Also, maybe having the association draw engine drop the quality of a team or two for the purpose of creating a fair draw. An association can still consist of 6 teams, but the calculation for the draw will not read the quality of all 6 teams, to minimize the impact of exploiters
Do what other activities do and ignore the top and bottom ones and take the Association Quality from the ones that are left...
Any formation or tactics advice given is based purely on experience with my teams...