Some awesome replies
^^ both valid points. Maybe it could be reduced?
Or, better yet, we don't have any item tournaments. Maybe a bi-weekly Item tournament, with better items a rarer prize than less praised items?
We do have item tournaments though, or at least as far as I'm aware we do. ES give items as prizes for their in-game tournaments on occasion (or at least we did whenever I was Gamemaster). If a member of the ES could confirm, that'd be sweet.
50k per tourney would generate over 1.3m tc into the economy a year alone, and the ES run plenty of in-game events on a daily basis. Adding an additional limited-entry tourney won't really be a flare to the community.
1 x 500 tc tourney room (estimate 10 min tourneys) bring roughly 25kk/year so that 1.3 is not a big deal