Single post in Remove tourney egg lock

That's not quite how it works though, you have to score at least one point in a tournament with that egg as the prize to get the unlock. (Unless that's what you meant by "not participate"?) I'm trying to remember if the current setup has technical reasons as well (ex: keeps people from being able to buy eggs before anyone is supposed to be able to) but there's probably workarounds for that? Anyway I'm leaning towards support - for the majority of tournament types there's not much of an effort difference between scoring a single point and logging in to the site but not participating in the tournament at all. This is even more true now that most egg hatching tournaments can be done without breaking a shiny chain. Which means that as you say this is more a punishment for not logging in at all than for not putting in effort.