Rulebook

FrancescoGrassi · June 17

Summer Tour de France

Organization

The Summer Tour de France is organized by Pro Cycling Manager Italia, an organization run by the PCM Italia multiplayer staff.

PCM IMA details

The tournament will be included in the PCM IMA calendar. As a 2.WT category event, it will award the following points:

Final position	IMA points 2.WT
1	600
2	500
3	425
4	350
5	300
6	250
7	210
8	180
9	160
10	140
11	120
12	100
13	85
14	70
15	60
16	50
17	40
18	32
19	26
20	22
21	18
22	15
23	12
24	10
25	8
26	6
27	4
28	3
29	2
30	1

FrancescoGrassi · June 25

Subscriptions

he tournament will be played solo. However, it is possible to register a teammate for the competition. Registrations must be submitted on Discord using the following form:

FrancescoGrassi · June 25

Subscriptions

he tournament will be played solo. However, it is possible to register a teammate for the competition. Registrations must be submitted on Discord using the following form:

Discord name:

PCM name:

Nationality:

PCM Community:

Dates

The Summer Tour de France will take place from July 29 to July 21, following the real Tour de France schedule. Consequently, the route will be as follows:

June 29: Firenze - Rimini

June 30: Cesenatico - Bologna

July 1: Piacenza - Torino

July 2: Pinerolo - Valloire

July 3: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - Saint-Vulbas

July 4: Mâcon - Dijon

July 5: Nuits-Saint-Georges - Gevrey-Chambertin (ITT)

July 6: Semur-en-Auxois - Colombey-les-Deux-Églises

July 7: Troyes - Troyes

July 8: REST DAY

July 9: Orléans - Saint-Amand-Montrond

July 10: Évaux-les-Bains - Le Lioran

July 11: Aurillac - Villeneuve-sur-Lot

July 12: Agen - Pau

July 13: Pau - Saint-Lary-Soulan (Pla d'Adet)

July 14: Loudenvielle - Plateau de Beille

July 15: REST DAY

July 16: Gruissan - Nîmes

July 17: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - SuperDévoluy

July 18: Gap - Barcelonnette

July 19: Embrun - Isola 2000

July 20: Nice - Col de la Couillole

July 21: Monaco - Nice (ITT)

FrancescoGrassi · June 25

Room creation

Players are required to confirm their presence on Discord when tagged by the organizers. This must be done before 20:15, allowing organizers to arrange groups and rooms for the night, and to assign hosts and streamers to each group. Players who fail to check in by 20:15 will not be considered for participation.

Grouping

Stages 1-7

During the first 7 stages, the groups will be balanced. Participants will be divided into groups based on the number of players registered for that game day. Draw will be based on IMA ranking for inline. If there are fewer than 11 players, there will be a single group.

Stages 8-21

From that point onward, the general classification (GC) will determine the group assignments. Players will be divided into groups based on their current standings in the GC. As before, if there are fewer than 11 players, there will be a single group.

The ranking used for group division will be the actual standings considering all stages, unlike the final ranking, which excludes the four worst results.

DB and rider choice

The database will be a ladder format. Each stage must be played with 6 riders, but since it is an inline competition, riders can be changed between stages.

FrancescoGrassi · June 25

Competition Format

Every stage of the 2024 Tour de France will be played in inline mode. At the end of each stage, players will accumulate points to establish the general classification for the tournament.

Points will be awarded to the first rider from each player who crosses the line, excluding IA and any other riders from the players' group. However, players with a rider not in the same group as the rider corresponding to their player number or in a group ahead of it won’t score any points. This rule also applies to bonuses: players who do not score points will not be considered as having a gap, so bonus points will not be calculated for them.

Note: At the end of the tournament, the four lowest scores for each player will be removed from the general classification.

Points system

Stages 1-7

Stages 8-21

DIVISION 1

OTHER DIVISIONS

The KOM (King of the Mountains) and IS (Intermediate Sprints) scales used will adhere to the official Tour de France standards.

FrancescoGrassi · June 25

Bonuses

Road stages will be divided in three categories:

CATEGORY 1: flat stages, easy hill stages

CATEGORY 2: hard hill stages, medium mountain stages

CATEGORY 3: mountain stages

CATEGORY ITT: ITT

So the division according to Tour de France stages will be:

Category 1: Piacenza - Torino, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - Saint-Vulbas, Mâcon - Dijon, Semur-en-Auxois - Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, Orléans - Saint-Amand-Montrond, Aurillac - Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Agen - Pau, Gruissan - Nîmes

Category 2: Firenze - Rimini, Cesenatico - Bologna, Troyes - Troyes, Évaux-les-Bains - Le Lioran, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - SuperDévoluy, Gap - Barcelonnette

Category 3: Pinerolo - Valloire, Pau - Saint-Lary-Soulan (Pla d'Adet), Loudenvielle - Plateau de Beille, Embrun - Isola 2000, Nice - Col de la Couillole

Category ITT: Nuits-Saint-Georges - Gevrey-Chambertin (ITT), Monaco - Nice (ITT)

ADDED: Bonuses will be given according to time gaps. The bonus points will be determined based on the time gap between the group of the human rider that represent 50% of people in the room + 1. (ex. group of 4th if there are 6 people or 7, group of 5th for 8 or 9) and only people ahead of this group with receive bonuses. In situations where there is a time gap between all riders eligible for bonuses, the seconds taken during this gap are deducted from the calculation, and the remaining points are allocated only to those who were part of this time gap.

A single players will also not be allowed to score more than 200 pts bonus per stage

The category, though, influences the points given through a multiplier.

Category 1 stages will give 5x the bonuses. If you get 20 seconds, you’ll get 100 pts. This is specific for flat stages, since it’s more difficult to get alone at the finish.

Category 2 stages will give 3x bonuses. If you get 20 seconds, you’ll get 60 pts.

Category 3 and ITT stages will give 2x bonuses. If you get 20 seconds, you get 40 pts.

Tie-breakers

1) Major amount of stages won

2) Major amount of second places

3) Major amount of third places

4) Major amount of first places on HC climbs

5) Major amount of first places at intermediate sprints

6) Coin toss.