A few things to consider first:

I have had quite a few people request that I bring back the old league gating system for tournaments and while I am personally against it for all of the reasons that I illustrated when doing the tournament overhaul, this is a DAO and I am one opinion. My opinion is that tournaments need a complete rebuild/redesign, but I know that's not going to happen anytime soon, so we will see what the SPS stakers want to do with the system as it currently exists.

Let me reiterate my concerns as to why I think this doesn't work.

• Splinterlands has removed the ability to stay in a particular league. I don't think we should create a system where players are forced to lose in ranked to stay at the level of tournament they wish to play at.
• This also creates conflicts for gold foil tournaments as there are too few players to restrict access by league, which is why we previously just didn't use any gating on those tournaments.
• The fee based gating that does exist only impacts one format, so for example you can be champ in modern and novice in wild and then still join the lower level wild tournaments.

It also needs to be noted that we cannot currently do this without bringing back entry fees, so if you want league gating then you need to also vote for a fee option on this poll as well.

Now onto the poll:

Do not gate tournaments by ranked league.

Keep things as they are right now.

Bring back league gating as it was previously.

Return to using entry fees to price out entrants that are outside of the targeted leagues for the tournament. Historically this has been the tournament league and 1 league above and we have not gated gold foil tournaments.
For example, bronze and silver can join a bronze level tournament. Gold and Diamond can join a Gold level tournament. Champion players can only join Diamond tournaments as Gold level is two leagues below them.