Geriatric Players Club

[morph the cat]

It seems like it might be easier to get a game mod to volunteer to design a game, and provide them a list of invitees you'd like to see join your game they can send a pre-invite to. In the micro queue that could account for 6 pre-in slots out of 9. That plus WOTC/WOTM might result in a player list you like.

I think all of the above is within the rules for most of the game queues. It's several steps down from an invitational game.

Speaking of which, I've loved watching (2 I think) oldies invitational games that have been run on site since I joined.