Time to get your thinking caps out, and start nominating for this year's PCM.daily awards.

You can make up to 3 nominations for each category, by sending a PM to me, SportingNonsense. You don't have to make nomination for every category, but the more the better!

Whoever gets the most nominations will go into the vote, which will open in the new year. So you have just under 2 weeks to send them in.

See the Information / General Discussion thread for a full list of the award categories.

Category: ManGame (Tour Down Under 2008, Continental Tour)

The Tour Down Under 2008 was the ManGame's first Continental Tour event ever and the traditional early season stage race couldn't have seen a more special first stage-winner: Kiwi Gregory Henderson kicked off the second ManGame season with a bang. Racing for the local team 'Southaustralia.com - AIS', the sprinter made the crowd go crazy when he went to take out the first stage in a bunch sprint.

Beating Bobby Traksel (Designa Kokken) and Max Van Heeswijk (Discover Channel) quite easily, Henderson made history to become the first Continental Tour's stage winner. Down Under, not far from home. It would be his only victory in the TdU, as the locals had to wait another year for the next Aussie/Kiwi to grab a stage (Mitch Docker/Credit Lyonnaise - held as a ProTour race for once).

In case you weren't aware, applications are currently open to join PCM.daily's long running Management Game. In short, the MG involves managing a team by deciding on goals and a race calendar, constructing a team during the transfer season, then deciding race linups, and following the race reports all season.

We had 77 users involved this year, most of whom were active all season, and can attest to how fun the game is!

Check out the Applications Thread for more info. Everyone is welcome to apply, and the number of people accepted will depend on the quality of the applications received.

Making Weekly News like it's nothing. - baseballlover312 (Weekly News #192)

Message From The DB Team

Dear members of PCM.daily,

Behind the scenes we've been busy with the preparations for the 2016DB. First of all, we've been busy finding a good replacement for Jesleyh to do the stats of our databases and after a while, we've found our ideal member: Tafiolmo. Also MARSUPILAMI and Clamel have agreed to help us develop the database. MARS will be working on 2016 graphics, while clamel will be implementing his own XML files.

After recruiting was complete, we made our plans for the 2016DB. We chose to completely redo the .cdb, trying to eliminate as many bugs as possible. Before we will release the database, we will test it more than we did with previous versions and thus solving most bugs before release. We will contact a few ex DB team members and well-known PCM.daily members if they would like to test the beta version of the 2016DB.

As always, we won't announce an estimated release date, especially since we want to take more time testing it. Posts asking for release dates won't get any responses from the DB Team.

haasje33
Leader of PCM.daily's Database Team

PCM.Daily Fantasy Cycling Season 2016

As you probably saw we are launching a new game here on PCM.Daily. You can find the news article here (or just below). But here's a quick summary and a reiteration of the link. Teams will be Drafted in a serpentine fashion. Almost any rider in the world will be eligible to take part. The rankings will be entirely based upon the CQ ranking, so any CQ counting race matters. The Admin team will be running the game.

For more information go to this thread which has a lot more detailed information about all the aspects of the game. If you want to take part then you will need to send a PM to roturn, and do it as soon as possible as we will be kicking off very very soon.

Man-Game Madness

It is the World Championships. We've crowned a number of winners already in the B Road Race, Team Time Trial, U23 Time Trial, Elite Time Trial and U23 Road Race. Just the big one still to be run down in South Africa. It's going to be a monsterous showdown of the games very elite climbers. Guaranteed action.

Alongside this is the continuing discussions about the 2016 season, links in last weeks news. Plus SN is still accepting applications to join the game. Very worth while sending in an application and submitting to the all consuming entity that is the Management Game.

Woody's Round-up

CX:AND is just about to start it's 3rd season, 2016-17. The calendar has been confirmed, including the World Championships course. The season was previewed in style by Ian Butler, whos commitment to the game is extraordinary. The racing is about to begin in the next few days and it will be incredible.

Tangofoxx took his second win of the season in the rFactor league. He took a commanding win in Melbourne whilst Paul23 keeps his champinoships lead very much intact. Next up, Montreal in 2 weeks time.

Finally the Daily Song Contest is back! The 4th edition is coming and sign-ups are still just about open for the moment. Antwerp hosts what promises to be the best competition yet. EwanWilson continues to do an excellent organising job.

PCM.Daily is getting bigger and bigger and while we already have community games such as the Man Game, Fantasy Betting or a couple of member led games, we thought about a new fantasy game for some time now. 
As already mentioned in the latest Weekly News, here is the announcement of what is going to start with the upcoming cycling season: A Fantasy Cycling Game based on real life results.

Game Idea

The idea behind the game is quite basic. After the manager selection process, we will organize a quick draft to create the teams. This will happen in a serpentine draft system to make it as fair as possible. Draftable are basically all riders of the CQ ranking. So lots of tactical decisions can be made in this part. Team sizes also depend on shown interest by members but it is planned to see team sizes of at least 20.
Afterwards the game stays quite simple for the rest of the year. All races no matter the category are going to count as long as they go into the CQ Ranking as those will be the base for the game ranking. The admin team is going to send out ranking updates throughout the year to keep a nice discussion in between the managers. 

Draft Rules

There will be some rules for the draft of course as this is the part of the game, where we want to create a good balance. This includes for example the cutting of the very best top riders to avoid some overpowered teams, that got lucky to get a top draft position.
The draft itself will be done via big boards. So all managers would send in a long list for a couple of draft rounds. We admins then quickly go through those and always pick the highest non-picked rider according to the draft order. Every couple of days we would ask for a new updated big board until we have finished the complete draft, which obviously has at least 20 rounds to get the needed team size.

What next?

We are looking for members (50+ posts), that want to take part in this game first. This process is expected to be quite quick. If interested, just send me a PM. Take care you will have enough time for the initial draft, that is supposed to happen within the first 3 December weeks to avoid the Christmas Days and before January, where the first races already take part.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them in this thread.