After seeing that the upcoming global tournament is going to be level 9 max. i am very excited. Before challenges even existed level 9 max was called "tournament standard" and even after challenges were released it kept that name until they started doing global tournaments.

Any global tournament with card levels over 9 can be difficult for f2p or even small purchase players to participate competitively in. I really only have my main ladder deck with cards levels at least 10 and im at 4300 trophies. I made it a point to level all of my cards to 9 so that way i can use any deck i want in challenges based on what is currently meta. But this is simply impossible to do when global tournaments vary from level 9-11