Never been to a tourney. That's the problem. XDI want to give tips so bad, but I got nothing. You kind of just need to go with the flow. If you have been to tournaments before you should kind of know how ****s set up. If there are known TO's not 'TOing' there, ask for help, explain it's your first time. Give them some cigarettes, a pop, idk, something for their trouble.
ALSO
Just do random impressions of Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York. Nothing garners more respect at tournaments than telling people "I'm going to teach you english with this ****ing knife".
Goodluck.
And my switchblade should be perfect! :D