Draft Special: Picking the best men's racers of 2024
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Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Welcome one and all to the Escape Collective Men's WorldTour Draft 2024!
The draft, a method of allocating players into teams, is beautiful. It’s a system based on fairness, hope, and competition. Maybe perplexingly, it’s also about as American as it gets. As American as yugging down a hot dog and a Miller Light on the fourth of July, or driving in a Cadillac to Lauderhill in Florida to visit the biggest rubber band ball in the world (which if you were wondering weighs over 9,000 lbs).
You’ll likely know it from the acronym sports such as the NFL and NBA, but what about if we did it with sports that had real names too? Like cycling?
Well, that’s what we’re going to find out. We’ve assembled an Escape Collective crew who will be selecting squads of 10 riders for the 2024 men’s WorldTour season, accruing UCI points as they compete in real life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome one and all to the 2024 Escape Collective Draft. The draft a method of |
| 0:18.0 | allocating certain players into teams is beautiful. It's a system based on fairness, hope and competition. |
| 0:25.2 | Maybe perplexingly, it's also about as American as it gets. As American as |
| 0:29.3 | yugging down a hot dog and a middle light on the 4th of July or driving in a Cadillac to Lorder Hill in Florida |
| 0:35.2 | to visit the biggest rubber band ball in the world, which if you were wondering weighs over 9,000 |
| 0:40.0 | pounds. You're likely no drafting from the acronym sports such as the NFL and |
| 0:44.0 | NBA but what about if we did it with a sport that had a real name like |
| 0:47.8 | cycling that's what we're going to find out today we've assembled an escape |
| 0:51.5 | collective crew who will be selecting squads of 10 riders for the rest of the men's world tour season, accruing UCI points as they compete in real life, and sorting themselves into a final overall leaderboard after the merciless tour of Guangxi. |
| 1:04.0 | Whereupon the winner will be inundated with fame and fortune and the loser will face punishment for being the |
| 1:09.3 | literal worst. |
| 1:10.3 | At the moment we're thinking this punishment will be that they have to do an |
| 1:13.6 | everisting. The way it will work is that competitors will first draft an existing |
| 1:17.7 | world-taught outfit of their choice. Add their own sponsor to it before |
| 1:20.7 | selecting the riders who will go in their team. |
| 1:22.6 | A randomly generated name selector has given us our draft order and it will be a snake draft for the riders |
| 1:27.9 | going from one two three four five six seven and then snaking background 7 back to 1. |
| 1:33.0 | All current men's world tour riders are eligible for selection |
| 1:35.5 | and competitors will have 30 seconds to make their selection |
| 1:38.5 | or go to the back of the queue. |
| 1:40.0 | All UCI points are treated as equal. |
| 1:42.0 | Build your squads as your heart's desire. |
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