Sorry in advance. I haven't installed the patch myself. But I want to ask – couldn't you specifically state the difference between playing the game without the patch and with the patch in the first post?
Or is the only difference that the patch removes the influence of time delays in the game on the random generation of morale and luck in battles? – and is that all the difference? /taken from the patch's readme.txt/

As for the third criterion – you can have four or five! – the main thing is that it should be possible to accurately determine who will be in which place....
Take the previous tournament, for example... (although this is just a hypothetical) – if STYD and SpiriTT had both completed it in 3 days, they would have both had 43 silver.
Or another pair – Perpolken and WhiteLizard – if they had both completed it in 3 days, they would also have had the same amount of silver – 30, and their parameters are almost the same, 12 and 13.

If two players haven't had absolutely identical criteria so far, it's only because of the small number of participants. But if at least 20-30 players participate in the future, then identical results may appear. We need to think about the future and eliminate such coincidences with a larger number of criteria.... but this is up to the organizer in each specific tournament.