I think you are wrong, but right. I'll explain.

Doubles is not a problem, if for anyone it's a problem for the team with doubles in it. But as I said, I also think you are right. If I pick random I'd ranther get a unique demigod on my team, that's why i think your solution is good, but for all the wrong reasons.

Doubles isn't a problem. There is no advantage.

nothing to be fixed here, move along 

How about a simple solution?  As we still have a little debate in the community regarding doubles being fair or unfair, why not host games indicating No Dbl or Rand for those who absolutely don't want doubles.  Then, whether you are right or wrong about doubles being OP, it will be a moot point. 

Random is random. Nothing wrong with it.

If you're going to make an accusation that random demigod isn't random, then you should test your suspicions and back up your accusation with stats. Having something unfortunate happen to you 2 or 3 times isn't proof that the system is flawed.

Not the doubles debate again. Annoying as it can be doubles are not an issue. And blaming it on random????.......Oh well.

If your getting triples or quads from randoms, then i feel you have a point, but thats just me.

I think that the point of this is that the OP is convinced that doubles are unfair.  Otherwise, who cares if someone suddenly picks a random character at the last second?  The OP is equating random dg selection to being roughly the same thing as if a host directly selected a duplicate demigod and then launched the game before anyone had a chance to react. 

While I don't personally buy into doubles being over powered, I certainly wouldn't complain all that much if there were options like what StAck3D_ActR suggested.  Do I think we'll see something like that?  No.  And that being the case, instead of rehashing blahblah + duplicate blahblah are OP (or the new variant, random dg selection is unfair), why not just host your own game where you can indicate that randoms and duplicate dgs are unacceptable?  I certainly wouldn't fault the OP for joining a game and asking the host if duplicates or randoms are allowed if not clearly indicated, etc.  And then you have the option to leave that game if you'd rather not. 

+1

That ain't going to work in a 5v5 (at least until they release the 2 new ones...)

how many 5v5 games have you played?

+2

Of course Random (No Double) is still random.  If I have 5 chairs and want to randomly assign them to 5 people, you're just as likely to get chair 1 as chair 5, but as it is undesirable to seat multiple people in one chair I remove chair 1 as a possibility once it has been taken.

I support having separate options for Random and Random (No Double).  Whenever possible try to please both camps IMO, and this way people who don't think doubles are a problem can still use random as easily as people who do think it is a problem can use Random (No Doubles).