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General Career Discussion
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| MacC |
Posted on 14-05-2013 09:53
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MacC wrote:
Im am doing well with Ag"R, ncentini is sixth in UCI reankings, very consistent top tens in Tirreno Vasco, Romandie, Catalunya and 6th in LBL
Now for Giro with Pozzovivo
Peraud and gadret wont be worth much on the tour I fear
Down to tenth in UCI after Giro.
Pozzovivo was 8th. Dupont won KoM and he and Nocentini had stage wins.
Happy with career but my hopes of signing a major French leader next year seem to be fading, might end up with nearly the same team!
PS Hejsedal kicked Wiggins'a ass in giro
Edited by MacC on 14-05-2013 10:00
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| hajk |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:09
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Junior Rider
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Hey guys, Im planning to play the CM12 again. I remember that there were many troubles with the gameplay at the beginning, such as unrealistic results, too short mountain stages ans unrealistic Gameplay at mountain stages.
Has Cyanide fixed this problem? Which (cyanide)patch do I have to load to get the most realistic game play?
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:20
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Tour de France Champion
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Patch 1.4.0.0. fixed most of the bugs, but it's far from perfect. Though it gives you a decent gameplay. |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:22
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Tour de France Champion
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2nd season with Sky is not going as well as i'd hoped...
2 Top10's in TDU and 11th GC
8th in Paris-Nice was ok for Porte
Sagan dominated Tirreno and Henao also got 6th
4th in Catalunya with Henao, and then 2nd in Pais Vasco, also bagging stage wins in each. Uran also Top10'd them both
Sagan finished Top10 in all cobbles in a poor season. Thomas, Stannard, Eisel all missed at least one race which hurt a lot
Very good Arddenes as usual, with Henao on the podium in all 3 events, but missed out on a win
Henao also finished 2nd in Romandie as his Giro warm up.
And for Jesl. Kelderman was 6th in Trentino as leader, and Top20 in Paris-Nice. Now also 81TT 
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 19:09
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Grand Tour Specialist
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Having a great career with AG2R 
Got second overall Down Under with Bardet, which got us some points. Peraud then got 11th at Paris-Nice, while Pozzovivo started his season well by getting 8th in Tirreno.
Moving onto Sanremo, Betancur won it after an attack on the Poggio. Dumoulin also got 14th. Peraud got a good 9th in Catalunya but Betancur failed in Pais Vasco with 24th.
Roubaix then brought us a great 8th place with Chainel. The Ardennes also porved successful. Betancur was the leader, getting 4th at Amstel, 10th at Fleche and 5th in Liege.
Next up is the Giro where I'd expect us to move up from 11th out of the WorldTour teams. Will have to see how the Pozzovivo-Betancur double act performs! |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 15-05-2013 19:18
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World Champion
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TheManxMissile wrote:
2nd season with Sky is not going as well as i'd hoped...
2 Top10's in TDU and 11th GC
8th in Paris-Nice was ok for Porte
Sagan dominated Tirreno and Henao also got 6th
4th in Catalunya with Henao, and then 2nd in Pais Vasco, also bagging stage wins in each. Uran also Top10'd them both
Sagan finished Top10 in all cobbles in a poor season. Thomas, Stannard, Eisel all missed at least one race which hurt a lot
Very good Arddenes as usual, with Henao on the podium in all 3 events, but missed out on a win
Henao also finished 2nd in Romandie as his Giro warm up.
And for Jesl. Kelderman was 6th in Trentino as leader, and Top20 in Paris-Nice. Now also 81TT
Kelderman develops nicely in most careers 
But those results aren't that great as we expected(overall, not just Kelderman ofc ). That's a shame. Sagan and Henao were good though.
@Froomedog Sounds good.
@Hajk I think the Databases offer a better gameplay in terms of gaps, along with a lot of nice features.
Try the 2013 DB, if you'd like
[url]
https://www.pcmdai...wstart=220[/url]
Feyenoord(football) and Kelderman fanboy
PCMdaily Awards: 12x nomination, 9x runner-up, 0x win.
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| Blueprint |
Posted on 15-05-2013 21:48
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Domestique
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Finally won my first mass sprint on hard after trying a gazillion times.
Having a good Tour de San Luis anyway with Jamis - Hagens Berman. On the first stage, we conquered the mountain jersey with Jacques-Maynes and the group stayed ahead of the peloton, so he gained some time. Second stage was won in the mass sprint by JJ Haedo and in the third stage Jacques-Maynes lost the mountain jersey, but changed it for the leader's jersey by not losing too much time uphill. He disappointed in the time trial though, so now he's second in the GC and the next two days he will drop quite a lot. Now the two mountain stages are coming and we hope to attack with Acevedo, who is quite far down in the GC, for a stage victory. Also, Haedo still has a small chance of winning the points jersey in the final stage. Very exciting to play with a team like this.
Edited by Blueprint on 15-05-2013 21:50
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 15-05-2013 22:19
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Tour de France Champion
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Chelyakov's Grand Tour career continues in truly unbelievable fashion. So he lead the Vuelta in only his 2nd ever stage for the team, damn amazing. So roll round the 2014 Tour. 2nd stage TTT, Sky wins, Chelyakov inherits Yellow Jersey!!! This guy is a magnet for GT success.
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| MacC |
Posted on 16-05-2013 09:37
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Sprinter
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
Having a great career with AG2R
Got second overall Down Under with Bardet, which got us some points. Peraud then got 11th at Paris-Nice, while Pozzovivo started his season well by getting 8th in Tirreno.
Moving onto Sanremo, Betancur won it after an attack on the Poggio. Dumoulin also got 14th. Peraud got a good 9th in Catalunya but Betancur failed in Pais Vasco with 24th.
Roubaix then brought us a great 8th place with Chainel. The Ardennes also porved successful. Betancur was the leader, getting 4th at Amstel, 10th at Fleche and 5th in Liege.
Next up is the Giro where I'd expect us to move up from 11th out of the WorldTour teams. Will have to see how the Pozzovivo-Betancur double act performs!
That's cool we can compare! See my post #526 |
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 16-05-2013 09:58
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Tour de France Champion
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Just had to post this, in a career with selfmade team it was Gent-Wevelgem, but the worst edition I've ever seen. Wind was constantly over 60. I had Boasson Hagen, Vanmarcke, and some smaller riders like Keukeleire, Van der Sande, Devreese. The idea was to wait for a sprint with Bo Hagen, but then Vanmarcke showed up with a +5 (and fitness was 95ish), so I decided to attack, hoping a few would follow. I think it was on the Kemmelberg, with 80km to go. But no one followed (people like Boom and Eisel alwas attack around that point :/).
So I started an impossible solo, but it went rather well. I quickly gained a few minutes because no one was really chasing. Until about 50K Quickstep and Radioshack started to go for it and burned everything down with +70 wind, destroying my team. At 40 Cancellara and Boonen started joining in as well, and they completely destroyed the peleton, including Bo Hagen. Vanmarcke's bonus had dropped to 2 minutes.
Then they started attacking, and another minute came off with about 30K to go, and Vanmarcke was completely empty and Hagen was in a lost position. But somehow Cancellara and Boonen could not cooperate, no one wanted to close the final 30". Gap went back to 45" and Ballan and Sagan came back, still nothing. Gap was back at 1 minute when Nuyens, Flecha and a few others came back. Boonen and Cancellara attacked again and came very close to Vanmarcke, but the same thing happened and the others came back. Already at the 10km mark, I suddenly started to believe in it again. Gap was back to 30" when Cancellara, Boonen and Ballan went and they came to 10 seconds, but again no one wanted to close the final gap with the sprint coming up. The gap stayed about 15-20 seconds until the sprint, and on the line Vanmarcke still had half a wheel left on Boonen. Probably the most exciting race I've had in PCM.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 16-05-2013 15:39
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@Ollfardh Wow, that sounds like a great race! Nice solo win!
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 16-05-2013 15:47
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Tour de France Champion
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Giro has turned Sky's season around!
Henao bagged 3 stage wins and 3rd GC, with Uran 4th GC. Cataldo win the closing TT to finish 13th GC.
Swifty grabbed a couple of Top10's and Aru finished 2nd in KoM.
Porte finished 4th in Dauphine, with Sagan taking 3 stages, Points, KoM and Youth in the race.
Kelderman lead Suisse finishing 6th GC after a slow start. Cataldo also finished 10th in a solid race.
Henao won the COL ITT and Martin the GER ITT in a very sub-par Nationals week 
Kicked off the Tour. Sagan 6th on Stage 1, before Sky won the TTT (putting Chelyakov into Yellow for some reason). Sagan then finished 3rd, 4th and 2nd over the next three stages, before crashing out of the race over some cobbles... He was leading the Points competition so now our Tour is mostly buggered.
On the up side, signed Vodafone as a sponsor for 2 seasons. Brought in 3 U23 riders, two brits of decent ability and one czech who is dissapointing... Oh and Degenkolb, Phinney and Cavendish
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 16-05-2013 15:57
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World Champion
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Wow, some amazing signings for Sky!
A few solid results as well, but some are slightly disappointing, considering your team. Giro was great, though
Feyenoord(football) and Kelderman fanboy
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| Blueprint |
Posted on 16-05-2013 22:13
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Domestique
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After winning two stages and wearing (but not keeping) all the jerseys in San Luis (Acevedo won one mountain stage), team Jamis - Hagens Berman totally dominated the Valley of the Sun Stage Race. Jacques-Maynes won the time trial and the GC, while Haedo took the other two stages. World domination is inevitable.
Edited by Blueprint on 16-05-2013 22:13
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 16-05-2013 22:26
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So the TDF was massively hampered after losing Sagan early on. The team rallied well, with Martin taking 2 TT wins, Markus a surprising breakaway win, Chelyakov 2nd in the Youth and Porte 7th GC.
Pologne finished with Knees in 11th, which wasn't bad.
Eneco saw Thomas win 2 stages, Marksu 1 stage podium, Eisel 1 stage podium and Thomas finishing 7th GC
The Vuelta team saw their first real warmup action in Utah with Wiggins, Kelderman, Kiriyenka, Tiernan-Locke and Koubek taking a 1-2-3-4-5 in the GC
JTL followed that up with an impressive 10th in San Sebastian.
The shaky start has built into an incredibly consistent season. Going into La Vuelta Henao leads the WT Individual, Sky the Team. And Sky leading team CQ with Henao 2nd behind Valverde. Our number of wins is currently behind last year, with only 24 (we had around 35 this time last season) but with Wiggins about to smash the Vuelta, and Sagan returning without a GT in his legs i expect us to bag a ridiculous number of stages now
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 16-05-2013 23:10
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Just played the stage to Pau in the first season as Vacansoleil, Romain Feillu is in a two horse race for the green jersey against Matt Goss after Greipel got eliminated earlier in the race and Cav, Sagan and Boonen haven't really been on top form and are some way back.
Being 18 points down and knowing I cant beat Goss in the bunch sprint I went for the breakaway, taking the full 20 points at the intermediate sprint, Goss taking 8.
Come the end of the stage and the Orica led Peloton are bearing down on the 4 breakaway men and Kessiakoff goes for broke, Both me and the Saur Sojasun rider counter as we dropped the lotto man. Then Brice attacks and I follow as we drop Kessiakoff and Orica get Goss to within 30s with just 5km to go.
Now I ty and get Brice to work with me to keep us away but he won't and under the flame rouge we both launch our sprints as the Peloton does teh same right behind us.
Goss comes flying round me and Rojas pips me on the line leaving me in 4th as Brice did my chances alot of good by holding off Gossand taking the stage win although I'm sure if it was real life he would have made sure we stayed away and he would have led home a Feillu 1-2.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 18-05-2013 15:37
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Team Manager
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Started another career, but I'm positive that this one will last. I play with LA Aluminium - Antarte with the premise of staying completely Portuguese.
Season start was very promising with a Stage win and fourth overall in New Zeeland, two stage wins and fifth overall at the Volta ao Algarve, both by Hugo Sabido. Especially the latter was great, since it was in a very strong field and I achieved a sponsor goal.
Edgar Pinto won the Tour of South Africa including two stage wins and the points classification. Hugo Sancho took the KoM in both New Zeeland and South Africa.
So far, it's great fun.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 18-05-2013 15:40
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Cunego, do it right then. Crash everyone with LA. |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 19-05-2013 17:14
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World Champion
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Advanced quite a lot on the calendar with ING - Shell.
Highlight is the fight for the Tour of the Gila GC. I got 2nd and 4th, vs an on-fire De Maar.
NCs have been completed, no Top 10 in any of them. Well, didn't expect a good result there.
39th in CQ ranking at the moment, in a serious battle for promotion.
Some guys really developed hard(Groenewegen for instance 73 SP now). We're going to get some nice points in August+September, so I hope we're going to promote.
We're aiming for some (relatively) big names now, keep you informed.
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| Mulligan123 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 22:14
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2015 with Sky Pro Cycling. Thinking I could win all 3 grand tours after winning the Giro and the Vuelta last year and finishing 3rd in the tour. After Nibali had won the giro two years running I targeted the tour with him leading going into the 16th stage and he falls during a descent and tears a tendon and has had to withdraw. Absolutely devastated ! |
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