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For now these ratings will be trialled on the site, to see how they go - but there's plenty of potential for the system to be expanded in future.

Also, a general complaint to the Belgians here: GODDAMNIT FIX YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE - Jesleyh (Café Pedro)

PCM15 Contests Update

Our contests to win three free copies of PCM15 are well underway and it's time for an update: the first (of two) One of Four games sees four leaders right now - Eposk, fjhoekie, lakebeach and sosososik had four bets spot on and may all free up some space on their hard drive already.

The Velogames contest is currently led by Rjc_43 (Good Energy), who's collected 3177 points with a team of Valverde, Kwiatkowski, Rodriguez, Dan Martin, Cavendish, Gallopin, Thomas, Dumoulin and Sagan. One may question if he will hold on to his (narrow) lead with that team.

Site (still) undergoing updates

As most of you should have noticed, AaB-ern is currently upgrading the system (PHP-Fusion) behind PCMDaily. Step by step, our master brain will update stuff, that hasn't been updated for years. So you will still notice some changes here and there, as well as some missing features (speaking of PCM$). Huge credit to AaB-ern for taking the time to work his way through this stuff though.

CrueTrue himself got it spot on: "Years of neglect by me now being fixed by AaB-ern".

EPIC Sagan

Peter Sagan is not only enjoying quite a strong (real) TdF, he's also pretty epic in EPIC. After winning Paris - Roubaix, he added another strong result by finishing 4th in the Amstel Gold Race this week. Michał Kwiatkowski is only enjoying an epic EPIC though, as he (opposing to his real TdF) delivered big time and took out the AGR with a strong solo ride over the final 10-15km, beating Gilbert and Uran by half a minute eventually.

Weekly Tour

Tony Martin going from hell to heaven - and back to hell - in three days.. Froome leading, Nibali struggling. Pretty epic racing in the first few days.

Rest days are awful. I don't know what to do with myself. (cactus-jack)

ManGame Madness

A rather quiet week for the 2015 season's standards, but Sam Bewley (Becherovka) and Dan Holloway (Red Bull) wouldn't agree with that. Bewley took out the cobbled East Midlands Cicle Classic ahead of Fabian Cancellara, while Holloway sprinted to an impressive victory in the challenging flat Lisbon Classic. Bewley's early season in numbers: leading the ProTour with 1143 points - with Boasson Hagen (588) as second in the rankings!

In the Continental Tour, Luis Leon Sanchez (Evonik) rode to an overall victory in the Tour of Ukraine, while Karcher took out the Differdange Duo. Two cobbled classics on the menu - two surprising winners: Maxime Daniel winning Gent - Wevelgem, Stijn Joseph beating the division's best cobbler Summerhill in Dwaars Door Vlaanderen.

Thread of the Week

The Tour de France stage's threads would deserve it, but I don't care. While not being the most active thread in the past few weeks/months - not even days - I think our Café Pedro 10: Mostly Harmless is a place to visit right now. Go and see who's going to holidays now, who's coming back and who's thinking back at (and reading) old stories from our story sections.

They have almost lost me as customer, to gain me back with me hoping for a change and then this? - Avin Wargunnson (on the newest patch for PCM15)

Patch time

Speaking of patches, we saw three major downloads floating in this week: let's begin with Cyanide's latest update on PCM15. Patch 1.2.0.0 is the first major patch for the game and brought significant changes in several areas of PCM15. We got used to the fact, that there's some controversial content in there, didn't we?

Of course we do have to remember, that our PCMDaily DB-team came up with the first Expansion Pack 2015 v0.8! It's compatible with Cyanide's latest patch (needs to be installed before) and will definitely make for more fun in this early state of the game.

Jacky Durand once again released his Sponsorkit, that will upgrade the realism of PCM for at least another year. Go check the content and support his work.

Contest to win a free copy of PCM15

PCMDaily is giving away three free copies of PCM15 and you guys will have to chance to grab your very own copy through a nice little contest. Win PCM15 during the Tour de France and take part at either the Velogames TDF or try your luck with our "One of Four" Betting Game. The contest should add some thrill to the upcoming weeks.

Places to go..

We had a busy week with new PCM15 threads in several categories, with also older engines still producing interesting stuff to read:

Wilco Kelderman-The Next Climbing Star (by Taaramae1) is a new story (made for Jesleyh) worth to follow. Same goes for Daniel Martin's Tour Diary by Dippofix or Be A Pro.. in the 1980's by Zuff.

2015 Real jerseys should be the place to watch for new kits and we did see a few more stagemakers opening their 2015 threads.. The Two of Us | Chapter 2 is one of a few quality pieces to keep the PCM14 story section alive.

ManGame Madness

The ProTour's February concluded with the first monument of the year: after Simone Ponzi (Good Energy) rode to an impressive victory in the hilly Classique du Grand-Duché in Luxembourg, Sam Bewley (Becherovka) sprinted to a stunning win at Milan - San Remo. A nice report from roturn, with short videos as an addition to the usual business.. the ITT-event Chrono des Herbiers kicked off March with a bang, as Marlen Zmorka (Metinvest) came home with a surprising victory with the two biggest guns (Coppel and Phinney) totally failing.

Another great report for Strade Bianche from Oleg Tinkov saw another dream from Jesleyh coming true, as Wilco Kelderman (Puma) took line honours. Maxime Monfort (Gisborne GP), Trent Lowe (Tour of the Middle East), Sebastian Langeveld (Geraardsbergen - Bosberg) and Jukka Vastaranta (GP Sallanches) were the other winners this week.

Weekly Tour

"As I've said many times, it's not fair that he [Alberto Contador] has to compete against fresh riders who are only doing the Tour de France" - Oleg Tinkoff

"To illustrate [Rohan] Dennis's sick ITT. 55.446 is the fastest average ever in a TdF TT. He beat Boardman's average of 55.27 in 1994, and that was only 7.2 km." - Wilier

Thread of the Week

Would probably be too easy to pick the Tour de France related stuff here, so I went for a significally "smaller", but (maybe) not less interesting thread: Road to the Top [Training Journal] by jseadog1 is a blog that should make him staying motivated to go running. Go and support one of our members to stay fit!

The Tour de France is almost upon us, and during the race we will be giving away 3 free copies of the new Pro Cycling Manager 2015 game, through 2 different competitions.

Velogames Fantasy TdF

The first copy of the game will be awarded to the winner of our Velogames Fantasy Tour de France league.

Get on over to Velogames now to create your team (if you haven't already), and you can enter our league using the code: 26024632

The deadline for entries is tomorrow afternoon, before the start of the prologue.

'One of Four' Betting Game

The second contest will be run using our Fantasy Betting system. There will be a bet available for each stage, giving you the choice of 4 riders. All you have to do is pick the rider who you think will finish highest on that stage.

The winner will be the person who gets the most bets correct, and there will be two chances to win. The first part of the game will run from Stage 3 to Stage 12, while the second part will be from Stage 13 to Stage 21. The winner of each part will receive a free copy of PCM15.

The amount that you bet does not matter (so you might as well make as small as bet as possible), all that counts is whether you picked the right rider or not.

Prize Rule

To be eligible to receive the free copy of PCM15 (besides actually winning the games), you must be active on the Tour de France related areas of our forum during the race, through posts in either the Velogames TdF thread, the One of Four discussion thread, or any of the Tour de France stage threads in the cycling section.

Good Luck!

Cyanide just released a new patch, 1.1.0.2.

According to what they have stated in the official forums and in the Steam Community Hub, the patch doesn't seem to affect anything that is not server/multiplayer related, however, a new general patch is in the works.

"Hey everyone,

We updated the game with a new build, which should fix the server issues.

We're sorry for the stability issues you may have encountered since the release of Pro Cycling Manager 2016.

Don't hesitate to give us your feedback on the update. We'll watch them closely!

We are already working on a new update to fix some of the remaining bugs. We'll keep you updated as soon as we have something solid on the next patch.

Focus Home Interactive & Cyanide Studio"

No changelog has been released, letting us understand that the server really is everything that has been touched.