Registrations Open! TCAT Season 3 Leg 2: Firenze -> Nice

[Glüc]

Welcome back to the Talossan Cycling Association Tour! It's already time for the second leg of the season beginning Saturday, June 29th in Florence, Italy and ending three weeks later. Traditionally the second leg would end at the legendary Champs Elysees in Paris. However, because of the Olympics we shall be finishing in Nice instead.

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 12:30 CEST (Cézembre Summer Time) / 05:30 (AM) TST (Talossan Standard Time) on Saturday June 29th, 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/velogame/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


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. 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.





_{*Sidenote: it appears velogames is also doing a separate stagehunting sixes this year, where you get to submit a team of 6 for every stage. This is NOT part of TCAT and we won't be posting the results here. However, Lüc and me will probably be playing anyway and of course you're welcome to join us if you somehow are really invested in this and like us have too much free time: https://www.velogames.com/sixes-stagehunter/2024/ (League code will be the same as for the main event.)}

[Glüc]

In case anyone missed it, Lüc and I also discussed this in the latest episode of Centraseira:

Although perhaps some of the advice we give on pick is already slightly outdated. (For example I may have been dismissive about De Lie, but recent results suggests he may have a lot more going for him than I thought.)

[Iason Taiwos]

Naziun Cjovani is back!

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Velociposse Florencia is proud to celebrate its first last place finish with a name change, Team Dead2Last is here baby!

In the political realm we are looking to repeat the same feat...

[Munditenens Tresplet]

The Maricopan Manilows have arrived.

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

I'm in, feeling pretty confident in living up to my team name!

[Glüc]

There was still an incorrect link in the original post. Oops! Updated now

Iason, Dien, Tric'hard, Breneir and Ian all correctly registered so hopefully that means it didnt lead to any problems

[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat]

Oh man, another Maricopan team has entered the game! Now it's a party!

[paolo.mellere]

Azul!!!!

Ardita benitian riders also joined in! 😀

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Azul!!!!

Ardita benitian riders also joined in! 😀

Nice to see a new team join in the mix. Good luck!

[Glüc]

10 teams already! Wonder if we can get a record...

[Glüc]

1 hour left to submit your team or make any final changes.

[Glüc]

Lüc and I are currently on discord to discuss team reveals