@547984: I like it, too. I hope the ingame face looks equally good

@Jesleyh: Then I have to be thankful to you for allowing me to get him. On the other hand you have Elijzen as flat engine, too. So you would not necessary need another one. I know about the few race days though.

Our calender has been updated. Short summary: 0 HC races. 0 C1 races. We are going the small way all along. Check out the full calender (either in the spoiler above or on the first page) to see where you can see our squad in action.

We promised you an overview of our team that should be capable of end up as upper midcard.


Our main goal is the promotion at the end of the 2015 season. We think we already have the core to achieve it. Here is the first preview of our 2015 squad:



But some changes will be made at the next transfer season: Eloy Teruel will has to move to another team and some further riders especially Saramotins could be out when a decent offer comes.
Also some of our talents like Dzamastagic, Koch or Hansen are likely to be loaned out to develop to a higher level.
This will mean we will have some space in our squad to bring in one or two new leaders and more good riders to get some better depth into the squad.

As our talents will have more space for developing we want to give you an overview of how good our talents are once they are completely maxed out:



Note: As said above some of these riders will not ride for us for a long period.

@ Stromeon : I know but perhaps the rules are changing and it will be allowed before he gets maxed out. I would accept it though if i could spend the two extra points on another stat

But wait: "as strong as mine" ? You surely meant "Alpina is one of the few teams that can nearly compete with Evonik in terms of talent" ?

@cio93: I am not surprised at all that you like my team as I really like your team, too. And i have to admit that it influenced my team. But don't think you can get Dzamastagic from me if you aren't going to ridiculously overpaying for him.
But you could have good chances to loan him out next year if you want

knockout wrote:

@cio: You may be right and I doubt that it will hard to find a team for any of my level 4 talents then. But we don't know yet how the Xp gaining system will be next year and perhaps one of the talents can Max out in PCT, too.

And about Dzamastagic: It is not said that I would even accept an overpaying offer

@fjhoeckie: If you would relegate you might be in cap trouble. I may accept to take Greipel or a rider from Lithuania from you. Just to help you of course
But i don't think i have to fear Polivoda while the other two would surely be a good start for a CT team and the rest of your existing team is not bad either (for CT )

@fjhoeckie: I would really, really like to help you

And Polivoda is surely a nice rider as he can go over the hills, too. But i will not care about the completely easy stages where his sprint stat will make him stronger than my sprinters but on the stages i prefer the 7pts difference in HI to Geschke will hopefully be enough for Geschke to take the win ahead of Polivoda. I more fear the type of riders like Bole