Down with tournaments

"Stormy;812217" wrote:



The real complaint is that rather than offer a character for sale at a price they lock it out to a select few that can "afford" to win it.
The only way someone "pays to win" a tournament if by having a bigger collection. Isn't this a honest trade off? The event awards those with larger rosters- good on the event design IMO- first of it's kind outside of GW (which isn't really pvp

Everything else you posted I agree with - except the above. The event only rewards those with deep rosters with two huge caveats:
1) They have purchased or amassed enough AP to outspend all the other people whom they are pitted against on their tournament shard (which itself is dependent on RNG to an extent).
2) They have several (at least 4-6 hours) on the allotted day to spend them. And those 4-6+ hours need to be near payout time.

Deep rosters can get you on the top 100-200 fairly easily. To hit the "true p2win" area, it's not about roster depth. But I think you know that. ;)