It wouldn't be so bad, if you didn't need to do 30-60 matches per tournament. Even through farming NPCs, completing all of your Triple Triad tournament matches can take hours. Now we have to challenge players to get any decent points, and apparently you can't even challenge the same player more than once because you get diminishing returns. This means you have to challenge (and win against) 30+ different, real players!

This is a basically impossible task for anyone who isn't cheating by buying their wins. Even if you spent the entire week in Gold Saucer, you would be hard pressed to find 30 (let alone 60) different players who were in the tournament and willing to accept your challenge.

The old system was bad as well, but at least I could take an hour or two of farming Elmer to get a chance of winning some rare cards every two weeks. Now there is zero reason for me to participate in these tournaments.