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4 is where you lose me. Thats a pretty good indicator that it is still bias driven...it just lands with the 'least' bias...or rather...ends when people run out of chances to pick a map that better suits their philosophy.
It isn't bias-driven, but even with unbiased parameters, some randomly-drawn maps will favor one party or the other purely by chance. By having each party's leadership take turns eliminating a map until they whittle it down to a single remaining map, you could ensure that the final map was somewhat "average" in terms of what you would expect unbiased parameters to produce.