Designers submit their tours, managers vote in the forum, the winning Tour will be ridden as catgory 3 tour in December. And the runner up as a shortened January Tour, cat 2, in January.
The rules are basically like usual but without any limitation of riders:
-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 etc.
-1 tour per designer
-Maximum 1 day with half stages.
-Tours are posted from October 1st to October 31st.
Tour will be posted in a separate thread that I will open later. This thread here is for the rules, criticism of the rules, discussion of the proposed tours later on. Promotion of tours welcome, criticism too, the more the better.
Everyone is welcome to participate, unless we get somebody winning twice in a row there's no need to ban anyone from designing.
Voting procedure:Robyklebt wrote: ↑ so now the rule is: If you win twice in a row you are disqualified from participating. (This rule will hopefully one day revert to the old one, but only once we have more active managers/designers)
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 roud from the 10th to the 20th, Normally the first 2 teams will advance to the second round. If it's very close, more might be in.
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 I'll decide.
. Winner gets to choose a time though, so there's that. 
