So I think it's about time we had a discussion of whether or not teams should be fixed during captain's games. At the moment we don't seem to have any consistent standard, which is causing alot of problems.

I happen to think they should be fixed, as I find it frustrating to spend the time picking teams and planning for a game that winds up being decided by uneven teams. However, the most important thing is to get a consistent standard so we at least can agree on what needs to happen in this situation.

Three things that have been brought up in the past that may influence the discussion:

1. The idea that the team that picks second should have the extra player if someone leaves, since they would have the extra when picking from an odd number of people. I personally think that the extra should be on marines regardless, but I wanted to bring this up as it is a criteria that has been mentioned in the past.

2. The idea that teams in captains don't need to be fixed until they're uneven by "more than one". First, I'm not entirely sure what is meant by this, since 8 marines against 7 aliens is still considered even. Does this mean an imbalance in favor of marines must be fixed, but an imbalance in favor of aliens is ok? This seems to make little sense, as captains already favors aliens, given that they are the side that requires more planning. Whatever the intention is, I still don't understand why uneven teams would be more acceptable during captains, as it is by definition a game that more time has been invested in, and therefore it makes little sense to me to allow a captains game to be ruined in a way that we would immediately fix in a normal game.

3. Having the captain select a player to switch rather than using the last player on the scoreboard. This to me makes perfect sense, as the captain is able to pick a player to send that will minimize the damage from switching. Since we have someone in a position of authority who can make this decision, we might as well make use of that. I would also like to add that as this actually makes fixing uneven teams easier in captains, it makes even less sense to consider captains to be an exception to the team size rules.