The problem with tournaments

Something I've noticed while playing this game is how tournaments seem unfair. The tournament I'm in as I'm writing this as example. I'm at about stage 30,000 and in 9th place, 1st place is at stage 96,000. Obviously, it's impossible for anyone else in the tournament to get 1st, even 2nd place is 6,000 stages behind. I feel like there's a way to fix this (such as better scaling for players in tournaments) to make it more fair. Ultimately, this doesn't ruin the game, it's just annoying.