We've been a little quiet about the PCM.daily DB for PCM11, but since I'm getting a lot of questions, and wrong guesses about a potential release date have surfaced, I suppose it's time for me to get some information out there.

Facts first: The 1st version (whether that's a beta or a final version) will be released before the end of the Tour de France.

This version will contain a few new teams, a few new races, a few variants, over 200 real sponsors (no more S-Mobile, British Airwash etc.), real equipment (although not anywhere near as much as in the previous versions of the PCM.daily DB) among other smaller features, like realistic trainers, scouts, journalists etc.

The database would probably have been released by now, had it not been for a storm that hit Copenhagen a week ago and took my internet connection with it. Since then I have been using my slow 3G connection which is not anywhere near good enough to download stuff like stages. When the "proper" internet is back, the DB can be finalized and uploaded in a matter of a couple of days.

And let me end this note with a thanks to those who have been helping out with some of my many specific requests so far: Riccoen, BouBBox, Bubba, Roturn, Ruiribeiro, MarcoPRT, MacC, pcm-hardtune, Siwi (riders' regions, stats etc.), Sykkel_Freak, KenL (logos and transferts), Felix_29, BoogieBoogie and ANFreeman (equipment).