sutty68 wrote:
Harsh words there Jak, but oh so true

Jakstar22 wrote:


It needed to be said

sutty68 wrote:


Totally agree with you

Jakstar22 wrote:
Guys for all you know he could be on the Extreme difficulty.

Ok, it's time to post an update on my story... I guess.

The racing difficulty was and is always technically on Hard, but it's the difficulty between Hard and Extreme (I set it up like that in editor). The stats I use are all the same ones that are in PCMdaily DB and they're very realistic (especially WT stats), except that I upped Cancellara's sprint for one point, to 71.

I said I'll make a pause soon and it happened. I'm almost not playing PCM at all now (except MG) and that's why this story is on hold, not because all of these guys saying it's too easy. It's not too easy, it's just good tactics and stuff (yeah, I am arrogant enough to say that).

No, I don't use training camps. I don't see anything wrong with them and anything wrong with guys who are using them, but I don't use them at all. I even don't know a reason for that.

At the end, I would like to thank you all for alot of comments. Hopefully, this will come back soon, after I regain some motivation. See ya!

I guess this is pretty soon! I played this stage more than two weeks ago so I'll just post it here, as I do have some motivation for it at the moment. I still can't promise anything connected to reports, yet.

Stage 3 of 2014 Tour de Romandie should separate the race favourites from others and should finally produce some gaps. However, the race suits to both Spartacus and Kiserlovski, so they're hopefully going to stay with the first group and keep the jersey.




Before the race actually started, Busche said in team bus that he's feeling really good today. As the profile is absolutely like made for KoM hunters, we decided to send him in a breakaway, alongside 3 more WT guys. He clearly was the best climber there and as he had great daily form, it was pretty easy for him to get valuable KoM points and the KoM jersey at the end of the day. Pretty good stage for him today!



From the first moment of the race, it was pretty clear that he breakwaay is going to get caught. That happened at 30 kilometers to go. Almost immediately, some guys from peloton attacked. Atapuma and Betancur were the first ones to launch the wave of attacks.



Soon, many favourites and GC contenders joined that group. Froome, Scarponi, Nibali, Rodriguez, Spilak, Pinot were all there. Kiserlovski, however missed the opportunity to get in front and at that point, he was in 2nd group. To make thing even worse for our team, Cancellara had a mechanical problem on descent and he nevere got back in leaders group.



At 20 kilometers to go, the gap was around 30 seconds. The pace was really fast, as all guys decided to co-operate in front, while Kiserlovski and Hesjedal had some really strong relay turns behind. It was getting hot! This was the situation:

E1	E2
Froome	Kiserlovski
Nibali	Hesjedal
Betancur	Cunego
Contador	Nieve
...	...

Unbeliavable enough, but also true, guys behind somehow managed to reduce the gap totally and catch the leaders group at 8 kilometers to go. Huge effort by these guys that can maybe cost them energy for final sprint.



However, that wasn't the end of action for today. 5 kilometers to go, guys were slightly entering the Delivier, the town where the stage finishes and suddenly, out of nowhere, Froome and Betancur attacked. These guys are restless! Impressive.



Guys behind once again organised and started to chase that. 3 kilometers to go, the banner zone starts and the gap between two groups is only few seconds. Froome uses his TT abilities and drops Betancur a bit. The sprint is going to start very soon, behind. Kiserlovski is still safe, as he was sitting at 6th position at that moment.



Rodriguez started sprinting and it was unreal. The last, short and steepy climb suits him perfectly and it wasn't so surprising, but that was an unreal acceleration. Croatian champion and our leader here was slightly getting the speed behind. It looked quite good for us at that point.



And, as it was expected, Purito destroyed the competition and showed who's the boss. Absolutely deserved win for a Spaniard, as he was working whole day, chasing, relaying and even despite that, he managed to get the win. He finished in front of Nibali and Henao, who were 2nd and 3rd on the finish line.



Kiserlovski finished as 4th which is more than satisfying for us, as we survived another hilly stage. Tomorrow is our next day in yellow jersey and we'll give our all to stay in it before Tour de Romandie 2014 finishes.

1	Joaquím Rodríguez	Team Katusha	4h33'14
2	Vincenzo Nibali	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
3	Sergio Henao	Team Sky	s.t.
4	Robert Kiserlovski	Trek Factory Racing	s.t.
5	Simon Spilak	Team Katusha	s.t.
6	Chris Froome	Team Sky	s.t.
7	Diego Ulissi	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
8	Domenico Pozzovivo	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
9	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ.fr	s.t.
10	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana Pro Team	s.t.

GC

1	Robert Kiserlovski	Trek Factory Racing	8h48'10
2	Sergio Henao	Team Sky	+ 19
3	Chris Froome	Team Sky	+ 23
4	Joaquím Rodríguez	Team Katusha	+ 25
5	Vincenzo Nibali	Astana Pro Team	+ 29
6	Alberto Contador	Tinkoff - Saxo	+ 40
7	Ryder Hesjedal	Garmin Sharp	+ 52
8	Carlos Betancur	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 57
9	Pierre Rolland	Team Europcar	+ 1'20
10	Bob Jungels	Trek Factory Racing	+ 2'06

Points	Fabian Cancellara [Trek]	25 points
KoM	Matthew Busche [Trek]	38 points
U25	Carlos Betancur [AG2R]	8h49'07
Team	Trek Factory Racing	25h51'11