December Tour 2024 - Rules & Discussion

[flockmastoR]

Welcome to the December Tour 2024 Thread

This topic will introduce the rules for 2024 and discussions about the process/designs.

Designers submit their tours, managers vote in the forum, the winning tour will be ridden as catgory 3 tour in december. The runner up tour will be planned as a shortened January Tour, cat 2, in January.

Design rules:
-Length: 10-14 days: Maximum 13 days riding. (That means you can do a 13 day tour without rest day or a 14 day tour with 1 rest day)
-No extreme tour, extreme as in unbalanced towards one speciality, flat, pavé, mountains TT, extreme as in extreme climate in December
-1 tour per designer
-Number of riders 6-9
-Maximum 1 day with half stages

Don't post your tours here, but in separate thread that I will open on the 1st of October (It will be oppened on the first, I promise). This thread here is for the rules (see above) criticism of the rules, discussion of the proposed tours later on. Promotion of tours welcome, criticism too, the more the better.

Posting of the Tours in October, deadline is the 31st. Races that are posted in the early hours of November, before I open the voting will of course still be counted (Taka I am looking in your direction). But once the voting process started, I will not accept any late submissions.

Designer participation rules:
- Everyone is allowed to participate, there is currently no restriction for last year's winner, Andes designer

Voting procedure:
First round voting from the 2nd to the 9th November.

The number of votes a manager has depends on the number of tours submitted:
Number of submissions/2, then rounded down. That means:
1-3 tours=1 vote
4-5 tours=2 votes
6-7 tours=3 votes
8-9 tours=4 votes.
But capped at 4 votes, even if we get more than 9 tours the number of votes per manager won't increase.

Second round: Normally the first 2 teams will advance to the second round. If there is a tie for place 1 or 2 that would make it impossible to reduce the tours to just 2, all tours with the same votes get into the second round. Number of votes in the second round is 1.

If there is a draw in the second round, the tour that got more votes in the first round wins. If there's still a draw we ask ChatGPT how to proceed.

PS: I am sorry for the delay regarding the opening of the thread. In the new editor, it is possible to set the proposed tours in the preview status, that makes it easier for all to click through the stages and get the details. Please tell me the in-game name of your tour, so that I can set it in preview mode before the voting starts.

[Robyklebt]

Designer participation rules:
- Everyone is allowed to participate, there is currently no restriction for last year's winner, Andes designer

In protest against this non-restrictions rule I will boycot the December-Tour this year! Scandalous decsion!