Well, the tournament rules were written a long time ago...
Tournament format.
The tournament is designed for 32 players. (If there are more, there will be qualifying matches for players with low ratings on the M200 or Jebus King 2.5 template).
In this case, I'm just expressing my incredibly old and senile opinion, which everyone doesn't care about - Egor, aka "Alone," has a valid point, because people are not coming to a fully sponsored online event "at someone else's expense," but they are coming at their own expense.
If the organizers see (saw, anticipated) a lot of interest and an inability to accept all those who want to participate as full-fledged participants in the tournament, then what prevents (prevented) them from holding online qualifiers, as was done in the very first CIS tournaments? :smile14:
"Совесть - она либо есть, либо её нет" (с) RedWhait HP