I talked to xistenz just now and he asked me to remove the ability to pick civ in g2 during the single elimination stage. Because choosing both civ + map when the other player gets random civ is just to strong.

If you for example pick water map + viks or Border dispute + mongols you will just get a too big advantage. I agree and think this should be removed after R1.

I think it is ok for single elimination stage since it might result in less one-sided matchs.

I would agree to remove it from double elimination stage though.

For the first few rounds, it will result in "fairer" matches, giving the weaker player a slight advantage, however getting rid of it for double makes sense!