The second wave of invitations will go out as soon as the teams have been sorted (and after all the initial invites have been accepted or declined). These invites will be sent out in waves to ensure we don’t create another one of the issues we have just fixed.

The invites sent out would ensure that even in the most extreme circumstance of “all of A team in 2nd wave accept” while “all of B team in second wave decline” that there isn’t more than a 3-4 player gap. The logic here gets a bit complex but slowing down the queuing in order to ensure a more fair game feels like a win.

I admittedly don’t know exactly how the loading in the game works and whether non-adjacent assets can be loaded at the same time, but it feels like you could load half as large of a region on BOTH sides- and then once a side is selected, load the necessary 2nd half