Sorry, a couple of people were discussing my thing so I figured I should actually pop in here an explain a little. The way I imagined, it wouldn't actually be a draft--a few weeks before WAR actually kicks off, there'd be an open call for anyone to post that they want to participate in WAR. Based off of these numbers, whoever's running WAR determine a set number of teams based on the total number of people who want to play. Then, everyone is randomly rolled onto one of those teams. From there, each team works among themselves to determine a leader, pick a name, establish a theme, and so forth.

This would let people meet new people while still having a pretty fair chance of having a fair amount if their friends on their team. Since it's randomly decided, I imagine people wouldn't be as distressed because it's less of a "team captain X doesn't love me as much as player Y" and more of "the RNG declared it to be so."

...sorry, I'm not entirely familiar with how things operate 'cause I'm a little foreign here. I know that the randomly-sorted system sounds a little strange, but I can say from personal experience that it's actually pretty effective in portraying subsections of a community--this way, each team let's its members interact with sections of the community that they might never meet otherwise. Team-building and friendship and integrating new faces and such. ^^

Idk it sounds really silly typed out but I hope maybe it's worth your consideration?