I got worried when I saw this post! But as others have confirmed, I just joined a LR already 20 mins in and got a dozen or so seed teams right off the bat. So appears to be just fine.
I’ve noticed that as long as I have my app opened and I can see the “Preview” for the next lightning round, when it flips over to active and I go into the event, I have at least 3 seeds.
If I show an active Lightning round, and no preview for the next… and I don’t open my app again until the start of the next lightning round and never load the “preview” (aren’t they at least 30 mins before the next lightning round?) then I don’t get seeds because the game is reloading the next active Lightning round, and i’m thrown directly into the mix.
My goal is to always have my app open to load the Lightning round preview.
I played a lightning round today that I joined with only 15 minutes to spare, and ended up having 3 seed teams to fight. That seems to be inconsistent with popular advice of how to get seeds, so maybe there’s been some mechanic changed for them?