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Originally Posted by psychoangel691

And how do we prove the difference between a skill boost and a sandbagger? A sandbagger can easily just say they've worked at it too.

You can't, largely due to the anonymity of the internet.
So you might as well just accept that the tournament may have these kinds of flaws and move on from there. Better than changing the expectations halfway through, in my opinion.