Okay. Just like in prior years. Works like this: We tell you the product being offered for testing. And the prerequisites, imperatives, rules. If you meet the qualifications, then you may apply.

Here are the companies and products we'll be testing this summer:

Gatorade New Endurance Formulation
Infinit Nutrition TripWire
HOTSHOT
Kramp Krusher chews (w/new packaging and non-sticky presentation)
UCAN
First Endurance
Precision Hydration

In separate threads I'll publish the requirements for successful applicants, that is, which country you can live in, how long the test period, and so forth. If you're selected, you must give ME your shipping address (via private message or email), which I will forward to the manufacturer, and the company will send you (no charge) your provision of product.

Your duties: to use the product as intended, and then, at the end of the test period, you are expected to write a review of the product on a thread I begin here on the forum. I'll instruct you in advance of the test the points we'd like you to cover, i.e., mixability, taste, performance, gastric emptying, whatever. Your review is simply your best, honest effort to convey to your fellow Slowtwitchers your sense of the product's fitness for use.

I will take certain of the reviews you all write, and excise certain comments in your reviews, and memorialize your responses in a front page article on Slowtwitch, which may include using either your real name or your forum user name, as you prefer.

That's it! Look for each of the 7 threads in the next couple of days.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman