With regards to how some points an judging went on last year:

Some teams got all the points in a section because they were the only ones actively participating in a week, no so much that they dominated that particular section. Judges can make a call to withhold points from one week to the next if there is not enough diversity in the teams per challenge, though sometimes this leaves people feeling like their hard work for that week is being ignored. It's a toss up in some cases about what to do. I am not denying the fact that some teams were rather particular to a certain section. I can say that for Team Awesome last year and the ASB, the team didn't realize it until after the fact. None of that was intentional and was purely accidental. As last year's WAR RP judge, I did my best to give points even if people only posted once. It was a quality over quantity kind of scenario for lack of a better term.

[Also we are redoing what we're doing this year in ASB so it's a stupidly even playing field, even regular ASBer's will be on the same level as people who have never touched it.]

While drafting was a very opposed solution to team numbers for various reasons already talked about, I can understand people having the nagging loom of not having enough members to cover everything. Sometimes people win WAR's while only participating in one section, and it was also a joke team. [Octopus Babies anyone?]

I don't like the idea of limiting entrants completely, however I have an idea that may help everyone. Rather than balancing the amounts of entrants with a hard cap I would suggest something I call Difference Balancing.

Basically, if we have one person from each team enter the same weekly challenge, then more people from each team could join, as long as the difference between the highest team entries doesn't exceed a certain number. While I don't think this can work for RP, as RP works a bit differently from everything else, I can see it working for every other section.

So say that Drawn Art has a Difference Balance of 1. The number of entrants looks like this from each team:

1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1

The team that has two members entered in that event can't have any more member entrants until the majority/all of the other teams have two entrants as well. All the other teams can have room for another to enter, because the difference balance is 1, so there can only be a difference of one member in relation to other team entrants.

2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2

So with that, it can move on to this:

2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2

This would keep things remotely balanced without forcing people so much pick and choose. This would also help boost activity by others going "Hey you over in that Team, come play in this section!" After all this WAR is about fun, that was our primary focus. We weren't focusing so much on the competitive portion. Now some teams may not be participating in some sections at all in a week. If that's the case, a team can make it known in a particular section. This would also make team numbers not really matter anymore so much in the 'We're all gonna lose because Sarah laced her banners with addictive properties.' front.

Yes Sarah's substances in her graphics have been confiscated.

So, long story short: Difference Balancing
[In this case, the Difference Balance is 1]

1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 GOOD
2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 AWESOME
2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 GOOD
1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 NOT GOOD
1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 NOT GOOD