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PCM.daily's 2010 DB: Release Date
I've been receiving an awful lots of e-mails and PMs about the release date of the final version of PCM.daily's 2010 DB (V1), therefore it's probably good to clear up some confusion.
The 2010 DB will not be released today. The reason for this is that the 2010 World Championship (both RR and TT) stage files are being made, and we'd love to include these with the DB. They should be finished at c. 21-22 tomorrow, and this means that there's no chance that the DB will be released before that time.
The earliest release is at c. 23 tomorrow, at the latest mid-Monday.
Monday Update: Its now the last day to enter before the Tour Down Under
If you have yet to join our 2010 Fantasy Cycling Season game, and are interested in doing so, then you should do your best to get it done as soon as you can. Today is the deadline in order to earn points from the Tour de San Luis, while tomorrow is the deadline for La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, and more importantly - the Tour Down Under.
You will of course be able to join after this date, but it means you are likely to be playing catchup if you ware wanting to win the game overall.
With the 2010 season having started, it's time to transform PCM into a 2010 game. PCM.daily has previously released a 2010 Transfer Update along with the final version of our 2009 DB, but obviously, a lot has happened since then. Evans has moved to BMC, Wiggins to Sky - along with hundreds of other transfers.
These have of course been included in PCM.daily's 2010 DB. 91 teams have been updated to 2010 according to UCI's and CQRanking's lists, and 40 of these teams have their 2010 shirts. 6 races have their 2010 race profiles: Tour Down Under, Giro d'Italia, Tour de Suisse, Tour de France and the two new Pro Tour races, Grand Prix de Québec and Grand Prix de Montréal. We've updated all the races' race dates, though, meaning that e.g. the Tour of California is now raced in May.
You also get all the features from the 2009 DB, e.g. the doping banned riders, new scouting zones, improved time gap system (for some races, lots of new secondary sponsors etc. You can find the full list of features here.
This first version is a Public Beta, so please report any bugs you stumble upon while using this DB. The final version is expected within a week.
The 5th round of the track league continues tonight at 8:30pm GMT - Thats 30 minutes later than first planned due to me having to do the DB (exams means that it's a last minute job this time round).
This week, PCM.daily will release a Public Beta version of its 2010 DB for PCM09.
The DB will not include much new features, but it will contain the teams from the 2009 DB, excluding the disbanded teams and adding Sky Professional Cycling Team, Team RadioShack and Team NetApp. We might add one or two extra teams before the release, but that's still undecided. As always, you also get the 2010 shirts for as many teams as possible. The 2010 DB also includes the 2010 Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Tour Down Under and Tour de Suisse as well as the race date changes made for 2010 (e.g. Tour of California -> May).
We've also been working on the young rider generation system. We've changed the basic files which determine how good the different types of riders can become, so they now fit with the PCM.daily stat matrix.
We don't really have any screenshots to show, but as a teaser, here's one I sent to fenian_1234 a couple of days ago.
