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[PCT] Minions '21
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 13-06-2022 13:06
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OCTOBER REVIEW
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It's the final month of the racing season, excluding the championships. One final push to get us further up the ranking.
Japan Cup
Vilnius GP
We have a decent but admittedly not extraordinary team time trial squad, especially with Uran needed elsewhere. So any points coming home from Lithuania were welcome. With our twelfth place we scored fifteen, so not bad at all!
Rating: 
Almost free points. Uran was needed for a race with two time trials and a semi-mountain stage. The big climbers already ended their season so this was a huge opportunity to score big. It started off very well, with the Colombian tenth on the first stage ahead of most rivals. Kalaba got boxed in on the flat stage unfortunately. Uran fought his way to the front on the mountain stage but did not gain enough time on some weaker climbers. At this point he was third in the general classification and just needed a good TT to get on the podium. Unfortunately, the legs were quite poor on the final day as he finished thirty-first, and dropped all the way to ninth.
Rating:
What looked so good.
Giro dell'Emelia
On the final day we were not involved in any important ranking battle, so we could ride with no pressure. Hagen took this a bit too literally by not doing anything noteworthy despite coming ninth in the final sprint.
Rating:
The season is over, time to party! | Pos | Last | | Team | Total | RD | PpRD | | 1 | 1 |  | Aker - MOT | 3755 | 175 | 21,46 | | 2 | 3 |  | Polar | 3331 | 175 | 19,03 | | 3 | 5 |  | Duolingo | 3323 | 175 | 18,99 | | 4 | 2 |  | Los Pollos Hermanos | 3258 | 175 | 18,62 | | 5 | 4 |  | cycleYorkshire | 3250 | 175 | 18,57 | | --- | | 17 | 17 |  | Minions | 2319 | 175 | 13,25 |
These are the final rankings, which we'll cover in more details later. For now, we just want to say we kept seventeenth place which is safe from relegation but also far away from promotion.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 14-06-2022 14:10
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I hope I'm invited to the party. You can choose whether I bring Quispe or Manarelli as a +1. Or maybe it's time to invite Bru again? Think your leaders rather disappointed you this season. Hagen was one of the victims of the incredibly strong puncheur PCT division. Interested to see what you will do with him (and Uran) during the off season.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 19-06-2022 12:56
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@ Nemolito - Manarelli is a team legend so always welcome, and we'd be honored to have the best cyclist ever attending. Bru on the other cannot be seen within 5 kilometers of our HQ 
FINAL RANKINGS
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We didn't spoil it in the October review, but here it is, the final rankings.
Team rankings
| Pos | | Team | Total | | 1 | | Aker - MOT | 3755 | | 2 | | Polar | 3331 | | 3 | | Duolingo | 3323 | | 4 | | Los Pollos Hermanos | 3258 | | 5 | | cycleYorkshire | 3250 | | 6 |  | Team UBS | 3119 | | 7 |  | Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff | 3053 | | 8 |  | Cedevita | 3036 | | 9 |  | Kraftwerk Man Machine | 2917 | | 10 |  | Bralirwa - Stevens | 2871 | | 11 |  | Binance Cycling | 2801 | | 12 |  | Carlsberg - Danske Bank | 2744 | | 13 |  | Red Bull Zalgiris | 2625 | | 14 |  | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam | 2607 | | 15 |  | Project: Africa | 2589 | | 16 |  | Assa Abloy | 2431 | | 17 | | Minions | 2319 | | 18 |  | Voyagin - Bird | 2144 | | 19 |  | Philips - Force India | 2131 | | 20 |  | Indosat Ooredoo | 2112 | | 21 |  | Sauber Petronas Racing | 2030 | | 22 |  | Carrefour - ESPN | 2006 | | 23 |  | Jura - Fiat | 2003 | | 24 |  | Podium Ambition | 1800 | | 25 |  | Tryg - Ritter Sport | 1736 | | 26 |  | Eurosport x GCN | 1438 |
So we finished seventeenth, our worst ever result since barely surviving in our first season in PCT. The last three years we placed exactly mid-table in thirteenth or fourteenth, an now we dropped to middle right-table. After the first few months this does not come as a surprise, it looked clear we were not challenging for promotion and the odd result kept us away from relegation danger. For next season we have to reverse the trend, which might require a big clean-up and some new superstar signings which actually deliver.
Individual rankings
| Pos | Rider | Nat | | Team | Total | | 1 | Eduard Alexander Beltran | COL | | Cedevita | 1171 | | 59 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | NOR | | Minions | 350 | | 64 | Daniel Vesely | CZE | | Minions | 329 | | 76 | Rigoberto Uran | COL | | Minions | 282 | | 97 | Dusan Kalaba | SER | | Minions | 229 | | 100 | Ruben Zepuntke | GER | | Minions | 222 | | 112 | Alvaro Hodeg | COL | | Minions | 177 | | 129 | Pawel Poljanski | POL | | Minions | 148 | | 162 | Chad Haga | USA | | Minions | 113 | | 197 | Laurens Sweeck | BEL | | Minions | 85 | | 272 | Leandro Marcos | CUB | | Minions | 49 | | 283 | Borislav Ivanov | BUL | | Minions | 46 | | 304 | Andrei Nechita | ROM | | Minions | 38 | | 315 | Mauri Vansevenant | BEL | | Minions | 36 | | 322 | Jordan Cheyne | CAN | | Minions | 34 | | 326 | Mathias De Witte | BEL | | Minions | 33 | | 334 | Bert-Jan Lindeman | NED | | Minions | 32 | | 348 | Bjorn Selander | USA | | Minions | 28 | | 349 | Pim Ligthart | NED | | Minions | 28 | | 360 | Laureano Rosas | ARG | | Minions | 26 | | 400 | Antoine Duchesne | CAN | | Minions | 18 | | 460 | Florentino Marquez | ESP | | Minions | 8 | | 465 | Mikkel Bjerg | DEN | | Minions | 8 |
While in previous seasons we had a rider high up in the individual rankings, we do not find any Minion inside the top fifty.
At fifty-nine is our highest scoring rider: Edvald Boasson Hagen. Before the season this would not have been a surprise, but his performances during the season were mostly bad. Somehow still ending up as highest scoring rider is testament to how the rest of the team did.
Daniel Vesely is only a few positions behind but he also had his fair share of missed opportunities and poorly timed sprints.
For the first time, Rigoberto Uran is not our best rider in the individual rankings, but the legs haven't been what they used to be. We didn't expect him to pull out wins everywhere and his points were still quite decent.
Our secondary sprinter Dusan Kalaba only finished a hundred points behind the lead sprinter, despite having to do with lesser opportunities. Perhaps a change of role for next season?
Ruben Zepuntke received training but that did not translate to significantly better results. We might need to throw bananas at someone else.
Rider of the season: Alvaro Hodeg! What a season from the young Colombian who might not have been that successful as lead-out, but in the very few opportunities he had for himself he converted them to very good results, including the odd win. He'll have earned more chances next season.
Everyone in the team managed to score points, so no one has to feel bad and everyone is invited to the team party. May next season be a better one and finally fix our procastrination of building a team capable of promotion.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 19-06-2022 13:30
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Bru scored six points for us, now ex LPH rider Marquez only scored eight for you. I think we now both know to not scout for any of our ex-riders anymore I hope Zepuntke can deliver a bit more for you next season, he's really had some atrocious results :/
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 22-06-2022 09:52
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GOALS
Before the season we had set five goals to achieve. We asked a few Minions to react to our results.
 Tour of Ukraine - Top 5
Rigoberto Uran - 10th
  Tour de Vineyards - Top 5
Rigoberto Uran - 19th
  Tour de Slovenie - Win
Chad Haga - 38th
  Bayern Rundfahrt - Top 5
Rigoberto Uran - 9th
 PCT Team Standings - Top 5
Minions - 17th
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 22-06-2022 10:15
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Congratulations on joining Team Failed Goals! I have a little something to cheer up the Minions though, as it's a present I can't tell what it is.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 22-06-2022 10:37
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God damn those Goal results are awful! Quite interested in your off-season plans, as this team has been treading mid-table water since promotion to the PCT. More so when realising EBH & Uran are on yet another decline (along with 7 other riders).
Maybe time to remove the minions from a position of control?
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 22-06-2022 21:59
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@Nemolito - Thanks for the present, I'm sure the team won't fight over who gets it.
@TheManxMissile - Planning the goals around Uran, those super suitable to his skills even after decline, did not turn out well. We need a rebuild, but I've been saying that every year. Perhaps the Minions have trouble following my orders.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 22-06-2022 22:04
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Hooooolyyyy that's a rough go at goals here, looking forward to watching how you sort out the aging squad rebuild in the transfer window with what one could assume is going to be a pretty gimped budget.
Edited by whitejersey on 22-06-2022 22:16
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 23-06-2022 09:37
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I think you have some decent building blocks for a rebuild. Two good young sprinters, Zepunkte will be around for a while and still has potential, Bjerg should become a very consistent scorer when maxed. They probably all would need some training to be elite in their respective role, but still. Anything climbing related is obviously a bit rough, but Hagen and Uran (either by release or by lower demand) should reduce your wage bill significantly and give you some flexibility. It's a big task to be sure, but you got something to work with I think.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 23-06-2022 16:15
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Ah, fellow 0/5 goal compadre
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 23-06-2022 20:29
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@whitejersey - On the bright side, lesser budget means less chance to waste it
@cunego59 - The flat discipline is well filled. It are the mountains and hills where we need to redevelop. Uran might still be useful next year but I don't see Hagen having any future.
@quadsas - We need to start a moral support group.
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