It's a competitive event, the players are competitors, it's meant to be a spectacle in the same vein as a sporting spectacle. It's all about the best of the best, people trying their hardest to beat them.
Please try and apply your logic in the proper context.
There may end up being more casual ESL tournaments that aren't for money and encourage more casual players, in fact I'm 95% sure there will be. But that'd be a separate ball game and a different context.
edit: also I was waiting for the spark that starts off the comment chain, for that line of arguing please refer to the massive thread night posted, where the vast majority of people had the 'competitive' line of reasoning I share. Can someone link it please? To stop the same debate happening again.
My logic is being applied, and that's towards the implementation of a semi competitive ESL or tournament event.
And here's my logic, you have ESL, representing as you state "It's all about the best of the best", which I understand. But then you have all these other independently run tournaments, almost all of them designated towards lower level or team based players.
That leaves the untouched demographic, mid level players, such as myself, whom can't quite stand up to the likes of Hans and Devm, but can compete with those alike. If your so sure, then I'm happy to wait for an announcement or confirmation, but until then I'm going to sit in my chair kinda spiteful.