Limited Access, but I need to shout out a couple of words:
Avin, eventhough I've been there only 1 year in the MG you've got to invite me on your farewell party. If I somehow promote then Grosu might be a sweet target for me too. But anyway, sad to see you go, as I very much enjoyed both your team and your rants on it. See you in the comments!
Congrats SotD, what a season. Also great to see my favourite PT teams of Becherovka, Aker, Aegon and Evonik all heading up high in the rankings. Great to see RBC and Gazelle surviving this season too, they will surely be even stronger next season.
A shame to see Smowz down, but he could come back strong from PCT if he actually comes back. If not, then hello certain Slovenian guy in the free agency
Grieg and Kenya with strong PCT set-ups, while Kenya is just a good PCT that has to let go Ponzi Grieg is an outstanding PCT team as they stand, and they will surely come back to PT strong in 2018. Can't wait for that!
First of all, huge thanks to roturn, ale reporters and guys behind scene.
Congratulations to SotD and all happy managers. It´s nice to see when the most eager manager in the game is rewarded for his effort!
Sad to see Avin leaving, good luck mate! Maybe you´ll come back at some point later?
My team? There is nothing much to say. The most important thing is we managed to avoid relegation and stay in PT for next season.
However, I want to point out one thing. Despite of tough luck here and there during whole season, there were also one BIG highlight: amazing win in ToNE. For me, it´s the most memorable moment in my long MG-career!!!
Spoiler
Roger Kluge is celebrating his ToNE triumph
That´s all for now, looking forward to season 2017
Really happy with the season. Although a smaller gap between my team and Festina would be nice, the most important is that 2nd place, the best ever result for my team. 5/5 team goals, 3 monument wins, top 5 result overall in a GT. Happy, happy.
Also once again, big congrats to Festina, what a dominant win. And I am happy to see other active and nice managers finishing just behind me. It is going to be seriously hard to repeat a result like this in the next season.
And lately: what a shame to see Metinvest disbanding. I would really like to see the team finding a new sponsor from nowhere. Come back soon, Avin!
Wow SotD! Retaining the title with a massive margin to the others! Great season for you and to think you were a little worried at one point before the TdF!
Well done to Becherovka and Vesuvio on the podium places as well! Fantastic seeing the 3 promoted teams high up in the standings, especially Evonik after they did the back-to-back promotions in the last 2 seasons.
This has been a pretty ridiculous season for Festina, I've never seen such a dominating team at such a high level in the MG. We've also had similar dominations like Wiesenhof and Quickstep in the PCT in the last years, but this kind of domination is on another level if you ask me. Congrats SotD and nice job to the other 2 podiumers!
Aker and Aegon have the best puncheur and sprinter on paper respectively, and both of them did underperform. 18th and 15th in the rankings is definitely not up to par with what they're capable of doing, so that really leaves you to wonder where they could have ended up with more consistency on their leaders' side. They were lucky enough to have the rest of the team step up, though, and some favourable circumstances got them to the positions they finished in. Gotta admire ember's planning in HC races, though, that's only a sign of manager skill
Tough luck for the 5 teams that went down this year! I'm sure that just like Wiesenhof did you will soon bounce back, though. Shame to see Avin go, too, and I'm sure he would have preferred leaving on last year's high, but what can you do.
Thanks roturn for running this season and for the final update, and to all the other contributers too!
