[quote="bamafan" post=348145]Playing in those tournaments allows you to play 31 rather than 28 games if they are considered exempt tournaments which almost all are so would hate to avoid them. The more games the merrier.[/quote]
Rothstein reported a few months back that the rules committee was trying to make it so that everyone played the same number of regular season games, regardless of if they played in a tournament, or not.
Unfortunately, that has not been followed up on, at least not to this point.