Earlier this summer cyanide released an online free to play version of PCM called Tour de France online, well it was obviously sucessful because it's back, for La Vuelta!

Be aware it's in Beta: http://www.lavuelta-game.com

If you sign up, you'll be expected to report bugs etc. and give feedback

For whats new, click read more

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As you may be aware of, PCM.daily is currently working on a more 'complete' 2009 DB with more teams, races, riders and other interesting features. What we haven't said - until now - is that we're working on an add-on for this database to satisfy a smaller, yet remarkable segment of PCM.daily: the East Europeans.

Ozzy is the one in charge of this expansion pack, and he's asked me to forward the following message - click 'Read More' to read it.

Best Riders

In the end Contador came out on top with Kloden making it an Astana 1-2. Long time leader Tony Martin ended 4th.

Perfect Team

As a result of what was shown above, the fantasy team is as follows. They would have scored 26,620 pts

Most Efficient Rider

Christophe Riblon was leading into the 2nd rest day and he held on to win it overall aswell. Jeremy Roy is the only one in the most efficient Top 3 who was in anybody's team though.

See the extended article for the full best rider and most efficient rider tables.

Okay, time to reveal the absolute final results of the Fantasy Tour de France 2009 ... and I can tell you that it is now closer bewtween the top 2 teams than it was after CrueTrue's last update - the winning margin is less than 100 pts.

Elsewhere, the good news is that theres very few positional changes from Crue's final update. However I notice that one change could cause some annoyance to Deadpool in regards to the final position of his and Waghlon's teams ...

Information on the best riders, most efficient riders and the perfect team will come on Saturday.

So ... ah, yes .. the winner. Congratulations jack888! Andy Schleck, Vandevelde, Pellizotti, Kloden, Astarloza, Cancellara, Casar, Hincapie and even Pereiro have delivered you to the Number 1 position.