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The '''Talossan Cycling Association Tour''' (TCAT) is a fantasy sports league held between Talossan managers, played on the Velogames platform.
[[File:Tcat spain 2024.png|alt=Logo of the most recent leg of TCAT, TCAT Espain 2024 (Season 3 Leg 3), August-September 2024|thumb|Logo of the most recent leg of TCAT, TCAT Espain 2024 (Season 3 Leg 3), August-September 2024]]
The '''Talossan Cycling Association Tour''', usually known and abbreviated as '''TCAT''', is a fantasy sports league held between Talossan ''directeurs sportifs'', played on the [https://www.velogames.com/about.php Velogames] platform.  


Managers may assemble a team of nine riders by picking two all-rounders (typically general classification riders), two sprinters, two climbers, two unclassed riders and one free pick, spending a total of 100 credits. Unlike previous fantasy sports leagues which have been played among Talossans, such as the [[Talossan Football League]], Velogames does not allow for autopicks/autodrafts, riders may be shared between teams, no alterations to the team can be made midway through, and all picks are hidden until the competition starts.
Each edition of TCAT tentatively mirrors UCI Grand Tours stage races, Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España; this means each season is composed of three legs, each typically either numbered (Leg 1, 2, 3 of Season N) or known as TCAT Taliă, TCAT França or TCAT Espain (after the Talossan names of the host countries). Legs are also sometimes unofficially referred to as TCAT Giro, TCAT Tour and TCAT Vuelta respectively, depending on the stage race they mirror. The first season, played in 2022, only comprised two legs, as it kicked off after the 2022 Giro d'Italia had already taken place.


TCAT editions tentatively mirror UCI Grand Tours stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. So far, three editions have taken place.
As of May 2025, nine legs have been played, with one upcoming; seventeen teams have taken part in at least one leg, of which ten have competed in at least one full season.


== Season 1 Leg 1: Tour de France 2022 ==
=== Rules ===
The first leg of TCAT Season 1 followed the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Tour_de_France 2022 Tour de France], held between 1 and 24 July {{year|2022}}.
Managers may assemble a team of nine riders by picking two all-rounders (typically general classification riders), two climbers, one sprinter, three unclassed riders and one free pick, spending a total of up to 100 credits. Rider pricing is up to the Velogames administrator, George Chapman, and is loosely proportional to the number of points a certain rider is generally expected to score. Unlike previous fantasy sports leagues which have been played among Talossans, such as the [[Talossan Football League]], Velogames does not allow for autopicks/autodrafts, riders may be shared between teams, no alterations to the team can be made midway through, and all picks are hidden until the competition starts.


The leg saw four teams taking part, with Naziun Cjovani winning out. CJO also managed to be the only team to pick Jonas Vingegaard, the ultimate general classification winner, as well as Tadej Pogačar, the early favourite and a strong contender throughout the event, who ultimately finished second and won the young riders's classification. CJO was also the lone team to pick Magnus Cort, arguably one of the stars of the first week.
In each leg, a team scores points through its riders in a variety of ways, both after each stage and after the whole leg is over (End of Tour points). The team with the most points after End of Tour points are applied is recognised as the winner of the leg, with the team with the most points across all three legs of a season also being recognised as the winner of that season. In each leg, teams getting the most points out of sprinting-related and climbing-related , as well as the most "breakaway points" which typically denote combativity, are also separately, though unofficially, recognised.


BDC was the team with the most daily stage point leads (10), followed by CJO (8), KIN (2) and GHS (1).
== Breakdown of results ==
[[Glüc da Dhi]]'s Banqeu da Cézembre is the most successful team, having won four legs (França 2023, Espain 2023, Taliă 2024 and Espain 2024) alongside the 2023 and 2024 seasons. It is also the only team with multiple leg victories.


CJO and BDC riders took six stage wins; 3 each through Pogačar, 3 for van Aert for BDC, 2 for Vingegaard and 1 for Cort for CJO. KIN took four through van Aert and a lone stage win for Pidcock. No GHS riders took stage wins, Quintana scoring a single 2nd place.
Other leg winners are [[Iason Taiwos]]'s Naziun Cjovani (França 2022), [[Lüc da Schir]]'s Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Espain 2022), [[Erschéveþ da Schir]]'s Cyclohexane (Taliă 2023), [[Þerxh Sant-Enogat]]'s Cézembre Fieschă (França 2024) and [[Mic'haglh Autófil]]'s Esqipă Velocostă (Taliă 2025).


=== Participants ===
While never winning a leg, [[Audrada Roibeardet]]'s Kinetic Racing won the 2022 season by placing third in França 2022 and second in Espain 2022. Other teams who haven't won a leg yet, but have finished on the podium, are [[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]'s Dead Last (third place in França 2024), [[Alexandreu Davinescu]]'s Els Gagnheirs (second in França 2023 and third in Espain 2022), [[Ian Plätschisch]]'s Port Maxhestic AC (third in Espain 2023 and Espain 2024), [[Breneir Tzaracomprada]]'s Velociposse Florenciă (third in Taliă 2023 and second in Taliă 2025) and [[King Txec]]'s Els Talossaes Rexhitais (third in Taliă 2025).


=== Leg results ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Season
!Leg
!Participants
!Winner
!Second place
!Third place
|-
| rowspan="2" |'''2022'''
|1 - França 2022
|4
|'''Naziun Cjovani''' (Iason Taiwos)
|Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi)
|Kinetic Racing (Audrada Roibeardet)
|-
|2 - Espain 2022
|7
|'''Gordon Hiatus Support Team''' (Lüc da Schir)
|Kinetic Racing (Audrada Roibeardet)
|Els Gagnheirs (Alexandreu Davinescu)
|-
| rowspan="3" |'''2023'''
|1 - Taliă 2023
|11
|'''Cyclohexane''' (Erschéveþ da Schir)
|Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi)
|Velociposse Florenciă (Breneir Tzaracomprada)
|-
|2 - França 2023
|13
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|Els Gagnheirs (Alexandreu Davinescu)
|Naziun Cjovani (Iason Taiwos)
|-
|3 - Espain 2023
|11
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir)
|Port Maxhestic AC (Ian Plätschisch)
|-
|-
! Pos !! Team !! Manager !! Pts
| rowspan="3" |'''2024'''
|1 - Taliă 2024
|9
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|Cyclohexane (Erschéveþ da Schir)
|Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir)
|-
|-
| '''1st''' || '''Naziun Cjovani (CJO)''' || '''[[Iason Taiwos]]''' || '''9405'''
|2 - França 2024
|11
|'''Cézembre Fieschă''' (Þerxh Sant-Enogat)
|Cyclohexane (Erschéveþ da Schir)
|Dead Last (Tric'hard Lenxheir)
|-
|-
| 2nd || Banqeu de Cézembre KLüP TMT (BDC) || [[Glüc da Dhi]] || 8857
|3 - Espain 2024
|9
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir)
|Port Maxhestic AC (Ian Plätschisch)
|-
|-
| 3rd || Kinetic Racing (KIN) || [[Audrada Roibeardet]] || 8625
| rowspan="2" |'''2025'''
|1 - Taliă 2025
|14
|'''Esqipă Velocostă''' (Mic'haglh Autófil)
|Velociposse Florenciă (Breneir Tzaracomprada)
|Els Talossaes Rexhitais (King Txec)
|-
|-
| 4th || Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]] || 6024
|2 - França 2025
|
| colspan="3" |''Upcoming''
|}
|}


=== Rosters ===
=== Season results ===
Only includes teams who took part in all legs of the season.
 
==== 2022 ====
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Naziun Cjovani (CJO) - 9405 pts
!Pos
!Team
!Directeur Sportif
!Points
|-
|'''1st'''
|'''Kinetic Racing (KIN)'''
|'''Audrada Roibeardet'''
|'''16611'''
|-
|-
! Rider !! Class !! Points !! Notes
|2nd
|Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC)
|Glüc da Dhi
|15818
|-
|-
| Tadej Pogačar || AR || 3412 ||  
|3rd
|Naziun Cjovani (CJO)
|Iason Taiwos
|15707
|-
|4th
|Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)
|Lüc da Schir
|14644
|}
 
==== 2023 ====
{| class="wikitable"
!Pos
!Team
!Directeur Sportif
!Points
|-
|-
| Jonas Vingegaard || AR || 3199 ||  
|'''1st'''
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC)'''
|'''Glüc da Dhi'''
|'''28418'''
|-
|-
| Nairo Quintana || CL || 1109 ||  
|2nd
|Els Gagnheirs (GNH)
|Alexandreu Davinescu
|25329
|-
|-
| Magnus Cort Nielsen || UC || 706 || (abandon: stage 15)
|3rd
|Cyclohexane (CHX)
|Erschéveþ da Schir
|22683
|-
|-
| Jonathan Castroviejo || UC || 434 ||  
|4th
|Cézembre Fieschă (CFA)
|Þerxh Sant-Enogat
|21764
|-
|-
| Chris Froome || AR || 236 || (abandon: stage 18)
|5th
|Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)
|Ian Plätschisch
|20955
|-
|-
| Amaury Capiot || SP || 155 ||  
|6th
|Dead Last (DED)
|Tric'hard Lenxheir
|20319
|-
|-
| Warren Barguil || CL || 154 || (abandon: stage 13)
|7th
|Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)
|Lüc da Schir
|20046
|-
|-
| Fabio Felline || UC || 0 || (abandon: stage 17)
|8th
|Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)
|Carlüs Vilaçafat
|17464
|}
|}


==== 2024 ====
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Banqeu da Cézembre KLüP TMT (BDC) - 8857 pts
!Pos
!Team
!Directeur Sportif
!Points
|-
|-
! Rider  !! Class !! Points !! Notes
|'''1st'''
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC)'''
|'''Glüc da Dhi'''
|'''28909'''
|-
|-
| Tadej Pogačar || AR || 3412 ||  
|2nd
|Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)
|Lüc da Schir
|25986
|-
|-
| Wout van Aert || SP || 2917 ||
|3rd
|Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)
|Ian Plätschisch
|23892
|-
|-
| Thibaut Pinot || CL || 769 ||
|4th
|Cézembre Fieschă (CFA)
|Þerxh Sant-Enogat
|22746
|-
|-
| Peter Sagan || SP || 682 ||  
|5th
|Cyclohexane (CHX)
|Erschéveþ da Schir
|22500
|-
|-
| Bauke Mollema || CL || 302 ||  
|6th
|Dead Last (DED)
|Tric'hard Lenxheir
|19708
|-
|-
| Van Hooydonck || UC || 290 || (abandon: stage 20)
|7th
|Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)
|Carlüs Vilaçafat
|17047
|-
|-
| Rigoberto Uran || AR || 222 ||
|8th
|-
|Velociposse Florencia (VFL)
| Mathieu van der Poel || UC || 215 || (abandon: stage 11)
|Breneir Tzaracomprada
|-
|16261
| Tony Gallopin || UC || 48 ||
|}
|}


==== 2025 (after 1 of 3 legs) ====
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Kinetic Racing (KIN) - 8625 pts
|-
|-
! Rider  !! Class !! Points !! Notes
!Pos
! Team !! Directeur Sportif
!Points
|-
|'''1st'''
|'''Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)'''
|[[Mic'haglh Autófil|'''Mic'haglh Autófil''']]
|'''8615'''
|-
|2nd
| Velociposse Florencia (VFL) || [[Breneir Tzaracomprada]]
|8404
|-
|3rd
| Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX) || [[Txec dal Nordselvă]]
|8027
|-
|-
| Wout van Aert || SP || 2917 ||
|4th
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]]
|7508
|-
|-
| Geraint Thomas || AR || 2025 ||  
|5th
| Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) || [[Ian Plätschisch]]
|7391
|-
|6th
|Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)
|[[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat|Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
|7091
|-
|7th
| Averatxeirs (ATX) || [[Marcel Tafial]]
|7087
|-
|-
| Nairo Quintana || CL || 1109 ||  
|8th
|Banqeu da Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)
|[[Glüc da Dhi]]
|6726
|-
|-
| Thomas Pidcock || UC || 1080 ||  
|9th
|Kinetic Racing (KIN)
|[[Audrada Roibeardet]]
|6663
|-
|-
| Filippo Ganna || UC || 695 ||  
|10th
| Cyclohexane (CHX) || [[Erschéveþ da Schir]]
|6568
|-
|-
| Chris Froome || AR || 236 || (abandon: stage 18)
|11th
|Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)
|[[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]
|6163
|-
|-
| Mathieu van der Poel || UC || 215 || (abandon: stage 11)
|12th
| Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) || [[þerxh Sant-Enogat]]
|5348
|-
|-
| Jakob Fuglsang || AR || 194 || (abandon: stage 16)
|13th
| Naziun Cjovani (CJO) || [[Iason Taiwos]]
|5028
|-
|-
| Warren Barguil || CL || 154 || (abandon: stage 13)
|14th
|Maricopan Manilows (MAN)
|[[Dien Tresplet]]
|4274
|}
|}
=== Side classification winners ===
Side classifications unofficially mirror the secondary classifications contested during stage races:


* the '''sprinters's classification''' tentatively mirrors the points classification, and is the sum of all Velogames points scored in intermediate sprints and from the daily points classification standings;
* the '''climbers's classification''' instead mirrors King of Mountains classifications, and is the sum of all Velogames points accrued in summits and from the daily KOM classification standings;
* the '''combativity classification''' comprises all breakaway points given out to a team's riders (20 each time a rider is in the lead break midway through, if the break is of at most 30 riders and the gap is at least 5 seconds)
The Velogames points left out from side classification are thus daily stage points, daily general classification standings points and assist points.
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) - 6024 pts
!Season
!Leg
!Sprinters's Classification Winner
!Climbers's Classification Winner
!Combativity Classification Winner
|-
| rowspan="2" |'''2022'''
|1 - França 2022
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|'''Naziun Cjovani''' (Iason Taiwos)
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|-
|2 - Espain 2022
|'''Gordon Hiatus Support Team''' (Lüc da Schir)
|'''Gordon Hiatus Support Team''' (Lüc da Schir)
|'''Gordon Hiatus Support Team''' (Lüc da Schir) and '''Kinetic Racing''' (Audrada Roibeardet)
|-
| rowspan="3" |'''2023'''
|1 - Taliă 2023
|'''Cyclohexane''' (Erschéveþ da Schir)
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|-
|2 - França 2023
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|'''Els Gagnheirs''' (Alexandreu Davinescu)
|'''Velociposse Florenciă''' (Breneir Tzaracomprada)
|-
|-
! Rider  !! Class !! Points !! Notes
|3 - Espain 2023
|'''Maricopa Cabana Boys''' (Carlüs Vilaçafat)
|'''Maricopa Cabana Boys''' (Carlüs Vilaçafat)
|'''Maricopa Cabana Boys''' (Carlüs Vilaçafat)
|-
|-
| Nairo Quintana || CL || 1109 ||  
| rowspan="3" |'''2024'''
|1 - Taliă 2024
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|'''Gordon Hiatus Support Team''' (Lüc da Schir)
|'''Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici''' (Txec dal Nordselva)
|-
|-
| Adam Yates || CL || 1107 ||  
|2 - França 2024
|'''Cyclohexane''' (Erschéveþ da Schir)
|'''Cézembre Fieschă''' (Þerxh Sant-Enogat)
|'''Dead Last''' (Tric'hard Lenxheir)
|-
|-
| Romain Bardet || CL* || 1015 ||
|3 - Espain 2024
|'''Port Maxhestic AC''' (Ian Plätschisch)
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|'''Banqeu da Cézembre''' (Glüc da Dhi)
|-
|-
| Filippo Ganna || UC || 695 ||  
|'''2025'''
|1 - Taliă 2025
|'''Gordon Hiatus Support Team''' (Lüc da Schir)
|'''Gordon Hiatus Support Team''' (Lüc da Schir)
|'''Gordon Hiatus Support Team''' (Lüc da Schir)
|}
 
== 2022 (Season 1) ==
TCAT's first season featured seven teams - four joining immediately, and three joining in for the second leg. As TCAT was formed for the 2022 Tour de France, the 2022 season did not comprise a leg in Italy.
 
=== Leg 1, Copenhagen to Paris (França 2022) ===
The first leg of TCAT Season 1 followed the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Tour_de_France 2022 Tour de France], held between 1 and 24 July {{year|2022}}.
 
The leg saw four teams taking part, with Naziun Cjovani winning out. CJO also managed to be the only team to pick Jonas Vingegaard, the ultimate general classification winner, as well as Tadej Pogačar, the early favourite and a strong contender throughout the event, who ultimately finished second and won the young riders's classification. CJO was also the lone team to pick Magnus Cort, arguably one of the stars of the first week.
 
BDC was the team with the most daily stage point leads (10), followed by CJO (8), KIN (2) and GHS (1).
 
CJO and BDC riders took six stage wins; 3 each through Pogačar, 3 for van Aert for BDC, 2 for Vingegaard and 1 for Cort for CJO. KIN took four through van Aert and a lone stage win for Pidcock. No GHS riders took stage wins, Quintana scoring a single 2nd place.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
| Primož Roglič || AR || 677 || (abandon: stage 15)
! Pos !! Team !! Manager !! Pts
|-
|-
| Alexander Kristoff || SP || 498 ||  
| '''1st''' || '''Naziun Cjovani (CJO)''' || '''[[Iason Taiwos]]''' || '''9405'''
|-
|-
| Matteo Bettiol || SP || 472 ||  
| 2nd || Banqeu da Cézembre KLüP TMT (BDC) || [[Glüc da Dhi]] || 8857
|-
|-
| Chris Froome || AR || 236 || (abandon: stage 18)
| 3rd || Kinetic Racing (KIN) || [[Audrada Roibeardet]] || 8625
|-
|-
| Mathieu van der Poel || UC || 215 || (abandon: stage 11)
| 4th || Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]] || 6024
|}
|}


== Season 1 Leg 2: Vuelta a España 2022 ==
=== Leg 2, Utrecht to Madrid (Espain 2022) ===
TCAT's second edition followed the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Vuelta_a_Espa%C3%B1a 2022 Vuelta a España], held between 19 August and 11 September {{year|2022}}. Seven teams took part: all four participants from the first leg and three new teams.
TCAT 2022's second leg followed the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Vuelta_a_Espa%C3%B1a 2022 Vuelta a España], held between 19 August and 11 September {{year|2022}}. Seven teams took part: all four participants from the first leg and three new teams.


=== Participants ===
Gordon Hiatus Support Team bounced back from last place in the previous leg to win Leg 2, selecting the winners of all four classifications - Remco Evenepoel (GC and young riders), Richard Carapaz (KOM) and Mads Pedersen (points).


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
|-
|'''1st'''
|'''1st'''
| '''Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)''' || [[Lüc da Schir|'''Lüc da Schir''']]
| '''Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)'''|| [[Lüc da Schir|'''Lüc da Schir''']]
|'''8260'''
|'''8260'''
|-
|-
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|-
|-
|4th
|4th
| Banqeu de Cézembre OneFiftyZero (BDC) || [[Glüc da Dhi]]
| Banqeu da Cézembre OneFiftyZero (BDC) || [[Glüc da Dhi]]
|6961
|6961
|-
|-
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|-
|-
|7th
|7th
| Valcürïăs (VAL) || [[Vitxalmour Conductour]]
| Cjovani Valcürïăs (VAL) || [[Vitxalmour Conductour]]
|5062
|5062
|}
|}


== Season 3 ==
== 2023 (Season 2) ==
TCAT's third edition was a huge cultural event on [[Wittenberg]], drawing a record-breaking number of participants and leading to a podcast with live coverage, "CENTRASEIRĂ."
Season 2 featured 8 full season participants, with 14 teams contesting at least one leg (all but one contested at least two).
 
===Leg 1, Fossacesia Marina to Roma (Taliă 2023)===
TCAT's third edition was a huge cultural event on [[Wittenberg]], drawing a record-breaking number of participants and leading to a podcast with live coverage, "Centraseiră". Five teams from Leg 2 competed in this start to the season, joined by six newcomers: Averatxeir, Cézembre Fieschă, Cyclohexane, Dead Last, Maricopa Cabana Boys and Port Maxhestic AC.
 
Debutant Cyclohexane immediately romped on to win off the back of sprinter Jonathan Milan, also a Grand Tour debutant, who won the points classification and was an unique pick.


===Leg 1: Fossacesia -> Rome===
This was the only edition to date in which the winning team did not select the rider who ended up winning the general classification, Primož Roglič. The best placed team who did select Roglič was Velociposse, who placed third. Cyclohexane did select the winners of the other three classifications: Thibaut Pinot (KOM), Jonathan Milan (points) and João Almeida (young riders).


==== Participants ====
To mark the occasion, two episodes of a cycling podcast, Centraseiră, were recorded and released by [[Lüc da Schir]] and [[Glüc da Dhi]]. The name is a Talossan translation of "midevening", which is generally the time of day Velogames computes daily scoring updates. The episodes are available on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP1CeN5u7eM episode 1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0I9jpDVyM episode 2]. Centraseiră also hosted a Discord watchalong during the pivotal stage 20 climbing time trial, attended by several team managers.
Five previous teams competed in this start to the season, but they were joined by six newcomers.


{| class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
!Pos
!Pos
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|'''1st'''
|'''1st'''
| '''Cyclohexane (CHX)''' || '''[[Erschéveþ da Schir]]'''
| '''Cyclohexane (CHX)''' || '''[[Erschéveþ da Schir]]'''
|8658
|'''8658'''
|-
|-
|2nd
|2nd
| Banqeu de [[Cézembre]] Pterodactyls (BDC) || [[Glüc da Dhi]]
| Banqeu da [[Cézembre]] Pterodactyls (BDC) || [[Glüc da Dhi]]
|8556
|8556
|-
|-
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|-
|-
|5th
|5th
| Dead Last (DED) || [[Tric`hard Lenxheir]]
| Dead Last (DED) || [[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]
|6763
|6763
|-
|-
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|-
|-
|9th
|9th
| The [[Maricopa]] Cabana Boys (MCB) || [[Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
| [[Maricopa]] Cabana Boys (MCB) || [[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat|Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
|5074
|5074
|-
|-
|10th
|10th
| Els Averatxeirs (ATC) || [[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial]]
| Els Averatxeirs (ATX) || [[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial]]
|4456
|4456
|-
|-
|11th
|11th
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir|Lüc da Schir]]
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]]
|4440
|4440
|}
|}


===Leg 2: Bilbao -> Paris===
===Leg 2, Bilbao to Paris (França 2023)===
<!-- {| class="wikitable"
TCAT França 2023 saw the most participants of any other leg to date, 13, with all teams of Leg 1 returning, joined by França 2022 winner Naziun Cjovani and newcomer Cantzelerïă Aþletici. This was also the first edition to adopt the current logo, which changes colours depending on the setting of the event, to adopt the Talossan language naming of legs, and also to ditch the early naming scheme where each edition was referred as TCAT 1, TCAT 2, TCAT 3 and so on.
 
Banqeu da Cézembre won their first leg, beating back a resurgent Gagnheirs. For a second edition in a row, the winning team was the only one to select the points classification winner (Jasper Philipsen), with Banqeu da Cézembre also selecting the winners of the other three classifications: Jonas Vingegaard (GC), Giulio Ciccone (KOM) and Tadej Pogačar (young riders).
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Pos
! Team !! Manager
!Points
|-
|'''1st'''
| '''Banqeu da Cézembre Runners Up (BDC)''' || [[Glüc da Dhi|'''Glüc da Dhi''']]
|'''10404'''
|-
|2nd
| Els Gagnheirs (GNH) || [[Alexandreu Davinescu]]
|10053
|-
|3rd
| Naziun Cjovani (CJO) || [[Iason Taiwos]]
|9687
|-
|4th
| [[Cézembre]] Fieschă (CFA) || [[þerxh Sant-Enogat]]
|8316
|-
|5th
| Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici (SOS) || [[Txec dal Nordselvă]]
|7650
|-
|6th
| Velociposse Florencia (VFL) || [[Breneir Tzaracomprada]]
|7125
|-
|7th
| Kinetic Racing (KIN) || [[Audrada Roibeardet]]
|6905
|-
|8th
| Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) || [[Ian Plätschisch]]
|6893
|-
|9th
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]]
|6663
|-
|10th
| Cyclohexane (CHX) || [[Erschéveþ da Schir]]
|6522
|-
|11th
| Dead Last (DED) || [[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]
|6289
|-
|12th
|Els Averatxeirs (ATX)
|[[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial]]
|5279
|-
|13th
|[[Maricopa]] Cabana Boys (MCB)
|[[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat|Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
|4254
|}
 
===Leg 3, Barcelona to Madrid (Espain 2023)===
The last leg of the season was contested by 11 teams - 10 from leg 2, and returning Cjovani Valcürïas, who had previously contested Espain 2022 a year prior.
 
Banqeu da Cézembre became the first team to win multiple legs, picking seven of the eight Jumbo-Visma riders (all but Wilco Kelderman), a combination that included all riders on the General Classification podium - Sepp Kuss, Jonas Vingegaard and Primož Roglič. The trio's domination resulted in a massive amount of assist points, which ultimately proved decisive. Due to this unusual strategy, this was also the only instance in which a team with four unclassed riders won; this would otherwise be an unadvisable way to spend the wildcard spot.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Pos
! Team !! Manager
!Points
|-
|'''1st'''
| '''Banqeu da Cézembre Paranoid Knights (BDC)''' || [[Glüc da Dhi|'''Glüc da Dhi''']]
|'''9458'''
|-
|2nd
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]]
|8943
|-
|3rd
| Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) || [[Ian Plätschisch]]
|8230
|-
|4th
| [[Maricopa]] Cabana Boys (MCB) || [[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat|Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
|8136
|-
|5th
| Els Gagnheirs (GNH) || [[Alexandreu Davinescu]]
|7682
|-
|6th
| Cyclohexane (CHX) || [[Erschéveþ da Schir]]
|7503
|-
|7th
| Dead Last (DED) || [[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]
|7267
|-
|8th
| Naziun Cjovani (CJO) || [[Iason Taiwos]]
|7085
|-
|9th
| [[Cézembre]] Fieschă (CFA) || [[þerxh Sant-Enogat]]
|6816
|-
|10th
| Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici (SOS) || [[Txec dal Nordselvă]]
|6685
|-
|11th
| Cjovani Valcürïăs (VAL) || [[Vitxalmour Conductour]]
|5791
|}
 
== 2024 (Season 3) ==
Season 3 once again saw 8 full season participants, with 12 teams contesting at least one leg.
 
===Leg 1, Venaria Reale to Roma (Taliă 2024)===
The first leg of 2024 was contested by nine teams - 8 continuing from the previous leg and Velociposse returning after sitting out Espain 2023. All nine teams but Cantzelerïă ended up contesting the full season.
 
Banqeu da Cézembre won a third consecutive leg, becoming the first team to win one each of the three legs (and still the only team to have won multiple legs), scoring a record amount of points for a single leg in the process, and a record gap over the second placed team, Cyclohexane. Both teams had also shared the first two spots of the podium a year prior.
 
For a second time out of two Italian legs, a team with two sprinters won out (in this case, Jonathan Milan and Tobias Lund Andresen).
 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Pos
! Team !! Manager
!Points
|-
|'''1st'''
| '''Banqeu da Cézembre Tavulairs (BDC)''' || [[Glüc da Dhi|'''Glüc da Dhi''']]
|'''11925'''
|-
|2nd
| Cyclohexane (CHX) || [[Erschéveþ da Schir]]
|8746
|-
|3rd
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]]
|8671
|-
|4th
| [[Cézembre]] Fieschă (CFA) || [[þerxh Sant-Enogat]]
|7648
|-
|5th
| [[Maricopa]] Cabana Boys (MCB) || [[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat|Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
|7478
|-
|6th
| Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) || [[Ian Plätschisch]]
|7463
|-
|7th
| Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici (SOS) || [[Txec dal Nordselvă]]
|5281
|-
|8th
| Dead Last (DED) || [[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]
|4992
|-
|9th
| Velociposse Florencia (VFL) || [[Breneir Tzaracomprada]]
|4865
|}
 
===Leg 2, Firenze to Paris (França 2024)===
Once again the leg shadowing Tour de France was the most successful of the season, with 8 teams continuing from Taliă 2024, Naziun Cjovani rejoining after once again sitting out the first leg of the season, and two new teams - Ardita Benito and Maricopan Manilows. Velociposse Florencia contested the leg under the Dead2Last name.
 
The leg resulted in a maiden win for Cézembre Fieschă, thanks to a strategy that involved picking three of the four riders who were initially seen as the favourites - Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel - while saving credits on the rest of the team. A similar strategy had been historically successful at França 2022 and 2023, with the winners of both legs picking both Pogačar and Vingegaard - a strategy informally dubbed "the Iason" after [[Iason Taiwos]], who first employed it. This was however less successful in this leg, with Pogačar seen as more of a favourite compared to Vingegaard due to the Dane recovering from a major injury (as indeed were Evenepoel and fourth major favourite Primož Roglič).
 
For a third time out of three, the winner of the French leg selected three all-rounders (Pogačar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel).
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Pos
! Team !! Manager
!Points
|-
|'''1st'''
| '''Cézembre Fieschă (CFA)''' || [[þerxh Sant-Enogat|'''þerxh Sant-Enogat''']]
|'''10066'''
|-
|2nd
| Cyclohexane (CHX) || [[Erschéveþ da Schir]]
|9607
|-
|3rd
| Dead Last (DED) || [[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]
|9463
|-
|4th
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]]
|9033
|-
|5th
| Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) || [[Ian Plätschisch]]
|8671
|-
|6th
| Banqeu da Cézembre Tavulairs (BDC) || [[Glüc da Dhi]]
|8491
|-
|7th
| Naziun Cjovani (CJO) || [[Iason Taiwos]]
|8159
|-
|8th
| Ardita Benito (ARB) || Pol dal Cräpscaßada
|7739
|-
|9th
| Maricopan Manilows (MAN) || [[Dien Tresplet]]
|6419
|-
|10th
|Dead2Last (VFL)
|[[Breneir Tzaracomprada]]
|4692
|-
|11th
|Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)
|[[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat|Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
|3776
|}
 
===Leg 3, Lisboa to Madrid (Espain 2024)===
The final leg of TCAT 2024 was contested by all eight full season teams plus Naziun Cjovani, which also contested the previous leg.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
!Pos
!Pos
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!Points
!Points
|-
|-
|place
|'''1st'''
| team (abbrev) || [[name]]
| '''Banqeu da Cézembre Tavulairs (BDC)''' || [[Glüc da Dhi|'''Glüc da Dhi''']]
|score
|'''8493'''
|} -->
|-
|2nd
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]]
|8282
|-
|3rd
| Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) || [[Ian Plätschisch]]
|7788
|-
|4th
| Velociposse Florencia (VFL) || [[Breneir Tzaracomprada]]
|6704
|-
|5th
| Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) || [[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat|Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
|5793
|-
|6th
| Dead Last (DED) || [[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]
|5253
|-
|7th
| Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) || [[þerxh Sant-Enogat]]
|5032
|-
|8th
| Naziun Cjovani (CJO) || [[Iason Taiwos]]
|4892
|-
|9th
| Cyclohexane (CHX) || [[Erschéveþ da Schir]]
|4147
|}
 
== 2025 (Season 4) ==
Season 4 began on May 9th 2025.
 
===Leg 1, Durrës to Roma (Taliă 2025)===
Leg 1 of 2025 broke the record for participating teams, featuring 14 - all 9 entrants in the previous leg, one new entry (Esqipă Velocostă) and four having previously contested at least another leg: Averatxeirs, Kinetic Racing, Maricopan Manilows and Els Talossaes Rexhitais (the latter formerly entered as Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici and considered to be the same team for recordkeeping purposes).


===Leg 3: Barcelona -> Madrid===
The leg featured an initial domination of teams featuring Mads Pedersen (BDC, CHX, CJO, GHS and PTM), but as the terrain got steeper and some of the most prominent riders either retired or irredeemably fell out of GC contention, EVC, REX and VFL emerged as the teams competing for the win. Ultimately Esqipă Velocostă won, matching Cyclohexane as the only other team able to win in its maiden leg. GHST, which led the standings from stage 4 to 19, fell out of the podium on End of Tour points.
 
The underperformance of six of seven riders priced 14 credits or higher (all but Mads Pedersen) notably led to the theoretical best team being worth just 92 credits. Also noteworthy to begin with was the very low combined price of the most expensive riders - 24 for Roglic, 20 for Ayuso, and then Van Aert and A. Yates on 16 - which was the lowest so far across all TCAT legs. Indeed, combined with the fact all of the expensive riders underperformed, this leg stands out as the first one won by a team that did not feature the most expensive rider, and the first one since Italy 2023 where the winner of the General Classification (S. Yates) did not feature in the winning team. For the first time in three editions, a team featuring three climbers won the Italian leg, and the winning team did not feature two sprinters or the points classification winner (Pedersen).
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Pos
! Team !! Manager
!Points
|-
|'''1st'''
|'''Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)'''
|[[Mic'haglh Autófil|'''Mic'haglh Autófil''']]
|'''8615'''
|-
|2nd
| Velociposse Florencia (VFL) || [[Breneir Tzaracomprada]]
|8404
|-
|3rd
| Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX) || [[Txec dal Nordselvă]]
|8027
|-
|4th
| Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) || [[Lüc da Schir]]
|7508
|-
|5th
| Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) || [[Ian Plätschisch]]
|7391
|-
|6th
|Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)
|[[Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat|Carlüs Vilaçafat]]
|7091
|-
|7th
| Averatxeirs (ATX) || [[Marcel Tafial]]
|7087
|-
|8th
|Banqeu da Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)
|[[Glüc da Dhi]]
|6726
|-
|9th
|Kinetic Racing (KIN)
|[[Audrada Roibeardet]]
|6663
|-
|10th
| Cyclohexane (CHX) || [[Erschéveþ da Schir]]
|6568
|-
|11th
|Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)
|[[Tric'hard Lenxheir]]
|6163
|-
|12th
| Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) || [[þerxh Sant-Enogat]]
|5348
|-
|13th
| Naziun Cjovani (CJO) || [[Iason Taiwos]]
|5028
|-
|14th
|Maricopan Manilows (MAN)
|[[Dien Tresplet]]
|4274
|}

Latest revision as of 14:01, 4 June 2025

Logo of the most recent leg of TCAT, TCAT Espain 2024 (Season 3 Leg 3), August-September 2024
Logo of the most recent leg of TCAT, TCAT Espain 2024 (Season 3 Leg 3), August-September 2024

The Talossan Cycling Association Tour, usually known and abbreviated as TCAT, is a fantasy sports league held between Talossan directeurs sportifs, played on the Velogames platform.

Each edition of TCAT tentatively mirrors UCI Grand Tours stage races, Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España; this means each season is composed of three legs, each typically either numbered (Leg 1, 2, 3 of Season N) or known as TCAT Taliă, TCAT França or TCAT Espain (after the Talossan names of the host countries). Legs are also sometimes unofficially referred to as TCAT Giro, TCAT Tour and TCAT Vuelta respectively, depending on the stage race they mirror. The first season, played in 2022, only comprised two legs, as it kicked off after the 2022 Giro d'Italia had already taken place.

As of May 2025, nine legs have been played, with one upcoming; seventeen teams have taken part in at least one leg, of which ten have competed in at least one full season.

Rules

Managers may assemble a team of nine riders by picking two all-rounders (typically general classification riders), two climbers, one sprinter, three unclassed riders and one free pick, spending a total of up to 100 credits. Rider pricing is up to the Velogames administrator, George Chapman, and is loosely proportional to the number of points a certain rider is generally expected to score. Unlike previous fantasy sports leagues which have been played among Talossans, such as the Talossan Football League, Velogames does not allow for autopicks/autodrafts, riders may be shared between teams, no alterations to the team can be made midway through, and all picks are hidden until the competition starts.

In each leg, a team scores points through its riders in a variety of ways, both after each stage and after the whole leg is over (End of Tour points). The team with the most points after End of Tour points are applied is recognised as the winner of the leg, with the team with the most points across all three legs of a season also being recognised as the winner of that season. In each leg, teams getting the most points out of sprinting-related and climbing-related , as well as the most "breakaway points" which typically denote combativity, are also separately, though unofficially, recognised.

Breakdown of results

Glüc da Dhi's Banqeu da Cézembre is the most successful team, having won four legs (França 2023, Espain 2023, Taliă 2024 and Espain 2024) alongside the 2023 and 2024 seasons. It is also the only team with multiple leg victories.

Other leg winners are Iason Taiwos's Naziun Cjovani (França 2022), Lüc da Schir's Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Espain 2022), Erschéveþ da Schir's Cyclohexane (Taliă 2023), Þerxh Sant-Enogat's Cézembre Fieschă (França 2024) and Mic'haglh Autófil's Esqipă Velocostă (Taliă 2025).

While never winning a leg, Audrada Roibeardet's Kinetic Racing won the 2022 season by placing third in França 2022 and second in Espain 2022. Other teams who haven't won a leg yet, but have finished on the podium, are Tric'hard Lenxheir's Dead Last (third place in França 2024), Alexandreu Davinescu's Els Gagnheirs (second in França 2023 and third in Espain 2022), Ian Plätschisch's Port Maxhestic AC (third in Espain 2023 and Espain 2024), Breneir Tzaracomprada's Velociposse Florenciă (third in Taliă 2023 and second in Taliă 2025) and King Txec's Els Talossaes Rexhitais (third in Taliă 2025).

Leg results

Season Leg Participants Winner Second place Third place
2022 1 - França 2022 4 Naziun Cjovani (Iason Taiwos) Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Kinetic Racing (Audrada Roibeardet)
2 - Espain 2022 7 Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) Kinetic Racing (Audrada Roibeardet) Els Gagnheirs (Alexandreu Davinescu)
2023 1 - Taliă 2023 11 Cyclohexane (Erschéveþ da Schir) Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Velociposse Florenciă (Breneir Tzaracomprada)
2 - França 2023 13 Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Els Gagnheirs (Alexandreu Davinescu) Naziun Cjovani (Iason Taiwos)
3 - Espain 2023 11 Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) Port Maxhestic AC (Ian Plätschisch)
2024 1 - Taliă 2024 9 Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Cyclohexane (Erschéveþ da Schir) Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir)
2 - França 2024 11 Cézembre Fieschă (Þerxh Sant-Enogat) Cyclohexane (Erschéveþ da Schir) Dead Last (Tric'hard Lenxheir)
3 - Espain 2024 9 Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) Port Maxhestic AC (Ian Plätschisch)
2025 1 - Taliă 2025 14 Esqipă Velocostă (Mic'haglh Autófil) Velociposse Florenciă (Breneir Tzaracomprada) Els Talossaes Rexhitais (King Txec)
2 - França 2025 Upcoming

Season results

Only includes teams who took part in all legs of the season.

2022

Pos Team Directeur Sportif Points
1st Kinetic Racing (KIN) Audrada Roibeardet 16611
2nd Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 15818
3rd Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 15707
4th Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 14644

2023

Pos Team Directeur Sportif Points
1st Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 28418
2nd Els Gagnheirs (GNH) Alexandreu Davinescu 25329
3rd Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 22683
4th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) Þerxh Sant-Enogat 21764
5th Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 20955
6th Dead Last (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 20319
7th Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 20046
8th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 17464

2024

Pos Team Directeur Sportif Points
1st Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 28909
2nd Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 25986
3rd Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 23892
4th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) Þerxh Sant-Enogat 22746
5th Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 22500
6th Dead Last (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 19708
7th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 17047
8th Velociposse Florencia (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 16261

2025 (after 1 of 3 legs)

Pos Team Directeur Sportif Points
1st Esqipă Velocostă (EVC) Mic'haglh Autófil 8615
2nd Velociposse Florencia (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 8404
3rd Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX) Txec dal Nordselvă 8027
4th Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 7508
5th Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 7391
6th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 7091
7th Averatxeirs (ATX) Marcel Tafial 7087
8th Banqeu da Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 6726
9th Kinetic Racing (KIN) Audrada Roibeardet 6663
10th Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 6568
11th Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 6163
12th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) þerxh Sant-Enogat 5348
13th Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 5028
14th Maricopan Manilows (MAN) Dien Tresplet 4274

Side classification winners

Side classifications unofficially mirror the secondary classifications contested during stage races:

  • the sprinters's classification tentatively mirrors the points classification, and is the sum of all Velogames points scored in intermediate sprints and from the daily points classification standings;
  • the climbers's classification instead mirrors King of Mountains classifications, and is the sum of all Velogames points accrued in summits and from the daily KOM classification standings;
  • the combativity classification comprises all breakaway points given out to a team's riders (20 each time a rider is in the lead break midway through, if the break is of at most 30 riders and the gap is at least 5 seconds)

The Velogames points left out from side classification are thus daily stage points, daily general classification standings points and assist points.

Season Leg Sprinters's Classification Winner Climbers's Classification Winner Combativity Classification Winner
2022 1 - França 2022 Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Naziun Cjovani (Iason Taiwos) Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi)
2 - Espain 2022 Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) and Kinetic Racing (Audrada Roibeardet)
2023 1 - Taliă 2023 Cyclohexane (Erschéveþ da Schir) Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi)
2 - França 2023 Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Els Gagnheirs (Alexandreu Davinescu) Velociposse Florenciă (Breneir Tzaracomprada)
3 - Espain 2023 Maricopa Cabana Boys (Carlüs Vilaçafat) Maricopa Cabana Boys (Carlüs Vilaçafat) Maricopa Cabana Boys (Carlüs Vilaçafat)
2024 1 - Taliă 2024 Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici (Txec dal Nordselva)
2 - França 2024 Cyclohexane (Erschéveþ da Schir) Cézembre Fieschă (Þerxh Sant-Enogat) Dead Last (Tric'hard Lenxheir)
3 - Espain 2024 Port Maxhestic AC (Ian Plätschisch) Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi) Banqeu da Cézembre (Glüc da Dhi)
2025 1 - Taliă 2025 Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir) Gordon Hiatus Support Team (Lüc da Schir)

2022 (Season 1)

TCAT's first season featured seven teams - four joining immediately, and three joining in for the second leg. As TCAT was formed for the 2022 Tour de France, the 2022 season did not comprise a leg in Italy.

Leg 1, Copenhagen to Paris (França 2022)

The first leg of TCAT Season 1 followed the 2022 Tour de France, held between 1 and 24 July 2022/XLIII.

The leg saw four teams taking part, with Naziun Cjovani winning out. CJO also managed to be the only team to pick Jonas Vingegaard, the ultimate general classification winner, as well as Tadej Pogačar, the early favourite and a strong contender throughout the event, who ultimately finished second and won the young riders's classification. CJO was also the lone team to pick Magnus Cort, arguably one of the stars of the first week.

BDC was the team with the most daily stage point leads (10), followed by CJO (8), KIN (2) and GHS (1).

CJO and BDC riders took six stage wins; 3 each through Pogačar, 3 for van Aert for BDC, 2 for Vingegaard and 1 for Cort for CJO. KIN took four through van Aert and a lone stage win for Pidcock. No GHS riders took stage wins, Quintana scoring a single 2nd place.

Pos Team Manager Pts
1st Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 9405
2nd Banqeu da Cézembre KLüP TMT (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 8857
3rd Kinetic Racing (KIN) Audrada Roibeardet 8625
4th Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 6024

Leg 2, Utrecht to Madrid (Espain 2022)

TCAT 2022's second leg followed the 2022 Vuelta a España, held between 19 August and 11 September 2022/XLIII. Seven teams took part: all four participants from the first leg and three new teams.

Gordon Hiatus Support Team bounced back from last place in the previous leg to win Leg 2, selecting the winners of all four classifications - Remco Evenepoel (GC and young riders), Richard Carapaz (KOM) and Mads Pedersen (points).

Pos Team Manager Points
1st Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 8260
2nd Kinetic Racing (KIN) Audrada Roibeardet 7986
3rd Els Gagnheirs (GNH) Alexandreu Davinescu 7736
4th Banqeu da Cézembre OneFiftyZero (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 6961
5th Velociposse Florencia (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 6510
6th Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 6302
7th Cjovani Valcürïăs (VAL) Vitxalmour Conductour 5062

2023 (Season 2)

Season 2 featured 8 full season participants, with 14 teams contesting at least one leg (all but one contested at least two).

Leg 1, Fossacesia Marina to Roma (Taliă 2023)

TCAT's third edition was a huge cultural event on Wittenberg, drawing a record-breaking number of participants and leading to a podcast with live coverage, "Centraseiră". Five teams from Leg 2 competed in this start to the season, joined by six newcomers: Averatxeir, Cézembre Fieschă, Cyclohexane, Dead Last, Maricopa Cabana Boys and Port Maxhestic AC.

Debutant Cyclohexane immediately romped on to win off the back of sprinter Jonathan Milan, also a Grand Tour debutant, who won the points classification and was an unique pick.

This was the only edition to date in which the winning team did not select the rider who ended up winning the general classification, Primož Roglič. The best placed team who did select Roglič was Velociposse, who placed third. Cyclohexane did select the winners of the other three classifications: Thibaut Pinot (KOM), Jonathan Milan (points) and João Almeida (young riders).

To mark the occasion, two episodes of a cycling podcast, Centraseiră, were recorded and released by Lüc da Schir and Glüc da Dhi. The name is a Talossan translation of "midevening", which is generally the time of day Velogames computes daily scoring updates. The episodes are available on YouTube: episode 1 episode 2. Centraseiră also hosted a Discord watchalong during the pivotal stage 20 climbing time trial, attended by several team managers.

Pos Team Manager Points
1st Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 8658
2nd Banqeu da Cézembre Pterodactyls (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 8556
3rd Velociposse Florencia (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 7759
4th Els Gagnheirs (GNH) Alexandreu Davinescu 7594
5th Dead Last (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 6763
6th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) þerxh Sant-Enogat 6632
7th Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 5832
8th Kinetic Racing (KIN) Audrada Roibeardet 5709
9th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 5074
10th Els Averatxeirs (ATX) Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial 4456
11th Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 4440

Leg 2, Bilbao to Paris (França 2023)

TCAT França 2023 saw the most participants of any other leg to date, 13, with all teams of Leg 1 returning, joined by França 2022 winner Naziun Cjovani and newcomer Cantzelerïă Aþletici. This was also the first edition to adopt the current logo, which changes colours depending on the setting of the event, to adopt the Talossan language naming of legs, and also to ditch the early naming scheme where each edition was referred as TCAT 1, TCAT 2, TCAT 3 and so on.

Banqeu da Cézembre won their first leg, beating back a resurgent Gagnheirs. For a second edition in a row, the winning team was the only one to select the points classification winner (Jasper Philipsen), with Banqeu da Cézembre also selecting the winners of the other three classifications: Jonas Vingegaard (GC), Giulio Ciccone (KOM) and Tadej Pogačar (young riders).

Pos Team Manager Points
1st Banqeu da Cézembre Runners Up (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 10404
2nd Els Gagnheirs (GNH) Alexandreu Davinescu 10053
3rd Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 9687
4th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) þerxh Sant-Enogat 8316
5th Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici (SOS) Txec dal Nordselvă 7650
6th Velociposse Florencia (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 7125
7th Kinetic Racing (KIN) Audrada Roibeardet 6905
8th Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 6893
9th Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 6663
10th Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 6522
11th Dead Last (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 6289
12th Els Averatxeirs (ATX) Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial 5279
13th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 4254

Leg 3, Barcelona to Madrid (Espain 2023)

The last leg of the season was contested by 11 teams - 10 from leg 2, and returning Cjovani Valcürïas, who had previously contested Espain 2022 a year prior.

Banqeu da Cézembre became the first team to win multiple legs, picking seven of the eight Jumbo-Visma riders (all but Wilco Kelderman), a combination that included all riders on the General Classification podium - Sepp Kuss, Jonas Vingegaard and Primož Roglič. The trio's domination resulted in a massive amount of assist points, which ultimately proved decisive. Due to this unusual strategy, this was also the only instance in which a team with four unclassed riders won; this would otherwise be an unadvisable way to spend the wildcard spot.

Pos Team Manager Points
1st Banqeu da Cézembre Paranoid Knights (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 9458
2nd Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 8943
3rd Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 8230
4th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 8136
5th Els Gagnheirs (GNH) Alexandreu Davinescu 7682
6th Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 7503
7th Dead Last (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 7267
8th Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 7085
9th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) þerxh Sant-Enogat 6816
10th Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici (SOS) Txec dal Nordselvă 6685
11th Cjovani Valcürïăs (VAL) Vitxalmour Conductour 5791

2024 (Season 3)

Season 3 once again saw 8 full season participants, with 12 teams contesting at least one leg.

Leg 1, Venaria Reale to Roma (Taliă 2024)

The first leg of 2024 was contested by nine teams - 8 continuing from the previous leg and Velociposse returning after sitting out Espain 2023. All nine teams but Cantzelerïă ended up contesting the full season.

Banqeu da Cézembre won a third consecutive leg, becoming the first team to win one each of the three legs (and still the only team to have won multiple legs), scoring a record amount of points for a single leg in the process, and a record gap over the second placed team, Cyclohexane. Both teams had also shared the first two spots of the podium a year prior.

For a second time out of two Italian legs, a team with two sprinters won out (in this case, Jonathan Milan and Tobias Lund Andresen).

Pos Team Manager Points
1st Banqeu da Cézembre Tavulairs (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 11925
2nd Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 8746
3rd Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 8671
4th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) þerxh Sant-Enogat 7648
5th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 7478
6th Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 7463
7th Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici (SOS) Txec dal Nordselvă 5281
8th Dead Last (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 4992
9th Velociposse Florencia (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 4865

Leg 2, Firenze to Paris (França 2024)

Once again the leg shadowing Tour de France was the most successful of the season, with 8 teams continuing from Taliă 2024, Naziun Cjovani rejoining after once again sitting out the first leg of the season, and two new teams - Ardita Benito and Maricopan Manilows. Velociposse Florencia contested the leg under the Dead2Last name.

The leg resulted in a maiden win for Cézembre Fieschă, thanks to a strategy that involved picking three of the four riders who were initially seen as the favourites - Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel - while saving credits on the rest of the team. A similar strategy had been historically successful at França 2022 and 2023, with the winners of both legs picking both Pogačar and Vingegaard - a strategy informally dubbed "the Iason" after Iason Taiwos, who first employed it. This was however less successful in this leg, with Pogačar seen as more of a favourite compared to Vingegaard due to the Dane recovering from a major injury (as indeed were Evenepoel and fourth major favourite Primož Roglič).

For a third time out of three, the winner of the French leg selected three all-rounders (Pogačar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel).

Pos Team Manager Points
1st Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) þerxh Sant-Enogat 10066
2nd Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 9607
3rd Dead Last (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 9463
4th Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 9033
5th Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 8671
6th Banqeu da Cézembre Tavulairs (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 8491
7th Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 8159
8th Ardita Benito (ARB) Pol dal Cräpscaßada 7739
9th Maricopan Manilows (MAN) Dien Tresplet 6419
10th Dead2Last (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 4692
11th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 3776

Leg 3, Lisboa to Madrid (Espain 2024)

The final leg of TCAT 2024 was contested by all eight full season teams plus Naziun Cjovani, which also contested the previous leg.

Pos Team Manager Points
1st Banqeu da Cézembre Tavulairs (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 8493
2nd Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 8282
3rd Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 7788
4th Velociposse Florencia (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 6704
5th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 5793
6th Dead Last (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 5253
7th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) þerxh Sant-Enogat 5032
8th Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 4892
9th Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 4147

2025 (Season 4)

Season 4 began on May 9th 2025.

Leg 1, Durrës to Roma (Taliă 2025)

Leg 1 of 2025 broke the record for participating teams, featuring 14 - all 9 entrants in the previous leg, one new entry (Esqipă Velocostă) and four having previously contested at least another leg: Averatxeirs, Kinetic Racing, Maricopan Manilows and Els Talossaes Rexhitais (the latter formerly entered as Els Cantzelerïă Aþletici and considered to be the same team for recordkeeping purposes).

The leg featured an initial domination of teams featuring Mads Pedersen (BDC, CHX, CJO, GHS and PTM), but as the terrain got steeper and some of the most prominent riders either retired or irredeemably fell out of GC contention, EVC, REX and VFL emerged as the teams competing for the win. Ultimately Esqipă Velocostă won, matching Cyclohexane as the only other team able to win in its maiden leg. GHST, which led the standings from stage 4 to 19, fell out of the podium on End of Tour points.

The underperformance of six of seven riders priced 14 credits or higher (all but Mads Pedersen) notably led to the theoretical best team being worth just 92 credits. Also noteworthy to begin with was the very low combined price of the most expensive riders - 24 for Roglic, 20 for Ayuso, and then Van Aert and A. Yates on 16 - which was the lowest so far across all TCAT legs. Indeed, combined with the fact all of the expensive riders underperformed, this leg stands out as the first one won by a team that did not feature the most expensive rider, and the first one since Italy 2023 where the winner of the General Classification (S. Yates) did not feature in the winning team. For the first time in three editions, a team featuring three climbers won the Italian leg, and the winning team did not feature two sprinters or the points classification winner (Pedersen).

Pos Team Manager Points
1st Esqipă Velocostă (EVC) Mic'haglh Autófil 8615
2nd Velociposse Florencia (VFL) Breneir Tzaracomprada 8404
3rd Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX) Txec dal Nordselvă 8027
4th Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS) Lüc da Schir 7508
5th Port Maxhestic AC (PTM) Ian Plätschisch 7391
6th Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB) Carlüs Vilaçafat 7091
7th Averatxeirs (ATX) Marcel Tafial 7087
8th Banqeu da Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC) Glüc da Dhi 6726
9th Kinetic Racing (KIN) Audrada Roibeardet 6663
10th Cyclohexane (CHX) Erschéveþ da Schir 6568
11th Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED) Tric'hard Lenxheir 6163
12th Cézembre Fieschă (CFA) þerxh Sant-Enogat 5348
13th Naziun Cjovani (CJO) Iason Taiwos 5028
14th Maricopan Manilows (MAN) Dien Tresplet 4274
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