Differing from the procedure from deposit(), the receive() function doesn't set participant[msg.sender] to true after depositing. For the participant to be able to be selected as host, the participant has to call also changeParticipationStatus().
Participants who deposit Ether are initially unable to be selected as hosts, while they should be.
Set participant to true on the receive() function:
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