(I ran through this already on Twitter, visible here , but I'm going to note it here again as well.)
Recent winner of Mythic Championship #1 2019, Autumn Burchett, stated in their interview that Melissa deTora's success at PT Gatecrash in 2013 was a core inspirational moment for them.
Melissa's invite to that tournament was a community invite, not one given by the organized play system of the time, which had been shrunk down and made harder to get qualifications in, or to advance ones' position in.
The inspiration which helped Autumn would not have existed if the organized play system at the time had not allowed for such special invites (which is largely the case now).
Additionally, Autumn was talked about on PT coverage as a veteran of the GP circuit. I know for a fact they were Silver as of PT 25 last year. Those things do not exist in the modern MPL world. Neither could Autumn be a national champion.
So WotC celebrated Autumn's victory, while moving full-force into a system which would have made Autumn's success far less likely, maybe even impossible, and the inspiration wouldn't even have existed if WotC hadn't made an exception so many years ago.
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