For Booster Draft and Team Rochester Draft tournaments, players assemble into random drafting circles (called pods) of roughly equal size at the direction of the Head Judge. Tournament officials then distribute identical sets of booster packs to each player.
Pods should be as close to 8 as you can get. In general, try to get pods of 6 or 8 over odd numbers to avoid byes. Typically, the software will sort players automatically into pods of these size. The pods created should be used unless an error has occurred.
Players within a pod may play only against other players within that pod. In Regular Rules Enforcement Level tournaments, the Tournament Organizer may elect to lift this restriction. This must be announced before the tournament starts.
In general, players prefer playing against people in the same pod. Remember that a player losing to a player in a different pod may feel as though they have lost to measures outside of their control.