There's more in the article itself, but these are great excerpts, along with this one below (emphasis mine):
"A final note on tournaments themselves. I have seen some mentions online that the new rulebook reflects, in some way, a new emphasis on tournament play. I’m not clear on where this notion came from, but I thought it was worth addressing. Total Warfare itself had no support for tournaments besides the concept of Tournament Legal as a rules level. As I mentioned, this is now gone, and so the book has fewer nods to tournament play, not more. In general, I hate the idea of tournaments as a driver of rules writing. I firmly believe that, unless you’re writing a separate tournament structure, they should never, ever have the slightest bit of influence on generalist game design. I think it’s well understood that several otherwise successful games have shot themselves in the foot in an effort to shape their base design and play structures around the tournament, damaging how enjoyable they are for everyday play and their long-term viability in general to appeal to the tournament player. Tournaments are artificial environments: they’re intended to take the base state of play and warp it into a constrained, competitive version, where victory is the overriding goal. The vast, vast majority of BattleTech games are not tournament games. As such, the idea of shaping the base rules towards something that makes up a fraction of a percent of all BT played is something I am actively avoiding, not aiming towards. There has been some extremely preliminary discussion of a separate book that might, far down the road, specifically provide support for tournament play—just one more option in the toolchest—but whether that happens or not, the core rules are not looking in that direction."
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