This has definitely been a problem for some time, and my friends and I talk about it every couple weeks when we get together to legitimately (yet in vain) play the current tournament. We like doing it because we simply like using it as an excuse to get together and play.

Unfortunately, not everyone has friends to play with and the way the tournaments are handled with the easy way to cheat the system turns many people off. Even myself, who's a proponent of Triple Triad itself, and rather difficult to "offend" by things in-game that aren't quite right, is starting to become disillusioned.

On top of that, completing the tournament, in my opinion, does not give as good of rewards incentive as it should. Just as an example, in the last two tournaments I wasn't on the board at the end, likely because the first 8-10 people listed were all obviously cheating, and I got about 15,000 MPG and three platinum packs. The last tournament I got three Lahabrea cards (which I already had) and this most recent tournament I got three Shiva cards (which, again, I already had). It's darn near impossible to get a card I need, so I'm greatly just considering giving up on the tournaments altogether.

A change in the way tournaments are handled and their rewards need to be implemented for Triple Triad to ever gain ground and for us to find new players to play with who actually want to play legitimately.