
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Tur Mytanija, which has been opened up to foreign riders for the first time in its history. Mytanija's domestic cycling season has been opened up more widely, to allow foreign riders and teams the chance to acclimatise to some of the most competitive races in the multiverse before the biggest race of them all: Tur Mytanija. This means that Mytanija's spring classics season will see foreign competition for the first time too, as well as some of the pre-Tur preparatory stage races.
There are 31 days of racing in all and something for every type of rider! The season will feature the following races:
- 1. Trofej Gazvoda (one-day race, flat sprint season opener)
2. Severyan-Cassia (one-day race, Milan-San Remo-esque)
3. Ciezin-Prizren (one-day race, Paris-Roubaix/Tour of Flanders hybrid)
4. Tour of Težia (one-day race, think Liege-Bastogne-Liege)
5. Zavolja-Sigurno (one-day race, mountainous classic)
6. Palilula-Trunca (3 stages; largely flat stage race)
7. Three Steps of Ebena (3 stages; mountainous stage race on Mytanija's highest and steepest slopes)
8. Tur Magevskaya (3 stages; tour of the island off Mytanija's north-east coast)
9. Tur Nasto (5 stages; tour of the island off Mytanija's south coast and preparation race for Tur Mytanija)
10. Tur Mytanija (12 stages; the biggest show in town)
Please do not post in this thread unless you are included in the spoilered registration:
RP BONUS & TEAM LEADER BONUS
RP Bonus will be generous and cumulative and will be particularly based upon each RP's quality, the quality of the RP's interaction with other RPers (where relevant) and demonstration of cycling-specific depth (where relevant - I do not prescribe how you should RP and welcome RPs about anything and everything, this is merely a note that when RPing about the sport and an attempt is made to reflect it within the RP special attention will be paid to any nice cycling-specific flourishes). An RP by the nation which owns a team will count for all of its riders, no matter what their nationality.
Ahead of each race, each team's directeur sportif (i.e. you!) may choose a rider as your team leader for the upcoming race. This is likely something that you will choose on the basis of the race's characteristics, for example for the flat Trofej Gazvoda you may pick your best sprinter; or for Ciezin-Prizren you may pick your cobbled classics specialist with the best bikehandling; and for Tur Mytanija your GC leader.
This must be done in an RP!!! with the idea being that it gives other nations an idea of who the team leader is for each team and to provide some fuel for their own RPs both pre and post-race. An example could be an interview with your IC sporting director talking about your team's tactics for the upcoming race, or a conversation between the riders discussing how their team leader is feeling. Once you have done this within the RP, you can then include an OOC note to confirm, e.g. OOC: John Smith is assigned team leader bonus for Trofej Gazvoda just to make it obvious for me ahead of scorination.
This bonus will give the team leader a small boost for the race in question and will be slightly larger than the RP bonus which will be available for each single one of the 25 scorination windows. It will reset after each race and if no rider is selected then you will miss out.
It is worth remembering that professional cycling teams often have different priorities, with some built for world-class sprinters and others built to win the general classification, so it is worth thinking about what your team is aiming to do over the course of the season and which races, stages and stage races they are aiming to win.
Schedule
21/09 - Everything Thread posted
28/09 - Trofej Gazvoda
29/09 - Severyan-Cassia
30/09 - Ciezin-Prizren
01/10 - Tour of Težia
02/10 - Zavolja-Sigurno
05/10 - Palilula-Trunca (all three stages)
07/10 - Three Steps of Ebena (all three stages)
09/10 - Tur Magevskaya (all three stages)
12/10 - 16/10 - Tur Nasto (stages 1-5)
19/10 - 23/10 - Tur Mytanija (stages 1-5)
26/10 - 30/10 - Tur Mytanija (stages 6-10)
02/11 - 03/11 - Tur Mytanija (stages 11-12)
Scorinations will generally be between 17:00 - 19:00 BST (or GMT when the clocks go back on 25/10).
IC Information
General IC information about Mytanija is available here and about some of its major cities here.
I will reserve the next post in the thread to provide specific information about each race, its route, its history, race profile / parcours, start / finish towns and cities.



