Grand Prix Rejects

Equipe Fantomette will keep all the already-been drivers and will pick other three more

Jonson Edderly (TRT)
Age: 26
Primary Skills: Prologue, Sprint, Fighting Spirit

Alexandre Cadinho (BRA)
Age: 30
Primary Skills: Mountain, Endurance, Recovery

Siggi Judsen (ISL)
Age: 21
Primary Skills: Flat, Time Trial, Cobbles

Performance and Cocktails are pleased to announce the signing of 4 cyclists. They are:

Brandon Plant
Age: 27
Nationality: USA
Primary Skills: Mountain, Hills, Fighting Spirit

Wilson Ricky
Age: 29
Nationality: South Africa
Primary Skills: Flat, Sprint, Acceleration

Hugh Englemann
Age: 26
Nationality: German
Primary Skills: Endurance, Recovery, Cobbles)

Nelson Burbridge
Age: 24
Nationality: New Zealand
Primary Skills: Flat, Resistance, Prologue

kostas22 wrote:Full season? Gotta have these races in them;

Tour Down Under
Paris-Nice
Milan – San Remo
Tour of Flanders
Paris-Roubaix
Tour of the Basque Country
La Flèche Wallonne
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Tour de Romandie
Critérium du Dauphiné
Tour de Suisse
Eneco Tour
Clásica de San Sebastián
GP Ouest-France
Giro di Lombardia

There. Calendar sorted. Next question?

Also, what are Mika Pyora and Roberto di Magneta's stats?

The Calendar looks fair, may adjust it so it is less eurocentric and add in a time trial only event and a flatter classics stage. But along with the tours a 15-20 event calendar is ideal.

di Magneta was just signed by Lansvale. (The stats are in my previous post if you are still curious). Mika Pyora: Cobbles, Sprint, Endurance
As for

Pyora might make a decent Classics rider. Sign him up. Although hopefully Xavier de Vos turns out to be the new Tom Boonen

With my reserve riders I am OK with them getting random stats if I am able to change the slightly later.

eurobrun wrote:With my reserve riders I am OK with them getting random stats if I am able to change the slightly later.

No. You can't. Once preferred skills are chosen, that's it, no going back. Doing otherwise would be unfair to many people, and also completely unrealistic.

kostas22 wrote:

eurobrun wrote:With my reserve riders I am OK with them getting random stats if I am able to change the slightly later.

No. You can't. Once preferred skills are chosen, that's it, no going back. Doing otherwise would be unfair to many people, and also completely unrealistic.

In that case I will pick skills later

Freaky Styley Racing will withdraw with immediate effect, as their team boss stated his heart "was no longer in it". All the riders are made available for other people to use.

Best of luck everyone, and thank you Shadaza for running this.

In which case Alitalia will take Heidar Helguson!

kostas22 wrote:In which case Alitalia will take Heidar Helguson!

FGC will sign all the other Freaky Styley riders

FantometteBR wrote:
Jonson Edderly (TRT)
Age: 26
Primary Skills: Prologue, Sprint, Fighting Spirit

What country is TRT?

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:Freaky Styley Racing will withdraw with immediate effect, as their team boss stated his heart "was no longer in it". All the riders are made available for other people to use.

Best of luck everyone, and thank you Shadaza for running this.

Aww no worries, no more bright red jerseys lurking in the middle of the pack then .

pasta_maldonado wrote:

kostas22 wrote:In which case Alitalia will take Heidar Helguson!

FGC will sign all the other Freaky Styley riders

It looks like you are *sunglasses* Fostering the former FSR riders, Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Shadaza wrote:

FantometteBR wrote:
Jonson Edderly (TRT)
Age: 26
Primary Skills: Prologue, Sprint, Fighting Spirit

What country is TRT?

My guess would be Trinidad and Tobago.

Shadaza wrote:

FantometteBR wrote:
Jonson Edderly (TRT)
Age: 26
Primary Skills: Prologue, Sprint, Fighting Spirit

What country is TRT?

My first guess would be a case of getting the country code for Trinidad and Tobago wrong - it's actually TTO.

Yes, it's Trinidad...

FantometteBR wrote:Yes, it's Trinidad...

No worries, they have Trinidad. Probably put them in because there is a Trinidad rider in the (woeful) Track category.

Lansvale Racing will sign David Lee, Peiter Briggs and Nicolas Pedersen if they're still available

Credit Bancarotto

Updated confirmed drivers

Rafael Verwest
Alexandre Vache
Fabiano Accelerara
Carey Brice

Rest of the drivers are sacked.

New riders will be announced at a later date.

Wizzie wrote:Lansvale Racing will sign David Lee, Peiter Briggs and Nicolas Pedersen if they're still available

You actually want to hire that fool, I have no problem with it but he was still hopeless with Battery

Some more stats:
Both Sousa Brothers. Mountans, Resistance, Time trial
The other guy I created that I cant remember his name. Sprint, Cobbles, Fighting spirit

This is the provisional calendar, borrowed heavily from the real tour and Kostas's suggestions.

Tour Down Under - Stage Race
Paris-Nice -Stage Race
Milan – San Remo - Classic (Single Stage)
Tour of Flanders - Classic
Tour of the Basque Country -Stage Race
Paris-Roubaix -Classic
Liège–Bastogne–Liège -Classic
Tour de Romandie -Stage Race
Giro de Italia - Grand Tour (Extra points)
Tour de Suisse - Stage Race (Stage race)
Critérium du Dauphiné - Stage Race (Stage race) Clashes with Tour de Suisse.
Tour de France - Grand Tour (Extra pomts)
Gp de Pologne - Stage Race
Clásica de San Sebastián -Classic
Vuelta a Espana - Grand Tour (Extra points)
GPC de Montreal -Classic
International Time Trial (TBC) - Time Trial
International Team Time Trial (TBC) - Team Time Trial
Giro di Lombardia - Stage Race
Tour of Beijing - Stage Race

In terms of points the system is 100-80-70-60-50-40-30-20-10-4 for the top 10 finishers with extra points (6,4,2,1,1) per stage result.
The exceptions are the 3 grand tours and the International Team Time Trial.

200 points awarded to the winner of the Tour de France (Further denominations explained closer to the time)
170 points to the winner of the other two grand tours
and a flat 200 points for the winning team with points going down to the top 10 teams.

The individual championship will be simply decided by collecting the most points across the season.
The team championship will be decided by adding the points of the top 5 riders in the team and the points from the International Team Time Tiral.

Whilst there will also be a national championship where the top 5 riders of a nations points will be added together, played for laughs mostly.

I hope this is simple enough to understand!!!

The first round is the Australian Tour.
It is not too late to continue signing/creating riders but you may wish to consider choosing which riders to put in this first event
The stage race is rather short with 6 stages of around 150 KM or less, 4 of them flat designated as flat and 2 of them hilly.

The number of riders that can be entered per team is 7

In the meantime here are the unsigned riders. I also still welcome anyone who wants to create a team, there is room for up to 22 teams. (Currently 16)

Unattached Riders:
Roger Alfonse
Laurens Buivart
Kevin Frederickson
Martin Jaeger
Antonio Arena
Ragnar Solmundsson
Nicola Casella
John Vonn
Piero Riccone

Sorry to be an absolute pain again but what are the stats of the three guys I just signed?

Wizzie wrote:Sorry to be an absolute pain again but what are the stats of the three guys I just signed?

You are not a pain at all!
David Lee: Flat, Resistance, Prologue
Peiter Briggs: Reistance, Recovery, Fighting Spirit
Nicolas Pedersen: Mountain, Fighting Spirit, Downhilling

What? No Critérium du Dauphiné in the TdF buildup? What kind of madness is this?!

Shadaza, would you mind terribly making everyone's lives easier, by having a list of riders in the very first post of this thread at all times? As in, current team rosters with specialist skills next to them?

kostas22 wrote:What? No Critérium du Dauphiné in the TdF buildup? What kind of madness is this?!

Shadaza, would you mind terribly making everyone's lives easier, by having a list of riders in the very first post of this thread at all times? As in, current team rosters with specialist skills next to them?

Updated team line ups on the 2nd post, I will post rider stats next to them soon.

As for the Criterium du Dauphine, I did consider the Tour de Suisse as a similar event but I could run both of them if need be.

New members at Minardi Cycling Team:

Philipe Viruolien (already signed, but not yet confirmed in the second post) plus

Arnets Barriotxega (Basque(/Spanish), 27, endurance, fighting spirit, resistance)
Marcus Bennett (South African, 24, flat, acceleration, cobbles)
Harry White (British, 20, TT, prologue, recovery)
Rinaldo Ranozzi (Italian, 23, hills, endurance, resistance)
Davide Cozzo (Italian, 22, resistance, recovery, downhill)


Team for Tour Down Under:

Daniele Rampazza
Thor Tromsen
Marcus Bennett
Rinaldo Ranozzi
Walt Beerrider
Philipe Viruolien
Gianluigi Ricchi

OK, will announce my team once the stats are up on page one.

Twinings Earl Grey World Cycling Team announces the signing of 2 new riders:

Name: Louis Gaillard
Birthdate (or just age): 20
Nationality: FRA
Primary Skills: Flat, Acceleration, Sprint

Name: Freddie Donnelly
Birthdate (or just age): 25
Nationality: GBR
Primary Skills: Flat, Endurance, Resistance

The team will enter the following riders:

Craig West
James Davies
Freddie Donnelly
Louis Gaillard
Jose Vasquez
Jacob Denver
Ivan Shermetev

Rider stats all available on the first page of this thread.

NSA Racing Team will hire Laurens Buivart and Kevin Frederickson to the team

CREDIT BANCAROTTO reveal new riders.

Name: Constant Lagg
Birthdate: 23
Nationality: American
Primary Skills: Mountain, Recovery, Sprint

Name: Uno Sandberg
Birthdate: 33
Nationality: Swedish
Primary Skills: Mountain, Hill, FS

Name: Jase van der Boom
Birthdate (or just age): 28
Nationality: Australian
Primary Skills: Endurance, Sprint, Flat

Name: Artem Kraviz
Birthdate: 27
Nationality: Russian
Primary Skills: Endurance, Sprint, Hills

Name: Morgan Blosse
Birthdate (or just age): 30
Nationality: German
Primary Skills: Endurance, Sprint, Time Trial

I now have 9 riders in my team, that is enough right?

Alitalia Parmalat Bianchi has unveiled their lineup for the Tour Down Under;

141 Claudio Castiglione
142 Stefano Firenze
143 Xavier De Vos
144 Artan Karimi
145 Piermario Saltamachhia
146 Vincenzo Mazzola
147 Lorenzo Romano

They have also signed on promising young Belgian rider Raphaël Le Clercq as part of their squad for this season;
Hills, Cobbles, Sprint

Lansvale Racing will enter the following riders for the Tour Down Under:
Nasser Aqeem
Michael Chow
Roberto Di Magenta
Jean Velo
David Lee
Peiter Briggs
Jean-Marie van Fiets

Bancarotto's line up for Australia

Rafael Verwest
Alexandre Vache
Constant Lagg
Jase van der Boom
Artem Kraviz
Fabiano Accelerara
Carey Brice

Team CIP has decided to keep Sand and Goolagong after all.

Additionally, the team confirms eight new riders:
Börje Eriksson, Sweden 27 - Fighting Spirit, Cobbles, Hills
Olav Moen, Norway, 30 - Mountain, Downhill, Recovery
Paul Schulz, Germany, 21 - Sprint, Resistance, Prologue
Marek Michalek, Czech Republic, 36 - Flat, Time Trial, Endurance
Slobodan Tomic, Slovenia, 28 - Fighting Spirit, Hills, Resistance
Pedro Mota, Portugal, 24 - Time Trial, Recovery, Acceleration
Donald McRae, Canada, 28 - Endurance, Flat, Hills
Sancho Gutierrez, Mexico, 29 - Mountain, Hills, Acceleration

I will increase total of riders to around 20, as I can see there are some clashing events. I will confirm TdU line-up tomorrow, but Goolagong is sure for his home race.

Roger Alfonse has decided to retire from his career in cycling after a lack of offers and relative old age.

Is it possible for Credit Bancarotto to use this shirt??

http://pcmdaily.com/shirtdb.php?game=PCM08&type=mj&year=2009&team=2

The one most above. Made by Grillo.

Final five riders to complete my team. A total of 21 riders.
Marcos Perez, Argentina, 37, Sprint, Flat, Fighting Spirit
Bart Bouwer, Netherlands, 26, Cobbles, Hills, Acceleration
Volkan Necipoglu, Turkey, 20, Sprint, Flat, Prologue
Michael Payne, United States, 28, Endurance, Time Trial, Recovery
Dong Yan, China, 23, Mountain, Hills, Acceleration


TdU roster:
Goolagong
Eriksson
Bouwer
Necipoglu
Yan
Tomic
Corday

Firehawk's reserves are:

Thomas Tenpenny, Australian, 21
Phillippe de Jong, Dutch, 23
Siddharth Kumar, Indian, 24
Dominic Roberts, German, 24
Paolo da Silva, Brazilian, 22
Paul Murphy, British, 25
Hussain Inam, Pakistani, 28
Park Jung-Un, South Korean, 27

Throw dices on their skills and their apperances. Also, we'll also hire andrew's riders.

FGC will enter the following riders:

Ed Kevin
Craig Beic
Mitchell Webb
Thomas Yorke
Daniel Sims
Dave Hedgehog
Jaap van Riebek

JeremyMcClean wrote:NSA Racing Team will hire Laurens Buivart and Kevin Frederickson to the team

Done:
Laurens Buivart - Endurance, Resistance, Mountain
Kevin Frederickson - Cobbles, Sprint, Acceleration

Benetton wrote:I now have 9 riders in my team, that is enough right?

It will be enough to run a full team for most events, but I plan on running the Dauphine and Tour de Suisse as if they were running at the same time meaning you won't be able to run a full team at both events.

kostas22 wrote:
They have also signed on promising young Belgian rider Raphaël Le Clercq as part of their squad for this season;
Hills, Cobbles, Sprint

Made him 20 years old, let me know if you want this changed.

FMecha wrote:Firehawk's reserves are:

Thomas Tenpenny, Australian, 21
Phillippe de Jong, Dutch, 23
Siddharth Kumar, Indian, 24
Dominic Roberts, German, 24
Paolo da Silva, Brazilian, 22
Paul Murphy, British, 25
Hussain Inam, Pakistani, 28
Park Jung-Un, South Korean, 27

Throw dices on their skills and their apperances. Also, we'll also hire andrew's riders.

Phillippe de Jong, Dutch, 23 - Cobbles, Time Trial, Down Hill
Siddharth Kumar, Indian, 24 - Acceleration, Fighting Spirit, Resistance
Dominic Roberts, German, 24 -Mountain, Cobble, Time Trial
Paolo da Silva, Brazilian, 22 -Time Trial, Endurance, Mountain
Paul Murphy, British, 25 - Acceleration, Time Trial, Mountain
Hussain Inam, Pakistani, 28 - Endurance, Hills, Acceleration
Park Jung-Un, South Korean, 27 - TT, Flat, Fighting Spirit

andrew's riders:
Joel Janz Marquez 18 (Argentina) - Flat, Endurance, FS
Gimmi Tanatacci 19(Italy) - Recovery, Acceleration, FS
yorslov Mechavic 17 (Russia) - FS, Hills, Endurance
Claudi Gusto 24 (Chile) - Sprint, Downhill, Flat