On Saturday the 3rd Grand Tour of the year, the Vuelta a Espana, begins - and like with all other Grand Tours this year, PCM.daily has a mini-league on Velogames.com. We had 140 teams compete in the Tour de France fantasy game, so dont forget to signup for the Vuelta version aswell.

The rules are simple - you select 9 riders with a points value of up to 100 points (those who are more likely to score points on every stage obviously costing more). 2 All-Rounders, 2 Climbers, 1 Sprinter, 3 Domestiques and a Wild Card who can come from any of the categories. The code for the PCM.daily fantasy league on the website is: 15105134.

Also, Id like to take the chance to remind you about our Cycling Photos section. Recent additions include my own from the London Surrey Cycle Classic last weekend, and lagetcher's from the first few stages of the Tour de France. And if you havent yet seen them, there is also JMURB's from the Giro d'Italia and Lorkan's from Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

If you have Cycling Photos of your own then it would be great if you wanted to upload them to the section - and perhaps with the World Championships coming up in Copenhagen, a few of our Danish members will remember to bring a camera with them!

As promised yesterday, here's the complete V1 of PCM.daily's Expansion Pack. We recommend that you completely reinstall your game, then install the patch (1.0.4.4.) and then this package. You do not need the V0.5, V0.5 Update nor the Podium Fix.

Torrent (1 file)
Multiupload (5 files): Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Please note: I won't be home to seed this, not even to begin with, so it's highly recommended to download the files using Multiupload.

When you are done downloading through Multiupload, download the torrent file. When asked where to save, direct it to the place where you downloaded the files from Multiupload to.

This will make you a seeder of the file, even if you didn't download it through the torrent.

Thanks a lot.

So here we go - the V1 of PCM.daily's Expansion Pack.

We already introduced the main changes in this news article from earlier today, and in short, the V1 fixes bugs and adds a few extras - e.g., a few more sponsors, a bit more equipment, one new team and a couple of new races. The full feature list can be found here.

V0.5 -> V1 Update: Get the torrent here, or download the Update in two parts from Multiupload: Part 1 | Part 2

If you experience any problems, don't forget to read the Questions and Answers thread.

As we're now getting close to the release of the Expansion Pack V1, it's time to reveal the features. Obviously, you know most of them from V0.5, but we did add a few extras to the V1.

First of all, we have completed the World Tour with the addition of the all-new race Tour of Beijing, thanks to Olympus. And speaking of stages/races, it's also worth mentioning that there's now even more variants available (e.g. 5 Tour de France routes and 5 Giro d'Italia routes). We have also added some randomly chosen variants for the national championships of the larger countries, so you don't necessarily end up with the same type of winner every year.

We have also added a new team, D'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo, which is one of the top Continental teams (in fact, it's the best continental team of all right now, according to CQ Ranking).

More frames are now available, and c. 55 teams are now using the correct frame brand in road races.

Even more sponsors can now be contacted - the number of sponsors is now up to 242, all with shirts, transferts and logos.

Needless to say, we have also been using a lot of time fixing all the bugs that have been reported. There's obviously always going to be something, also in the V1, but hopefully, you're going to get a great gaming experience with the PCM.daily Expansion Pack V1.

You can see the updated list of features here. We might not have remembered everything, but you probably get the idea anyway.

On the day of release of the V0.5, we mentioned that we expected to release the V1 on Sunday. I'm up for a busy weekend, though, so rather than rushing the release, I'd rather take it slow and make sure that everything is OK before the final release.

We're not going to set a new "fixed" release date, but we do expect to have the V1 out by early next week.

Don't forget to report the bugs that you find in this thread.