> Mine went according to the strategy I set up, so it worked for me. Unfortunately, I got screwed by someone running the "I'll do nothing through all the preliminary rounds only to power up all my characters before the qualifying round" strategy. Very frustrating to find myself in first place one round, and then eliminated by someone playing a gimmick game the next.

That's how I got eliminated during tournament #2, and is part of the reason I haven't played since. (To be fair, the main reason I haven't played is that with having a new baby in the new house [we just moved], I haven't had the time.) But I was under the impression that the rules changes and mods since then had done quite a good deal to render that strategy less effective.

Were you assuming you'd have an easy victory and got taken by surprise? Was there anything you could have done differently to win? I'm just curious, because it seems like this is the first time I've heard a complaint about this problem since the second tournament.