Snoopy: I would think that pawns would want to become members to alleviate this problem since they would no longer have to wait for the tourney to finish once they are a member... Instead they can enter as many tournies as they want! I highly doubt any pawn thinks this such an issue that they won't become a member... in fact it should only make them want to be a member more!

Ensuring that every tourney can be handled would be quite tidious, for someone would have to verify every tourney automated decision (likely), and as BK grows, that would only become a bigger and bigger job... The only tourney style that I could see an automatic system working for is single elimination, which could speed up the overall tourney time to completion a little, but for all of the other tournies, this simply isn't feasible since you have so many elements coming into play on who is going into the next round (S-B is affected by every other game, so every player must be finished in order to calculate the overall standings for all of the other players! Hence, tournies using that feature to determine who plays in the next round can not be started early.)

So long story short, single elimination might work well, but the others... not so.