Re: Should the Number One seed be Alloud to pick the Number Two seed?
 

You can't handicap the 4 highest seeded teams simply for being the highest seeds.

If you really wanted to prevent alliance captains from picking other alliance captains, you would need to expand that mindset and apply it to all 8 alliance captains. That's still not ideal as it pretty much throws out the idea of doing well in qualification matches if every team in the elimination matches were given an equal chance to win an event.

The #1 Alliance is hypothetically the best alliance of the event and thus should be favored to win it all. That's the entire idea of seeding.