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Whilst personally I would have preferred training to carry over, I believe there is absolutely an argument in having the two treated differently, and that's because the goals of regular PT and those of tournaments are very different.

Regular PT is about building a squad, over time, that's competitive. It's about creating a legacy. It's about pushing for promotion, or scrapping against relegation. Each card you purchase, be it in packs or the AH, is then yours to mould how you see fit. Its history may be written, but its future is not.

Tournaments on the other hand are simply a card game–you have a stack, and your opponent has a stack, and ultimately it's about who can put the best hand together in order to win the match.

OOTP is a true and proper baseball sim. Tournaments are a card game. PT sits somewhere in between, trying to blend together the best of both.

Tournaments shouldn't really be seen as an extension to PT, but rather a third play mode of OOTP. If a player really wanted to, they could play tournaments exclusively, only dipping into PT to use the AH and manage their collection.