Team events - random teams or nay?

[Rapture]

I've been working on some additional events and am rebuilding some things to make it easier to create new events in future. One thing I'm not sure about is if I should make teams random this time around or have the player select which team they want to be on (with a random rebalance before the game starts if people try to stack onto one team).

How do players feel about it?

I chose random, as much as I'd like to be on the same team with the guys I've played with for years..sometimes it just wouldn't be fair.  I can see this in a sect if we had the ability to set them off ourselves, maybe as a goldsink that takes a % rake like poker would.  This would give the ability to those teams who really wanted to battle it out to do so and potentialy make some money off the team that lost.  Interested to see how other people weigh in.