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There is very nice information on the website. For the last climb I would go 4-7-8 (or 5-7-7). It keeps the steepest section. Very nice work overall.

Here are my stats for Jan. - Sep. (total number of editions and average number of teams, splits count as two editions). For tours there were two splits, both at 20 h, which biases the GT participation numbers a bit. Morning and afternoon is still a bit worse than the evening and there is a case for ...

21 h is okay for me, but too often early evening is used for a lower level tour. It would be nice to mix it up a little more. It could be morning, afternoon or late night as well. 22 h or later is a problem for people starting the day early. As predicted it gets the evening spot and the world tour ...

Apart from GTs, the last big race with a 19 or 20 h slot was in June, Tour de Suisse. Since then it got Tour of Austria 19h: fine as there are not big races parallel to the Tour in July Deutschland Tour 20h: this is one tour out of seven in August; parallel to BeNeLux Giro d Abbruzzo 20h: nice race,...

The traditional Dutch name was "Ronde van Nederland". I think this would fit nicely.

As predicted it gets the evening spot and the world tour race moves later into the night. I am not saying I am surprised.

How do we handle this? Can we remove the in game chat before many more managers get interested? Only the FPC needs to see the evidence.

21 h is okay for me, but too often early evening is used for a lower level tour. It would be nice to mix it up a little more. It could be morning, afternoon or late night as well. 22 h or later is a problem for people starting the day early. true. but latest version at 21h is a problem for people g...

21 h is okay for me, but too often early evening is used for a lower level tour. It would be nice to mix it up a little more. It could be morning, afternoon or late night as well. 22 h or later is a problem for people starting the day early.

We are here today to honour a real legend of the team. Allan Wilson retires aged 34 with 8 stage race wins including 4 World Tour races, 6 Stage race podiums including 2nd places in the Giro and the Tour. He has 6 race wins, 5 of them ITTs, winning the Giro and Tour ITT. He leads the World Tour stan...

I actually see an issue for smaller teams here. In the long run, you can go more expensive with low taxes. So you need additional cheap riders to have a strong core team. This forces teams to go bigger, meaning higher sales tax and the need to earn more money.

As I understand it now, there are only two real option out of the three original ones. For me it would be simple in this case. If we are unable to ride at the real dates, there are no tours. We should stick with the policy not to move tours, ever. Not even for good reasons. This is not about democra...

It's the 25th and the calendar planner is providing you with 3 options to chose from for the final version and you create 2 alternative options nobody asked for. That's current c4f in a nutshell. The practice here is, the community makes suggestions and the calendar planner decides. The planner is ...

E) shorten the stage races by one day

I am still in favour of riding both on the same day and still dead against moving stage races.

It looks over 6.5 here and on the gpx find I found similar results.
https://mycols.app/fr/col/cote-de-ty-marrec
+5 would completely change the character of the race and is clearly wrong. I will not fight about +6 or+7, but+7 looks more accurate to me.

rsv flaschbier wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 20, 2026 11:00 am

Bretagne Classic:



As in the last years there are no IS and KOM.
Status is "review".

From my check, the last climb looks like a +7. The climb is 1.3 km at 5.3%, but the steepest km is certainly more than this.

I need a sitter for Benelux tomorrow, Saturday (22.08.2026), 21h. Sprint stage, so it is for stage and green. I am away and not even sure I will have internet, so even doing sprint settings would be nice. Better if you have time to help control, of course.

I do not see the point in the current discussion. Our riders already do so many more races than real riders can do. Races that would be impossible considering travel arrangements. The principles we have are following the real calendar and doing max. 1 race per team and day. Those would be kept. Of c...

Speaking of times, the late evening already has much better races in August than the 19/20 h slot. I had to go late for Pologne and skipped Norway partially for this reason. The only 20 h Tour is Germany, which is less important. Next month, again only a small tour (Abruzzo) is planned at 20 h. 19 h...

For me, this is a long-standing issue, as I complained about Langkawi in the past. Langkawi has some strong teams, and riding outside Europe when possible would be nice. Now we have an additional issue with Cro Race. So my question would be if we could do WC in addition to normal races instead of re...

Riding mainly in the evening, I did not know the extent of the issue. Maybe I am just naive and wanted to believe everybody is here to have fun, not to win in any way possible. I fully understand it takes the fun out of the game if you have to question every move, whether it was secretly agreed on i...

Can you calm down please. If you can bring a good argument, you will get the nationality back. Do you really think being pissed at committee members will increase your chances? This is not the way life works unless you are a mobster.

I hope you see my point as well. If some teams coordinate in public in the race chat and others talk away from the game there is an advantage. I call it unfair even if it is not regulated at the moment. In addition communication is part of the fun in the game. If you take it away from the game, it i...

We probably need a rules clarification here. Something like coordination during the race, outside the race chat, is forbidden. The fair play rules are ambiguous for good reason, to protect against creative interpretation, but here, clearer rules would help. Under the current rules, it looks like a t...

I fully understand you point Hansa. I thought about volunteering for the FPC a few times but always thought it better for my own sanity not to do it. I personally would prefer a harder line against verbal attacks, especially against FPC members, enforcing this and judging how for the community wants...

I think we have to work on they way things are done here. Some of the things came completely surprising for me despite half following the discussion. We now have Poland and Norway at 22h. Norway never was discussed but is a victim of lower ranking Portugal. We had a few people speak out about less t...