Lots of the tournament maps are of the same calibre of gameplay (if not way better) than anything Fh2 has officially released. In addition, some of the maps we enjoy were created by pubbies (like Schism-RTVL).
World at War and Forgotten Honor have long put out material that plays well, looks great and has sufficient 'detail' to provide immersive sensation. Their gameplay does not require tournament participation and the 2 tournaments, apart from bolstering a weak fan base, have also contributed ideas to the mod that prove (without any doubt) that Fh2 still has a long way to go, in terms of the maps, statics and theatres that the entire FH2 fanbase could enjoy.
eg: Fh1 map ports, Italian theatre, French Hope mod, NAVAL WARFARE!!!, static and vehicle ports from FH1 (proof of concept courtesy of RAD), etc.
The biggest argument that is raised is the red herring of "Fh2 quality", what exactly is Fh2 quality when the Dev team has constantly changed members over the years. Was it Lobo or Rad's quality? Was it Natty, Gunnie or Azrael's? Mr. Cheese, Benseras, Ts4, DarkPepe, or Snoox's? I could continue ad nauseam.
The greatest issue to having public submissions accepted would be to actually provide a public overview and a set of expectations so that all potential contributor's could actually participate, which is contradictory to the Fh2 practice of protecting all materials from public release in order to prevent speculation. By not being transparent in their goals and desires, we the fanbase are left to speculate, when we could have mobilized our skillsets to contribute (an example would be to hold public competition for certain items like houses, vegetation or minor environmental objects.)
To all of those who question the development process, we must bear in mind that FH2 doesn't even test full servers and their Beta test group is far too small and over-populated by nepotism. Bear that in mind when we are given limited opinions from a very small group that dominates the conversation by being so-called 'experts'.
Tons of us would love to be testers but one must be invited, so if you don't belong to an elite cadre, you are shit out of luck regardless of the opinions, skills and professionalism that we could actually provide. (for example, I have professional experience as a game tester on 4 released titles with 2 separate studio's yet my past requests to contribute to the team have all fallen on deaf ears.)
Russia was announced years ago, but nothing yet... Finland has been promised, but nothing yet... a French team mobilized, but was shot dead... Pacific theatre is never to be...
How hard would it be to actually ask for help one of these days?