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The main value for Eventlink is that WotC tracks the playerbase of each tournament organizer and distributes promotional materials accordingly and awards higher status to larger organizers, so tournament organizers are heavily encouraged to use Eventlink so WotC can see the numbers.

Its not even that WotC has no incentive to improve their program; its more that the people in charge there have actively made the decision to not have certain features because they've decided that the nebulous possibility of abuse is more harmful than the concrete need to have certain features in place in order to fix things. Though the last project manager quit (got fired, if the rumours I've heard are true) and I've had a very long meeting with some of the current guys and they seem very open to change.

There are definitely tournament organizers who do not care about this and will simply run on a different platform, but F2F is not one of them.