If you're making a custom team with the many custom kits available, such as the strange combos of Spotify - Quick-Step or Sprite-Fly Emirates p/b Red Bull, but you can not fill the team with stars, otherwise you will be in irretrievable debt very quickly.
It is no secret that keeping pro teams going is very tough on the piggy bank. Not to mention Kasper Asgreen ( Deceuninck - Quick-Step), Søren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb), Jakob Fuglsang (Astana), Michael Valgren (NTT Pro Cycling), Magnus Cort (Astana) and many more younger talent yet to break through.Īppreciation of how hard it is to keep a team going Over the years they've created some great riders and finally they have a track team which is smashing world records and world champions on the road in Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) and Amalie Dideriksen (Boels-Dolmans). > Tweets of the week: Mads Pedersen, Dries Devenyns, Paris-Nice and more The Tour de l'Avernir is on the game but I have never worked out how you actually race it yet.ĭenmark's rise to being a cycling superpower isn't surprisingĭanes have recently burst onto the scene of road and track cycling, but for a PCM player, it has been coming for some time.ĭenmark has a superb continental set-up with teams like ColoQuick and Team Coop in that division and Riwal-Readynez Cycling Team and Uno-X Developement Team in the pro-continental division. One of my personal favourites is the U23 Giro d'Italia, yep there are U23 races on here too. With hardly any races going ahead this year due to Coronavirus, this gives you a chance to race almost every race on the calendar. You can go from racing La Tropicale Amissa Bongo in Gabon to the Tour of Albania. You probably have never heard of races like the Oberösterreichrundfahrt - why would you have? It isn't televised and, unless you're really into niche races like this, you probably don't see anything of it on Twitter.īut if you're managing a team such as Team Sapura Cycling, you're probably trying to win stages with all rounder Serghei Țvetkov. So now they're becoming stars, more so than others, we can say we told you so. Thanks to the game, players of the game have known about riders such as Tadej Pogačar ( UAE Team Emirates), João Almeida (Deceuninck - Quick-Step) and Marc Hirschi ( Team Sunweb) for some time.įor example, you could see that Pogačar would develop into someone special when at Ljubljana-Gusto, that was blatant which is two top-10s in the Tour of Slovenia while at the team, but on the game he became one of the best stage racers out there.Īlmeida and other riders from team Hagens Berman Axeon usually end up being stars too, over the various additions of this game I've had, those riders always become world class. PCM players know who is going to be the next big thing
With almost every professional race under the sun on the game and nearly every pro rider and team, you basically have one of the most complete and up-to-date encyclopaedias for cycling. There are a few things that really only PCM players can know. I've now cut that down to just 1,750 hours on the latest version. On the 2017 version of the game, I played a total of 2,272 hours. This is an incredibly in-depth game and, for me, quite addictive.
You choose one pro rider, starting as a 19 year old heading into the pro peloton and you develop with a low level team before eventually making it to stardom.