I still hold that the real solution to the Tourney, for the few of us that are card collectors, is to place the four cards onto NPC's to play against for them. Restoring Taru solves half the problem, plop a new NPC at the table next to Rowena for the other two and problem solved. I'll happily grind a difficult NPC because it puts the ability to get the cards into my hands. I can invest as much or as little time as I want.

Coincidently last night I got Tidus from my two bonus packs for being part of the tourney. That puts me at 1/31 for the platinum packs on the four 5-Star cards. It was a total surprise, and certainly brightened my evening.