 News a bit earlier than normal this week to avoid conflict with Awards results
Fantasy Betting Is Back
You may have noticed this already but a new year of Fantasy Betting has arrived! Already we've had bets on both the Australian and New Zealand Time Trial Nationals and in the next couple of weeks we will bring you bets for the Tour Down Under and [hopefully] San Luis. Also currently available are bets on who will be leading the CQ rankings at various points in the year.
Fantasy Betting will run right across the cycling season and if you have any suggestions of bets please don't hesitate to message one of the Admins because we can never have too many bets! Also check out the Road Race Betting 2015 thread.
Stories of the Month
Bumped from last week here's a quick round up of various happenings inside the Story sub-forums. The last few weeks have seen a rush of new PCM14 stories like A New Beginning by Croatia14, US Postal Service 2.0 by jihardy and the interesting track based On the Boards by both EwanWilson and Scattershot Will. zuff's The 1980's has been the most consistent PCM14 story and had a slower but still high quality December and is still an excellent read.
PCM13 is a lot more active in terms of stories. Jakstar22 is taking Nairo Quintana to win everything and Marsupilami is trying out The Superleague. Beyond that there is a long list of established stories all continuing well and vying for various Award accolades.
Hopefully we'll see some more great stories start up this year and that PCM15 get's more people writing come summer time!
ManGame Madness
The Tour of Norway highlighted the ProTour this week. The 8 day race in Norway provided tons of action and a great close GC battle. Franck Schleck of Vesuvio came away victorious, just ahead of Stefan Schumacher (Swisscom) and Tejay Van Garderen (Wikipedia). The PT capped the week with the GP Moscow sprinters classic won by Luke Rowe of Good Energy ahead of PCT Mark Cavendish (Belarusbank) and Daniele Bennati (Lotto).
The PCT and CT teams have also been busy busy. The Osterreich Tour is currently unerway but we've also had the Nelspruit Classic won by Cesare di Maggio of Venchi, and the San Sebastian Classic won by Cesare di Maggio of Venchi. The CT teams get some action to themselves in the Vuelta a Burgos currently taking place as well.
Story Games Summary
The ICL has almost completed its offseason with all rosters having been finalised. The Calendar is still to be finalised but expect that to be done soon. Just looking at the range of teams it's going to be an intriguing season and don't expect the same teams to be challenging for the title.
EPIC is also deep in its offseason. Transfers are continuing with a fair amount of chop and change. The battles to sign Marcel Kittel and Bradley Wiggins from the Free Agency have been fierce and rage onwards! Highlights have been watching Euskaltel go right back to Basque roots and trying to guess which PCT team will lead the promotion charge.
Thread of the Week
With the cycling season starting to warm up with team presentations and new UCI announcements i thought i would go with a nice Cycling forum thread. Thanks to those Down Under we've already got some great action to enjoy in the form of Nationals. So my Thread of the Week this week is the beginning of the 2015 National Championships thread, and yes i have already mentioned womens cycling in there. |
