Magic, seriously, I sympathize in that I've never placed in ANY season, not for lack of skill but almost entirely for reasons of time, but the idea to make it obtainable by anyone is just a bad idea overall. The minion/earring thing was awful enough, and when you couple that with all the controversial changes made to the Feast, if SE rolls over on this one, we can effectively call that the nail in the Feast's coffin.

Just get active and make efforts to compete in Season 4. I'm even willing to break my boycott of S4 to help you, rather than watch this ill-fated campaign for past rewards continue.