The relics will even out if you do EVERY tournament. But you can no longer focus on a tournament to get the relics that you really need.
Yes, and i think that this might end very bad for most advanced cities (especialy with lots of wonder levels & expansions), since they will not be able to focus on a 2-3 tournaments for the relics and sacrifice the rest due to increasing costs and decreasing ability to train enough units if they craft a single spell (f.e. MM).
With the new distribution of relics they need to spread their resources (expiring buildings) and it is now only a matter of time until they reach the point where they will not be able to craft a single spell 24/7 without lowering their relics. The only thing protecting them is their huge stocks of those relics (in my case 10k+), so we might only hope that the Spire/Tournament SS will be changed before we get too low on those relics (my tournament score is already lowering).
And btw, some time ago (few months) i recorded a top 50 tourney players with a information of their chapter (max. ch17 then):
30 from ch17, 4 from ch16, 5 from ch15, 1 from ch 14, 4 from ch13, 2 from ch10, 1 from ch9, 2 from ch8, 1 from ch4, average chapter: 15.28.
Last tourney it was:
17 from ch18, 6 from ch17, 6 from ch16, 6 from ch15, 4 from ch14, 4 from ch13, 1 from ch11, 5 from ch8, 1 from ch4, average chapter: 15.14.
I know that this is a small sample for statistics, but the last tourney had an lower average chapter in tournament top 50 then tourney few months ago, despite players at the end of tech tree moving to a new chapter...
If this already catches the trend, then it is only a matter of time until end game players fall out of top tournament positions (and later loses the ability to maintain relic count to maintain a single spell creation).