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Point understood and taken. Seeding is never going to be a 100% accurate representation of ability, that's true, and it's hard to do often enough to be truly fair, and also, it needs to be done a long way in advance of the most important tournaments, so people can organise time off/travel/etc.
It's a shame StuF missed out (I thought he didn't want to go to tournaments), but that will happen some times. At least seeding means it's fair who gets left out - the people towards the bottom who are newer/less-committed/less-good (delete as appropriate).
Still open to change though, and with this much distaste for seeding, I don't want to be responsible for forcing it on people. I now think that if the poll is at all close, we should try doing without it for 6 months, see how we get on, we can always go back to it if people prefer it.
Good to have feedback on an issue for once - thanks everyone so far for chiming in.
As far as throw-ins go, I've recently been sort of half-shuffling/half-picking teams, to make an 'even' game IE Me and Hyper on opposite teams, Rob and 2Squeak on opposite teams, other two shuffled randomly. For me, games are more fun that way, but tends to end up with very similar line-ups.