November 2026

[Bugatti]

14h isn't ideal for me with the long stages, but it could work if necessary during the week. But at weekends no chance.
I'm also open to 11h, 12h or 13h edition, that would fit a bit better at the weekends.
But i'd prefer 10h over all

[Alkworld]

I'm recently more of a an afternoon team due to real-life, but riding the Andes in general might be at 80% for me currently.

[r FSCL]

I prefer Andes in the morning, other times don't work for me.

[Nomorelulz]

As Donks is throwing around numbers and I'm a little bored atm while also being a numbers guy, let me show some perspective.

I took Vuelta as a base for people interested in riding longer, harder Tours. Last year roughly 70% of teams that participated in Vuelta rode the Andes.

This year we obviously have some more teams riding, wavelings, some comebackers etc. So we had one edition more for Vuelta. If we again say 70% of those teams will be riding Andes, this could be spread around 3 or 4 editions seen in the attachment. The edition with 4 people looks kinda bad, especially for the afternoon. Yes, you could say some teams from 18h Vuelta will be riding 14/15h Andes, but I think most of the 18h guys would rather switch to the later evening than afternoon.

The 3 editions variant shows quite high numbers, I merged 9+14h for the morning or afternoon edition, and I also merged 18h+20h for the 19h edition. The merged numbers could obviously be lower in reality due to some teams not riding at all due to timing. Participation could be even lower considering the latest judgement of the profiles.

To me the conclusion is:
1.Are we okay with having 8-13 teams for 3 Andes edition while also risking not giving some teams the opportunity to ride Andes in the afternoon / morning.
2. Or do we prefer to give everyone the opportunity to ride, but risk having 2 editions with really low participation (7 and 5 expected Teams).


For reference 2024:

Participation Rate 24 Andes / Vuelta
Morning 64%
Afternoon 63%
Evening 111%
Late evening 75%

[Yamaka Corse]

Here to discuss about the Andes parallel short tour, can we move it from 20 to 21 at least? Giving a real intermediate hour for aftenoon/night players that can't rode Andes?

Also can't wait to discover what the 2 fantasy tours will be!

[Zappes Raiders]

Would be nce if at least the stage races could be announced in advance for form settings.

Most-likely I wont ride Andes. The stages are too long for me and the race too hard for my team...

[DonOh]

Yep same for me ...

[Gipfelstuermer]

In my role as departing backup fantasy race planner... I will listen to suggestions for the fantasy stage races in November

[NBeullens]

In my role as departing backup fantasy race planner... I will listen to suggestions for the fantasy stage races in November

The Liechtensteiner Drei so nobody in this game can go ride a tour that wasnt designed by me

[Yamaka Corse]

In my role as departing backup fantasy race planner... I will listen to suggestions for the fantasy stage races in November

Having a fast resume of the other 3D we have this:

- East Java Tour (3 days, 4 stages)
- Tour of Amhara (5 days, Link)
- Nafusa Mountains Tour (5 days, Link)
- Caracas Winter Tour (4 days)
- Nagasaki (3 days, Link)
- Tour of Taiwan (5 days, ITT, Link)
- Twin Peaks (4 days, ITT, Link)

With an inclination against the time trials tours for the first one since we already got pavé with tt and libia with tt

Also me and NoMoreLulz proposed to open Lippe Tour to everyone since it was fun but only open to Div6 teams
+ I asked to move second tour during the Andes at h21 instead h20

Fast resume end