An agreeement with mcpero or any potential outcaster to come to terms with the TOG is plausible to reach, if anything I believe rushing the project is what has created this issue in the first place. This guy had his project in the making for weeks and as he's about to present it the TOG appears (officially, in FSE) and suddenly everything changes. I would have given it a month to make all points clear and transparent, and to have everyone know about the new order of things from team cpts to any community member be it players or potential organisers aware. Its not only a matter of formalities but also of time.
Now the TOG can be subject to change (I hope to talk to the organisers about rules/refs/voting system once home tomorrow) so we shouldnt be over-dramatic. I personally think mcpero should carry on with his tournament, as an independent, considering he's been "interrupted". Wasn't for it, we could anyway come to terms and have it work along the TOG principles - and I mention come to terms as I believe there's certain unique tournaments like the NWECT in this case worth protecting.
Also Chicken if you agree with this you are not my community rep.
I don't "agree" with it but I've worked with mcpero so he would raise his concerns not only because I also am his and his alikes CR but because I wanted to work on most of the concerns he raised. I forgot to tell him not to mention me in his post but he didn't anyway so its all good.