A day late and a dollar short. But with head writer Ian Butler off on a mini-vacation and the rest of the admin team running low on free time at the moment, a day late is surely better than nothing. I'll try my best to pick up the peices for this week's edition.

June Story of the Month Results

After a few technical difficulties implimenting the new poll system for voting, I can now announce that Trek Factory Racing takes the honor of being named June Story of the Month with 15 votes over aCross the Road with 8. Congrats to admirschleck on his first Story of the Month victory.

While in the New Story of the Month competition history has also been made. We have our first tie! With 8 votes each, Il Bimbo d'bronzo by Re Leone and The Two of Us by Ian Butler and I are crowned co-winners. It can't hurt to mention that In The Pursuit of Glory wasn't far behind either with 6 votes.

PCM14 Files Everywhere

Pro Cycling Manager 2014 is nearly a month old and the community has been hard at work trying to make the game the best it can be. While our DB team had to relay the sad news that a PCM.Daily Realname DB is a no-go, there are still plenty of great downloads available to get the fullest experience possible out of PCM14.

Looking for some of these add-ons? Keep checking out the download section as Rin and SportingNonsense are doing the bulk of the work trying to keep up with all the new files being released almost daily now. Also for a more detailed approached you can always go directly to the PCM14 graphics, database, and stage subforums on the site to find projects to support and content to download.

Thread of the Week

Since the Tour de France stage threads won last week I have decided to pick out the World Cup thread once again as there is a new champion in the world of football (or soccer as I call it).

The thread skyrocketed to 124 pages over the past month as fandom and passion for the game was on full display, or overwhelming nationalistic support for member's home country depending on which way you look at it. Today sadness sets in as we realize we have to wait another 4 years for it to all happen again.

Todays edition of "Cycling Interview" is with Ken Sommer. He is an official UCI rider agent and leading the agency "CORSO Sports Marketing". Click read more to see the interesting interview.

The life of Raphael Visconti takes center stage in aCross the road by Shonak. The promising cyclo-cross rider who also takes to the road race circuit brings everything you could possibly want in a one-rider story. This marks the first time a (New) Story of the Month winner has been spotlighted.

Normally we look for stories in order to draw more attention/readers to them, but for this week that approach isn’t really needed. Since aCross the road hit the forum back in February it has been a smashing hit. So, instead this spotlight services two purposes.

First, to showcases one of the best stories PCM.Daily has to offer to all the new members stopping by during the Tour de France. Second, a little extra inspiration to keep the story going. It has hit a little stall pattern after completing the 3rd season, so hopefully this can spark Shonak to continue Raphael Visconti’s journey. To view the complete synopsis click Read More.

Patch 1.2.0.0

Probably the most interesting event of the week for us PCM.Daily users was the release of patch 1.2.0.0. It fixes some of the biggest bugs in the game and it makes the career mode playable. There is no news about a third patch so far, but we expect they're working hard on it, seeing how there are still many things left to address, such as the sprinting bug.

Tour de France 2014

The Tour de France has begun. That time of year when everyone at PCM.Daily goes completely crazy. While we're all hoping for a beautiful race, participate in the discussions - a new thread is made for each stage - and place your bets! There ain't nothing like Le Tour!

DB Team is hiring!

The PCM.Daily Database team is hiring help to bring out the Expansion Pack. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Read the full article here and don't hesitate to sign up if you want to be a part of a great team!

PCM.Daily's Favorite Cyclist

Albeit a week late, PCM.Daily has chosen its favorite cyclist, in the competition set up by Mresuperstar. In the season 5 finals, the Tour de France stage winner Marcel Kittel conquered over defending champion Vincenzo Nibali!

Big Brother Season 1

Big Brother - an initiative by jseadog1 - Season 1 has also reached an end. The verdict was a clear and deserved victory from Brewers90, who received 7 of the 10 final votes. Congratulations to the winner, the other finalists, all the participants and especially jseadog1 for bringing his flawless version of Big Brother to the site!

Thread of the Week

The Thread of the Week goes to Le Tour de France 2014 Grand Depart. Like I said, it's Tour madness, and that reflects in the figures. The thread for the Grand Depart reached 13 pages and more than 6000 views only 2 days after it was opened.

ManGame: Reporters Asked

While roturn is reporting on the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, there is no way around it: the ManGame is running a bit slow this month. We have a strong team of reporters and we're sure the pace will pick up again soon. However, we always appreciate new, good, enthusiastic reporters so if you feel the urge to be on the reporter team, now is the perfect time to step up! If you're interested or have any questions, send a PM to SportingNonsense!

I'm afraid I have bad news for some of you. The DB team decided that we won't release the PCMdaily Realname DB for PCM 2014. There are a couple of reasons for this.

At this point, it seems too late to release a PCMdaily DB anyway, given that a lot of realname DBs are already out, and even some relatively big DBs were released already.
But that is not the main reason. The main reason is that we've had quite some personnel changes. Due to that, we are lacking a clear leader at the moment. This results in a lot of trouble regarding the DB work.

Due to the lack of a leader, there was some trouble in the communication too, which (only partly) expains why there was a lack of news about the PCMdaily releases. We apologise for this.

Releasing a PCMdaily Realname DB for PCM 14 is no option for us now. We are intending to focus on the PCMdaily Expansion Pack for PCM 14 now, and we are still considering bringing out a (compact) 2014 DB V2 for PCM 13 too. However, without a leader, we have no intentions to release a database, for now.

A new leader

As mentioned, we're looking for a good leader now. So any user who feels like helping out with this is welcome to contact one of the members of the PCMdaily DB team. For now, it's best to contact me(Jesleyh), but given that I won't be present here after 10 July, it's fine to contact someone else in the DB team group too, preferably admirschleck or SportingNonsense.
We obviously prefer someone with experience regarding DB work and big databases, but every really keen member that wants of offer his help is appreciated.

At this point, a lot of options are open for us. We might even be interested in a collaboration with another database (team), depending on the situation.

There is already a possible leader at the moment, but we want to see all our options. Obviously there are no guarentees if you apply, but it will certainly be appreciated!

Beside a leader, it's obviously always welcome to offer your help. You can join the database team any day. The bigger team we have, the better database we can pull off, obviously.

So if you're keen and you think you're ''good enough'' to join the DB team, be it as leader or not, don't hestitate to contact us!