i was playing in tourney10 (traditionally a 750 TC mushu tourney) and this happened! is this persona GM and just changed it orrr?

Screenshot link : http://gyazo.com/b343d83667e585c753618eca7f956b58

Yes. Tinner is a S-Mod and he must have been setting something up there but i'm sure he wasn't doing anything ruin the tourney, just fixing it perhaps.

I believe once a op pings or no response's they change mod to classic

That doesn't happen .-. and this was the Mushu Punlic Tourney he was just fixing something like the game rules or something.

Admins are always op'ed.... and yes it does happen

When an op leaves/relogs it sometimes changes the mod to classic for no reason.