They don't get their starters yet, as it's not part of the trainer initiation process anymore. If you remember from the first post, the official process of becoming a trainer was that you first needed to have a starter (which could be one you owned, like with us, or one you bought just for the occasion) and then battled a Gym to prove your worth. There is no more of that "choose from grass, fire and water starters" type of deal going on. We'll get ours a bit differently, but don't worry, it happens sort of soon~

As for how they choose them, I'm imagining they just get handed one at random 8D'' They will be the ones we agreed to earlier, though.

I'll probably throw in a short reply too, in a sec.