Have been busy hosting and preparing for hosting christmas for the first time )and now going to Sweden for New Years) so haven't yet had time to get some profile pics of the youth races made (they are the ones from the expansion pack), but I'll just drop the link to the file in case anyone want to start looking on it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x3vv4237uir....xlsx?dl=0
I'll be back on full power in the first week of next year where I'll post the missing profiles to help you decide which races to scout as well as the trainers.
Talent scouting will be directly connected to the U23 Calender.
Top results and top rankings from the U23-races will be covered runningly throughout the season.
National teams will be adjusted so all focus nations will be part of a national team. For that reason some national teams will include more than one nation from the same region.
The U23 Calender consists of 14 classics + Worlds and 8 stages race + l'Avenir.
All teams will be given 75 pts to use for scouting. They go towards attending races and talent assessments.
Attending a race gives you detailed results of your focus nation and one more team of your choosing. Attending Tour de l'Avenir and the World Championships are free for all.
Talent assessment gives you additional info on the asessed riders. Most importantly an estimate of their talent level. This will be disguised through randomness so that a talent level 4 can give values from 3-5, 5 can give 4-6 etc. as well as the name his current highest stat.
Age and region of riders will be made available through the DB when the season has begun.
Costs
Attending a classic
2
pts
Attending a stage race
6
pts
Talent assessement, 2 random riders from a given nation
3
pts
Talent assessement, 1 rider named after the race
6
pts
Attendance includes full results of your local national team sent via PM after the race. You can only asess talent in a race you're attending. You can buy more than one talent assessment per race you're attending.
Time to get the scouting sheet filled in. The file can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x3vv4237uir....xlsx?dl=0
For the stage races I have only included the queen stage. All the the other stages are true to the classification shown in the stage overview.
The costs for attending/scouting is also in the file. You need to put the number in the corresponding cell, so if you want to attend a stage race you enter 6 in the cell in the row of the race and the column "attend". Should be pretty self-explanatory I think.
It is allowed to purchase more than one "talent asessment pack" per race. Then you just enter the amount of points corresponding to the number of packs you want to buy. So if you want two packs of asessing random rider you enter 6 (2x3).
The thing that got this a it delayed was the profiles, which you'll need to decide which races to attend. The profiles can be found here (standard expansion pack profiles): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/csukbsm2ml...1NAFa?dl=0.
Deadline: 1st of February
Also if you haven't send in your trainers: DO IT!
If you have sent in and haven't heard anything back it means that everything is fine.
P.S. Is Photobucket also messed up for anyone else?
However the talent scouting is DB-independent so I'm gonna move ahead as planned without the remaining sheets. Will send PM reminders out to everyone missing something.
For those lacking trainers when the DB is closed I'll provide the team with "flat-stat" trainers that fit within the restrictions.
For scouting I'll deduct points as the season moves ahead. 10 pts pr game-month so get it done and send it ASAP if you want some decent scouting done.
