I am the henchperson running this event by the way. So if anyone is interested in joining we are entering the 3rd week of 10. There is no entry fee. PM me with your email address and I will send additional details. Incidentally Game Kastle is in Santa Clara. I post weekly about my open play events in the Wyrd Events Forum for NA: http://www.wyrd-games.net/forumdisplay.php?114-North-America
Regarding the nature of the league. This is not really a competitive event. We have a small, casual group of players who wanted something organized, but did not want anything as formal as a tournament. Since I follow a policy of “casual gamers are still gamers” I put together a league focused on getting people to try new masters/units. Technically there are prizes but none of the achievements require you to win games. When you only have say...6 regular players with pretty stratified skill levels, it becomes necessary to adjust events to accommodate everyone.