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 Vaktathi wrote:
That line of thinking just seems weird to me, to "provide variety"? Surely having more stuff available is going to be the better path. By the same token, why not try banning individual armies to get "more variety"? A tournament where no Necrons or no Orks or no Space Wolves or no Skimmers or no MC's are allowed?

I'm not trying to portray this in stark "MUST ALLOW!" terms, but it just seems a silly justification.

Adding more units doesn't add more variety in top level tournaments. Lets face it, good players use good units, period. Adding FW just adds a handful of power units to a handful of armies and that's all that will really matter. Do you think you will see a ton of inferus predators, avenger fighters or other mediocre units? Nope, it will be all the top shelf stuff.

Look at the armies that do well in tournaments NOW, I wager most of the top armies only use 25-30% of their books as it stands. The whole adding diversity argument is kind of silly in that regard.

So why doesn't everyboyd let the TO's, the people that usually know what they are doing, run their tournament their way, and leave the players decide what they want to go to themself. If a small country like Ireland can provide enough for everyone, then surely the mighty USA can do the same?

Geography most likely. The US and Canada have less then half of the population density that Ireland does. I live in the most densely populated portion of Canada and we have exactly 2 tournament providers within 150km of where I live. One of them is an annual event over a weekend costing $80+ covering 5 games and including soft scores, and the other is a small gaming shop that hosts 5-6 events a year of 3 games, costing only $20. There isn't a lot of choice in many areas, and electing not to go because you don't like the rules is electing not to play at all. Hell, in the last 2 years over half of my gaming has been in tournaments due to my local players being a bunch of flakes and with the local gaming shop now including soft scores and me skipping those events means I've played exactly 2 games of 6th edition...total.