The point of the rating ceiling in prior tournaments was to enable a high level tournament without having it simply be combining 2 of the top 5 as the winning team. Since 1800+ is the general level where everyone is familiar with everyone else for general games, the intent was to have a rating cap that stops Yudi and Farm from being, for example, an autowin 2v2 team yet not forcing them to partner with a random 1500 they have no experience with because that isn’t the type of player commonly played with at that level. So for 2v2 we had a 4100 rating cap with people maxing out at like 2200 rating as a ceiling. This was doing something like saying bully equates to yudi/farm in a 2v2. This enabled farm/tagada/yudi to play with a 1700-1800 rather than a 1500-1600 at the time.
This tournament, however, is saying briang equates to yudi/farm. Likewise it doesn’t actually stop any autowin since farm/yudi could still play along with a random 1700-1800 they are familiar with and have an 800 that has the objective of dying in mid. Really both the 1800 and 800 can play aggressive in mid with the intent to die and let the other two inherit the base. IIRC this was basically the general gameplan during the last tournament from Yudi’s team.
The rating minimum does more for halting autowin stacks; I’d probably even move it up since 800s in a tournament is just asking for immediate base donations. But the rating ceiling doesn’t do much because in the end, the rating cap is too small to enable people to play with largely familiar players.
That’s my take on it anyway.