plumbearodactyljust let people captain lol humans are better at picking than some dumb systemI simply disagree. I feel like this only works for circlejerks where everyone knows everyone else.
idk about circlejerk, but the tf2 community is pretty small. usually by the time people hit adv, they know everyone else adv & inv
not so sure about open - main these days, but during ESEA at least most open players knew everyone else after a season or so (e.g. everyone except the newest players)
the tough part is if we don't do captaining, do we go with ELO? will enough games get played for it to be useful, in a community this small? imo the old pugchamp/mixchamp split works best, with captained games for the upper divs where everyone knows each other, and elo/all-but-random games for when there are many strangers