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| Imladrik |
Posted on 26-08-2022 14:22
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Thank to both of you. I hope we'll not be to ridiculous 
And now, the team roster, before some late signings and the CT draft.
| Nat. | Name | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | | Age | | | Wage |   | Mikel Iturria | 71 | 77 | 73 | 72 | 77 | 74 | 76 | 63 | 60 | 61 | 69 | 66 | 73 | | | 30 | | | 140 000 |  | Remy Rochas | 67 | 77 | 74 | 61 | 70 | 70 | 73 | 60 | 61 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 62 | | | 26 | | | 80 000 | | Oscar Guerao | 72 | 55 | 63 | 55 | 68 | 61 | 78 | 66 | 81 | 73 | 69 | 76 | 55 | | | 34 | | | 50 000 | | Quentin Pacher | 70 | 71 | 75 | 61 | 73 | 74 | 69 | 58 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 67 | 63 | | | 30 | | | 50 000 |  | Luca Wackermann | 74 | 68 | 74 | 53 | 74 | 74 | 73 | 56 | 74 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 51 | | | 30 | | | 65 000 | | Fabien Doubey | 71 | 74 | 75 | 59 | 72 | 72 | 71 | 55 | 67 | 70 | 63 | 60 | 59 | | | 29 | | | 50 000 | | Cristian Rodriguez | 70 | 70 | 76 | 67 | 76 | 70 | 70 | 55 | 65 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 67 | | | 27 | | | 55 000 | | Marc Sarreau | 75 | 58 | 65 | 60 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 72 | 76 | 76 | 63 | 64 | 67 | | | 29 | | | 85 000 | | Jon Aberasturi | 73 | 58 | 63 | 59 | 71 | 69 | 74 | 56 | 78 | 76 | 59 | 56 | 74 | | | 33 | | | 50 000 | | Jon Ander Insausti | 70 | 53 | 64 | 66 | 76 | 73 | 64 | 77 | 57 | 66 | 66 | 70 | 66 | | | 30 | | | 50 000 | | Bruno Armirail | 72 | 71 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 75 | 73 | 60 | 61 | 65 | 74 | 68 | 71 | | | 28 | | | 70 000 | | Sergio Martin | 67 | 70 | 72 | 61 | 72 | 72 | 71 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 69 | 66 | 61 | | | 26 | | | 50 000 | | Jordi Simon | 67 | 76 | 66 | 53 | 71 | 76 | 69 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 67 | 61 | 53 | | | 32 | | | 50 000 | | Hugues Mottin | 67 | 56 | 59 | 77 | 64 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 50 | 52 | 64 | 69 | 77 | | | 34 | | | 50 000 | | Clement Berthet | 64 | 71 | 70 | 58 | 68 | 71 | 63 | 60 | 62 | 70 | 69 | 75 | 58 | | | 23 | | | 100 000 | | Oier Lazkano | 64 | 64 | 69 | 59 | 64 | 67 | 63 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 71 | 61 | 59 | | | 23 | | | 50 000 |
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 26-08-2022 15:04
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Congrats on completing the team. Appreciate that you took the time to pull in the Basque flags. I am a big fan of teams with a commitment to their core nations.
Good luck with the season.
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| MacC |
Posted on 26-08-2022 15:14
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God job, should be competitive in all races, even a Basque cobblestones guy!
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 26-08-2022 15:16
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Interesting core team for sure, while I don't think that you're going to be battling it out for promotion you'll have a very strong core to push with next season! Love the regional focus in the recruiting as well!
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 26-08-2022 15:41
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Agree with the comments above. Promotion itself looks unlikely, but an amazing commitment to the regional identity, wonderful. Insausti at 50k is superb I think. Also Berthet and Lazkano as great regional talents. Good luck during your first season and with the race planning coming soon 
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 26-08-2022 16:12
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Looks like a promising team, though you could have focussed just a little bit more on basque riders for my taste 
Will be interesting to race with and against your team!
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 26-08-2022 16:39
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Happy to see my former riders Aberasturi & Insausti find there ways to a home team. Rochas is a good pick-up, and i love taking a shot on Guerao! Promotion might be tough, but in the CT never say never. It's year 1 and a clear direction for the project, best of luck.
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| SotD |
Posted on 26-08-2022 18:40
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I have to say, this is a very impressive built, and I think you have a very good shot at promotion!
To create such a setup with almost entirely french/spanish riders (4 basque even) is really well done!
Obviously I’ll be following a bit from the sideline as I never got to experience Rochas as a maxed rider, but he was pretty good for me at PT as unmaxed so I think you are in for a treat :-)
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 29-08-2022 03:06
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Agree with Sotd. Very impressive setup for a new team, and especially given your commitment to a regional focus. Good combination of youth and veterans too.
Good luck this season!
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| redordead |
Posted on 29-08-2022 07:17
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Impressive setup with so many French and Basque riders signed. You'll probably be relying more on depth with no real top end leaders.
"I am a cyclist, I may not be the best, but that is what I strive to be. I may never get there, but I will never quit trying." - Tadej Pogačar
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| GregPeck |
Posted on 30-08-2022 07:31
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Really good allround team. You should score tons of points across a lot of different races. |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 31-08-2022 12:05
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The RES stats in this team have my seal of approval, great instincts for a new manager A great kind of team to have which can be competitive in every single race, it's very fun to manage and watch in the regular season - it's how I used to be before I started paying primadonnas too much money and having to sell them 
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 07-09-2022 13:48
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Cool signings for your first year, impressive focus on your regions
Good luck!
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 12-09-2022 21:45
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Well, I intended to do the whole team presentation, goals and so on but that'll wait some more days. But I've got time to answer to all your kind words, yip yip.
Ulrich Ulriksen wrote:
Congrats on completing the team. Appreciate that you took the time to pull in the Basque flags. I am a big fan of teams with a commitment to their core nations.
Good luck with the season.
When I'm given a nice looking flag, I use it!
MacC wrote:
God job, should be competitive in all races, even a Basque cobblestones guy!
Thanks, we'll have to see if I didn't mess everything with the planning, that was a hard learning moment.
But, well, no pressure.
whitejersey wrote:
Interesting core team for sure, while I don't think that you're going to be battling it out for promotion you'll have a very strong core to push with next season! Love the regional focus in the recruiting as well!
Nemolito wrote:
Agree with the comments above. Promotion itself looks unlikely, but an amazing commitment to the regional identity, wonderful. Insausti at 50k is superb I think. Also Berthet and Lazkano as great regional talents. Good luck during your first season and with the race planning coming soon
Thanks! Promotion was never a goal anyway. Learning how the game works (both man and PCM, I've mostly played one-rider-mode-I've-forgotten the name) and how I can put time into the game is good enough.
Next goal : find a french basque rider.
kandesbunzler26 wrote:
Looks like a promising team, though you could have focussed just a little bit more on basque riders for my taste
Will be interesting to race with and against your team!
It's not that I haven't tried. Would have loved to find a south-west french rider though, but they all seem to come from the Alps or Britanny.
TheManxMissile wrote:
Happy to see my former riders Aberasturi & Insausti find there ways to a home team. Rochas is a good pick-up, and i love taking a shot on Guerao! Promotion might be tough, but in the CT never say never. It's year 1 and a clear direction for the project, best of luck.
A basque sprinting team, isn't that good? x)
I just have to hope that Guerao will repeat his nice Olympic race, but if he doesn't, he was cheap anyway.
SotD wrote:
I have to say, this is a very impressive built, and I think you have a very good shot at promotion!
To create such a setup with almost entirely french/spanish riders (4 basque even) is really well done!
Obviously I’ll be following a bit from the sideline as I never got to experience Rochas as a maxed rider, but he was pretty good for me at PT as unmaxed so I think you are in for a treat :-)
Thanks for the selling! (My very first buy of the game).
I probably fucked up his planning a bit, but I'm sure he'll be a great representative of the team.
Fans will love him.
baseballlover312 wrote:
Agree with Sotd. Very impressive setup for a new team, and especially given your commitment to a regional focus. Good combination of youth and veterans too.
Good luck this season!
redordead wrote:
Impressive setup with so many French and Basque riders signed. You'll probably be relying more on depth with no real top end leaders.
GregPeck wrote:
Really good allround team. You should score tons of points across a lot of different races.
Laurens147 wrote:
Cool signings for your first year, impressive focus on your regions
Good luck!
Thanks to all of you. Happily, these were not the hardest cycling countries to find, and even with a few new french team, there was enough riders for everyone (even though the good talents were a biiiiit expensive).
We're going to make a ton of publicity for a new Bordeaux-Bilbao train!
jandal7 wrote:
The RES stats in this team have my seal of approval, great instincts for a new manager A great kind of team to have which can be competitive in every single race, it's very fun to manage and watch in the regular season - it's how I used to be before I started paying primadonnas too much money and having to sell them
I've had to verify the meaning of primadonna to be sure to understand (even though it's quite transparent), what I found while looking was... interesting.
Anyway, the good side of having an public institution who pulls the money, is that there is never too much money. |
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 03-10-2022 21:14
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This is it! Season is on, the first race is raced. But before that, let's go back in time to see what has been missed :
Team
The team has been completed! One loanee, some youngsters and CT draft later, it can be found here.
Goals
Goals! Yes, we have goals! Very ambitious ones because somebody must have fucked with the calculations AND because people in charge of calendar and people in charge of recruitement didn't talk to each other, but well, here they are;
| C2 Clasico San Jose | Win | | C2 Volta a Catalunya | Win | | C1 Vuelta al Pais Vasco | Stage win | | C2 Zuri Metzget | Win | | CT Team Standings | Top 10 |
Complete race schedule can be found here
And yes, 3 of our 4 race goals are within the three first months of the year.
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And now january is on, with our first ever race in Gisborne, New Zealand. Quite difficult to go there by train, but it is said that Euskotren is launching negociations.
 Gisborne GP
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time | | 1 | Ian Boswell | McCormick Pro Cycling | 5h29'03 | | 2 | Daniel Hoelgaard | Tryg - Gobik | + 23 | | 3 | Sergey Luchshenko | Bianchi - Panerai | s.t. | | 4 | Loic Vliegen | Colombini-Adler Aalterpaint | s.t. | | 5 | Carlos Barbero | Caja Rural Cycling Team | s.t. | | 6 | Elia Favilli | Pas Normal Studios - Mikkeller | s.t. | | 7 | Luca Wackermann | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | s.t. | | 8 | Luka Pibernik | Trans Looney Tunes | s.t. | | 25 | Quentin Pacher | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 2'26 | | 32 | Remy Rochas | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 3'14 | | 59 | Mikel Bizkarra | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 4'32 | | 87 | Alexis Renard | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 6'00 | | 88 | Nils Brun | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | s.t. | | 108 | Clement Berthet | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 7'34 |
Comments
The race wasn't on our best terrain, and we came here for a warm up and showing the jersey. Nils Brun and Alexis Renard did just that, by going into the breakaway, while Wackermann managed to stay in the chasing group to grab a good 7th place. Nice work by the team.
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 03-10-2022 22:59
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Great to see you working in the sponsor goals of testing public transportation.
I fear it might be more achievable than your race goals.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 04-10-2022 08:04
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Unexpectedly strong result by Wackermann to open the season, congrats! Those win goals will be tough indeed, but you never know
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 04-10-2022 09:46
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7th is a great effort from Wackermann in Gisborne! Excited to see your climbing duo in Tachira.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 23-10-2022 13:53
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February is here ! Some exciting race days to come, as we're back in Spain, but before that, let's see how the end of January went.
 Vuelta al Tachira| Race Date | Category | | 21.01-30.01 | C2 |
| Stage | Rider | Rank | Time | GC | | 1 | Darshana Prasad | 1 | 2h41'52 | | 1 | Oscar Guerao | 3 | s.t. | 4 | | 1 | Marc Sarreau | 16 | s.t. | | 2 | Jakub Mareczko | 1 | 2h32'34 | | 2 | Oscar Guerao | 2 | s.t. | 1 | | 2 | Jon Aberasturi | 10 | s.t. | | 3 | Trond Larsen | 1 | 2h49'59 | | 3 | Oscar Guerao | 14 | s.t. | 3 | | 6 | Andrew Talansky | 1 | 54'02 | | 6 | Mikel Iturria | 9 | + 1'07 | 7 | | 9 | Andrew Talansky | 1 | 3h40'50 | | 9 | Mikel Iturria | 5 | + 59 | 6 | | 10 | Freddy Cruz | 1 | 20'33 | | 10 | Hugues Mottin | 7 | +18 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time | | 1 | Andrew Talansky | Glanbia | 30h34'57 | | 2 | Yuriy Vasyliv | BNZ-Superhero Racing | + 2'01 | | 3 | Aberlardo Ablenado | Caja Rural Cycling Team | + 2'34 | | 4 | Piter Campero | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 4'14 | | 5 | Lawrence Warbasse | McCormick Pro Cycling | + 4'20 | | 6 | Mikel Iturria | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 4'51 | | 18 | Remy Rochas | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 12'04 | | 25 | Bruno Armirail | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 15'26 | | 99 | Jon Aberasturi | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 56'30 | | 101 | Marc Sarreau | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 58'37 | | 112 | Oscar Guerao | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 1h10'35 | | 124 | Hugues Mottin | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 1h29'24 |
Comments
Our first stage race, and quite hard to analyze. All in all, the final GC result and lack of good mountain results must be disappointing, and for a race with all our leaders, the points counter is not that good. But Guerao, with two podium and one day in yellow, has showed good performances, as well as Armirail in general and Mottin in the TT. The 6th place is not that bad either, and we're not far from the 5th, nor from the 3rd in team standings.
 Clasico San Jose
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time | | 1 | Loic Vliegen | Colombini-Adler Aalterpaint | 5h25'24 | | 2 | Anatoliy Budyak | Team Popo4Ever | s.t. | | 3 | Olivier Le Gac | Oktal Pharma - TotalTV | s.t. | | 33 | Cristian Rodriguez | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 3'32 | | 59 | Fabien Doubey | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 4'17 | | 62 | Mikel Bizkarra | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | s.t. | | 67 | Luca Wackermann | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | s.t. | | 79 | Alexis Renard | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 5'07 | | 94 | Sergio Martin | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 5'41 | | 137 | Nils Brun | Bordeaux Metropole - Euskotren | + 13'38 |
Comments
Well, at least we tried things. Renard, one of our youngsters, was in the breakaway, and Doubey and Wackerman went on an audacious attack with 60 km to go! That's some french (and italian) panache ! But that caused Rodriguez to be dropped due to bad positionning, and the final result is a very disappointing zero pointer.
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 GP Herning| Team | | | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | Jon Ander Insausti | 70 | 53 | 64 | 66 | 76 | 73 | 64 | 77 | 57 | 66 | 66 | 70 | 66 | | Marc Sarreau | 75 | 58 | 65 | 60 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 72 | 76 | 76 | 63 | 64 | 67 | | Quentin Pacher | 70 | 71 | 75 | 61 | 73 | 74 | 69 | 58 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 67 | 63 | | Luca Wackermann | 74 | 68 | 74 | 53 | 74 | 74 | 73 | 56 | 74 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 51 | | Bruno Armirail | 72 | 71 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 75 | 73 | 60 | 61 | 65 | 74 | 68 | 71 | | Alexis Renard | 71 | 60 | 67 | 65 | 66 | 73 | 65 | 65 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 65 | 67 |  | Nils Brun | 66 | 64 | 68 | 59 | 69 | 67 | 66 | 59 | 62 | 67 | 65 | 61 | 58 | | Jordi Simon | 67 | 76 | 66 | 53 | 71 | 76 | 69 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 67 | 61 | 53 |
Expectations
Not much. Insausti is our main cobbler, and he could have a fairly good result if their’s an arrival between specialists, though he can’t sprint. In a bunched sprint, we’ll hope for a good enough performance of Sarreau or Wackermann to bring us some points.
 Volta a Catalunya| Race Date | Category | | 15.02-20.02 | C2 |
| Team | | | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | Mikel Iturria | 71 | 77 | 73 | 72 | 77 | 74 | 76 | 63 | 60 | 61 | 69 | 66 | 73 | | Jordi Simon | 67 | 76 | 66 | 53 | 71 | 76 | 69 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 67 | 61 | 53 | | Mikel Bizkarra | 64 | 75 | 71 | 62 | 70 | 70 | 70 | 54 | 64 | 71 | 70 | 66 | 61 | | Bruno Armirail | 72 | 71 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 75 | 73 | 60 | 61 | 65 | 74 | 68 | 71 | | Clement Berthet | 64 | 71 | 70 | 58 | 68 | 71 | 63 | 60 | 62 | 70 | 69 | 75 | 58 | | Hugues Mottin | 67 | 56 | 59 | 77 | 64 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 50 | 52 | 64 | 69 | 77 | | Nils Brun | 66 | 64 | 68 | 59 | 69 | 67 | 66 | 59 | 62 | 67 | 65 | 61 | 58 | | Jon Ander Insausti | 70 | 53 | 64 | 66 | 76 | 73 | 64 | 77 | 57 | 66 | 66 | 70 | 66 |
Expectations
Woouh ! Team goal ! In Spain ! Near the french border !
Well, winning seems unlikely, due to some TTT weaknesses, but we’ll settle to a better GC than in Tachira. The climbing team will be dedicated to Mikkel Itturia, while we hope some breakaway appearance for our youngsters, and maybe even Armirail, who showed good spirit in Tachira.
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Ulrich : just wait till we open a transatlantic TGV line 8)
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 24-10-2022 16:40
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Guerao with two podiums in Tachira and briefly wearing yellow are moments to remember for sure Sorry to read about the Costa Rican zero pointer. I'm sure the first win will follow quickly as well!
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