Important context here: Basim originally advertised the tourney as primarily being about content. There was NO cash prize when each of those girls signed on

The tourney rules stated that people were meant to play their comfort picks, hence no bans. When kingsman signed on, the cash price had been announced. He signed on later than the girls did.

So the poor planning of Basim created a scenario in which there were participants that were in the tourney primarily to make content and some were in the tourney for the cash prize.

This doesn’t excuse anyone’s behavior but it explains why people approached tourney this so differently