I woke up in the morning and I had like 50 e-mails in my gmail inbox for a Mario Kart drama. Please don't do that again, that is all I have to say on the matter.

The problem is, and I know you'll natrually disagree, that could/would be too many threads. Organized threads are the best kind, and they've all worked very well in recent history. Official threads have been made before and they will be pretty much exactly like mine. Having an Official thread like this will be able to contain everyone into one (or two, in this case since ConeyG will also be hosting a tourney) community where we can all easily talk to each other and be able to set up races. This works. You know it does considering your participation in the MK7 tourneys at the Official Nintendo Thread. 

Your point about people not being able to see my thread is not completely true. Anyone who posts in my thread will automatically bump it to the Hot Topics, where everyone will see it. And, by the way, anyone can talk to me about how to make the Official MK8 thread a better "Official" thread. There's never been a need for this absolutely silly backlash and behind-closed-doors PMs you guys are talking on. I'm absolutely happy to help make my thread flexible. That's what would make the best kind of Official thread. I want to make a great MK8 community on here, much like how TruckO wants to make a great SSB community on here, or how Smeags wants to make a great Pokemon League. However, I can't do that when people aren't trying to help the thread, in this case.

Now this is something we can all get behind

It absolutely would be better, and I've already tried explaining to them there won't be any issue as long as each tournament is at a different time from one another, but they have yet to acknowledge this fact among many others.

Sorry, had no idea it'd send messages to people's e-mail accounts aswell.

I feel that the general idea is to consolidate the users into one or two well known threads, you get the best response that way.  At the same time I feel like they are trying to get rid of the "I'm bored and free for the next hour let's have a random tourney", which will be forgotten and then a new one will be made a few hours/days later.  Obviously they are  trying to prevent two different people making threads at the same time and splitting the few people who actually race.

Yes, that is the major point. I'm happy you are at least trying to see our side of the story.

Copy-cat or duplicate threads have always been issues on this site. Official threads help keep that down.

And this is exactly the kind of constructive posts I want.

Thank you, Rol. That's a good idea.

Just for that post I won't ever ban you again.

I want to make a Halo tournament thread when the next Halo comes out. Is that ok or will I be perma banned?