[@yoshua171]

You weren't the first one to raise this point, and currently, the whole 'tier' situation has come to a halt. Whether that is good or bad is up to debate, but the fact itself that our current tier system is vague to the point of nigh-uselessness, is a known and even accepted fact. That is why your point was simply ignored - everybody already knows about it, and just can't be assed to start debating it again. Personally, i think that having no tier system at all is marvelous.

As for meeting resistance to your proposition of f different tournament GMing method, that was only natural. It is such a topic that everybody will have their own view upon, since you can't really say that one solution is better than another - the whole topic, in fact, does not have any definitive solution, as one's handling of it is largely dependent on the specifics of the situation at hand, plus, their own personal experience. Hence all the arguing - Rilla and Skallagrim represented their own opinions on this topic, with arguments none less valid than your own. I recall seeing that you even agreed with them at some point.

EDIT: what Skalla said XD