I'm not sure what discussions you'd expect from the tournament. If I look into the current news about sports its mostly on management issues, trainers getting fired (both obviously not applicable to COH2), sometimes player portraits. But then again the community does not know much about the players, since most of them play quite privately and that's alright.
This is very disillutioning.
I totally share your point of view.
If you would put things in the forum like "player x said player y sucks" or "caster X thinks player Y is a jerk".....you would get responses for sure.
Like you, I am glad this is not the core of the forum.
compared to popular sports this community is already hyper analytic and, for me, very cool