Its not based solely on my judgment.
I did consult with the other admins before I made the list. Furthermore I'm perfectly open to hearing arguments from players as to why they deserve one
As far as tournaments go, I've hosted numerous tournaments in the past year. Its always been the same 5-6 people winning them.
A lot of people seem to be missing the whole point of giving away master tags to the top players.
What we are trying to do is seperate the top players from the rest of the community, in order to host tournaments and leagues for more average players.
At some point we will probably unveil a new icon or perhaps even redistribute an existing one to all tier 2 players. The same will be done with tier 3, and so on.
All these where clear... what is not clear, why you choose N people do separate instead of using a 2-3 division system like in most sports.
You could even get the promotion/demotion system ready.
I would though purpose a 3 divisions for our purposes.
New players / average division / master division.
New players are obviously all that participate for the first time!
Master division can start with all players that have reached 1-4 place in previous tournaments. (Or the people of your judgement)
The rest you keep them in average division.
After each tournament, you promote the X best players from each division to the next! And demote the Y worst to the previous. Y could be 0 and in general we want it to go low.
After a few tournaments you will have your masters division!
The only problem I see to all that is how would you stop someone to fake an identity...
One could have 3 accounts and participate in each division (assuming he/she reached master division)
Anyhow, I'm interested in starting to participate to tournaments and having divisions would make it interesting!