PlanetsCentral

Even better would be blind joining, where you join a game, but races are only assigned at the time the game starts.

Old practice was choosing 3 preferred races (or all 11) for each player, in their own order. And assign all races at the game start, according to what they asked.

But it's not the solution against pre-game alliances. Just not play diplomacy games..

In most cases, in russian player's mind, all of you (non-russians) just dehumanizated dark-sided aliens, that'd be destroyed by russian's "team of light". That leads to that pre-made alliances, etc.