I'm please to announce that matt17br has volunteered... been forced... agreed to become the newest administrator at PCM.daily! He doesn't exactly need much introduction, as reigning 'Member of the Year' and 'Most Helpful Member of the Year'! He will be a great addition to the Admin team, as we approach the release of the new game in less than two weeks time.

PCM.daily's Database Team just released the final update for their 2016 Database, containing even more features than the previous versions.

This time, the DB Team focused on adding 10 more CT teams and updating the race calendar.

Click "Read More" for more information.

You can find the full list of features, the installation manual and the download links here!

Here it is, my first blog post. I spoke to SN about doing a blog for Daily a while ago and thought I'd wait until I was in France to start.

Titled "The Long Way Up", it's supposed to be like my climb to becoming a professional. Being from South Africa and outside the structure of European racing, it is very much a long road for us to the top-level. As I'm not the next Peter Sagan either the only way I'd get there is by grinding my way up through hard work, mistakes, and negotiating the switchbacks (i.e. learning curves).

If you'd like to share in my experience of it all, feel free to read on.

calling this giro boring is just crime against humanity - Guido Mukk

PCM/TDF 16 Info, At Last

Focus finally gave us some PCM and TDF 2016 news on Friday. Five screenshots taken from the games were posted on social media, confirming that COM is still a thing if not much else. They also put a bit more of a summary on their website, and i mean a summary. No real details as yet but a lot of hints at good things like Co-Op multiplayer and Steam Workshop support. You can read our full news article below this.

Microjerseys

Thanks to some work from roturn and matt17br, mostly matt, we've added a new little feature... sort of. By clicking here you can find a list of microjerseys for 2016 cycling teams. Simply copy the link of the team you want, paste it in the thread, and wrap the link with the image bb code. They work just like normal images would. So now you can decorate your posts with pretty pictures or draw emphasis or do whatever you want with them.

Games

You've still got time to sign-up for ICL17, and i still cannot recommend doing so enough! It's going to be bigger and better than ever and it is a fantastic game. Just ask those that play, they will all scream at you to join!

CX:AND has kicked on again this week. Big races in the World Cup and Coca-Cola trophy have drawn lots of top quality comment. The season is now greaing up for the NES finale in Kitakyushu, Japan, and then the Continental Championships.

By a vote of 5-1-0, Marcovdw (i can spell!) won Big Brother Season 3. Marcodvw earned himself a very nice userbar. Marcowdv also earned the respect of the players and spectators with a well played game. Marwcodv will now find it harder than ever to win another game.

Finally the Man-Game. The MG you say? But that's dead you say? Not as dead as some of you might think. Sleep easy knowing that SN has been tied to a chair and tortured for information that has been passed on to the relevant people. So start keeping your eyes peeled in the coming weeks for it to start waking up.

Thread of the Week

I would give it to CX:AND but there's definitely some heavy bias. I also considered the Giro Week 2 thread for being by far the most popular thread, and containing some good discussion, but no. Who was the best Thomas Voeckler of all time? is my thread of the week to honor Tommy and his 4 Giro appearences.

Pro Cycling Manager 2016: First Screenshots

Cyanide took their time this year but at last we have some real information from them on the upcoming games. They've released five screenshots taken from the Pro Cycling Manager 2016 and Tour de France 2016 games, due to be released in June on PC, PS4 and XbOne.

So what can we see? To look at the images yourself click on read more below. Looks like more lisenced teams than before, although still no BMC. The bikes themselves seem updated, or at least they've changed the coloring to be more realistic on several of them. Apart from that you can't tell much from the screenshots. Looks pretty as ever!

If you jump to the Focus website you can find a touch more info. For Tour de France 2016 you'll be getting new and specific Mont Saint-Michal, Mont Ventoux and Champs Eleysees graphics. Descent Challenge will be multiplayer. New updates and additions to Pro Team mode. Finally they're adding "throw their bikes", or as we normal people say "lunging for the line in a sprint".

Pro Cycling Manager 2016 will come with 550 stages as standard. Lots of changes to Multiplayer where you can change all sorts of race rules, and apparently Co-Op! More interactions added to Be-A-Pro. New Objective and Sponsor system to Career mode. As well as usual graphical and AI changes. Finally they are adding Steam Workshop support!

Note: Added screenshots to Read More