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Season (p)review

Written by Universal Soup at 06:40 7/8-2021

  Season 57 goals
  - Monte Rosa Tour
  - Race of the Minutemen
  
  How did we do?
  - MRT (30th) was not as good as expected. Newly hired captain Be Duc Dinh injured himself and that ruined our race.
  - RotM (1st) was not as dominant as in season 56, but we did manage to grab the GC again. Defending our title from season 56.
  
  Other notable results
  - Odyssey of the Oryx was a tour we could join because of our bad start to the season where first our manager was unable to manage because of a real life injury and a bad MRT due to an injury.
  We won a massive 4 stages and managed to scoop up the GC and SC with Que Nam Hong.
  - Tian-Shen Stone City Cup we got the 5th place overall. We were here mainly to see what we could do. Despite injuries for the TM's we did reasonably well and might be back in the future with TF.
  - Que Nam Hong was wearing the Vietnamese National Jersey at day 90.
  
  Goals season 58
  - Race of the Minutemen
  This would make Que the first rider to win RotM 3 times. Division 3 is a bit too high for our capabilities we think and Division 5 takes a great effort to stay in so it's also logical to aim for this Division 4 tour that Que was specifically trained for again.
  - Kenny Haakon list for Wang Tuan Lam
  Wang has now 18 wins under his belt. He will need 7 more to make it to the Kenny Haakon list and before extending his contract he has expressed his great desire to be on that list. We will try every way to facilitate this for him.
  Also we lack any replacement captain for the hill team, so that makes it a lot easier to give him a shot.
  - 11 team results (will bring team total to 100)
  
  Retirement and firement
  - Hà Sang Tai was released from the team to enable him to find more cycling races elsewhere.
  - Lâng Huu Tung has, as announced before joined our staff as a trainer to further develop our younger hill riders.
  
  New riders
  Chung Công Tung was drafted in to our team from our youth academy. He will focus on training this season and we are looking to him to become a tour captain in the future.
  Potential:
  CL: Very good
  DH: Average
  HL: Small
  SP: Small
  FR: Small
  CB: Average
  TT: Small
  TQ: Average
  
  Team roster next season
  Hill team
  Wang Tuan Lam - captain
  Vu Tuan Xuan - TM
  Huynh Trung Phuong - TM
  Huynh Ngoc That - TM
  Giap Nam Mien - TM
  Duong Tân Thang - TM
  Lông Huu Luu - trainee*
  Anh Sang Cuc - filler*
  
  Climbing team ( Tours too )
  Que Nam Hong - Captain
  Be Dúc Dình - Captain / TM
  Cang Ngoc Hung - TM
  Ho-Dac Ngoc Luan - TM
  Hoan Nguyên Dat - TM
  Tieng Dúc Dình - TM
  Vo Quang Duong - TM
  Hô Ngoc Ngoc - TM / trainee*
  Chung Công Tung - trainee*
  
  *trainees and fillers may be used in any team to optimize our race schedule or to fill in during TF recharge periods
  
  TL;DR:
  S57:
  - MRT was a bust
  - Won RotM
  - Won Odyssey of the Oryx (SC too)
  S58:
  - Win RotM
  - 7 Wins for Wang Tuan Lam
  - 11 team results
  
  #POTUS1 BrokenChain
  PR Manager Tan Ngoc Phuong

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Comments


Universal Soup at 09:00 9/8-2021
  haha, how did I not notice. Thanks^2!

Holwerda Cycling at 08:46 9/8-2021
  Good luck in season 58!
  Looks like you are in the wrong season though ;)


Universal Soup at 12:53 7/8-2021
  Thanks. I was very lucky to be able to have talents with the right stat ( HL ) in my starting team / on the hire list and a few from the talent feature. Unfortunately they mostly max low on average though hehe.
  
  No new goals besides RotM and trying to win as much as possible with Wang Tuan Lam. I'm not sure where my max is performance wise as to stay in div 4 I haven't raced much.
  
  Most of m


team dustin at 09:48 7/8-2021
  Success with your Vietnamese team :)
  great how you do that
  
  I hope there come some new good vietnamese talents on the market.
  
  Also great amazing wins.
  
  any new goals?
  
  


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