The problem isn't that someone thought the "anything" would exclude troop payment. It was that someone didn't pay attention to the sentence at all. So anything we add to it would've been ignored just the same.
So the Devs and players that posted here all ignored the sentence, even having read it before? Or could it be perhaps a common mistake to which many people are subject to? I mean, people are entitled not to be paying attention to everything, and unless you want to punish that, why not putting a small little warning?
Yes, we could calculate the time until tournament and pop up a warning. The most user-friendly solution would be to do that and show a direct link to troop payment if and only if the tournament duration + current unpaid days is above the limit for troops getting tricky.
It would be indeed the most user-friendly. What I was suggesting was something simpler to avoid you too much work (just slightly changing the text, or always giving you the option to pay your troops before joining it).
