Talossan Cycling Association Tour Season 5 Leg 3: Monaco -> Granada

[Glüc]

FINAL RESULT:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(+1)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	8746	+1595
2nd	(-1)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	8445	+1290
3rd	(+1)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	7280	+1425
4th	(-1)		The Manilows (MAN)	6735	+805
5th	(+2)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	6524	+1530
6th	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	6221	+660
7th	(-2)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	6208	+490
8th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	6136	+1320
9th	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	4240	+630
10th	(+1)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	3745	+390
11th	(-1)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	3484	+45

The Menceis basically had no one left in GC (except Vermaerke at place 28) as a result drop to the expected last placed, having not succeeded at beating the previous all time worst score of 3776.

Cézembre Fieschā actually did not perform much better, as Skjelmose dropped further in the final mountain stages. Martin actually ended up their highest GC rider, but still outside the top 10.

Cyclohexane looked like they were competing for podium at some point, but drop to 7th in the end due to having only Onley in the top 10, who dropped to 6th in the final mountain stage. They do get points for Van Aert winning PC and finishing second in KOM

Dirnalaiset Mortescu were always too far behind the top 8, but not in any real danger of finishing last. Onley in 6th, Rodriguez in 9th and Aparicio surprisingly in 14th are not enough for a big end-of-tour points haul

GHST also suffer from Skjelmoses poor performance in the final week (in addition to Widar not really competing for GC after the first week), leaving Carapaz, who did get a respectable 4th place as their only top 10 GC rider. Of course they do also get PC points from Brennan, who won a whopping 5 stages. That is good for stage points of course, but not so much for end of tour points.

The Manilows did well in their second TCAT participation but fall just short of the podium. They are one of four teams to pick Mas, the overall winner, but without any other top 10 GC picks there aren't enough eot points to be gained to stay on the podium.

Banqeu da Cézembre also picked the overall winner (Mas), along with 6th place (Onley) and a very impressive 7th place (Omrzel) and the winner of the most stages (Brennan). However without Pogacar or Vine this wasn't enough in the end against a still complete Naziun Cjovani.

Port Maxhestic finished with the fourth largest eot total, even if its not enough to climb to 7th place. PTM ended with 4 riders in the top 10 GC: Roglic (2nd), Kuss (5th), Onley (6th) and Omrzel (7th) Unfortunately due to Groves early crash they never managed to score a lot of points in the flat stages.

Velociposse climb to the podium due to having the top 2 on their team (Mas and Roglic), along with Rodriguez in 9th.

Perhaps unsurprisngly, the two teams who were not affected by the Pogacar crash got the biggest eot score. Els Talossaes Rexhital, like PTM had 4 riders in the top 10 gc, including the winner (Mas), along with the 4th (Carapaz), 5th (Kuss) and 9th (Rodriguez) placed riders. As a result they climb two places to finish in 5th overall.

Naziun Cjovani are the only team to finish this edition complete. Van Aert was the biggest scorer this time and he gets KOM and PC eot points as well. 3 of their riders made it to top 10, but all of these ended up in the top 5: Roglic (2nd), Gall (3rd) and Kuss (5th). Additionally there are quite a bit of assist points for Cjovani, due to the efforts of Gall and Chamberlain. After a strong final week, including a big victory in the TT, the end of tour points are enough to overtake BdC and win TCAT for the second time since the very first edition!

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Posse on the podium, nice. I am going to try and nudge Crement early for the next round.

[Sir Lüc]

Customary pair of tables to round out the edition (and season):

ALL-TIME STAGE WINNERS

Cjovani won the most stages in this edition, 7, which are enough to propel it to all-time third most stage wins.

GHST did not win any stage in an edition for the first time ever, but remains the team with the most stagewins over the season for the second time in a row  - this time shared with els Talossaes Rexhitais, who in turn are the fourth different team to win the most stages in a season, and the sixth to win double digit stagewins in a season.

BdC achieved the funny Talossan number and is therefore forbidden from winning any more stages (/s).

By winning their first two stages, the Manilows leave Ardita as the only team who ever took part in TCAT without winning a stage. By winning the 44th stage they took part in, they equal the Cabana Boys (who sadly didn't feature this season) in taking the most stages of any other team before finally winning one.

	Team	Stage Wins	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
	Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC)	59	11	15	20	5	8
	Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	46	6	5	11	13	11
	Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	24	12	2	0	1	9
	Cyclohexane (CHX)	23	-	8	2	5	8
	Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	22	3	4	4	6	5
	Mençeis/Gagnheirs (MMM)	20	5	11	-	-	4
	Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	17	-	3	9	5	0
	Cézembre Fieschă (CFA)	17	-	2	9	5	1
	Rexhitais/Cantzelerïă (REX)	17	-	1	1	4	11
	Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)	13	-	7	3	3	-
	Dead Last (DED)	12	-	3	4	5	0
	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	-	-	-
	Manilows (MAN)	2	-	-	0	0	2

One team, Ardita, took part in one TCAT leg but did not win a stage.

[Sir Lüc]

Lastly:

SEASON STANDINGS

(± ignores non-returning teams)

Pos	±		Team	Pts
1st	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	27203
2nd	(+1)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	25442
3rd	(+3)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	25328
4th	(-2)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	25321
5th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	24363
6th	(-2)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	22152
7th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	17391

After two seasons at second place, Gordon Hiatus Support Team finally does one better and wins TCAT 2026. It was an underwhelming edition compared to the recent past, but their performance in the previous two editions were more than enough to comfortably stay in first place.

REX gets by far their best season result - they will certainly look to carry this to a maiden edition win for them and Maricopa next year - and BdC round off the podium by just 7 points over CHX, confirming third place from last year. Cyclohexane will regret those few points, but overall they have still improved their point tally every year.

[Mic’haglh Autófil, O.Be]

A glorious day for Belacostă, and therefore the world. Congrats Iason!

[King Txec]

I'm very pleased to come in second place in a sport I barely understand!

-Txec R