Relic should fund their own damn tournaments. They definitely can afford the petty $2k in prizes with all the milking they've done for the past 3 years. Crowd funding should be for small indie studios or (like an Insurgency tournament) or community hosted events. Developers have incentives to host tournaments for the publicity, and if the community pays for it you're essentially paying for Relics advertisement.
Another good reason. What if they selected casters you don't like, eg. Krebs and how would you feel knowing that some of your money would be going towards paying them if you donated
I don't see the problem, we get to buy cool skins, the skins creators get some cash and we also get a tournament.
It is all very well saying a developer should fund a tournament, but there are always forces unseen which dictate these things.