Oh, hell. I’m in the middle of 2 casuals, but I’ll bite, since Frozen’s not. It won’t be the same without @Kaelii, but hopefully this time I won’t give away the win out of spite for other players’ earlier actions. (;
How about for picking specs, we do an auction draft? Each player starts with 20 points to spend for the specs that they want . Whomever bids the most on a spec gets it. If you run out of points, you wait until the end to pick from what remains . In the event of a tie, a duel of 9 rounds of bare knuckle boxing
So, the last time we did this, we did do a sort of snake draft, and it worked out well (I think) for balance. It was entertaining. But I’d be interested to try a totally blind spoiler pick of spec choices, as @zhavier suggested, because we haven’t tried that before. And balance is a lot less important in FFA, since the crowd will sort-of auto balance by ganging up on whoever seems to be the biggest threat (highest HP when someone is at low HP or simply highest HP and enough board to take someone out).
My understanding of the Free for All rules is that the maximum number they provide for is five. I can’t imagine it would be too hard to make it work for six, but the default is five players or fewer.