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Petya, use your head (just direct it in the right direction). As long as the organizers and hosts of tournaments don't receive any money for this, the participants are essentially asking. Because the organizers and hosts don't owe anyone anything.
And the Soviet mentality has absolutely nothing to do with it.
To put it bluntly, here's an example: I approach you at a CIS tournament and say:
1) - Petya, I want a beer (implying that you should go to the store)!
Or 2) - Petya, I have a personal request: please go get some beer!
Is there a difference?
But if you're serving at a table as a paid waiter, then I can say from the menu: pork medallions and a liter of light draft beer, please. This doesn't negate basic politeness, but in this model, the rhetoric is essentially different, because waiter Petya in this model is obliged to serve me.

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Kirill, I don't understand either your logic or your examples.
Therefore, if the organizers don't receive money for their work, does that mean that this very work should be paid for with requests? Is this a new equivalent of money, benefits, or rewards? In my view of the world, not every job should/can be paid for in principle, regardless of what it's paid with. Most often, work is done for pleasure, sometimes out of enthusiasm, and deserves at least gratitude if there is no payment. But to thank someone with a request is something else. Something beyond my understanding as a norm of behavior. What can you buy with a request? Provide a price list.
I don't even want to discuss the examples. The situations and the words "I ask" and "please" are not comparable. If you ask me to go get beer, I have the right to refuse even if you say "please" a thousand times, and you have the opportunity to go get the beer yourself. Here, the organizer cannot refuse without good reason, and you can't play a tournament with yourself. Although, of course, you can)). In general, it's off-topic. The rules of tournaments are a kind of offer; take it or leave it. A simple checkmark is enough in principle. And if you want to thank or incentivize the organizers, then do so, but I'm not sure they accept "requests." But I don't rule out that one can derive pleasure from such a fetish. And here, it's precisely about the Soviet mentality. And for me, you are just another heir to the Soviet mentality, justifying a bottom-up approach. Which was discussed in more detail in the neighboring topic.