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This is a great idea and has been in the back of my mind for the many tournament structures I have been thinking up. The only issue that I can see is that people will simply not use the funds in the Satellite tournament to sign up to the official game. A feature added that allows creation of tickets to a targeted tournament would be the solution to that.

I was thinking of it that way.

  1. People win a Ticket in Satellites
  2. The winners sign up to the real tournament
  3. AFTER the tournament, the winners of the tickets get refunded the fee

A little bit complicated, but possible :)

1 & 2 are the solutions I was thinking of also.

I never thought of the third option and that is brilliant. We can run that option at current time. I suppose we would have to put a disclaimer that any player who doesn't sign up to the targeted event forfeits their ticket .... *Non Transferable for any currencies.