... and now I'm a jerk ... - SSJ2Luigi

It's Almost Il Giro

And this brings new joys to the forum in anticipation of the seasons first grand tour. We've just had what can be classed as the big warm-up race, Romandie. Somehow no-one thought to make a thread for it, so catch up on the action and discussion in the Other Races 2016 thread. For more specific pre-Giro stuff go to the Preview/Hype Thread, where our members bring regular chat and updates ahead of the big start.

Fancy playing the 2016 Giro in PCM? Well you can! As usual the whole PCM community came together to produce the route. You can download it right here on Daily, just click right here on this text. You know you want it!

Playing the AI not good enough? Test your knowledge in te Velogames Fantasy Giro against real Daily members. Just head over to Velogames, sign-up and join uor mini-league. You'll need the code: 01141151.

Game Night

Bored waiting for the Man-Game? Then why not try:

Big Brother is down to just 5 Housemates! The winner will shortly be known and the Alliances broken even shortlier than that. Prepare for slaging matches, and maybe even some fistfights. Then we'll have a truly worthy winner, or Jesleyh again somehow.

The ICL is rapidly closing in on the Worlds at Richmond, USA. Plus Scouting is slowly wrapping up. Keep an eye out for your chance to join which can't be too far off now. It's a fantastic game, perfect for passing the time if you like the MG.

Thread of the Week

You've been waiting for this thread to be mentioned. It's by far and away the clear victor of the last week. As British Cycling imploded we all talked and argued and laughed. Yep, thread of the week is News in April! Of course it was, with chats on Sutton, Yates, Kennaugh, Sexism, Womens Cycling and actual other news if you looked really hard. Plus Avin providing possibly the comment of the year!

I would not mind the hair of Sagan, but as you can see, that point where i could have longer hair is gone. - Avin Wargunnson

PCM World Cup 2016

The biggest online PCM competition is back for it's yearly running. Cycling Manager Italia are in charge and are running the event from the end of April through to early June. Alongside the usual Road and Track events they are adding ITT and TTT events and bringing back the National Teams events. There's a lot of promising changes being made by this year organisers, so 2016 could easily be the best World Cup yet!

For full details head over to Cycling Manager Italia

Cycling News

No, not the website unless you are reading some posts in the Race Routes Discussion thread. This week we've had posts and discussions in a massive amount of cycling threads. Womens Cycling 2016, more reaction to Paris-Roubaix 2016, Velogames, GOAT Climbers and Sprinters, Backgrounds, Your Cycling, Transfers primarily Sagan, News in April, Other Races and of course the Brabanste/AGR/FW Thread. We've got your cycling itch well and truly scratched!

Modding Central

Finding vanilla PCM15 a bit dull? Then why not go back in time. sali has given us another great historical project, DB 2004 - PCM 15. Or try his DB 1995 - PCM 15 which got an update as well. Fancy going even further back, then check out DB 1973 (Converted) courtesy of mehdi1993. Or if you are really desparate why not look at the new PCM Focus DB, and i mean really desparate.

Thread of the Week

I thought about picking Rider Progression (and you CAN control it) for being genuinely interesting. I also thought about the Stat Discussion thread. But my Thread of the Week is TRVALEZMATENY - shirts! Ok there was only one release this week, but i thought it was about time i drew some attention to one of my favorite, and one of the absolute best, jersey makers active.

:banana: - Various

Roubaix, We Love You!

Not a single doubt that Paris-Roubaix has been the dominating point of the week. Pais Vasco tried hard but The Hell of the North is unparallelled. And then it gave us that race! I'll get the discussion thread later, for now i want to talk about Betting. A huge 43% placed bets on Spartacus, how you feeling now guys? At 22.00 Boonen came within a wheel of a huge payout for 6 people, tough luck guys. As it was with Hayman only 4 people went for the Another Rider option. Stagefrenzy capitalizing the most to move into the Top10.

Man-Game, What Man-Game?

It hasn't escaped certain members attentions that the Man-Game has been, well, non-existant recently. Well i reached out to the man in charge to try and get an update on anything about the game. To para-phrase the response: Have some patience. It's not abandoned or dead. It will pick up again. Perhaps find another hobby in the meantime.

So have some #faith that we'll #makeMGgreatagain!

Games Galore

I'll speed through these, there's a lot going on:

Bjartne wins Season 2 of Where Am I?. It was pretty damn close at the top. A Season 3 won't be coming too soon, but these two were pretty good so keep an eye out and Google at the ready.

Hunt of the Mafia, and Assassin or Inoccent S2, are currently taking sign-ups for their games.

Soccer Manager has taken off with huge popularity! You can still join by claiming any of the unmanaged teams, contact sgdanny for details or just look at the thread.

Ian Butler clearly has too much time on his hands. CX:AND continues alongside The Secret Pro and High Risk. All have great concept and quality in good measure.

Big Brother is in HoH6 and still rolling along. Plenty of salty people in and around the house makes for some funny reading.

ICL16 is currently scouting for new talented riders, whilst Avenir keeps the U23's entertained and on the market.

Next Generation is trying to get going, it needs a few managers to get their asses in gear and send in FA bidding!

Thread of the Week

Do you want to discuss, or re-live, one of the best cycling races of the past decade or more? Then check out the Thread of the Week. Paris - Roubaix 2016 (114th Edition) is the obvious pick, having broken itself, and well worth a visit even now after the race has finished. Nothing comes close this week, and i said i'd get to the discussion thread.

We have to confess: the +1 Update for the 2016DB was an April Fools prank. We searched for the most downvoted and contradicted stat proposals and applied them to the database.

We absolutely loved to see the amount of +1 comments in the download section and we appreciate the fact that even the guys that did figure out it was a prank didn't reveal it. Thanks guys.

I'll take down the download in a bit.

Today, PCM.daily's Database Team presents the first update for the 2016 Database. This update contains a few bugfixes, but it also contains a few new features that enhance your gameplay even further. We also created an update for the Variant DLC, fixing some bugs, as well as adding a lot of new variants.

Download PCM.daily's 2016 Database V1.1.0 here

Download PCM.daily's Variant DLC V1.1 here