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EPIC - National Championships - Post your jerseys!
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| nacho63 |
Posted on 27-06-2014 18:22
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Time Trial
David Zabriskie was the first man to start from Garmin Sharp and is looking to defend his title. He obviously also goes into the race lead with 49'58".
Big title favourite TJ Van Garderen (BMC) beats Zabriskie by 1'04", that time will take some beating.
MTN's hopeful Johnny Schmidt wasn't able to knock off TVG but was able to put himself on the podium momentarily. He finishes provisionally second with 49'50".
Garmin's young stage racer Andrew Talansky is a strong in this discipline but isn't strong enough to take the top spot, 29 seconds off with only Phinney to go.
Taylor Phinney will be looking to take the Time Trial and Road Race double but he was unable to defeat his BMC team mate and finishes with the silver medal.
Results
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Tejay Van Garderen | BMC Racing Team | 48'50 | | 2 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | + 15 | | 3 | Andrew Talansky | Garmin - Sharp | + 29 |
Spoiler | 4 | Johnny Schmidt | MTN - Qhubeka | + 1'00 | | 5 | Jordan Lewis | BMC Racing Team | + 1'04 | | 6 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Sharp | + 1'08 | | 7 | Brent Bookwalter | BMC Racing Team | + 1'12 | | 8 | Chris Horner | RadioShack - Leopard | s.t. | | 9 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Sharp | + 1'17 | | 10 | Jaxton McNutt | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 1'22 | | 11 | Tom Danielson | Garmin - Sharp | + 1'27 | | 12 | Danny Pate | Sky Procycling | + 1'42 | | 13 | Luke Bryan | MTN - Qhubeka | + 2'00 | | 14 | Ben King | RadioShack - Leopard | + 2'05 | | 15 | Timothy Duggan | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 2'11 | | 16 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | + 2'22 | | 17 | Joseph Dombrowski | Sky Procycling | + 2'27 | | 18 | Chad Beyer | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 2'31 | | 19 | Matthew Busche | RadioShack - Leopard | + 2'35 | | 20 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Sharp | + 2'44 | | 21 | Larry Warbasse | BMC Racing Team | + 2'45 | | 22 | Craig Lewis | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 2'50 | | 23 | Christopher Butler | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 24 | Adrián Sáez de Arregi | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 2'58 | | 25 | Edward King | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 3'01 | | 26 | Dave Kennedy | MTN - Qhubeka | + 3'47 | | 27 | Maxime Oget | Movistar Team | + 3'58 |
Road Race
The break of the day consisted of King (RLT), Warbasse (BMC), Bryan (MTN), Stetina (GRS).
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This is the climb the riders will be facing 5 times, the break have a sizable game and it is clear already the winner will come from this group.
The riders descend for the final time into the finishing circuit, the peloton are close to withdrawing.
Warbasse attacks with 11km to go and the 3 riders behind start to looking. They start to work and the gap hovers around 20 seconds.
Bryan decides to make the junction by himself and with 5km to go he catches Warbasse.
The two riders will contest the sprint.
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Warbasse gets himself in front in the sprint and is able to take the inside line and also the BMC double!
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Larry Warbasse | BMC Racing Team | 4h20'45 | | 2 | Luke Bryan | MTN - Qhubeka | s.t. | | 3 | Peter Stetina | Garmin - Sharp | + 26 | | 4 | Ben King | RadioShack - Leopard | s.t. |
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| brewers90 |
Posted on 27-06-2014 19:47
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Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? 
Larry fucking Warbasse  
What a way to finish the NCs. 
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 27-06-2014 20:14
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Happy that BMC got some success!
Also a good thing I convinced nacho to save himself from a potentially suspecious result for one of his Frenchmen in the French NC
Anyway I have never been more happy for a messed up AI than today
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 27-06-2014 20:45
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I'm sorry, there was a mistake in the USA startlists. Both races will have to be rerun.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| nacho63 |
Posted on 27-06-2014 21:08
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How so? |
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 27-06-2014 21:14
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Nah, just kidding 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| nacho63 |
Posted on 27-06-2014 22:06
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WTF You had me there  |
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| knockout |
Posted on 27-06-2014 22:38
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Schmidt with a great TT there for his MTN team. Too bad he couldnt ride into the top 3.
A Big Thank You To All MG Reporters! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 28-06-2014 00:33
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A nice double from BMC there  , bet brewers90 was happy  |
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Posted on 22-11-2024 02:01
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| mvhoogdalem |
Posted on 28-06-2014 11:50
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Boring RR NC. Might be better to simulate all next season to avoid the peloton bug.
Still, BMC finally got some races right this time. |
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| The Rider |
Posted on 28-06-2014 12:53
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mvhoogdalem wrote:
Boring RR NC. Might be better to simulate all next season to avoid the peloton bug.
You think! I don't know why the RRs weren't all simmed, because:
-- It would have saved us about 1 month
-- The better riders would have won, not the weakest riders.
You also say next season, well I hope Ollfardh has some top notch/ revolutionary ideas to regenerate interest in EPIC with regards to transfers etc, otherwise I suspect we may have people dropping out similarly to admirschleck.
For me, many of the races are getting pretty stale (take the GCs/ big stage races for example) where it is mostly pretty obvious who will win right from the start, as there are only around 4 contenders max (maybe some stat decreases are in order for all of the very top riders to make a more level playing field).
I wouldn't mind if all the riders were up for transfer, would be pretty lame if (e.g.) Movistar was able to keep Valverde/ Quintana without even a challenge. |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 28-06-2014 13:55
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Ah come on, so close once again, not a single raced victory for MTN 
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 28-06-2014 14:33
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mvhoogdalem wrote:
Boring RR NC. Might be better to simulate all next season to avoid the peloton bug.
NC don't add on much anyway so I don't get why it matters much if some second, third rate riders win the NC. otherwise it's in French NC always either Demare/Bouhanni/Coquard/Chavanel or Pinot/Rolland/Voeckler/Chavanel that win it.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 28-06-2014 16:49
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The Rider wrote:
mvhoogdalem wrote:
Boring RR NC. Might be better to simulate all next season to avoid the peloton bug.
You think! I don't know why the RRs weren't all simmed, because:
-- It would have saved us about 1 month
-- The better riders would have won, not the weakest riders.
You also say next season, well I hope Ollfardh has some top notch/ revolutionary ideas to regenerate interest in EPIC with regards to transfers etc, otherwise I suspect we may have people dropping out similarly to admirschleck.
For me, many of the races are getting pretty stale (take the GCs/ big stage races for example) where it is mostly pretty obvious who will win right from the start, as there are only around 4 contenders max (maybe some stat decreases are in order for all of the very top riders to make a more level playing field).
I wouldn't mind if all the riders were up for transfer, would be pretty lame if (e.g.) Movistar was able to keep Valverde/ Quintana without even a challenge.
Well, I hope people will like the transfer period. A part of me really wants to make it very complex, but it will mean a lot of work for me. I will start announcing the details when the last season part is underway
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| The Rider |
Posted on 28-06-2014 19:42
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That sounds great Ollfardh, I think EPIC deserves a 'complex' transfer period, after all you did start this last year! (Also, now that I have picked up PCM2013, I will be able to pick some slack in Part 3.)
-- As Brewers90 seemed over the moon with that USA RR win, I am glad BMC took it just for that reaction! |
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| mvhoogdalem |
Posted on 28-06-2014 20:58
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The Rider wrote:
mvhoogdalem wrote:
Boring RR NC. Might be better to simulate all next season to avoid the peloton bug.
I wouldn't mind if all the riders were up for transfer, would be pretty lame if (e.g.) Movistar was able to keep Valverde/ Quintana without even a challenge.
This would kill the game much faster though, if people as a manager have no control over which riders they can keep. Some people picked their team based on riders in that team.
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
mvhoogdalem wrote:
Boring RR NC. Might be better to simulate all next season to avoid the peloton bug.
NC don't add on much anyway so I don't get why it matters much if some second, third rate riders win the NC. otherwise it's in French NC always either Demare/Bouhanni/Coquard/Chavanel or Pinot/Rolland/Voeckler/Chavanel that win it.
True, but it's also frustrating if you have strong riders not being able to contest, because the peloton doesn't chase. |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 29-06-2014 14:34
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Everyone, who wants an NC-jersey added should post them here, then I will put together a jersey-pack with all NC jerseys named correctly to work with the DB.
If no jersey posted for a NC, which has a jersey in my game folder I will include that to make sure the pack gets as complete as possible.
I'd prefer the jerseys collected in posts covering one team, meaning that all NC's for a team should be in the same post and jerseys for seperate teams should be in seperate posts regardless of custom rider relations and/or jersey maker.
Edited by Atlantius on 29-06-2014 15:03
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 29-06-2014 15:23
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| Bikex |
Posted on 29-06-2014 19:48
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Katusha NC should already be in the game I think. If you want I can post then needed NCs though. |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 29-06-2014 20:13
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Bikex wrote:
Katusha NC should already be in the game I think. If you want I can post then needed NCs though.
No need. If a team haven't posted anything here before the end of the break I'll just include the ones from the relevant folder on my PC or none at all, which could mean that champions of smaller nations doesn't get to wear a jersey since there isn't a default champions jersey for a country like India...
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