I'd like to say I'd like to be able to do that - 5 stars on 4 Provs would be AWESOME, sadly I'm not sure it's doable for me - at least not until I've had maybe a month or two of high productivity and "hoarding" of stuff...lols. *sigh* Oh well, I'll just do what I can and if that's not enough ...well, then it's just not enough. /shrug
They key is that you
only do it every 3 weeks, leaving you 2 weeks to save up goods/troops in between.
I always felt that the old tourney system gave way too many relics, so I figured it was smart to capitalize on that before it inevitably got nerfed.
The old system gave ~100 relics for 5x5, and now I think it's ~60. (too lazy to find charts)
It's still worth saving up for though since nothing makes your city more efficient than a production boost that takes up zero space.
For me, now that I have 60+ of each spell, and max boosts I'm finding it just isn't worth it to do much in tournaments, so I'll be taking zero star trades from FS member each week so that we get more FS rewards. I haven't ran any numbers, but I think giving away 20-30K of each tier to early chapter players will get us more points than if I spend it myself.