Wait guys what the fuck happened yesterday? - matt17br (Café Pedro 11: The Spammish Inquisition)

We Should Franchise

11! Eleven! Café Pedro enters a new chapter in it's life on PCM.Daily. We began back on the 9th April 2008. The opening page took eleven days to fill (there's that number again). Of the 20 posts only 5 are from still active members: CrueTruex2, Crommy, Levi4life and Wackojackohighcliffe. It's a strange thing to see now. Café Pedro is an institution of the site and is the hub for Off-Topic Everything Else discussion and every 100 pages we begin a new one.

Café Pedro 10 lasted just over 11 months (eleven again), a massive improvement on many of the previous incarnations. Café Pedro 11 is here and how long will it last? My bet is that it will break the year in length. A bumpy birth but only good things lie ahead for Café Pedro 11: The Spammish Inquisition.

Goodbye Jesleyh

All too frequently i seem to write that an Admin is stepping down. Jesleyh is the latest to join the list. To some members the news didn't come as a surprise. Jesleyh had taken a noticeble step back from the stie over the past few months, having previously left the DB team as well. Last night he came back, very briefly, to post an explanation and to confirm he's left his Admin position.

A huge part of the DB team, especially Stats, for a few years as well as just one of the most active and involved members of the site. Jesleyh was heavily involved in a lot of the site but life catches up with us all. He will be seriously missed by all. Read his full post here. Vaarwel mijn vriend!

Man-Game Madness

So much Man Game! Let's rattle through this at speed.

Avenir! Lachlan Morton took the GC victory! A close battle with Lecuisiner, who took the Points jersey, captivated the audiences coming right down the final stage. We also saw Zabel dominate the sprints and some great attacking action on the hilly stages. Cracking edition of the race.

The World Championships are incoming. The Route Vote closed and Paarl, South Africa, earned the honor of hosting cyclings premier event. It's going to be a tough race for the climbers and we can get an idea of who'll be in attendence as the Ride Nominations are currently open as well.

National Championships are a bit further away, but you can now vote for which route you think should be raced for each nation. Following in the wake of success last year we will be using the MGUCI Custom routes, but obviously every nation will be tackling a new one.

The ProTour has headed to Colombia. A climbers fest of an event it will captivate as they duel on some of the hardest, longest and highest mountain passes in the world. The ProContinental Tour tackles it's own GT in the Tour of America. A huge race for the Relegation fight with a lot on the line for tones of teams. A massive massive race for any team involved. The Continental Tour goes down under for the Herald Sun Tour where Kruopis is on the verge of victory, whilst Simon of OTP took victory in Greece.

Story Games Summary

I'll keep this brief. ICL16 is still deep in it's transfer period. New teams are taking shape and there is adecent amount of reshaping in the existing teams. Rattling through is the ICL, still one of the best organised intitiatives on the site thanks to Bikex and his excel skills.

CX:AND is closing in on the World Championships. Between now and then are a few more races and a lot of action and intrigue. Vague wants to seal his wins, Cornelis wants to show he is still the best, Bakari wants to show Africa can compete, and Listerijn wants to take Goldenberg to court. And much more!

New faces in rFactor. Comstar is all new and Tangofoxx is pretty new to the league (and the site). Tango has provided some great new graphics just in time for the Practice event at Interlagos tonight. The rFactor league more popular than ever and the Brazilian event could be the best yet.

Thread of the Week

You'd think it would be Pedro or CX:AND, but you'd be wrong! News In October takes the honor in the week we saw the Tour de France route announced. Just because the main season is now over doesn't mean there can't be news and discussion on real world cycling!

Category: ManGame (Crits Series 2013, unofficial event)

When talking about the ManGame's Theo Bos, then we're talking about a living legend: it is incontestable that he's one of the fastest and most fascinating sprinters in the ManGame universe. Crommy's lover, Crommy's world beater. If Crommy wasn't his manager (Bouygues Telecom), this might be a little bit different. But it's just like that.

Flat 55, Hill 53, Backup stats <63... Sprint 85, Acceleration 85.. voilà: Theo Bos.

You can blame PCM for many things. You may even blame it for refusing Bos any major results in his entire career. But you should admit, that it just makes sense, he didn't win a thing. Wait.. not a single win? Well.. in the 2013 season, there was a Crits Series held for a few months. Short and mostly flat. That's when Theo Bos started to listen attentively.

He got the chance to ride the 'Profronden van Belgie' and the 'Nederlands Wielerdagen' (for a mixed team racing in Rabobank's colours). And he took his chance in style! In Belgium, he won his first ever (3D played) ManGame race and went for a tied overall victory in this 5-rounds Series. He then added another victory on home soil, when sprinting to line honours in Maastricht. Standing ovations from Crommy.

This topic has made me realise I've now been around for 3 years. Scary... - FroomeDog99 (Café Pedro)

Fantasy Betting, Now It's Serious

The PCM.Daily Fantasy Betting this year has been incredible. We've had some of the biggest ever wins and a cracking range including a lot of new style bets, and of course there was the '1 of 4' Competition during the Tour. Now the main Road season is coming to a close the Rankings have gotten super serious. SportingNonsense leads with $2,371. Elch is Second with $2,360. Strydz is Third with $2,358. Three members separated by just $13!

Currently there is just one Bet still running, Hour Record Holder @01/11/15. This Bet came online way back on the 18th January and, barring any madness in the next three weeks, Bradley Wiggins will be the winning rider. So which of our three contenders has picked the winner? Or could there be more drama as main betting admin Roturn has suggested he might throw down some final obstacles!

Man-Game Madness

A very unique event is upon us. The Tour de l'Avenir is one of the only races where ProTour can go toe-to-toe with the Continental Tour. Riders from all teams can take part in the 10 day event. The top U23 talent is there with riders like Morton, Lecuisiner, Zabel, Groenewegen, Zmorka, McCarthy, Lutsenko and many more in attendence.

The Primary PT race this week was the GP Moscow, a sprinters fest. Sam Bewley, Becherovka, dominated the finale. He keeps Becherovka's title hopes powering as they close up on Vesuvio. Yes we had a PT Rankings update this week as well.

The big PCT news was the conclusion of the Volta Portugal. Tiago Machado, Prio-Porto, took the GC win. Nepomnyachsniy was 2nd for the relegation battling Nemiroff, a huge result for them. The CT went to the USA for a cobbles battle where Van Wyk took a surprising breakaway win for Strava.

Story Games Summary

ICL16 continues with it's off-season. Early FA bidding and Transfer discussions as well as a lot of talk to decide on the new calendar changes. PCR continues with it's sign-up proccesses. CTL begun it's planning phases as well. So basically, it's Story Game off-season and there's plenty to keep abreast of.

CX:AND crowned a new champion. The NES finished up with drama in Kitakyushu as the young guns fought hard. Milan Listerijn claims the honor of first NES winner! Other attention shifted towards the Continental Championships in the coming days as well.

Thread of the Week

All this talk of the Road season coming towards it's end. But with the Tour Down Under less than 100days away, lets be honest the season never really ends. Certainly not if you read my thread of the week, Other Races 2015. Abu Dhabi, Emilla, Piemonte, Paris-Tours and more keep this thread as alive as it was in July or August.

10,000 posts. It's finally happened. it took 4 years and 2 months but it happened! - Baseballlover312 (Café Pedro)

Man-Game Madness

With the drama of the Tour behind us the ProTour moved onto Germany. Six of the Eight stages have been completed. Bauke Mollema, Project 1t4i, claimed the latest stage win. Alexy Lutsenko, Pendletons, currently leads the GC by just 4" over Riccardo Ricco. Certainly it should be a dramatic final few days.

The ProContinental teams hit up Portugal for one of the seasons longest races. Four stages down out of Eleven and it's Patrick Lane, Vontobel, leading the way by the smallest margin of 1" over Yevgeni Nepomnyachsniy. The Continental teams were in Colorado for the USAPCC. Jakub Novak, In-n-Out, took the GC win.

We also had some new rankings released for PCT and the CT. Certainly worth a look as we start to enter the final phases of the season. Title fights are closing together, Promotion battles are tight as anything and the struggles against Relegation still hang in the balance.

Other Games Summary

ICL has hit 2016. They've dived headlong into the Renewals/Transfers/Steals phase of the off-season. Plenty to be done for the managers and it will be interesting to see the moves various teams make as they strive to improve themselves. Season 3 could be the best one yet!

EPIC hasn't been as happy. It's been coming for a while now and Ollfardh finally called an end to the game. It had been very slow through the summer and had pretty much come to a halt, now it is finished. A great project and the news was greated with great thanks by its participants.

From the ashes of EPIC, Atlantius is starting up Professional Cycling Reborn. It looks like a very simple game with minimal manager influence. You'll see a few EPIC names popping up as well, whilst a number of managers are back with their EPIC teams. It should be good project.

CX:AND cracks on as usual. The Christmas Classic was a hard fought event with Sylvain Lipawsky winning a close race. Next up the circus heads to Japan for events around Fuji and Kitakyushu.

Finally in this summary of all Games Daily. The rFactor League hit Hungary for Race #4. TheManxMissile claimed victory by just 0.099seconds ahead of Paul23 after a thrilling and close race. You can watch all the action over on Twitch courtesy of baseballlover312.

Thread of the Week

This week i'll give it to the Other Races 2015 thread. Autumnal Classics providing daily action which of course is consistently reported and discussed in the thread as we start winding down for the end of the main road race season.

Category: Member/Story (Colnago - CSF Inox by Tuco the Ugly, PCM11)

After writing three short-lived stories for PCM10, this skilled writer came up with one of the best written story in a prosperous PCM11 story-section. Tuco the Ugly does not only have the coolest name (and avatar) on the forum, he's also bequeathed us one of the coolest (and most realistic) tales of a Continental Team trying to make it's way up to the ProTour: the Colnago - CSF Inox team in 2011.

With Domenico Pozzovivo, Sascha Modolo and Marco Frapporti as the team's "draft horses", Tuco would compile a thrilling read with epic reports and nice screenshots - with a squad far from being overpowered and (rare) victories feeling like (real) victories. Like when Marco Frapporti missed quite a few wins very close, to then take out three autumn classics (Coppa Sabatini, GP Beghelli, Milano-Torino) within a few days.. also Pozzovivo's wildcard appearance at the Giro d'Italia turned out to be a great read: chanceless against a clear winning Ivan Basso, the little climber fought for a podium until the very end. The concluding flat timetrial would see him drop from 3rd to 5th in the GC though.

Tuco ain't active on the forum anymore (at least for quite a while now), but especially the younger members should really have a look into his legacy. Back in those days, where we had more than a handful of top-quality stories ongoing, Tuco the Ugly stood out with his exceptional writing (a shame, he never won an award).