I guess it will be roughly the same as last Tournament.
People that want to be in the top10-20 gonna need to work together to achieve this.
Last Tournament my friends grouped up and helped each other.
Means both played two characters each and a third guy provided a farm char and got a part of the rewards.
Only the two guys were heading for Tournament points, the third guy was just helping them in return for some coins!
So about their strategy.
The third guy made a farm character, EK I believe, grinded money and got some levels meanwhile. He also farmed gear and did some easy pickup quests like Black Knight or Orc Fortress Quest. This char was also the one starting directly at server save of the first tournament day.
That day in the evening the other two guys started their farm characters and leveled them up, while the third guy was giving equip and money to them.
Second day the third guy farmed money again for 4 hours. In the evening one of the others started the main character, knight due to best skilling availability, while the second guy was pulling monsters over bombs to level up the main character. They did this until the main character reached a certain level and had some decent skills.
Third day they did the same, just vice versa, first guy was running mobs over bombs, while the second guy was skilling on his main character meanwhile.
Fourth day both main characters were leveled and skilled and they started doing area discoveries. They did this until the time limit was done.
I think one of them was a bit more lucky in the end and had like 15 mins or so in which another discovery wouldn't be successful so he skilled for the remaining time.
Spots they used need to be overseen I believe, since this time some more monster are forbidden, but i guess the strategy will mainly stay the same.
If you think you can be top10 completely on you own I have to admit that it might work on the store server due to potion/rune availability through coins, but on the restricted server that is not possible I believe.
You also gonna lose a lot of time leveling and skilling afterwards, since you can't do it simultaneously, and this time is missing for area discovery later on.