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National championships discussion thread
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 26-03-2011 01:00
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These national championships are great for newcomers like myself. It helps to judge the best riders from a certain country. I just hope I can sign some of the national champs from Japan and China/Hong Kong, who are already contracted to another team...
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 26-03-2011 01:04
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i.e. You want to be very nice to Smowz! 
I doubt he will sell Arashiro though - who did win the Tour Down Under afterall.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 26-03-2011 01:56
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SportingNonsense wrote:
i.e. You want to be very nice to Smowz!
I doubt he will sell Arashiro though - who did win the Tour Down Under afterall.
Smowz is my best friend! Haven't you heard?
I think I can persuade him. It might kill 1/4 of my transfer budget, but its worth it, to sign the face of Japanese cycling. 
Edit: Is there any point in the new teams, making a press release stating the teams transfer targets/rumours going into the transfer period, or is it merely for fun if one choses to make one?
Edited by valverde321 on 26-03-2011 02:28
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| Smowz |
Posted on 26-03-2011 07:59
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No-one from the Red Bull squad is off limits - though we are still keen to hold onto our Pacific rim riders.
It will take a good offer for me to release the new Japanese champion Yuki Arashiro. Beppu and Kin-San Wu are certainly riders I would listen too, meanwhile Jianhua Ji needs a protour team.
The Malaysian riders really have not come off and you can be sure failling to win their national title really does resolve the issue of whether I was going to keep Haider.
Valverde: With regard to press releases no-one (apart from SN) actually knows what effect they have. The original idea in the ideas thread was that this would effect the price of the contract offer. As I said in the new players thread be careful about your targets, it may not be the best way to prise a rider away. One of the more intelligent moves I have seen is by Telenor - Auber and Energie Diesal simply have to downsize so targetting their riders makes some sense. Meaning that they need to allow a few riders to be free agents.
It is a grey area though I don't actually know how it works - feel free to put a press release about Arashiro but be warned it may make me a little less likely to sell him to you if I decide to retain him.
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| SotD |
Posted on 26-03-2011 09:02
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Wuhuu I won something
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| Roman |
Posted on 26-03-2011 09:29
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And so Szczawinski won the contract for the next season!
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| Kami |
Posted on 26-03-2011 10:10
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And so did Kocjan, awesome. (Unless with this he wants more then 50k wage ).
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 26-03-2011 12:03
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Meanwhile Jianhua Ji needs a protour team.
Accumalux are currently trying to break into the Chinese battery making market 
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 26-03-2011 14:09
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Oyeah. Nice double there Nicácio. He has put himself in a very good position to secure one of the few spots I have for foreign riders in the renewal phase.
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| jolly_antunes |
Posted on 26-03-2011 14:32
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Kash sweeps the champs, damn right he will be a must have for next season
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 26-03-2011 14:56
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jolly_antunes wrote:
Kash sweeps the champs, damn right he will be a must have for next season
He should have been nice and shared it with Iglinski!
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| Christer |
Posted on 26-03-2011 18:15
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Woo! Top three in Brazil! Just one question: When did I get a brazilian rider? :s
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 26-03-2011 18:24
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Christer wrote:
Woo! Top three in Brazil! Just one question: When did I get a brazilian rider? :s
Your team was Volksbank in 2008, then NVidia for 2 seasons before you made them Bbox. Alex Diniz has been with the team all the way, since 2008
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| Christer |
Posted on 26-03-2011 18:27
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Nice! My mind said that Diniz is from Austria or Switzerland or something.... I am crazy, no doubt.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 26-03-2011 18:30
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Clearly you didnt follow F1 at any point when Pedro Diniz was still driving, in the late 1990s!
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| Smowz |
Posted on 26-03-2011 18:35
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Diniz is not the type of rider you notice that often, I think he rode okay in the Jelejah Malaysia this year... being Bbox's designated leader there.
Actually he was caught up in one of those Alarcon crash moments ruining his chance of a GC top ten!
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 26-03-2011 18:42
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And to complete this game of Diniz' greatest hits:
2010: Herald Sun Tour, 9th overall
 
2009: Finishing 5th in the Jacksonville Cycling Classic (first 3 finishers not shown in screenshot)
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| Christer |
Posted on 26-03-2011 18:48
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So basicly, he seems to be one of my better riders.. Nice. Any more surprises before the next season?
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| ANFreeman |
Posted on 26-03-2011 20:33
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There's something really amusing about these smaller NCs, with several running alongside each other.
Excellent reporting nonetheless, I thought it'd be chaos trying to work out 4 national championships at once.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 26-03-2011 20:37
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Flags show up in game, its fairly easy from that. Plus the fields arent very big! But theyre fun to do - and the Turkish/Iranian one actually ended up being a good race.
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