How to choose your own spawn? (if possible)

[Mission]

I'm positive I heard from an experienced player once that you could pick your own spawn. I was wondering if this was a troll of can you actually do it? The only way I can think is if you click through the spawns (when eliminated) with your trigger, however I can't see any correlation between  through spawns when in elim and the place you spawn at. Is it random or no?

[jitspoe]

Spawns are random, controlled on the server side.

[not_payl_obviously]

Spawns are random, controlled on the server side.

I believe thats actually more complicated, with server choosing spawn without enemies nearby. But i'm not a expert in this matter.
So you can at least theoretically determine where you will spawn. Also as paintball cannot be fully random (actually C++ has pretty bad pseudo-random generator) it is therefore possible to predict what server will choose next. But it's all beyond simple choose.