First of all, bad luck this time, defalcon, sorry :-)

About making up the teams: my idea is asking the people best ranked on JDC first. Like, if we have the following ranking at the end of this round/season:

1. Player 1 (is from Europe)
2. Player 2 (is from North America)
3. Player 3 (is from Europe)
4. Player 4 (is from North America)
5. Player 5 (is from North America)

We would first ask Player 1 for the Euro team, if he doesn't want to participate, we ask Player 3 for that team and so on. Same with the other team. Bobby says, we wouldn't get the best players together that way. I say: so what?
As a concession to Bobby i have the following idea: nine of the players will be chosen like described above but *one extra player* will be chosen by a poll, where every JDC member has one vote.