ano - there was much discussion of this in previous team games, and it was decided that this was the best way to balance it. The teams generally pair weaker nations with stronger ones, or pairs of average nations, and try to be somwhat respectful of the background story.
In previous games, people have been assigned to teams at random.
Okay, llamabeast will host when we have a quorum. I'm not in any particular rush to start, but we don't want to wait so long that people forget about the game and lose interest
EDIT: Or lch can host
. We'll put it up to a vote for PBEM vs IP. I'm completely agnostic on the subject.