Basically because there is no central authority for 40k and DL has no involvement in the running of the tournaments its up to the community on how to run the tourneys. 40k itself has really deteriorated in its "fairness" or balance over the last 2 years and that is causing issues with the tournaments as people seek to balance Balls out smash face 40k and Beer and Pretzels 40k. Not only do we have massive imbalance between the various armies we now have new supplements, data slates and formations spreading coming out every single month. GW has actively said that 40k is not a tournament game and they have no intention of making it balanced like one. Since it is up to us ( the community) to make it work people have varying opinions on what can and should be done. This is compounded in complexity by the fact that the Tournament Organizer is just a volunteer who was the most willing to run the tournament for a bit. Its been myself, Nick Rose, Chris Carlile, Chris Davis and and few others here and there who have been running the DL tourneys since Larry left DL. Chris faces one of the toughest times as the game is broken and gets worse each month as new things are released. To gauge community feedback he has to balance not only his personal findings on the state of the game, verbal feedback of participants and the opinions on this board. This can be tough to do however he talks to several of us who have been around for many years and generally arrives and good ideas to help the tournament evolve and survive.

I have made many suggestion to improve this process and he has dismissed them in favor of the current system. Here are a few of them

- Make a formal gaming club with a due(or not). Every member gets 1 vote. If X of members move to make a rule, than it will be put to a vote.
- Every player gets one vote per tournament they have played in over the course of the year. Every time a contentious issue needs to be decided a vote is taken. The more tournaments you play in the more your vote counts.
- Election style. 3 TO's are elected by the community. They are required to commit to run 4 of the 12 tournaments over the course of the year. This ruling council will decide on contentious issues.

Contentious issues would be the following
- Needed FAQ items for newly released rules and models.
- Tournament Format changes
- Comp systems
- etc...