diff --git a/pkg/gameserverallocations/find.go b/pkg/gameserverallocations/find.go
index 3a0f23c8ba..01ed9ec5da 100644
--- a/pkg/gameserverallocations/find.go
+++ b/pkg/gameserverallocations/find.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func findGameServerForAllocation(gsa *allocationv1.GameServerAllocation, list []
 	case apis.Distributed:
 		// randomised looping - make a list of indices, and then randomise them
 		// as we don't want to change the order of the gameserver slice
-		if !runtime.FeatureEnabled(runtime.FeatureCountsAndLists) {
+		if !runtime.FeatureEnabled(runtime.FeatureCountsAndLists) || len(gsa.Spec.Priorities) == 0 {
 			l := len(list)
 			indices := make([]int, l)
 			for i := 0; i < l; i++ {