#2 I personally think it is very important to take account of those in particular who have played on the site for more than say 3 days in total, and ignore newer accounts both in the discussion and in the voting process of how the entry requirements for how the official site tournaments are set up. And on topic for this thread it is great that extra options are given to people creating user-created custom tournaments.
It is the existing longer term members which are constantly suffering e.g. in yesterdays weekly blitz (
lichess.org/tournament/dbOJfZxP) when a newish 2600 rated opponent inflicted carnage for multiple hours. Surprise surprise they were cheating and removed now as being the featured winner. Anyway, I am happy to find retrospectively today I won yesterday's daily bullet.
Cheers, K