I don't even think Tant is running it to get new people in the scene or anything (though that's certainly a benefit). He has just accepted that every doubles bracket is a RR between the top 2-3 teams. You can always coordinate your own doubles bracket if you think there's enough interest, but idk why it would have changed in the past month or so. You might as well MM. As far as how you got good, I understand that you may be proud or whatever that you overcame the odds to improve, but why are you so insistent on making other players overcome those same odds? I would think someone who struggled to improve would want to help others out so they don't waste 10x more time, money, and effort than they need to. It'd be like someone pulling themselves up by their bootstraps to get out of the ghetto, and then they turn around to people still in the area and think less of them because they haven't succeeded in the same way.
I am trying to improve as hard as anyone, but when tournaments consistently don't run pools, top players decline friendlies or decide not to show up because it's $5 entry or no other good players are showing up or whatever, it becomes a lot harder to level up. Scrapping 1 or 2 sets against good opponents with no feedback doesn't cut it at this point in the metagame where players in other regions simply learn way faster because of their support for each other. That's compounded by the fact that our region has a lack of tourneys in general. It's not SoCal where I can drive 10 mins to a tourney every weekend. I'd much rather our region be like AZ where, even in pools, the whole state, not just including the top players, but ESPECIALLY the top players are cheering like crazy for the mid-level/newer/worse players. Not because the cheering is particularly helpful, though it is, but more because that shows that players actually have some pride/stock in their region being good and doing well.
I'm not asking or expecting the whole region cheering me on every round or all the top players to start coaching me the whole tournament, but just occasionally lending a hand to anyone, regardless of skill, makes the whole region better. I'm not even good, but I still do my best to help other players improve when we play. Of course I am not going to want to sit down with newbies and spend the whole day teaching them every single baby step, and I don't, but it really just takes 5-10 minutes of friendlies for a better player to help a newer player make some legitimate progress. I don't think it's a coincidence that MD/VA has had the same top tier players for so many years, and the stagnation of our top players' improvement is at least partly influenced by the fact that they only have each other to push them. I mean, of course stuff like Chillin and Chu splitting every tourney isn't going to help them improve as fast as other regions where their top players have plenty of mid-high players breaking into that skill gap where they are at least challenging them to do new stuff.