I don't like the placement of the Zoot chamois seams either. Also, the shorts haven't held up particularly well for me. The bottom of the legs are loose around my thighs, although they fit great when I first got them. They get washed on delicate and line-dried, and have never been in chlorine. I just looked at the UA shorts on Amazon, but it looks like there is a seam down the middle, and I think that might be worse for me than the placement of the Zoot seams.