The Giro d'Italia is over, and I'm sure that many of you will agree when I say that a large group of riders deserved some new stats. Therefore, we've been working on a second version of out 2010 DB, and we're now so far in the process that we can release a Public Beta. These are the main improvements:

- 2 teams deleted (Rock Racing and CC Bourgas), 2 added (Scott Marcondes and ISD Continental Team)
- 1 new race (Tour of Oman)
- 2010 profiles for 35 races (including the three GTs)
- Updated stats (last changes made on 30th of May)
- New equipment setup (please read the FAQ), including all the new 2010 material
- Lots of new 2010 shirts, both normal shirts, national champion shirts, race leader shirts, and more.

Please keep in mind that this is a Public Beta. The primary objective is to find and solve the bugs for the final version which will be released during the next weekend (11th to 13th). You can report the bugs that you find in this thread. Read the FAQ before reporting.

Mirror 1 (PCM.daily)
Mirror 2 (torrent)

Update, 5th of June 17:22: A few more videos, including one of the new Stage Editor in action, have been revealed on the official PCM10 website. You can see them here. Thanks to JMURB for the tip.

With the release around the corner, Cyanide feels it's time to feed us with yet another trailer of Pro Cycling Manager 2010. Since we've had a few of these by now, I'm not going to make a huge deal out of it - so here's the link. Enjoy!

As promised when the 1st version was released, we'll be releasing an update to our 2010 database soon. The usual beta version is expected to be ready in a couple of days while the final version - and our very last release for PCM09 - will be released c. a week after the beta version.

The update will contain a stats upgrade (the last changes were done after today's time trial in the Giro d'Italia), updated 2010 shirts and plenty of new race leader and national championship shirts and a new equipment setup. A few teams have been deleted and replaced by others. We've also updated a bunch of races, so they now have their 2010 profile, including the Vuelta a Espana. Lastly, we've of course been going through the bug reports and fixed them.

After c. 24 hours of downtime, we're finally back online.

This time, we can't (really) blame the host (reseller), though. To put it as short as I can: PCM.daily shares the same server with a couple of other sites. One of these other sites apparently had some illegal material on the server which made the actual host shut down the entire server.

Needless to say, the legal department isn't quite as helpful as the support department ;)

It's that time of the month to start thinking about who you'll be bringing in, and taking out, of your Fantasy Cycling teams. As SportingNonsense wisely predicted in the last transfer article, the Giro has been the biggest points scorer since the game began, and with a few Pro Tour stage races coming up in June, maybe it's time to look forward to the Tour in July?

The Tour of Luxembourg may see the appearance of Lance Armstrong, and can we presume he'll do the Criterium Dauphine too? Either way, they're potentially two big scoring events, and you've got to look at the Tour de Suisse too. A few one day HC races are scattered about, notably Philladelphia, but other than that just one heck of a lot of one dayers (my personal nightmare to score). Oh, and National Championships!

Please note that transfers MUST be PMed to rjc_43 or posted in this Comments Section.

Any transfers PMed to SportingNonsense this month will 99% likely be ignored. He has exams, and so it's just a one man show this month.

The deadline is 23:59 GMT time, on the 31st of May, which happens to be a Monday. If you're extra special to me, I might let you PM me the transfers at 00:00 on the 1st of June.

Also, remember to check your previous months teams, and budget before doing transfers - I shall endeavour to get them up in the correct forum ASAP.