You guys are missing the important reason why tournament mini won't work.
People want to take the easy way out, there is no denying that. They do NOT want to improve, why bother improving? Just grind to high pvp level and get gear they will still do lots of dmg. There is no incentives to get better atm. If they face a stronger team in PUG mini they just simply sit out, hide, or leave the match.
It is the mentally of today's society that caused this. No one wants to work for something if they do not have to. Like the Fatties here in Merica, why eat healthy and work when you can just be fat, and take welfare checks? They take the easy way out.
Humans are supposed to be competitive, if you people ever knew any of us good pvpers, we came from competitive backgrounds. Mostly all played sports in school, most lift weights, and most are in the army/marines. We keep competition going. With any company/business, competition is what brings the quality out.
Back 4-5 years ago in AOC you were forced to improve at pvp in order to do better. There WAS no easy way out,( maybe some people exploit but that's very minor) You can't just grind gear back then and be good because gear didn't matter at all. You were forced to make friends, join guild and make your premade so you can work on teamplay. How do you think carnage, asylum, US or any other great premade dominating guild started? They all came from different places and probably got slaughtered when they first played pvp in this game and was forced to get better find a group of like minded players and work on teamwork.
I honestly think it is too late now. Its been what 3 years since premade was taken away. Majority if not all players currently playing are already used to the "PUG" randomized mini. Their entire playstyle is catered to PUG Edit by Anzu: No names allowed. to only name a few.
Maybe just let us sign with 1-2 friends.
People just don't want competition these days, and its understandable for casual game play for fun. But this game by no means is balanced for casual players to have fun. Most casual players got to 80 end up getting slaughtered so bad in the past couple years they just quit the game.