diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 5173176..a3c09a4 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -452,20 +452,25 @@ client.on("interactionCreate", async (interaction) => {
     const pickingPlayers = [];
     addup.members.forEach((member) => addupPlayers.push(member));
     picking.members.forEach((member) => pickingPlayers.push(member));
-
+    if (pickingPlayers.length < addupPlayers.length) {
+      // move all addup into empty picking
+      addup.members.forEach((member) => {
+        member.voice.setChannel(picking);
+      });
+      return await interaction.followUp(
+        "Found too few players in picking to fatkid, moved all addup players to picking instead"
+      );
+    }
     let fatkids = [];
 
     // select excess players to be sat out
-    console.log(
-      pickingPlayers.length,
-      addupPlayers.length,
-      pickingPlayers.length + addupPlayers.length
-    );
-
-    while (pickingPlayers.length + addupPlayers.length > 2) {
+    while (pickingPlayers.length + addupPlayers.length > 3) {
+      if (pickingPlayers.length === 0) {
+        return await interaction.followUp("Error: ran out of players in picking to fatkid");
+      }
       const idx = Math.floor(Math.random() * pickingPlayers.length);
       let fk = await pickingPlayers.splice(idx, 1)[0];
-      console.log(getApplicableName(fk));
+      console.log(fk);
       fatkids.push(fk);
     }