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Let me explain my position. Previously, the tournament had an idea, as Dirty mentioned, to leave the opponent with uncomfortable templates, and there was a kind of veto rule.
When developing the rules for this tournament, I decided to add a mirror match template to the previous group, and Roma suggested adding skirmish, and these templates are actually playable; they are not the Christmas Tree or Panic, or 8x8a, etc. But since we decided to remove the veto rule, there was nothing left to do except to include the standard template, and we decided to specify it. Although I already mentioned a system back then, which was criticized, to allow choosing a template from 3 groups and creating a home and away field, but no one liked it. Now, the potential captains (skilled players, they say, and we don't care at all what template to use, let's just randomize) say it doesn't matter to them. But now we have 3/4 more players for whom it does matter what template to use. For many, the starting Castle is not what they want, and the hero already causes stress, and if they randomly get 8x8a, the Christmas Tree, Panic, etc., then all the rest of the games will boil down to trying to get at least something familiar.
As organizers, we are actively looking for a solution. Now, an idea has emerged: the captains play all-random, and the rest choose the standard template.