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Bucks County Classic Discussion
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 23-09-2013 20:45
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The CT is heading for the United States. Pennsylvania will host the next one day classic:
The beautiful Bucks County course, with its six grueling fourteen mile laps through Carversville, has been designed to give race fans an intimate and exciting view of endurance sport at its very best.
It's an interesting profile: being rated as a flat classic, the route actually features some challenging climbs and a steady up-and-down!
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The 2013 season has so far shown, that a flat rated classic will suit the sprinters, even though a challenging profile may lead to some managers hoping for a less predictable race. But having a closer look at the startlist, we do have a decent collection of sprinters leading their teams. So that's why we will focus on those fast guys for the favorites' watch.
Let's start with the US-teams, of which we have five here:  Keough,  Dall'Antonia,  Brea,  Tronet and  Damrow are likely to be their team's captains here in Pennsylvania. Four PCT-teams decided to give it a go in this C2-classic and Keough may be rated as the best bet of them. At least he's the fastest. Dall'Antonia looks like a good fit as well: he survives short climbs quite well and also has the speed to compete with the best here.
 Haddou and  Ferrari will lead two more American teams and yet again two PCT-squads. The seventh PCT-team will be  Prio-Port, which brought one of the very-top favorites in Bruno Santos!
 Rizza is rated as the top-seed by the race organisation, joined by Santos and  Chicchi. Especially Die Berg looks quite strong with some decent support in riders like Duque or Chavanel.
 Lay,  Day and  Nelson will also hope for a podium-run. They do have the needed speed to sprint for a win, but (just like some other sprinters here) they lack "climbing" skills, too.
 Gajek and  Crespo complete the list of favorites for the 15 teams, that subscribed for the Bucks County Classic. We do hope for a thrilling race: we've a couple of favorites being able to perform on the same level, so it ain't easy to say who's going to dominate a possible bunch sprint!
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 23-09-2013 20:47
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I really hope that sending both my top sprinters here won't mess up. Still, a top 3 is the goal here. |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 23-09-2013 21:00
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First Goal race of a back loaded season... Things are getting serious as shown by Thomas participation.
Chicchi has shown some good speed this season and i clearly viewed highly by the game. The team is built around him, but we do lack a real lead-out man. Thomas i hope decides to mix things up late on, as one of the strongest riders in the race.
Deceptive amount of climbing, but it's never really that steep of long. And there is a good bit of distance between the final major climb and the finish. Dall'Antonia i rate highly for this, hes having a great season and Mobil are on the move. Also put Keough up there as a very good sprinter, on home turf.
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| Christer |
Posted on 23-09-2013 21:09
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Mostly here for experience, but any points towards the America Tour rankings will be taken with a big smile.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 23-09-2013 21:16
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Niec preview there tsmoha. I'm looking forward to nick some points from the CT teams and like Christer would promptly smile at the prospect of gaining a few more points in the America Tour.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 24-09-2013 05:44
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My pick is Tizziano, good luck to all! 
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| Smowz |
Posted on 24-09-2013 06:03
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Quite a few PCT teams here - this is possibly where I would have looked at a CT race with a low ranking sprinter, like Santos or Keough for example.
Sending squads 'for experience' with little or no chance of scoring points is a waste of race days in my opinion. I think Die Berg will grab the win here.
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| fintas |
Posted on 24-09-2013 10:43
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This is one of the goals of the season, but we needed to win with my team this is impossible. Whatever is above 0 points already be a victory for me.
Dall'Antonia and Bruno Santos are my favorites
Edited by fintas on 24-09-2013 10:44
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| brownwm |
Posted on 25-09-2013 11:17
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This is my first C2 race of the season, so hopefully I can get a decent result with Ferrari. Aiming for top 5.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 26-09-2013 19:44
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The peloton sitted up, seriously? Lol. Still, we took 2nd place, very good then. 11th by Ciocan and Dall'Antonia add a little bit more points. But, seriously, da fuq PCM? Your seriously drunk. |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 26-09-2013 20:08
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Miguel98 wrote:
The peloton sitted up, seriously? Lol. Still, we took 2nd place, very good then. 11th by Ciocan and Dall'Antonia add a little bit more points. But, seriously, da fuq PCM? Your seriously drunk.
Yeah, what else can I say: it's most probably the strangest "move" I've seen in PCM12 and i guess we all have seen strange things before
Sorry for the rather late report, btw.
And congrats, Miguel! Your team did quite well!
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 26-09-2013 20:12
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And this was the 2nd time this happened during the season. It happened earlier in the season in a spanish c2 race as well where Squire won. |
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 26-09-2013 20:18
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No comment 
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| Christer |
Posted on 26-09-2013 20:46
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Calling that a disappointment has to be the understatement of the century!
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 26-09-2013 22:31
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YESS! Salas means another Canadian win this season! A very good race for the team |
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| fintas |
Posted on 26-09-2013 23:58
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What can I say .... Well 3 points is always more than 0 points I was waiting
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 27-09-2013 00:42
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Fuck PCM12!!!
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 27-09-2013 01:00
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That was strange...
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 27-09-2013 05:45
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Lol, what a gameplay. 
I fear PCM13 is very similar in that, maybe the breaks are even stronger, of course it can differ in "AI only reports" without player doing something.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 27-09-2013 06:46
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Lol, what a gameplay.
I fear PCM13 is very similar in that, maybe the breaks are even stronger, of course it can differ in "AI only reports" without player doing something.
I've been playing PCM13 the "MG-style" for a while now and it's pretty okay with the newer patches. But it's still the same old issue with the peloton sitting up sometimes. It depends on the startlist and the teams involved in the break, i guess.
But this AI in the Bucks County... Never seen this before. Closing the gap to 15 seconds and then stop chasing.. Horrible! (gave it a 2nd try this morning and the peloton didn't even chase, so the AI somehow can't handle the startlist, it seems)
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