Excellent points idlesplinter!

I read your post just after posting mine about bots:
https://steempeak.com/splinterlands/@elindos/bots-and-splinterlands-a-love-and-hate-story

It's just magic to see that our two posts happened the same day, about the same subject.

Myself, I propose that bots (meaning API transactions) should be completely forbidden from taking part into tournaments. I asked that last year to other bot programmers but they refused.

Please note that I am a bot owner myself and I always considered that bots taking part in tournaments was extremely destructive of Splinterlands value.