GROUP 1
4 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2 - Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
1 - Men At Work - Down Under

GROUP 2
4 - Depeche Model - Enjoy the Silence
3 - Deep Purple - Child in Time
2 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
1 - B-52's - Roam

@Sir Lüc and @Glüc

Well done on another TCAT leg. Do you know when the third leg of Season 5 will be?

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Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on July 25, 2026, 01:22:49 PMI have run across the thread a few times and perhaps there has been movement offline. Has there been any progress on the CoA Knightification request by @Iason Taiwos ?

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This is inappropriate, S:reu Tzaracomprada. You are not a member of the Coletx. While your interest is appreciated, an appropriate thing to do would have been to send a private message if you were earnestly inquiring.

Oh sorry, I was not intending to be inappropriate and apologize for that, and I want to clarify that there was no intent to embarass or scold anyone. I was earnestly seeking information as to whether his request had had any movement as I like to encourage movement across Wittenberg on things that might have stalled.

I thank Iason for answering me and confirming that there has been no action and I hope that his request will be completed soon.

Thank you for your interesting inquiry! I believe it would be appropriate for me to consult one of our heralds with specific domain knowledge here. I will do so.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on July 27, 2026, 09:31:46 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on July 25, 2026, 01:22:49 PMI have run across the thread a few times and perhaps there has been movement offline. Has there been any progress on the CoA Knightification request by @Iason Taiwos ?

@Iason Taiwos Checking in on this check-in

This is inappropriate, S:reu Tzaracomprada. You are not a member of the Coletx. While your interest is appreciated, an appropriate thing to do would have been to send a private message if you were earnestly inquiring.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on May 14, 2026, 01:43:43 PMI have decided to choose the following as my motto:
Animus ferus numquam vincitur

This will be awarded at the next event, S:reu Iason.

Hi @Tierçéu Rôibeardescù

I wanted to follow-up on my application for membership and also enquire as to the status of your own which was submitted about two weeks ago. Are there any updates concerning these applications?

ALL-TIME STAGE WINNERS

Big leap by REX, who are one stage away from being just the sixth team to complete a season with 10 or more wins. Alas, their seven wins weren't enough to win the edition.

Winning 7 stages (1 in 3) but not the whole edition sounds pretty unlikely, but it's happened very often: also in TCAT Italy 2025 (to GHST), Spain 2023 (to the Cabana Boys), France 2023 (to MMM/Gagnheirs) and Italy 2023 (to BDC); all teams with 7 wins and no title. In addition, Spain 2025 also did not go to the team who won the most stages (DED, 5) and in Spain 2022 then-Gagnheirs won the same number of stages as the leg winner GHST (5). BDC in France 2022 won even more stages (10) without winning the leg, but there were so few teams that it was very likely to happen anyway.

Conversely, the Mençeis won the edition but only won two stages - the only team to win with fewer was Velocostă in the injury-affected TCAT Italy 2025 (just 1 win). The Mençeis are also only the second winner to be in the lead after the first stage (also happened to GHST in Spain 2022).

	Team	Stage Wins	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
	Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC)	53	11	15	20	5	2
	Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	46	6	5	11	13	11
	Cyclohexane (CHX)	22	-	8	2	5	7
	Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	21	3	4	4	6	4
	Mençeis/Gagnheirs (MMM)	19	5	11	-	-	3
	Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	17	-	3	9	5	-
	Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	17	12	2	0	1	2
	Cézembre Fieschă (CFA)	16	-	2	9	5	0
	Rexhitais/Cantzelerïă (REX)	15	-	1	1	4	9
	Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)	13	-	7	3	3	-
	Dead Last (DED)	12	-	3	4	5	-
	Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	11	-	-	-	10	1
	Kinetic Racing (KIN)	4	3	0	-	1	-
	Team In The Wind (KIN)	3	-	-	-	-	3
	els Averatxeirs (ATX)	2	-	2	-	0	-
	Valcürïăs (VAL)	2	2	0	-	-	-

Two teams, Ardita and Manilows, took part in at least a TCAT leg but did not win a stage.

A few tables to round off this edition:

SEASON STANDINGS

(± ignores non-returning teams)

Pos	±		Team	Pts
1st	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	20982
2nd	(+1)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	19113
3rd	(+1)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	18918
4th	(+2)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	18668
5th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	17083
6th	(-4)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	16883
7th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	14186

Congratulations AD! Nice to see a very close finale between three fundamentally different teams (only two riders shared by each pair of podium finishers).

This is the third-tightest winning margin as well - only bigger than Spain 2025 (98) and Italy 2023 (102). And as Glüc was saying, it's notable how the winning scores were so high. Last year's TCAT France had a similar winning margin but the top 4 teams had scores between 9449 and 9181 and the winner was outside the top 10K in Velogames (out of 30K); this time the top 3 are all above 11K points and comfortably inside the top 2K teams overall (out of 28K).