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ProContinental Teams Announced!
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-03-2011 22:27
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Fresh from the announcement of 19 ProTour teams, the UCI is today prepared to announce 19 ProContinental teams for next season. Unlike the Continental teams, which have yet to be announced, ProContinental teams received full continental privileges - most notably that they are able to apply for Wildcards for Grand Tours and Monuments.
Cerne return to the division, having promoted 2 seasons ago as Energie-Diesel, while the likes of Cal Giant and Rapha Condor are now notching up their 5th straight season in the division.
The ultimate aim of all teams is of course to promote, but just who is going to manage it this time around?
| Bimbo Nutella | POR | | California Giant Berry Farms-Specialized | USA | | Cerne | POR | | Focused Cycling | FRA | | Hollister Pro Cycling | USA | | Jayco-Red Bull | AUS | | Pirelli-Alfa Romeo | ITA | | Pokerstars.com | BEL | | Rapha Condor - Qhubeka | GBR | | Saab - Scania | SWD | | T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft | RUS | | Team Bianchi | GER | | Team Emu Export | AUS | | Team Waghlon | BEL | | Team WWE | USA | | UniCredit | ITA | | Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa | ITA | | VolksWagen-Siemens Cycling | GER |
Note: Team Bianchi are guaranteed a ProContinental license, but may become ProTour pending Domina Vacanze. El Al are absent, as I can only assume Deadpool's most recent post implies that he no longer wants a part of the game.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 19-03-2011 22:37
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Hopefully we get Deadpool back...
On the subject of divisions, is there set to be an expansion of the game? Or are all 3 divisions set to be about the same size?
Also do i get a seniority bonus? or is it more of a seniority fine
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-03-2011 22:39
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Continental Division = ProContinental + Continental
Where ProContinental are teams who have been around more than 1 season, and Continental are teams who are new
Its just coincidence that for now, theres 19 PT and 19 PC
Edited by SportingNonsense on 19-03-2011 22:40
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 19-03-2011 22:46
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And what about my Seniority bonus?
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 19-03-2011 22:47
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So is it solely a name, is there no advantage over CT teams? |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 19-03-2011 22:49
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Sounds like the PCT teams get the best wildcards.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-03-2011 23:01
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Its the same as last season - just actually defining the difference.
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| Heine |
Posted on 19-03-2011 23:02
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Volkswagen-Siemens Cycling, the next great German team! T-mobile/Telekom, who's that?
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 19-03-2011 23:16
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Glad to be back. Well, actually no .
Seems like a nice mix of teams. Good luck to everyone for the forthcoming season
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| Smowz |
Posted on 20-03-2011 07:39
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Gustavovskiy wrote:
Glad to be back. Well, actually no .
Seems like a nice mix of teams. Good luck to everyone for the forthcoming season
It is interesting to get at least one team relegated from the protour with the aim of getting back up.
Waghlon struggled with the transition - in terms of getting success, I think your team Gustav the question to begin with is LL Sanchez or not LL Sanchez
It is hard to look past rjc and SN's teams at this early stage for a high position, I am fascinated what rjc does with his team - will it be a Tour de France/Paris Nice wild card grabber for example? In terms of very early promotion predos, the teams who just missed out last year were the ones who stepped up this year. So pressure on Bimbo Nutella, Pokerstars, TCS and Red Bull then!
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| jack888 |
Posted on 20-03-2011 10:39
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Getting top 15 is going to be a mission. |
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| Heine |
Posted on 20-03-2011 10:58
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I have decided to have higher goals than last year, so getting top 10 will be a mission this year. (I decided when I started to have my goals get gradually tougher, so top 15 last year, top 10 this year, then promotion/top 5)
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 20-03-2011 11:47
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Will be interesting to see if I can close the gap to the possible favourites you mentioned Smowz, during the upcoming transfer season. This will hopefully give me the possibility to participate in some protour races, especially the Italian ones!
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 20-03-2011 12:33
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With Santander promoting it's interesting to note there are no longer any Spanish teams in there.
Plenty of Spanish races remaining though - so, someone like LL Sanchez will be very useful.
Oh, and Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa Racing for the Giro!!!  |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 20-03-2011 12:41
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It is hard to look past rjc and SN's teams at this early stage for a high position, I am fascinated what rjc does with his team - will it be a Tour de France/Paris Nice wild card grabber for example?
On both counts I doubt it. I intend to take a more fun race schedule, and I know rjc's team isnt going to be going down that route.
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 20-03-2011 16:56
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SportingNonsense wrote:
It is hard to look past rjc and SN's teams at this early stage for a high position, I am fascinated what rjc does with his team - will it be a Tour de France/Paris Nice wild card grabber for example?
On both counts I doubt it. I intend to take a more fun race schedule, and I know rjc's team isnt going to be going down that route.
If I go top 10 team rankings, I've done something seriously wrong. Well, actually, I won't have, but the amount of teams I've beaten to the Top 10 will have. |
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| msarthou |
Posted on 23-03-2011 23:33
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Please excuse me if it's not the right thread. I want to know if i can still applay for a place in the man-game. Thanks
"this point of the route is not where you fell of the bike, this is the place where you rised up and took the bike again"
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| dudi2401 |
Posted on 23-03-2011 23:36
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msarthou wrote:
Please excuse me if it's not the right thread. I want to know if i can still applay for a place in the man-game. Thanks
https://www.pcmdai...rowstart=0
SN explains everything in the first post.
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| Boet |
Posted on 11-07-2011 14:07
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@SN i see you have a Sponsor from South Africa, Qhubeka... which is actually a non profit charity organisation  but you dont have any South African riders on your roster? only other Africans... how did you get away with that one?  |
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