The saddest thing for everyone else is that every time I break down and get really visibly frustrated with the game, it does something to make me immediately eat my words, which is embarrassing on one hand (as I shouldn't get so frustrated and rage about a game), but also offers a backhanded reward.
In all seriousness, apologies to reporters like Heine and my fellow managers for my outbursts on here in recent times. I've gotten stressed about other things in my life like work and then vented those frustrations through here when things don't go my way. It's not respectful or mature, and I will be better than that going forward—in all cases, not just when my luck turns for the better. Thank you to everyone who helps this community keep going, regardless of what happens in PCM.
No problem on my hand. I quite could predict your reactions as I was doing the reports
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A. Roy
On the bright side, we were active in breakaways on many stages.
On the other hand, this was almost as bad as I could have imagined. Best shown, not by the lack of quality from Carapaz, but from Azman (100th) and Rodriguez (116th).
However, I guess it could have been worse (looking at Shikai and Hirt)
No crazy outliers from Higuita, but all in all I think I can be content from him being ninth in a climbing stage race in PTHC. Perhaps if he had been signed by another manager he would have been at 81/82 mtn by now, and he would have done even better in his home race Nice experiment to see what he is capable of in terms of climbing against the best competition.
Thanks for the fabulous reporting, and congratulations to all that did well.!
Quality reports Imladrik as always! Being the 5th sprinter in the preview Banaszek delivered solid 5th places at Stage 1 and 4. Sivakov on the other must have had bad race-day conditions again just like Tirreno-Adriatico, really annoying: 1/3 of Sivakov race days wasted because of this
edit: I renamed Volta a Colombia - Stage 3 to Vuelta a Colombia - Stage 3 Edited by OlegTinkov on 06-01-2026 09:58
