The game starts off with everybody getting assigned a random team of 9 real riders, they also have a budget of 10000. At the start everybody can exchange riders if they wish, using both their budget and their riders, but every team must always have 9 riders.
Each week a race will take place on a random course and whoever has the rider that comes 21st is out of the game, however, over the following week their riders will be auctioned off, if somebody buys a rider, they will be able to exchange a rider for another rider on their team, the next week that rider will be auctioned as well as the riders from the losing team, any riders that do not get bought will be unused for the rest of the game.
At the end of the week (on Sunday), another race will take place to decide who goes out. The game continues until we have 3 teams left, where the team who has come closest to 21st without actually coming it (rules explained below) will win the game.
How a normal week works:
Day 1 (Monday):
Riders up for auction are announced (see below for how auctions work) and auctions begin.
Day 2 (Tuesday):
Auctions continue.
Day 3 (Wednesday):
The race route is announced and some auctions will be finished by then.
Day 4 (Thursday):
The winner of the blind auction (see below), is announced.
Day 5 (Friday):
All auctions finish and teams must be confirmed, or they will be randomly selected.
On day 6 nothing happens (well the races are simulated but you don't need to do anything).
Day 7 (Sunday):
The race is run and a team goes out.
Auctions:
Every week, the riders from the team that goes out, are auctioned off, as well as any riders dropped from a team the previous week. Every auction will be announced on Day 1 and the starting bid is 500, you must raise every bid by a minimum of 50. Somebody must have the highest bid for 24 hours to win the auction. If it reaches day 5 and we still do not have a winner, there will be a buyout price which is 200 more than the current bid. but the final bidder has to pay 25% of that price if they don't accept. After that, anybody can pay the stated price (200+the final bid) for that rider and the first to do so gets the rider, if nobody does by the end of day 5, nobody gets the rider. If you win an auction, you must remove one rider from your team, to be replaced by the new rider, if this is not done so by the end of Day 5, a random rider will be chosen.
As well as the riders who have been dropped from a team, I may pick a rider who is either not on a team or is out of the game and also put him up for auction one round, he may even be the blind auction (see below).
Blind Auctions:
One auction every week will be a blind auction, bidders must pm me their bid and the person with the highest bid on day 4, wins a special prize as well as the rider, Such as being able to pick where what position makes you out of the game for the next round.
More will come on that later...
Transfers:
There will be 3 transfer periods during the game, 1 at the start, one transfer period three rounds in and one transfer period six rounds in, during a transfer period you will be able to trade as much as you want as long as you always have 9 riders. You may use both money and riders to trade and any amount of teams can be in one deal.
Other Rules:
The winner of every stage receives 500.
Remember, the team who's rider comes 21st is out of the game.
When there are 3 teams left, the winner is decided by whoever finished closest to 21 the most times (so the first decider is how many times did your riders finish 20th or 22nd, then 19th and 23rd, 18th and 24th, etc. until one team has got higher number of those positions). If the number where a team goes out changes, the numbers for that round are closest to that, for example; if for 1 round the rider who comes 47th goes out, then for that one round, 46th and 48 are equivalent to 20th and 22nd.
Your starting budget is 10000
If somebody breaks a rule, they will generally get a warning or a financial punishment, however if somebody cheats multiple times, (which is hard to do in this game) they will be removed from the game.
Occasionally a rule may be changed specifically for one round, for example we may have a round where the race winner get 1000 instead of 500 or second place wins the money, or all the riders are half price for the auctions. More to come on this later...
I have the final say in all decisions.
More to come...
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Team Name:
Nationality
9 riders with an average 70+:
Jersey:
* The riders you select are put into a random draw for which team gets them, so you are unlikely to get them, this is also based on the pcm14 expansion pack and if two riders are picked by the same team, I will ask one team to re-choose.
** You can pick any jersey you want, but you may just select a pro-team's jersey if you wish.
*** Just to stop any people telling me that it's unfair if somebody gets all the 80 av riders or all the 70 av riders, you go out if you come 21st, as well as that, every route is different and somebody may win the right to change the number that people go out on.
**** Also, the route is selected randomly on no basis, so Nibali may never come 21st on a Mountain stage, but he might on a cobbled stage (his cobble is good enough for that).
On a side note, if anybody wishes to help out, I may need some help doing race reports. I can do it alone, but it would make it easier (and the race reports will be more in-depth).
Confirmed Teams:
Spoiler
Team Tekkers- <cycleman123> Kiwis- <luis leon sanchez> Team Petronas-HTC <Paul23> The Italian Job <matt17br> Fiesche Vlag <Selwink> Spaniards <javibozada> 100% Young <Sam1> BES - Novo Banco <PeterRyder> RGiBC <OZrocker> ExxonMobil - Geberit <MARSUPILAMI> Hashtag Yolo <TheManxMissile> Al Fozan's Dream Team <Bikex>
Aidis Kruopis Peter Sagan Edvald Boasson Hagen Ion Izagirre Rick Zabel Adriano Malori Tom Dumoulin Lieuwe Westra Rafal Majka
Money: 3400 €
Transfers:
- Aidis Kruopis x Ioannis Tamouridis + 500
- Edvald Boasson Hagen x Filippo Baggio + 700
- Peter Sagan x 5400
- Maciej Bodnar OUT
Edited by MARSUPILAMI on 04-12-2014 15:31
The Australian team is more Colombian, Portugese and Polish, with two riders from each, the team is highlighted by puncheurs and climbers, with Kwiatkowski and Costa and Henao, the team is great on hilly courses and Lagutin will be a great domestique there, while the rest of the team will be great for the mountains.
Kiwis
Matej Mugerli Puncheur
Andrea Fedi All-Rounder
Janier Acevedo GC Rider
Mark Renshaw Sprinter
Jens Voigt Fighter
Warren Barguil Climber
John Degenkolb Sprinter
Marcel Kittel Sprinter
Vincenzo Nibali GC Rider
This is another team without a rider from their country, however, this team has 3 amazing sprinters, Renshaw, Degenkolb and Kittel can work magic on the flats, while Acevedo, Barguil and Nibali will win on the steep slopes, add to this strong man Voight, this team can't be underestimated on any terrain.
Only one though, who wants to buy/trade Mugerli and Fedi...? I want more Kiwi's and I dont know those 2. I like the team though with Kittel, Degenkolb, Barguil and Nibbles. 21st on cobbles is more than possible though...
This team is a really all-rounded team, they have strong climbers a few puncheurs, Caleb Ewan for the sprints and it's led by Van Avermaet, a real all-rounder. This team will be up there on all terrain.
The Italian Job
Jos van Emden Time-Trialist
Jack Bauer Roleur
Enrico Battaglin Climber
Jesús Herrada All-rounder
Adam Yates Climber
Simon Yates Climber
Bradley Wiggins Time-Trialist/GC Rider
Philippe Gilbert Puncheur
Joaquim Rodiguez Climber/Puncheur
This Italian team has just one rider of the same nationality, but with the Yates brothers, Wiggins and Rodriguez, this team can really climb, add to the the puncheur Gilbert, when the road goes up, this team will be dangerous.
Team Tekkers- <cycleman123>
Aidis Kruopis
Peter Sagan
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Ion Izagirre
Rick Zabel
Adriano Malori
Tom Dumoulin
Rafal Majka
Team Tekkers:
Charles Huff GC Rider
Sergey Lagutin Puncheur
André Cardoso GC Rider
Sebastian Henao Climber/Punchuer 
Kiwis
Matej Mugerli Puncheur
Janier Acevedo GC Rider
Warren Barguil Climber 
Youcef Reguigui Puncheur 
Jakob Fuglsang Climber 
Greg Van Avermaet All-Rounder
Adam Yates Climber
