Well I will definitely be trying to get some Octopods of Ash off the ground - probably ice elementalists, wizards.
In general at tourneys, I alternate playing throw-away characters for banner collection, serious dudes I have won before to actually try and win, and serious dudes I can't believe I haven't won yet.
I am not good at Crawl, so actually trying to win means playing MiGl of Okie, DEFE of Veh and SpEn of Ash/Dith/Mak.
I will be looking at
my scoreboard (which is taking ages to open right now, the server must be struggling) for the third category - looking at the most shameful glaring holes in my pitiful Crawl CV: my best beserker died at level 23 with I can't remember, maybe 2 runes, I have never won an ice elementalist (I have killed one in extended though), never got a Centaur past level 10, or a DDwarf past 16 (holy crap, look at that, my best EarthE didn't get past level 18, seriously, that's awful).
So there you go, my desire to play always goes up a lot during the tourneys, and I will use that desire to attempt to bank a win for the team, to improve my pitiful DDEE record, to play lots of Octopodes of Ash (ha, I seem to have killed an L27 octopus at somepoint, yay me), and to dive random stuff to the D14 or lair, hoping for speed demon, etc.
Edit: haha, I will be doing my best to avoid extended, 3 runes only for me, I have lost the following at L27: DSFE, DSIE, HECj, OpWz. Horrible.
Edit Edit: Octopode of Ash pro tip: Wizards start off wearing a hat.