August 2026

[Gipfelstuermer]

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August 2026

Races to be designed:
Tour of Denmark >>> NML
Tour de Pologne
Vuelta a Burgos >>> Tukh
Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta
Arctic Race of Norway
Czech Tour
Benelux Tour
Deutschland Tour
La Vuelta >>> see Vuelta thread

Races to be checked:
Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa
Circuito de Getxo - Memorial Hermanos Otxoa
Cyclassics
La Polynormande
Bretagne Classic
Ronde van de Achterhoek

Legend
BLUE = Designer found
GREEN = DONE

[drei.zehn]

Is Portugal in the morning possible?

[Yamaka Corse]

There are 3 tours that end day 16th but the day 16th there is the Cyclassics, since is a cat 5. we must have a chose between do a tour or a cat 5 race or can we do a little change to manage that?

[Tukhtahuaev]

Started with Burgos now. GPX files on their site not 100% matching with the profiles, but should be close enough for a preliminary version

[IDF]

One edition for Portugal is really too low. Considering we don't have many 12-15 days stage races during the whole year.. could be nice to have at least 2 editions (one in the morning for example?).

[Tukhtahuaev]

Not sure if I would actually ride it, but in general I am a fan of 2 Portugal editions. Only questionmark is whether 6 editions in parallel would make sense or 1 edition from the other tours should be cut in each week

[Let's Go]

Also can we have the Portugal tour edition later since most Portuguese teams play during that time?

[Gipfelstuermer]

Good to have so much interest in Portugal already. Last year it was 22h already, so I changed it for the preview but if many people want it again, can be repeated. For the morning edition, based on current participation, I fear it will only be possible if we cut from the other morning tours (Burgos and Czech in preview). So we'd need more comments from morning teams if they'd really like that or not.

[schappy]

I am happy with Deutschland-Tour at 7pm, so every other programm i take how it comes.

[Radunion]

I think we are overdoing it this time. Usually I am for more real tours, but this time it is a bit much. Do we have enough teams for a cat 5 race parallel to three tours? On 22. and 23. we have 9 tour editions in parallel. I just do not think we have the numbers for it without giving out massive amounts of money, probably in the lower-cat tours.

I would get rid of Portugal and Deutschland. Deutschland is nice to have with so many German teams in the game, but we avoided it for good reason in the past with two important parallel tours. Portugal has a very special place in the UCI calendar. It is a big tour for small teams. No top team goes there, but for many small teams it is a season highlight. Still, it is not important enough in the real world to ride parallel to more important races.

We should do tours because they are important, not because a few teams demand them. Having too many tours just means teams earn more money, and I think there is enough money in the game. Giving away less money might be unpopular, but it is important to keep the game healthy.

If you want more tours, you can go for Limousin-Perigord with no other alternative for the Vuelta teams, and for our Poitou-Charentes with only the Vuelta in parallel.

[schappy]

More different Stage races are nice. And you have only 5 editions for the 3 stage races, So in the past we had often 2 stage races with 3 starting times at the same time, now only 5. Doesnt looks that much, it is of course more work for designer. But the Participation should be okay with 5 editions.