1. Throughout the tournament, each participant plays as their chosen favorite race...

I understand this phrase as meaning that everyone plays as ONE and the SAME race throughout the tournament, and considers it their favorite...
Captain, the goal of the tournament is not to learn how to play with different races, but to prove that your favorite Castle is the best and that you know how to play with it. If you win the tournament, how will we know which Castle is the strongest? Please choose ONE, your most favorite Castle. Dungeon, right?

Kostya and I thought about it and decided to ban Galtran as a starting hero in the Necropolis Castle. He turned out to be too strong in the last tournament.
If any of the Necropolis fans change their mind because of this, they can choose another Castle. I wanted to play as this monster myself, but my conscience won't allow it.

And one more addition. When restarting, we will switch colors each time. This will be fair.

Regarding templates. In the application, indicate whether you want to play on 2SM4d(3) or choose from the list of 5 templates. That is, if one of the players insists on the 2SM4d(3) template, then the match with him is played on this template; if both agree to choose templates, then only then do we choose. Of course, players can agree to play on other templates that are not on the list.