PCM.Daily Online Championships: Exciting times!

We're heading into some pretty exciting days, with the finals of the Track races coming up Monday through Wednesday. We'll find out soon who will conquer and who will fail. The Road Race events start next Saturday.

Old Classics Revisited

Two old stories have sprung back to life in the Pro Cycling Manager 2007 forum. They are SportingNonsense's DFL Extreme and rjc_43's Auber 93 - Bigmat. The revival of these stories was unexpected, to say the least, with the last updates being from around 2 years ago. We wish both writers the best of luck with their not-so-new stories!

PCM 14 Forums Open for Business!

With less than 2 weeks to the release, the Pro Cycling Manager 2014 forums have been opened. We've already seen several threads launched in the database, graphical, online, general and story forums.

May Story of the Month Results

Modern Times, Old Roads received the prize of Story of the Month, only a few days after the story came to an end. With 26 points, it came out on top of Team Novo Nordisk (18) and Karl Hammarling (15).

The New Story of the Month competition was a tight one. It was a head-on-head, with only 2 stories in the running. In the end The Front Seat took the win with a 2 point difference over Pushing Forward.

New Initiative

Friday, we launched a new initiative, called Story Spotlight. In this weekly segment, we put one story in the spotlight. After the first test, we are ready to launch the first real update on Wednesday. If you have a suggestion: send a PM to Mresuperstar or Ian Butler and explain shortly why said story deserves a week in the spotlight.

Thread of the Week

The General Career Discussion - PCM 14 was not the busiest thread this week, but it symbolizes the beginning of a whole new part of PCM.Daily. The PCM 14 forums have been opened and in the General Career Discussion thread we love to hear what you'll do when you get your hands on the new game!

ManGame: Breakaway Power

In the Giro del Trentino, stage 3 belonged to the breakaway. In an exciting report by baseballlover312, we saw the General Classification get overthrown completely. In the first mountain stage of the race, a group of six riders rode away early in the stage. Against all expectations, they stayed clear of the bunch and in an uphill thriller João Cabreira came out on top. After three stages, he's now leading the General Classification, before his breakaway companions Torres and Gonzalo.

With the PCM14 story section officially up and running, I’m happy to introduce a new weekly incentive we are calling the Story Spotlight. From now on, every Wednesday, an active PCM story will reviewed and published on the front page for everyone to see.

We kick things off with a mini-spotlight of the first PCM14 story to hit the forums: The Two of Us by Ian Butler and Mresuperstar. This isn’t going to be an ordinary story but rather a memorable journey. The most I’m allowed to spoil now is... click Read More to find out.

Want your story to be featured in the Story Spotlight? Send a PM to Mresuperstar or Ian Butler with a short paragraph explaining why you think your story deserves to get the front page recognition and unmatched publicity. We can’t wait to hear from you!

In less than two weeks now Pro Cycling Manager 2014 will have been released, so it is time to open up the PCM 14 section of our forum! The game is already available to pre-order - and the "Buy PCM14 through PCM.daily and support the site at the same time"-offer will be on it's way soon.

In the meantime, the forums can be used to discuss the new features or expectations, announce databases or other downloads, or perhaps begin a story in anticipation of the new game.

And don't forget to check out the livestream Q&A at 21:00 CET this evening!

This Friday, at 9PM CET, a live Q&A session will take place with Eyolfur, the project manager for the latest Pro Cycling Manager game, conducted by Failured and FrenshRevolution. This will take place on Cyanide's Twitch channel but will also be recorded and uploaded to YouTube afterwards.

This is your chance to ask any questions you might have about the game, prior to its release in a couple of weeks time. If you want to submit a question, you can do so in this forum thread.

Giro d'Italia: All bets are off!

With the Giro d'Italia ending, we're closing an important betting period. It's time to take a look at the provisional Betting Ranking.

More than 50% placed a bet on Nairo Quintana for the overall victory in the Giro, and the Colombian didn't disappoint. However, the biggest bucks were made in the KoM bet, where current leader rastaff won no less than 1,250.00 PCM$, thanks to Julián David Arredondo.

PCM.Daily's Favourite Cycling Contest returns!

It's June, that means it's time for the fifth annual competition of PCM.Daily's favorite cyclist, hosted by Mresuperstar. In the next few weeks, we will decide which cyclist deserves the honor of being PCM.Daily's favorite cyclist. Former winners include Philippe Gilbert, Thomas Voeckler, Jens Voigt and Vincenzo Nibali. If you want to put your two cents in, click here and sent in your nominations.

May Story of the Month Nominations

It looks like Mresuperstar's campaign to go for Admin of the Year 2014 is well underway. Next to PCM.Daily's Favorite Cyclist, we also saw the nominations of the Story of the Month revealed this week. Meanwhile, TheManxMissile's Karl Hammarling story is breaking all records with 5 consecutive nominations. Maybe your vote will break his impressive streak?

FCD V1.1 database released

The French Community Database, lead by mede33, was released earlier this week. The 2014 database includes the 2014 profile of the Tour de France, leader jerseys and the full UCI calendar. Download it here!

Thread of the Week

This week's thread of the week is reserved for Giro d'Italia Week 3. 75 pages in one week says everything it needs to say. The fight for pink was red hot!

ManGame: PCT and CT Rankings Update

Venchi - Ferranti are leading the PCT Rankings, but what's more impressive is that they're at the top with only 25 race days, with Heineken-Cal Giant following a close second but counting 48 race days. This illustrates the incredible season start for Sykkel_Freak's Italian team.

For the CT Rankings, it's Grupo Nutresa that's leading the provisional standing.

Full Rankings can be found here.