The tourney i'm going to in november here
http://events.maelstromgames.co.uk/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=318
Is asking for you to name your master, and 15 points a week before. Then you make the rest up on the day. So when you find who your next crew will be upagainst you can tinker abit. Nobody wants to end up playing 4to5 games and end up playing the same faction with similar crews. That you have no answer to, plus it helps for Encounters, srategy,shemes.