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Not to mention they're using AWS , so literally with a click of a button and a payment, they can scale up to handle any kind of volume.

The "we can't handle all the people wanting to play" excuse sounds like complete and utter rubbish to me. Seems like they're limiting the product only to Crowd 1 members which makes it a pyramid scheme and not a MLM. Further reason for this belief is that from the few leaked tournament rewards other than the "sponsored merchandise", is crowd 1 points... a currency and prize thats completely useless to most of the world.