User blog comment:FlippinDuck/they kinda stupid, or... discrimination?/@comment-6218208-20140804130558

Honestly, I don't see why a lot of people are making such a big deal out of this. Imo, it doesn't really make that big of a difference. Besides, if you really need to rely on a sideboard in order to win against specific matchups, then your deck probably didn't have very good balance in the first place.

On another note, did it not ever occur to you that possibly (this is all hypothetical) they decided to make the asia - oceania regionals best of 1 due to expected turnout to be much larger than the other regionals, and thus they needed to reduce the amount of time spent on the qualifying rounds since they only have so much time to run these tournaments in each event hall?