Registrations Open! TCAT Season 2 Leg 2 Bilbao -> Paris

[Glüc]

After a very succesful leg 1, the Talossan Cycling Association Tour continues!


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

NB: participation in leg 1 is NOT required for participating in leg 2. Anyone is welcome join and every edition has a separate winner.

Deadline

The deadline for entries to be submitted is 12:30 CEST (Cézembre Summer Time) / 5:30 TST (Talossan Standard Time) on Saturday July 1st, 2023.

How to register

Step 1: Create a velogames account

If you already have a velogames 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/2023/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: 997643133

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

It is possible to use less than 100 credits, but this is not advisable unless you really know what you are doing!!

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.

A full list of participating riders, categories and credits can be found here: https://www.velogames.com/velogame/2023/riders.php

NB: not all details of the lineup are known yet. There will likely still be riders added and removed before the deadline, so please be aware of this!

The rules for the competition can be found here: https://www.velogames.com/velogame/2023/rules.php. (Note that we are only focused on the classic competition: 1 team that stays the same throughout the race. You can of course also participate in the additional stage hunter competition if you want to, but we will not be reporting this on witt as part of the Talossan Cycling association tour)

The scoring system can be found here: https://www.velogames.com/velogame/2023/scores.php
(Points can be won for stage results, intermediate sprints/king of the mountain points, participating in breakaways, daily classification standings, final classification standings and team assist points.)

Registered Teams
Banqeu da Cézembre Runners Up (BDC, Cézembre)
Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS, Benito)
Cézembre Fieschā (CFA, Cézembre)
Cyclohexane (CHX, Benito)
Dead Last (DED, Vuode)
els Averatxeirs (ATX, Maritiimi-Maxhestic)
Kinetic Racing (KIN, Fiôvâ)
Els Gagnheirs (GNH, Maritiimi-Maxhestic)
Velociposse Florencia (VFL, Florencia)
The Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB, Maricopa)
Naziun Cjovani (CJO, Benito)
Port Maxhestic AC (PTM, Maritiimi-Maxhestic)
els cantzelerïă aþletici (CAN, Maricopa)

[Glüc]

Hopefully we'll see all teams from the previous leg return for this one. And maybe some new ones as well. Anyone is welcome to participate and it does not take much time to submit a team!

Stay tuned for the next episode of Centraseira as well

_{Btw, it has been clearly established by previous that doing prior research is no guarantee for doing well and teams can still be competitive without doing research, but for those that like numbers and stats and want to have a look at previous results and rankings of various riders: www.procyclingstats.com is where Lüc and me get pretty much all information. They also have a nice liveblog during the event.}

[Sir Lüc]

Any regrets, TCAT managers? :)

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

Dead Last has returned!!!

[Audrada Roibeardet]

Kinetic Racing has arrived.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Els Gagnheirs are fired up and ready to go!

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

The Velociraptors have returned.

[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat]

The Maricopa Cabana Boys are back! Hopefully we will do better in cycling than we are in futbol!

[Glüc]

The Maricopa Cabana Boys are back! Hopefully we will do better in cycling than we are in futbol!

At least the weather conditions this time may suit the Cabana Boys better than the previous edition...

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Breaking news in the Tour de France !
Additional individual time trial stage around a small island just negotiated by obscure Tourism Office - suspicion of bribery from local bank
 

[Glüc]

So we already have a record number of teams participating!

All 11 teams from leg 1 are back, plus one more team from last season (Naziun Cjovani).

Sadly, the province of Atatürk is not represented yet. Of course, new teams are also very welcome so if anyone else wants to field a team: it's doesnt need to take much time and you dont need to have any prior cycling knowledge.

A little over a day left to register or make changes to your team!

[King Txec]

Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici are joining in!