PCM.Daily Banner Contest

We are currently looking to replace the site banner at the top of the page. We've had the celebratory 100k member banner up for a while now and we want you guys to design us a new one! You can find the details of the contest in SportingNonsense's article. Make a part of Daily your own!

Other Cyanide Titles

We all love Cyanide for bringing us Pro Cycling Manager every year. Well as you'd expect they also make some other games. Most recently they've released Basketball Pro Management 2015. Quite simply it does exactly what it says in that you manage a pro basketball team.

The game is available via Steam or through various other retailers. To find out more information check out the official website.

Man-Game Madness

Madness it has been in the PT. Jose Alarcon of Simply Red Bull pulled out one of the games biggest ever shocks to win the Vuelta Espana in comanding fashion. He was pushed hard by second placed Alberto Contador, Aker-MOT, and thrid placed Justo Tenorio, Santander. Alarcon really worked hard to take the surprise win and his manager Smowz was expectedly delighted. Also huge kudos to SN who provided yet another GT this season.

The PCT was tearing up the mountains of Andorra this week. Pozzovivo of Kappa-ENI took the GC win in an up-down race. This win will come as a big relief to Kappa who have been a bit below par this season. We also witnessed Michael Van Stayen of Venchi win again in the ZLM Tour to keep that team as promotion favorites.

The CT finished the Oberosterreichrundfahrt where Perikles Ilias or Magna-Ryanair rose victorius after three days of action. Currently the sprinters are in Uraguay for the Rutas de America flat classic, which should be a great race.

Story Game Summary

EPIC kicked off it's World Champinoships in style! Team Sky took Gold in the team time trial on day 1 ahead of Movistar and Astana. The exclusion of OPQS really benefiting those teams. We've also seen the U23 ITT event. EPIC creation Po-Ding Kim won North Koreas first ever medal as he took Gold ahead of Durbridge and EPIC creation Jordan Birtles of the UK. Eyes wait eagerly for the Elite event up next.

Thread of the Week

Games like 4T1L, IWS and Amazing Race have all continued strongly this week. As it always does the Cafe was active, where Jesleyh did some interesting stat crunching worth looking at. This weeks Thread of the Week goes to Music thread: Rate the band above you thread which has been very busy this week with a while variety of songs and music.

We have had our celebratory 100,000 members banner for long enough now, so it is time for a new one. To find it we are launching a contest for one of our members to create it. The design is completely up to you, it does not necessarily need to follow the current format which combines PCM cover art and screenshots.

To enter simply PM your 1,024px × 110px entry to me. After a few weeks, to allow time for the entries to be created, we will launch a poll from which the new banner will be selected.

Good luck!

Off-Season Community Games

Just because the main cycling season is over doesn't mean there isn't fun to be had here at Daily. No the winter time signals the main period for community run games, and right now there are a few proving rather popular with you members.

SN continues his run as Host of I'm With Stupid 2014. Round 4 is currently still running and the battle for the overall victory is till tight between the Top5. As always you can join in answering the questions at any time, and the more people involved the better the game runs.

4 Truths 1 Lie came back to life recently with the return of The Hobbit. In the last week it's proved pretty popular garnering consistant interest if not high numbers of participants. The concept is simple and it's a great way to learn about some of the other members on the site.

And very recently (as in today) two more games have begun. Mre's Amazing Race has gottn underway, and even if you don't have an official place that doesn't mean you can't follow and still enjoy. Lastly Marsupilami's CTWWYPCM has kicked off it's Third Edition. The game has slowly improved over the year and this latest edition is the most complete yet.

Man-Game Madness

Let's begin as usual with the Pro Tour. La Vuelta rolls towards a thrilling conclusion were Tenorio, Santander, won Stage 19's MTT. Heading into the final 2 days Jose Alarcon, Simply Red Bull, holds a slim 29" lead over Alberto Contador, Aker-MOT. It could go either way as this GT has delivered constant action and surprise.

The PCT is in action in the Netherlands for the ZLM Tour. Despite the punchers best efforts Van Stayen, Venchi-Ferranti, holds the race lead and looks set to take yet another big result to continue his outstanding season.

The CT finished up in South Africa where Jose Mendes, Bank of Ireland, took the honors. Then in Barcelona Damion Drapac took a surprise win again for Bank of Ireland. The Irish team fell short in Guatemala where ONCE-Eroski and Jaroslav Kulhavy came away with a big win. Currently in Austria where Haas, Risa-Ergon, has the lead after a solo breakaway.

Story Game Summary

EPIC's season is well into the closing stages now. Beijing and Hainan kicked off in China and the autumn classics have delived some great racing. Only a handfull of stages remain to conclude the season but there is little at stake in terms of rankings beyond some changes in the minor placings. Alongside this applications are again open for new managers and riders.

The ICL is also warming up for it's second season! Renewals are just about to happen and the divisions and teams have been confirmed. It's sure to be a busy place in the coming weeks as the tension and transfers build up.

Thread of the Week

Another week of constant comment across the forum. As mentioned above the community games have proved ever popular. But it's a close call between two threads this week. Close but no cigar is the brand new Cafe Pedro 10: Mostly Harmless which came into being this week. No, thread of the week this week is Interviewing PCM.Daily Users. The new personalised questions and deeper interviews are decent and there was plenty of interest in the concept. Basically less spam than the Cafe.

The Next Big Site Game?

Over Winter 2012 and 2013 Mresuperstar brought us his version of the hit tv show Survivor. Both seasons were big hits amongst many members of the site with outstanding quality and organisation from the game host, as well as incredible dedication from the players. They were so popular we even had a Big Brother game earlier this year.

Now mre is back with PCM.Daily The Amazing Race. If you don't know the Amazing Race is a U.S. reality game show, much like Survivor, and has been running for 25 seasons. If you want to know how this game will work just pop into the thread. Sign-ups are currently underway and already there are only 8 team spots left.

Moar Stages

The past few weeks has seen more and more stages being created, specially as the 2015 routes are revealed. Margh Norway has made a very nice Tour de Suisse 2014 and will be moving onto the 2015 New Zealand Cycle Classic. Curretly there are some great Giro routes undercreation from Selwink and toto40. tsmoha is back with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Classic. Just go looking around their respective threads to find download links to a whole bunch of great races.

Stories of the Month

PCM14 still seems to be lacking in stories but there are some interesting ones still around. zuff's The 1980's continues onwards hitting the 20 page mark and is still as unique and fun to read as ever.  jseadog's The Members Story, based on the Members DB, reaches page 10 and is certainly one of the more popular stories at the moment. Otherwise it's fairly quiet, come on community!

PCM13 is more active at the moment. tsmoha is back with a new season of his NRS story. Then there is a whole load of still active stories like baia's FDJ.r, Selwink's Projob-Odjfell, Cycleman123's Fabio Melani, JoeArmstrong13's Yates Brothers and last weeks thread of the week the_hoyle's In The Pursuit of Glory.

The site might have lost a couple of its story initiatives but the story writers are still out in force with great writing and great reading to be had.

Thread of the Week

Cafe Pedro could have won again this week if not for a lack of genuine conversation over spam and the usual circular comments. The off-season is making the normal cycling threads less active. In turn other sports like NFL and F1 increasing in discussion, with both of their threads having some interesting weeks. However thread of the week does go to a cycling thread News in November where some big news is happening and the discussion is always interesting.

It's been a fairly quiet week on Daily in terms of real news, so here's a quick round up of the usual stuff

Looking for DB Help

Earlier this week haasje33 put out a request for some members to help out with future PCM.Daily DB projects. The PCM14 Expansion pack has been downloaded by over 6000 people and the yearly DB's are one of the biggest things this site does and offers to the community. Without the incredible work of the DB team we cannot offer this to you guys. You can read the full post below.

Man-Game Madness

The Vuelta continues onwards where Jose Alarcon, Simply Red Bull, did infact get wiiings and fly into the race lead on Stage 11 with a devastating attack. The reduced sprint field contested Stage 12 with Azzeddine Lagab, Jaguar-Eritel, taking honors. Beyond that it's been a quiet week for the Pro Tour.

Lots more action below. The Eneco Tour concluded with Quickstep's Maxime Vantomme coming out dominant in a great sprinters tour. The Tour of Bulgaria slightly dissapointed with the AI but Andrei Kashechkin won't complain his GC win for Repsol-Cativen. Note local hero Petar Panayotov for local team Boeing-Bulgaria, in 6th place.

For the CT division they've had strong showings in Bulgaria and have gotten slowly underway for the Vuelta Guatemala. But a slightly slower week for them as well.

Also huge props to Tsmoha for reporting so very many many races this month!

Story Games Summary

EPIC gets ever closer to the season finale. The late season classics have been varied and exciting whilst the Tour of Britain proves unpredicatble and successful for the EPIC created riders. Also squads for the World Championships are being announced which will see several great races in Tuscany.

Thread of the Week

I'm With Stupid continues strongly, just finishing off Bikex's run as host. Brandles Hour Record sparked some more cycling related discussion as has the latest transfer, race and team news. Cafe Pedro is busy as always with various chat especially thanks to Halloween. But this weeks Thread of the Week is actually In the Pursuit of Glory by the_hoyle. Unusual to pick a story but the Giro has been a great read and for the last few weeks it's been the sites stand out story.