Just to clear this up, you ARE allowed to play in both parts of the tournaments however, only if you are the only advanced player on the roster within the novice team be that leader or member it does not matter.
Playing in the novice part as a novice player confirms you are a novice player. If you play/played in the advanced part, thus making you 'an advanced player' you are ineligible to play within the novice part of the tournament, if that current team already has an advanced player.
This is all within the rules, (not with this much detail I agree) but it is there. If you wish to contest this you can do so in detail via steam. I have already pointed it out to Hursty via steam the reasons and problems with this.
- All the players Tallie mentioned have played in the novice league thus making them ineligible to play in the advanced.