Personally I don't see a problem with announcing this here either. Yes, you may get the sweaty competitive players, as they are commonly referred to, but that doesn't mean they can't participate regardless. As i'm aware some of these players are on our Discords anyway, so what's the difference in applying from this post or seeing the announcements on either of NWP or NRP's Discords?
As we've discussed, we will see who and how many people sign up to this tournament. If we see a clear gap in skill with a lot of people, it's easy for us to split the tournament into 2 categories. 1 for the casual players, 1 for the competitive. It's subject to change, which is listed on many occasions in the OP. The idea of this tournament was to show to the community that the public servers are capable of working together and that this side of the community is far from dead. As we've had our dramas and what not in the past, I think it's a great thing to hold a competition for the entire community as a whole, regardless of your skill levels. As stated previously, if we split into 2 categories I don't think the skin winning thing on our servers will be much of an issue, as it'll allow the public to participate anyway - and have a fighting chance. Regardless, we are going to add medals for participants on the NWP Discord, not so sure about NRP but I'm sure we can arrange such things for everyone.
And on the note of participation, if those competitive players are too difficult to communicate because they don't join either Discord, they will not be able to participate and find their opponents anyway.
I think it'll be fun and it's not something we've done in the past, so I look forward to it!