Outside Assistance and Planeswalker Points
During my last PPTQ I had to issue a Match Loss for Outside Assistance to a spectator. Then, I did what we're supposed to do in cases like this - I added the player to the tournament, issued him the penalty, and then removed him from the tournament.
In the next day, that person gloated on social media that he was able to get a number of Planeswalker Points from a tournament he didn't even play, which got him closer to the threshold needed to qualify for the WMCQ, and (ironically, I think) “thanking” the players from that specific match, the judge, and the TO for that. The player is free to say whatever he wants in public, but that made me realize that it's unfortunate that a player is able to benefit from their infractions in cases like this. Is the player actually supposed to get his Planeswalker Points in cases like this? And what can be done to tell the player community that it's absolutely not OK to go to tournaments as spectators and start committing infractions if they find themselves short on Planeswalker Points?