PREVIEW: Help Megabeth Pick Her Tour VDS - 7pm EST

Let's get ready to rumble!!!

Tonight at 7:00 east coast time will be the ultimate cage match smackdown fight to get on my VDS.  [Sui Juris here, exercising editorial powers: and by cage match, we mean Megabeth is getting locked in a cage if she actually goes through with this.]

Course conditions: I will be fueled by American beer (because we don't need Europe anymore for good beer), cheeses from all the major racing powers, and a good French bordeaux to celebrate completion of the project.

Race details: Gone are the days where I use logic, knowledge and team strategy. In fact, throw those out the window! (Because it's working oh-so-well for my year long VDS team.)

My Tour Only VDS will be determined by two things - pure luck and good old fashioned peer pressure.

Here's the set-up...

Using company resources, I have printed out every rider on the VDS spreadsheet. I have cut them out into little slips. Those riders that are not riding in Le Tour have been placed into the Trashcan of Sadness. I have grouped the remaining riders together based on their point value and we'll start with the highest and work our way to the onesies and twosies.

I will draw a rider, and then there will be five minutes of discussion of why or why not I should include that rider. If I do not choose the rider, I will draw again and I must keep the rider from the second draw.  And of course, five minutes doesn't necessarily mean five minutes.  If someone makes an irrefutable point, we move on.  If I get silence?  It will be a lonnnng five minutes of lonely sad.  Do you want that?

Meanwhile, during discussion time, I will imbibe good beverages and eat cheese from the each rider's home country. (Details on cheese and beverages will be posted in the live thread.)

So, please do join the action to help create the first ever live pick and peer pressure VDS team.

7:00 p.m. East Coast Time.  That's 4 p.m. for you suckers still at work on the West Coast, and 1 a.m. for you lazy Swedes on vacation.

Here. Live. On Podium Cafe.

[Sui Juris: Christ.  Aren't we glad we don't use real names here?]