What is the proper way to split uneven draft pods?
In my LGS it's solved this way.

6 players => 1 x 6

7 players => 1 x 7

8 players => 1 x 8

9 players => 1 x 9

10 players => 1 x 10

11 players => 1 x 11

12 players => 2 x 6

13 players => 1 x 6 + 1 x 7

14 players => 1 x 6 + 1 x 8

15 players => 1 x 7 + 1 x 8

16 players => 2 x 8

17 players => 1 x 8 + 1 x 9

18 players => 3 x 6

19 players => 2 x 6 + 1 x 7

20 players => 2 x 6 + 1 x 8

21 players => 1 x 6 + 1 x 7 + 1 x 8

22 players => 1 x 6 + 2 x 8

23 players => 1 x 7 + 2 x 8

24 players => 3 x 8

The idea behind is to not have a draftpod with less than 6 people, which yields in just too less cards in the entire cardpool. 9 players is still quite doable, 10 and especially 11 player pods are really bad (you basically won't see any card coming back to you).

To summarize:


Don't go below 6
Avoid going above 9
Try to fill as many 8 pods as possible