I agree----- recently created a thread in club forum about tier only club tourneys about upper tiers not entering lower tier tournaments-under the threat of expulsion from the club.
since i have a number of members in my club of all tiers up to master.
I created a series of tournaments , all in the same week on tier specific tournaments with advanced enviromental variables set to each tier.
In the hack tier only tournament, we had 10 or 15 people play and the winner was a master. (so much for intregrity). not one of the players that posted the score was a hack, but about 5 of the hack tiered members did enter and did not play. I figure due to the fact that they knew there was no use in competing agains master and and tour pros and I dont blame them.
These lower level members wont even enter club tournaments because they know they will get shafted most likely by an upper tiered player, and I'm noticing they then start to go inactive.
This scenario doesnt help them get to be better players nor does it profit the club if they decide to say screw it, and would think it would not profit WGT in a whole because they'd be losing potential customers.