Giro d'Italia: All bets are off!

With the Giro d'Italia ending, we're closing an important betting period. It's time to take a look at the provisional Betting Ranking.

More than 50% placed a bet on Nairo Quintana for the overall victory in the Giro, and the Colombian didn't disappoint. However, the biggest bucks were made in the KoM bet, where current leader rastaff won no less than 1,250.00 PCM$, thanks to Julián David Arredondo.

PCM.Daily's Favourite Cycling Contest returns!

It's June, that means it's time for the fifth annual competition of PCM.Daily's favorite cyclist, hosted by Mresuperstar. In the next few weeks, we will decide which cyclist deserves the honor of being PCM.Daily's favorite cyclist. Former winners include Philippe Gilbert, Thomas Voeckler, Jens Voigt and Vincenzo Nibali. If you want to put your two cents in, click here and sent in your nominations.

May Story of the Month Nominations

It looks like Mresuperstar's campaign to go for Admin of the Year 2014 is well underway. Next to PCM.Daily's Favorite Cyclist, we also saw the nominations of the Story of the Month revealed this week. Meanwhile, TheManxMissile's Karl Hammarling story is breaking all records with 5 consecutive nominations. Maybe your vote will break his impressive streak?

FCD V1.1 database released

The French Community Database, lead by mede33, was released earlier this week. The 2014 database includes the 2014 profile of the Tour de France, leader jerseys and the full UCI calendar. Download it here!

Thread of the Week

This week's thread of the week is reserved for Giro d'Italia Week 3. 75 pages in one week says everything it needs to say. The fight for pink was red hot!

ManGame: PCT and CT Rankings Update

Venchi - Ferranti are leading the PCT Rankings, but what's more impressive is that they're at the top with only 25 race days, with Heineken-Cal Giant following a close second but counting 48 race days. This illustrates the incredible season start for Sykkel_Freak's Italian team.

For the CT Rankings, it's Grupo Nutresa that's leading the provisional standing.

Full Rankings can be found here.

Thanks to Cyanide we were allowed to have a look into the new features of this years edition of Pro Cycling Manager.

The biggest changes for this year were done in the career mode with the new equipment sponsors and development of equipment.
But not only that has changed also contract/transfer negotiations with riders are now harder, a new tutorial one for beginners and one for the new features, the automatic mode button, next order tab and miscellaneous more. Please read the full article to know what new features are in PCM14.

Also have a look at the PCM14 general screenshot section as we have added 15 new screenshots from our tests.

And at last: We had a test version of the game so don't take the rider stats etc. as granted for the full version of the game.
Our version was just a test version with the new features already finished. The stats etc. might change for the full version!

Cyanide has released a new DevBlog update, this time it has a small focus on the sponsors.

New in this year is that you have now equipment sponsors and 3 types of equipment (frame, wheels and groupset).
Also some of these sponsors are allowing you to develop new frames and wheels.

You can see the new DevBlog update here

Focus has also released a short trailer for the game, which you can see here. Although as Cyanide themselves have said, the most changed aspect in the game is the Career mode - and you are not going to see that on a 50 second video!

A 16 minute long gameplay video has emerged on YouTube, showing off a darker menu interface, the new post-race podiums, and playing a mountain stage from the  Tour de France. It has been posted by the 'MrPcmgaming' account on YouTube - with footage taken at yesterday's 'fan day' at the Cyanide Studios.

You can see the video here, although you will need to know French to be able to understand what he is saying!

Yet another week has gone by. Time sure flies around here, when you're having fun.

PCM.Daily Championships

This week, we proudly presented to you the first PCM.Daily Online Championships. You can participate in different categories including road, 200m TT and Scratch Race. Sign ups close in exactly one week from now. So don't hesitate to sign up here!

Story Games business is booming!

The community games are flourishing. MrUfo87 started an interactive driving game. The 22 spaces were filled up in a fast tempo, showing the interest in this original initiative.

Meanwhile, admirschleck opened up a ski jumping community game. Applications are still open so sign up here if you like story games and ski jumping!

EPIC reaching epic proportions

The story game EPIC's general thread reached its 100th page this night. Undoubtedly one of the most popular site activities, manager applications are open to those who wish to enter. The game is approaching its second season break. So get on board while you can!

Thread of the Week

This week's honor goes to the The Difficult Topics, where serious off-topic conversations take place. In the words of the immortal TheManxMissile: "[...]because we are all still friends after a 6+ page debate about religion and gay rights." This truly deserves recognition.

The thread on the 2nd week of the Giro d'Italia gets an honorable mention, though.

ManGame: great heights

the Kenya Mountain Classic was the ground for a spectacular battle on the slopes of one of the toughest climbs on the calendar. All the riders starting here knew what they were in for and deserve recognition, yet only 1 man would be remembered at the end of the day.

The second (and final) climb blew the peloton to pieces. Riders were dropping off the pace left and right. With 2 kilometers left to race, Inxtausti made the decisive move. Duarte came close and rode an impressive final kilometer, but had to satisfy with a 2nd place. Abal completed the podium in this action-filled race.