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Weekly News #62
Its time for another edition of the Weekly News.
Olympics With the Olympics in full swing, it's no surprise that some Olympics modifications have been released in the past week. We have a new Beijing Laoshan Velodrome as made by Doddy13. There was already a Beijing Velodrome made by Jacky_Durand but while Jacky_Durand's was a fantasy version, Doddy's is much more realistic. We also now have a stage file for the Olympic Road Race, which features in Eeyor's RAW Database in Single Player mode and as a ProTour race in careers. However, the race is with normal trade teams, so will not be particularly realistic - we still await the first National teams database for this game. Finally - you can see the Olympic National jerseys that have been made in the new topic for it.
Eeyor's RAW Database The Olympics Road race is not the only feature of Eeyor's database and it includes much more than that. You can see the full feature list and download the database in our downloads section (Link above). However, there is a fairly major problem with the Database in that it changes the game's language to German. We have FSkaffe to thank for a fix to this problem: "Go to the folder DomeLights and open DL_Average.nif with notepad. Find the line: <language english="0" and write 1 instead of 0."
A look to the future? Or maybe not... Last week we told you about the mojoFutureDatabase 2011 which promises new teams, new riders, a new calendar and of course, updated stats for 2011. Unfortunately it would seem that the database promises much but delivers little, as you can see if you read Waghlon's Database Review of it.
Track Customisation Now, you may have noticed while watching the Olympics that races such as the Keirin start with a gunshot - not with a whistle as PCM would have you believe. No need to worry though, as Smoothie and Doddy13 have released a Starting Gun sound. It replaces the Whistle with the sound of a Gun shot, further adding to the realism of the game.
It has also been discovered that we can actually play Scratch races in this game by editing the file used for Elimination Races. The gameplay for it is not ideal as if you gain a lap you cannot slipstream in other riders who are a lap behind you, but nevertheless it can be great fun in an online game. As well as Scratch races, by editing "velodrome.xml" or "velodrome_elimination.xml" in CM_Stages, you can make Sprints, Keirins and Elimination Races either shorter or longer. They are fairly easy to edit yourself, but as an alternative two packs have been released: PCM Track Revolution from Little Goliath, and New Keirin Modes from Ruben.
Fantasy Olympics Finally we come to the Fantasy Olympics - with its update from after the Team Pursuit. And we have a new leader, Addy291 with his 'Don't Mention The War!' team. With Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy both on Addy's team and through to the Sprint Semi-Finals - he may be hard to beat! Only the Top 10 will be posted today - the full standings will return on Tuesday after all the Track Events are completed. Here is the Top 10 though:
Ever since the release of PCM08, a lot of people were looking forward to Cyanide releasing Track Ladder for the online game. But the date of release was pushed back until eventually it was finally revealed that there would not be one.
So here at PCM.daily, we have took it upon ourselves to make our own Track Ladder and as of today, it is released! For now it will only be for the Keirin, but we hope to extend it to Elimination Races and maybe even Sprint if it proves successful. It is open for everyone to play - the only requirement is to have an account here.
All you need to know can be found in the PCM 08: PCM.daily's Keirin Ladder forum, while the rankings will be found by a link at the top of the page: 'Ladder Ranking. So go take a read of it and get on GameCenter to start playing and battle for the number 1 spot on our ladder!
Three Track events finished today: the Points Race, Individual Pursuit and Keirin.
First of all, the Points Race was not a particularly lucrative race for most teams. Joan Llaneras took the Gold ahead of Roger Kluge and Chris Newton. No teams had picked Lllaneras or Newton, while only one, 'ACR Team', had selected Kluge.
7 teams selected the winner of the Individual Pursuit though, Bradley Wiggins. But no one picked runnerup Hayden Roulston, and the Bronze medal Steven Burke was not available to be picked - after all, Burke himself was only told that he would be riding 2 days ago!
The Keirin was the only event of the day where at least 1 team had picked the three medal winners. Chris Hoy took a dominant victory ahead of teammate Ross Edgar and Japan's Kiyofumi Nagai. Kelly, Bergemann and Tournant had also made it to the final.
'Team Schleck93' have retaken the lead as former leaders Team France fall away to 6th. With two gold medals today from Hoy and Wiggins, 'Don't Mention The War!' are now very close to the lead. The pairing of Hoy and Wiggins has also worked well for 3 other teams, who are all now in the Top 10. 'Freedom For Tibet!' are up 8 to 3rd, 'Edinburgh Road Club 'are also up 8 to 4th, while 'Britain + Belgium = mediocre placing' are up 11 places to 9th. Another big mover was 'LDF-Velingnews.com' as Wiggins and Edgar helped them rise 12 spots to 12th.
Just 2 teams are still yet to score on the Track, with 'Team "We're Going For Last Place!"' heading back in the right direction for them after a strong start. Here is the current Top 10:
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The British team stormed to victory today in the team sprint, stunning the favourites France and setting a World Record along the way in the Qualifiers. Germany took 3rd ahead of Australia with the Netherlands a disappointing 5th.
The line up for the British team was Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy. Kenny's late inclusion inplace of Ross Edgar benefits some teams, but is bad news for others.
Four of the teams has 2 of the Successful Brits in their line up which helps them to leap up the standings - Don't Mention The War! is the highest placed of the teams and move up to 3rd. It is still the same two teams at the top though, and once again the lead has changed hands.
Team Schleck93 had Edgar, while Team France had Kenny, so it is Team France who retake the lead, despite Team Schleck93 also having Kenny in their lineup. Here is the current Top 10:
