I talk too:
GIOI: Uff, finished, was a bit scared he wouldn't. Good presentation in general. Maybe good too add the link Poke and Taka have, as would be nice for the others too,so that we can see all the percentages?
Then: Under stage one you write:
I did an error: I've ranked this stage as a flat stage. Could you correct please??
Easy to correct yourself. Load the stage, change flat to ITT, then click "overwrite" (on the left of end/save) and save again.
Stage 2: 3 times -1? It looks like you start at 0 already, finish at -30 meters? Use "recalculate elevation" and look that it more or less fits during the whole stage. The automatic thing can make big differences, start at 500 for example, finish reality at 500, but RSF can be 300 or 700 (fairly extreme example) with the automatic thing without checking the altitude
Otherwise, 4 sprints, ok, I personally don't like to finish with 2 sprints, would have been nice to have some of them first, but with 4 there is ok. Having 14 stages probably one more good too, too get more votes from sprinters.. Then the finish, it looks a bit like the GC will be decided after stage 9. The last 5 stages very very likely there won't be any suspence left anymore, a bit much for my taste.
Good tour, like the idea, not so much the off road things but can imagine riding it
Arizona: Good for sprinters, not very hard overall. 36 km TT, some hard naked mountains.. .but really difficult to see where bigger differences could be made otherwise. Seems all pretty simple, hard mountains finishes, time gains, otherwise it's sprints or or still bigger groups I fear. And as I said, I just can't see any opportunity to do more than just skills riding, here this guy loses that much because he has 2 mountain less, here he wins this much because he has 5 TT more. But would ride that too. The weather, ok ok, would probably survive a few days in the snow, not fanatical about it, but..
Japan: Won't ride that in the cold, not going to Hokkaido. IN WINTER with "real weather". And even localized won't help of course. The tour itself looks good. Although some stuff is.. blah... stage 7 for example is clearly a tunnel IMO 4/2/4/5/4/18? Then -14.. tunnel check? Flat stages there, good middle mountain stages there, good mountain stages there. Wrong country AND wrong place in the country. Otherwise might vote for it. Some stages look very exciting.
Algerie: Presentation the biggest minus here, not even the townnames in the profiles? Stages.. it suffers a bit from the same problem I have with Gioi: End is very easy, the GC normally should be decided early. Long ITT to start, then the climbers chase. cool. But somehow after stage 9 the chase seems over. Plus 8+9 seem to be the same stage too, grr, and not stages where you can make big gains either. Coolest stage nr 3, with Japan 12 the coolest mountain stage of all candidates. nr 7, don't know, but the saws after 145 somehow look suspicious.. .could be like that, don't know, but... But would ride that too.
EAT: Clearly the attempt to have a TT winner, but not automatically a 70 guy with 80 TT, chances for 65 and more TT as well. While Arizona is more Huber vs Leupold, this one could be more Leupold vs 65 mountain with good TTT team. IMO it fails a bit in the mountains, there really almost no reason to bring a climber. They can and likely win stage 2 and 6, but otherwise their just their to sieb, as pullers etc. Plus 2+6 really are fairly simple things... mountain with flat and sprint nr 2, high mountain with flat, or mountain with flat and sprint again...The GC stages though will likely be the TTT, very important, and stage 3, and stage 9+10 too. Leupolds vs less mountain guys. Good stages that can bring differences, the "climbers" stages will have minimal differences after all. But maybe would have been better to have one more stage for climbers... and increase the lenght of the ITT a bit? Still keep it as open as possible between the different TT guys, but give the climbers their day. But ok, that's a difficult challenge anyway. Can imagine riding it too though
East Med... mmh, the name, after EAT, MEAT would have been nice, Mediterranean (East) Athletic Tour or so.. hehe. The sprints. Radunion is right, in stage races it works differently than in one day races. But it goes both ways. What is a middle mountain stage in a one day race can be a sprint in a tour, but what can be a sprint in a one day race is a classic stage in a tour. And IMO he is going in this direction here. Stages that on paper and in one day races could be sprints, will not be. Ok, maybe I shouldn't talk about sprint stages, never get it right myself, but IMO Radunion didn't either. The sprinters need to show up and fight? Very likely fighting won't help. Since in general the tour is very good for classics. so guess who'll show up in force? 1 Classic teams 2. Classic Teams with hill sprinters. 3. Classic teams with classic sprinters. Even if BSE, Rockstars, Brio and 2 clear sprinter teams show up... the opposition will be that strong that of the 5 claimed sprints.... 1? 2? ends in a sprint? We really would need the exact profiles and percentages for that. It's so inviting for guys with mountain, that they will show up. The sprints: 3: No chance for sprinters. Too many classic guys there. IF anything a hill sprinter sprint, limit limit a very strong team like Cordero had could do it. Flat sprinters? No, all the fighting won't help. 5: Possible. In most stage races and in one day races I would think, go for a sprint. Here? Due to the general design of the tour, what normally looks like a fairly sure sprint, looks like it could turn out to be very hard. 8: Unlikely, harder than 5, but only what looks like 30 real flattish km at the end, with all the mountains skills that are almost guaranteed to be at the start.... IMO will turn out to be too hard. 9: No chance IMO. You can't expect all the classics to just do nothing and have fighting sprinters survive that. Not in this tour. In a sprint friendly one? ok. Then 11 If after the last KOM there are no more 6 looks like a pretty interesting sprint stage, that very likely ends in a sprint. But not here. There is 2 chances before, according to me, for flat sprinter. Lets say guys under 55... Chances, not more. So... does showing up make sense? No. I'd bring GAo, yeah, without much hope for anything, except hoping for this stage here and do it alone.. IMO right thinking, wrong direction. The "sprint stages" would be interesting but with no incentive for the sprinters to show up, they will just be hill sprinters vs classics most likely. Still nice, but not sprint. That said, could imagine riding this too. Even if the last stage somehow doesn't convince me at all. Interesting parcours before, open for attacks too, a bit too sprint friendly for hill and classic, which could block it too though, then at the end it could all come down to the intermediate festival?
Last: Bolivia, not finished, not posted here, but actually looks really nice, would have had good chances to get my vote. Stage 2 looks really nice, stage 7 too. Maybe a few too easy sprints around (like in my proposals usually too) would really have depended on how it ends, TT, more mountains etc. But the beginning looked very good somehow.