Wittenberg

The season continues. After a spectacular win in the first leg by Esqipă Velocostă Time, we now move to France for the second leg. The route contains many typical highlights, such as the legendary Col de Tourmalet and the traditional finish on the Champs Elysees, but also a finish on Mont Ventoux and most importantly stage 7, which almost starts in Cézembre! (Perhaps @þerxh Sant-Enogat could provide some live commentary?)

Team registrations are now open. Here team leaders can find instructions on how to register their team.

Deadline
The deadline for entries to be submitted is 13:15 CEST (Cézembre Summer Time) / 06:15 (AM) TDT (Talossan Daylight Time) on Saturday July 5th, 2025. (So best get your team in next friday at the latest)


How to register

Step 1: Create a Velogames account

If you already have a Velogames account you can proceed with step 2.
You can create a Velogames account by going to velogames.com -> log in -> click here to register

Step 2: Register your team

While logged in to Velogames, go to the following page: https://www.velogames.com/velogame/2025/entryform.php

Here you can submit your team. After submitting your team you can still make changes to your team up until the deadline! On your team page, which you can find by clicking visit team, you can also change your team name and jersey.

Step 3: Join the Talossan Cycling Association Tour

After you set up your team you can go to your team page (visit team) and under team management there should be a button called join league. There you can join the Talossan Cycling Association Tour by entering the following league code: 639289433

(You can access league scores and/or view who's signed up here: https://www.velogames.com/velogame/2025/leaguescores.php?league=639289433)


Team information
Each team needs to consist of 9 riders, with a combined total cost of up to 100 credits. These need to include 2 all rounders, 2 climbers, 1 sprinter, 3 unclassified riders, and 1 wildcard (which can be any category).

Generally, the credits assigned to the riders are pretty close to the consensus expection of how these riders will perform. This means it is possible to do well without much research, though of course if you do want to research your team there are many resources online, such as ProCyclingStats, various preview sites, bookmakers, and the youtube channel Ow Do Cycling. It is possible to use less than 100 credits, but this is usually not advisable.

A full list of participating riders, categories and credits can be found here (https://www.velogames.com/velogame/2025/riders.php). These should be mostly definitive, but should any of your picks drop out before the deadline without you noticing, Velogames will autoreplace them.

The rules for the competition can be found here (https://www.velogames.com/velogame/2025/rules.php). Note that we are only focused on the classic competition: 1 team that stays the same throughout the race.

The scoring system can be found here (https://www.velogames.com/velogame/2025/scores.php). Points are assigned daily for stage results, intermediate sprints, categorised summits, participating in breakaways, daily classification standings, and team assist points; and furthermore, a sizable chunk of points will be assigned based on the final classifications.

The route:


Some more information about the first leg:

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2025
https://www.letour.fr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tour_de_France

To the disappointment of most...the 'Posse is back for another round.

I'll register soon. (Why bother? My glory days in this are gone forever.) (The pal I consulted for help on this told me he's lost interest in it.)

I'll be registering again as well, but at the moment I'm too consumed by vacation to bother :-)

-Txec R

I'm in...3 riders i've heard of and 6 i've never heard of...probably a recipe for disaster LOL

Unfortunately I will not be in Saint Malo (the city to which the Island of Cezembre belongs - according to the French) on the 11th, I hope someone else will be waving el bicoloreu in front of the cameras.

Some quick thoughts on riders: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=4211.msg35245#new

1,5 days left to register! Hopefully we'll see most teams from the first leg back to defend their season standing

Less than 24 hours to go before the deadline!

@Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , are Esqipă Velocostă going to defend their season standing?

@Iason Taiwos @Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat @Audrada Roibeardet @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP @Munditenens Tresplet

Mieidă, I missed to the deadline! The Cabana Boys will just have to use this time to rest up and dominate in the next leg.

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Quote from: Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat on July 05, 2025, 07:26:43 PMMieidă, I missed to the deadline! The Cabana Boys will just have to use this time to rest up and dominate in the next leg.

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We're going to miss you :( thankfully the third and last leg is just 50 days or so away!