We have a pretty short deadline this time. Teams need to be in by saturday, so only three days to go!

Azul everyone, welcome back to season 5 of the Talossan Cycling Association Tour. The previous leg had a superclose finish with the Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis prevailing in the end, while Gordon Hiatus Support Team won the first leg and holds a sizeable season lead after the second. We now move on to the fellow micronation of Monaco for the third leg, which will of course end in Spain as usual.

All Talossans are heartily invited to sign their teams up! Team registrations are now open, and instructions follow below.

Deadline

The deadline for entries to be submitted is 16:00 CEST (Cézembre Summer Time) / 09:00 (AM) TDT (Talossan Daylight Time) on Saturday August 22nd, 2026.


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/spain/2026/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/spain/2026/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. These should be mostly definitive, but should any of your picks drop out before the deadline without you noticing, Velogames will autoreplace them.


Scoring & Rules

The rules for the competition can be found here. 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. 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.

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Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Yesterday at 06:01:55 PMThis discussion has clarified a lot.

One of the benefits of political parties is that they offer a clear ideological signal. If the people of Vuode re-elect Eðo Grischün, they know what they are getting - support for the URL manifesto, the Democracy Agenda etc.

And in me they will get someone who will vote in the best interests of the people of Vuode and Talossa, not someone who will vote in the best interest of the party he is associated with. I have no doubt that my esteemed opponent is a good and loyal member of your party Miestra, I also have no doubt that despite our differences both yourself and the good Baron are loyal subjects of the kingdom and well meaning patriots. I do fear that your apparent hatred for one another may blind you and as such your parties at times. If truth be told, I had no true belief that I would win this election I simply felt that it was wrong for someone to run unopposed.

Thank you for your input, Dama Miestra.  While we disagree about the appropriate way to go about this, the Cort has agreed with what you have been arguing, and so you seem to have the right of it.

Nice to see Judge Plätschisch agreeing with me, almost to the letter.

The Ministry of Justice would be best served to first work with the Chancery to find any prima facie evidence a crime was committed. Enthusiasm for justice is commendable, but restraint is also required it.

The reference to the ESB sock puppet case is interesting, because if I recall right the problem then was that the then-King privately confronted ESB with an ultimatum to quit the country rather than face a Cort case. We seem to have the same issue of trying to "fast forward" through steps of criminal procedure - in this case, seeking an indictment of a hypothetical person for a crime without any evidence a crime is committed. The Justice Ministry, should it ever actually find prima facie evidence of a crime, would be entitled to interview subjects of interest "under caution" without a fanciful indictment.

There have only been a few criminal prosecutions in our history.  Of those, I'm only aware of one where there was any investigative work that was done.  Years later, the manner in which that happened was used as partial justification to overturn the criminal conviction.  We're not going to make that same mistake in this investigation, and instead everything will be done above-board.  We want to do this right.

We know that this is a new way to approach things. This Government rejects cronyism and backroom dealing -- we are a nation of laws, not of politicians -- and this is part of that commitment.  We've asked a magistrate to supervise the gathering of evidence and affidavits under oath, since that's the legal way to do it and since it will help protect the rights of all involved.

This discussion has clarified a lot.

One of the benefits of political parties is that they offer a clear ideological signal. If the people of Vuode re-elect Eðo Grischün, they know what they are getting - support for the URL manifesto, the Democracy Agenda etc.

Thank you. So it is a "Inschinescu" indictment.

Now: I think this charging document is prosecutorial malpractice because it offers no evidence that a crime was actually committed, i.e. that there is any reason to believe that the person who used 2747's vote (that's what I"m going to call him from now on) knew what they were doing. What the Attorney-General is demanding is judicial sanction to go on a "fishing expedition", drag Talossan citizens into a dark room and give them the third degree (metaphorically speaking). If the Cort is going to consider this document, I would like to issue an amicus brief against it.

1,5 hour left!

(When the deadline passes no votes will be accepted anymore, even if I probably won't be awake to officially call it.)

Unfortunately it does look like well be stuck on 6 votes again, unless we get some last minute votes. (þerxh perhaps?)


Tomorrow voting will open for this years Semifinal!