just for information.
I played with the blue color against Scorpio, because Tanya chose a template without a marker – and I chose the color.
And regarding the timer, I had 1:40 on the timer before the final match, even though I tried very hard to reduce this time by exploring the map, playing Hearthstone, and talking on the phone, etc. Scorpio managed to do a slightly better job with this task and reduced the timer to 40 minutes in the game against Medium. The situation seemed to be the same.