[Elusory]

In the first place, such tournaments are held for a single main reason: to improve the skill level of the GPDs. Also, to give them motivation to train hard and reach masters so they don't have to participate in such tournaments anymore. By having reached masters before, I don't really care if the MMR was skewed or not, but it shows that you have at least the determination to reach masters. Some people don't even hit Diamond when the bunch of new people came. Rules are rules, it's there for people to obey and not to criticize. You just have to wait for the next season to participate in this event, which is in 2 weeks time, should be done when the next GPD comes. I really do feel that a two season's grace is a good enough time.

Like said before, the point of GPD opens isn't for people to gain fame and glory while, to quote what Wally said in SC2SEA chat before, he's sitting at the high chair of masters looking at our banters. People really need to understand that it's totally alright to not be allowed to participate in restricted league tournaments. What I had in mind for GPDL is to reduce restrictions (I DISCOURAGED ex-masters, not BANNED them), to allow as many people to join in the fun. I even allowed the controversial Totodile to play. Yet at the same time, I made my point clear that this is to allow people who recently didn't have enough motivation to train to train once again. The prize for this tournament is 2 hours of coaching, something that people who have not hit masters before need. We want to close the disparity of the skill gap, not widen it.

Different restricted league tournaments have different rules because the admins have different thinking of how they wanna limit the ex-good players to play. So, for future GPD open's sake, do not bring in GPDL rules into the arguments. Hope I didn't sound very offensive or anything, but that's just on my mind right now.