I came on this thread because the OP contains the terms "original seat". I see Corey responded that as of 2012 there is no way to see the original seating chart at the start of the tournament. (I have already looked through the 3.4.3 software to see if this history was preserved, but was unable to find it.)
If I'm mistaken and the original seating chart history is available for a completed tournament, I'd love a heads-up as to how to find it.
The genesis of my inquiry is that I'm trying to do some data mining after the fact. Certain players claim to always start on a specific table (no big deal to me, but not so for them). Additionally, I manually adjust seating for certain players for specific issues (larger players prefer "end" seats; spaced-out players get moved from the center seats) and I'd like to ensure that specific players don't always end up in specific seats (i.e., my most helpful player _always_ ends up in the direct center).
I'm pretty surprised to find this isn't available inherently. I see the suggestion in this thread to immediately save my tournament file under a different name to preserve the original seating, but that doesn't help me now with my data mining of past tournaments.
Please let me know if I'm missing a current capability of the software, and if it's not already in there, then let this note be a reiteration of a new functionality from the original post.
Thank you,
-Neal