If you spent money for a tournament and literally less than a month before, your character was changed, your hardest MU was changed, your most hated character got buffed, some day 1 characters got nerfed, and 12 more variations are out.
It'd be lame if you spent all this money to set up your tournament attendance as a Tremor Loyalist and you get mopped by Up Rockets & 40+% Cyrax 50/50s. I'm sure no one will have proper MU experience by the time FR shows up.
The patch will he 2 weeks old then. The Devils advocate of this would be...
You knew KP2 would be out by this time. You knew the risks. Accept the caveat. Problem with that is... the TOs did have a choice here.