I agree with the idea of having 2 "divisions", one with ancient tech and the other without.
I can understand that to the lower levels it might seem unfair/unbalanced to go against ancient tech that they can't get yet. I understand that players have worked hard to get all their rares to do events and tournaments like this, however players have also worked hard to get ancient tech for those systems and that ancient tech is not readily available for them to get whenever they decide to look for them. In addition to this, ancient tech also costs more to put on, so it would be a downgrade in tech as well as a loss of cryo for any player using ancient tech, making them in some cases less likely to want to participate in a tournament where they can't use their ancient tech.
This would raise the question of: What is the point of having ancient tech if it isn't going to be allowed in pvp events like this? Most players put on ancient tech to have a new/different/more fun experience in pvp, so why take that from them?
The only solution that would satisfy both sides of this is to have ancient tech vs ancient tech and rare tech vs rare tech in the tournament, and have a winning team from both sides/divisions OR to give players 100% cryo refund for their ancient tech so they can downgrade to gold at least without losing cryo.
(another option that i thought of was giving players a full refund on ancient tech and then giving them temporary golds to replace them until the tournament ends or until they lose. Thoughts on that?)