Damiano, yesterday you asked me inside the game and I did not have the time to answer you. Well, this year we wanted to change the road structure. A lot. The past year, we believe that the road event always had a lot of players in the same group. In our opinion, many good players we're unable to reach the final of hte event because of blocks. 5 or 6 players per group was an acceptable number that allawos all participants to play their best, within the game's possibilities. So as you may have noticed, this year we had fewer subscribers to the road event compared to the year before, but you had more days of road competition compared to last year. This was the biggest reason for the changes. Then, we decided to atribute points to the mountain and intermediate sprints, as we do in our national champioships, in hope of more strategy and action to the race
Since the beginning, we never thought about putting a second chance to end because we think 6 players is a reasonable number of players to play in the same match. With more than 6, in my opinion, a number of extra factors would come inot play for the players, and we can't control those factors. And as to the two best players of each group going through into the final, 4 stages will be played, and we though it was enough for the best players of each group to stand out. But I understand your point of view, and I think if we had more time to extend the WC, we would have another round before the final. To give an example, we would send 6 players to the next round, and 2 or 4 into the second chance. Then we would make a semi final with 8 or 10 players, and final with only 4 or 5 players.

The main reason second chance was introduced was to allow players that deserved to go through but weren't able to participate because of abscence to have a second chance. For the same reason the winner of the day is passing to the next round. In our group everyone was there on the first day, so probably the missing second chance will probably not have a big influence.

Altough second chance shouldn't be easy as in Omnium, where 8 out of 13 (?) people are passing, but that's probably due to circumstances.

I know phoenix but in our opinion as we are in the semi final of road (most important event of pcm), we thought that people would try to play the two days and therefore would not miss anyone. Even now I think anyone missed the first day and i think no one will miss the second day too.

isaw at the calender that the solo scratch final will be tomorrow at 20'00? is this a mistake?

You have your answer there. I hope that all participants read my message.

Omg you said first that jon and me play again and after that jon pass. I dont understand nothing. Finally we play or no?? Let me know . You change of opinion very fast :s no serious