Registrations Open! TCAT Season 3 Leg 3: Lisboa -> Madrid

[Sir Lüc]

Welcome back to the Talossan Cycling Association Tour! After getting drunk on sweet Olympic action, we're getting back to the real deal as Season 3 closes with three weeks of action starting in Portugal and ending in Spain.

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 16:15 CEST (Cézembre Summer Time) / 09:15 (AM) TDT (Talossan Daylight Time) on Saturday August 17th, 2024.


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/2024/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

(This should not be necessary if you have already taken part in leg 1 or 2. You can access league scores and/or view who's signed up here: https://www.velogames.com/spain/2024/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. 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 reasonably final, 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. 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.

[Iason Taiwos]

Naziun Cjovani is registered! (Stuck to my losing formula, two good riders and a the rest a bunch of bums)

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Florencians have demanded their team name be restored to Velociposse. And as their Governor I must oblige. The posse is back baby!

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

I'm in...I think

[Sir Lüc]

Can confirm you all (+ Ian) were correctly registered! Welcome back to TCAT:)

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Ouçà, Ouçà ! Cézembre Fieschā is back !

[Sir Lüc]

Just under 24 hours to the deadline - paging (with apologies for bugging) TCAT Italy 2024 and/or TCAT France 2024 contestants who haven't registered yet - consider joining us for the last leg of TCAT 2024 if you can spare a couple of minutes setting up your team!

@Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat , @Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB , @Munditenens Tresplet , @paolo.mellere

(Additional apologies on behalf of the Velogame admin as the Vuelta registrations were opened later than usual, due to a busy week that's also including VG fantasy competitions for Tour de Pologne and Tour de France Femmes, resulting in less time than usual between this post going up and the competition starting)

[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat]

Phew almost missed it!