And secondly, Vic, you are a judge, but not the organizer of this tournament. You cannot decide who will be a participant a priori.
Stinger and Preds did not make it through the qualifiers in Moscow. This means that the Michurinsk team is weaker.
Preds took 2nd place in Michurinsk,
Stinger took 3rd place.
In Moscow, Preds took 6th place!
And Stinger took 4th place.
Therefore, if Preds is 6th in Moscow and 2nd in Michurinsk, Vitalik is definitely stronger than Mizrael and Scorp.
You like to calculate Berger coefficients... please calculate them.

And if you don't like the organization, I will relieve you of the responsibility for all of you coming to Kyiv.

You keep repeating the same thing... firstly, in Michurinsk, I didn't make it to the first round, and secondly, in Moscow, I took 4th place according to the Berger system; I don't even know how I ended up paired with someone with only 1 point in the last round... but that's not the main point.
You are engaging in activities that I don't understand. Apart from the confusion, I haven't seen anything constructive from you in this matter. I and Preds, and many others, voted for Kyiv, but not because of your brilliant organizational skills, which were advertised after the Kyiv qualifiers, no. I am sure that Eric would be much better at this, and I feel very bad towards him that I voted for Kyiv. BUT the reason for this is your city; we wanted to come there.
Understand, you are discrediting yourself as an organizer with your actions. Fine, I, a person you don't know, think so, but now people who passed the qualifiers in Kyiv are thinking about not going to the finals. Initially, I signed up for this tournament only because I know how important it was for Eric. BUT now you are destroying the whole idea.
I don't need to prove anything to people who draw conclusions based on a single game. I know my own strength.