Jacob has confirmed the event will be in the morning as it was last year, as they are restricted by the Saturday opening hours of the shop they use to stage the event. Not helpful to those in the US unfortunately
@Randyberlin
On a different point, he's also confirmed the 3 stages for the event will be similar to last time - a flat-ish/rolling stage, a mountain stage, and a velodrome stage - so the proposed routes for the qualifying league should be fine, even if they aren't the exact same routes that will be used this time round