Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25074480-20141118030025/@comment-25467429-20141118171822

A majority, if not all of, the limited challenges they just wrapped up were prizes they gave away before. I think I've seen it even before the last two tournaments, but I can't be sure. I imagine it's just a little trap-door/loop-hole in case they want to re-run a tournament. I imagine it's appealing for something like the Yellow-13 tournament, where there are enough people who might be interested in participating while there were so few given away in the original tournament.

It's still unclear what, if anything, they will do to limit participation of anyone who was in that top 200 who won it last time. Redoing challenges is one thing, since you just can't do a challenge that's already cleared, but what do you do if you get big spenders who already won once muckign up the system by going for it again, for whatever reason they may have. Preferrably they'd convert the tournaments to challenges, but it's not hard to see that there are some who might be upset about that if it's not made particularly difficult.

I guess my point is, it's always been mostly assumed that at some point PA might let people obtain the tournament prizes in some way, but it's always been a slightly touchy subject on how they might do so. The statement is merely their pre-qualifying it all, saying they might even if I doubt they have solid plans to right now.