Additionally, we are investigating whether there should be changes to Novice/Kobold tournaments to encourage newer players to participate and we welcome feedback and suggestions on what changes.
I would like to see these restricted to silver and lower accounts as the players in gold upwards have enough to compete for and win rather than fighting over tiny prizes and not letting lower players have a fair chance to win something and grow their decks.
This isn't true because there are plenty of players reaching gold with 1lvl cards, so why should they be excluded? I think the better solution is to have two tournaments going at the same time so that players need to choose if they want to compete in a higher or lower league tournament and that will attract more players with stronger collections to go for higher league tourneys with better rewards.
I might be wrong but I don't see this being true. I play in gold and it's with level 4-5 summoners. I never come across players with level 1 cards there. There are lots of tournaments and DEC to be earned at those levels and having some tournaments just for the lowest level makes sense to me. Gives them a chance to learn the game and win a few prizes to get higher. just my thoughts on it.
Of course more players will have higher level cards in gold. But what about those that don't? Punish them for being good in the game? I agree something needs to be changed but ladder leagues don't have much to do with tournament leagues. I easily reach Gold I each season but don't have enough cards to compete seriously in silver tournaments so I tend to play only Novice and Bronze ones.