scenes developments.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 17-12-2014 22:46
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Honestly this is the worst race in PCM AI history (not this specific edition but the USAPCC in general) and i will be happy to never see it again after this season please.
A proper variant may do
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| fintas |
Posted on 17-12-2014 23:43
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For obvious reasons (tsmoha you know why) I will refrain from comment this race until the end.
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