[chrispedersen]

I've been thinking about my original suggestion of nation picking and concluded that it will lead to a lot of rounds of conflicted picks. Which might be fun if we were all sitting in a room - but resubmitting pick lists based via mail might be a pain.

How about instead the following pick list

Team A
Team B
Team C
Team D
Team D
Team C
Team B
Team A
Team D
Team C
Team B
Team A

Then each team can (secretly) submit a list of what which team they would like to be. So for example B-A-D-C would say I want our team to be Team b- and failing that to be team A, then D, then C.



Sept would give any uncontested choices, and then roll randomly between contested choices.