Is there a need for a HotA tournament?

What's the big deal about the unfinished state? I'm just not in the loop. Are there a lot of bugs that will interfere with online play? People are already playing and even streaming.

I'm also not in the loop. It seems that some minor bugs that were found haven't been fixed yet.

However, if nothing interferes, you can start playing on version 1.3.5. It seems that the save format is not going to be changed.