In other words, the point of the IR is not to ban infiltrators. There will be infiltrators in any case, and the gold distribution will be unequal in any case, so taken together giving gold to infiltrators is fine.
The point of the IR, however, is to make tournaments separate from the hierarchical structure of the main game, so that characters and especially newbies can have a place to interact with other characters. Offering incentives to avoid that goes against the spirit of the IR.