Come on lads, look at the facts with how these tournaments are run.
Yeah, TCG players have to spend a lot of money every season, but they buy their cards from shops or dealers. That money isn't going to TPCI: they're mostly selling cards to the stores. When you buy a box of cards, that money isn't going to TPCI unless you bought it at a tournament (which you're not going to win without your deck ready, stupid).
The tournaments favour the TCG, yes, but that's because TCG needs organised play to survive. Trading card games need people to get together to play them or they will just fizzle out, like many have done. Do you still play Digimon cards? No you don't, because they're just pieces of paper. Nobody plays the game anymore, which is arguably sad.
The video game makes ridiculous amounts of money anyway and you don't need to meet up with other people to play it, so TPCI don't need to worry about keeping it alive. The TCG on the other hand would literally just curl up and die if they didn't keep on top of it, which is why TPCI runs an organised play division in the first place. It's not hard like; I'm proper confuzzled as to how people keep peddling out the old "TCG earns more money" which is quite clearly badger wank.