It's actually kinda the organizer's fault for not enforcing the rule in the first place. We already know that SMM Revenge Revival is to cater teams that haven't qualify, giving them a "second" chance to qualify. But somehow this year, they are not enforcing the rules and gave qualified players chance to play again, which is totally weird and nonsensical. Seems like the professionalism of some organizers is going down the drain, abusing loopholes in their own rules such as that a lesser individual/team would not have a favourable position to come out on top of a concrete argument, while making more money at the same time.

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On a general note, I actually have no idea why when it comes to DotA, when some tournaments are supposed to "ban" teams/players, they don't enforce the rule(s) professionally and abuse the loopholes of it to give their friends or the more "known" players a chance to play in it even though they aren't suppose to be able to do so. Organizers should be more aware about the importance of their rules and not to bend it every time just because of their "friends", because that totally takes the professionalism out of our e-sports scene. What I meant to say is that, if you want to ban teams/players then stick to it, if you can't stick to it then don't ban anyone in the first place.
What done is done, I guess. I just do hope that organizers and players alike will be much more professional next year - with organizers clearly stating and enforcing their rules, and with players honestly and obediently obeying the rules. There's enough corruption in our country, don't let our e-sports scene suffer from it too.

Who to hell told you that "there is nothing much the organizers can do but to agree with the sponsor wish"?

If SMM had integrity, they will just tell the sponsors to fuc[k] off and they will find some other sponsor. Even if it means having less sponsors and qualifiers overall, at least they can hold their head high up and say that they proud of themselves for keeping their words and also dignity intact. Where are the principles? In a worst case scenario, if theres really no sponsors at all, then they just have to cancel the whole SMM tourney. But obviously as shown by the SMM organizers, this is not on the top of their priority list and all they care about is to make money. And for you to make excuses for them is just pathetic, because shit like this happen when there are people like you who share the same ahbeng/greedy bastar[d]/must always bow to the master type of mindset/mentality/thinking as them. Then suddenly everything and anything seems acceptable and you find that rules are no longer needed to be followed properly and you can break them without any consequences/punishment.

Another thing is, if they know that most of the time they can't keep to what they say, why must they even say that team XXXX is banned? Just for show? Trying to to give players a false belief? Does not SMM know anything about marketing? Just omit it next time in the future, so players won't be conned anymore. Its called simple ethics. Don't you know and SMM know that?

I respect SMM's  mission of wanting to keep the esport dream alive and whatnot in Malaysia, but they should never do it at the expense of people. A seller can never con or lie to a customer/consumer/buyer and this is a golden rule of consumerism. What is there to understand the situation? I am afraid you are the one who is not understanding it.