PCM World Cup 2018 - Official Announcements

emmea90 · 19 Marzo, 2018

Official Announcements

All the official announcements on the PCM World Cup will be done in this topic. Subscribe to it to keep you updated.

Chat and Social network pages

Official Chats and Social Network Pages will be the following

Chat: PCM World Cup 2018 Discord
Facebook: PCM World Cup 2018 Facebook Page
Twitter: PCM World Cup 2018 Twitter Profile
Email: pcmwc2018@procyclingmanager.it

emmea90 · 6 Aprile, 2018

For team purpose only, all the nations that doesn't reach four members (ARG, BLR, BRA, HUN, NOR, PHI, POL, ROM, RUS, SER, SUI, TUR, UKR, USA) are considered "Rest of the world" and can create a team if three of them are present in the "nationality quota" with team nationality considered "Rest of the world".

emmea90 · 7 Aprile, 2018

World Cup is on!

What to do now?

If you haven't done it before, join the PCM World Cup 2018 Discord Server!
From Mondays game will start. You'll have to download materials, xml included, to play solo.
In solo road and solo track section you will find all the draw results and you can discover in what group you are
In all the sections we will open the topic for the disciplines with further instructions tomorrow
If you want to subscribe you can subscribe until thursday to 2nd Chances!
Team subscriptions are also open. If you need to find some teammates you can use this topic for teammate searching
We will post a topic with all the streamers to follow games.

See you on monday for the day 1

emmea90 · 11 Maggio, 2018

Yesterday, at 20.40, we got to known that Group C of Road - Tours semifinal started at 21.00 because one player deliberately asking all the other player to postpone the game without writing it in any part of the public chat. Despite this, the player in question did not show up and at 21.10 finally a reserve took his place.

Regarding this episode we want to state, once and for all, the following

Start times are 20.15 (ITT/TTT), 20.45 (Road Classic, Tour and Track), 21.00 (Road Inline) and 21.30 (Track). Open room is 15' before.
People should came in the room as soon as they can from open room time, not at last moment
The maximum fault tolerance for entering in a room is five minutes. This is applied before the game and between stages of the game
When those five minutes are pasted we can use some "good sense" for waiting a few seconds if the guy is coming, but game must be started and if players are not in, reserves has to enter.
Any other postponement, for whatever reason (for example, emergencies or delayed of the games before), can be decider or announced only by organizers
We won't make any exception and we won't move any date or time for the finals, no matter if all player agrees. It's on you to set you free at that date at time.

In addiction to that, for next team games, captains must be sure that three member for each team must be present in the room for the given time. We've seen too many teams with no members at the right time pretending to ask for delays or play. From now will be up to organizers to refuse to let play members of the team that show up too later for that game, causing a postponement in waiting for them.

emmea90 · 12 Maggio, 2018

Important communication about road

After a segnalation from some French players (Kingmaker, Shadow, Boonen88) we detected that three teams: Katusha, Trek and Cannondale were different in database compared to the standard one. This means that despite forms they received bonus points differently from other teams. This doesn't mean they were too much favourite or less favourite compared to the others in overall but they could have a (really small) advantage on particular terrains.

We tried this afternoon to check all the small differnces (height and size of the riders, calendar of the teams) but despite that the difference remains for all the riders of those three teams. As good faith to the organizers, you can check pierociaca and davi never used those teams.

For the effect of this, from now Katusha, Trek and Cannondale won't be in use from now in road games. We won't replay any of the previous games because gap is really small and can be decisive probably only in a final level or in the ITT. Gaps of previous round ITT was too high to be affected only by this. The other teams inserted in DB seems right and having the same increment of stats due to form and can be freely choosed.

We will check tomorrow if there are similarity in Road Teams db to fix also them and teams affected, further communication will follow. If any player has idea on how to fix this on the db, please contact organization.