I guess if you consider fair to be 3 really bad players and 2 good ones 
. <–my team at both of the lans we did random 
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We have done random at two lans for TF2. As long as I’m not on a team with someone who has never played the game in their life I’ll be fine… Nothing frustrates me more than my teammate asking me how to play during the tournament… seriously, that is absolute fail. If you are gonna play in a tournament, at least play the game before coming >.< I guess I may be a little sour due to my luck with random generation and the fact that if I’m on a good team ‘randomly’ it will be re-randomized anyways.
I could care less about the prizes, I just enjoy playing with good players and want to shoot myself in the face when my players have absolutely no clue how to play, much less how to play as a team.
I vote premade . t(-_-t) everything else. I want to win. There is no way to make teams fair, even with random there will still be a stacked team. I remember them regenerating the random once and the only thing that changed is I got bumped to a team with 1 other good player and they had 4 awesome players instead of 5! . (My numbers could be wrong here lol)
I say my team be made up of Me, Kuros, Karen, Chupa, and …can I have a team of 8? NoDice, Nickname, MasterP, etc… 
There are actually about 10 great players. Theoretically we could have 2 awesome teams and 2 crap teams.
I think the most annoying thing is that I enjoy playing on a team with the good players because they are my friends. They just also happen to be good at the game. Forcing captains means I cannot play with the people I enjoy playing the game with. At least with random I still have a ‘chance’ at being on a team with my friends.
Real Vote: Random
Wanted Vote: Premade
Thanks for giving me something to rant about 
. Its been a while since I trolled these here forums!