Tomorrow or about 14 hours from now round 3 of the tournament will start and I expect that during your 3rd or maybe 4th round the upgrade will come. I have heard that if your scouting complete on ring 10 or greater you will need Orcs to complete a province and get stalled. ( please someone confirm this or not).
Update: I was behind a day and for some stupid reason I thought we had 24 hours... OOPS, Now orcs are required to negotiate
Having just fought my 8th tournament to 2 stars and counting my losses, I then went to a silk province scouted on ring 10 and fought the first 1 of 8 and for far less then 1/2 the losses in my last tournament. I received 1 relic and a KP for one fight versus 2 relics and 2 KPs for one fight.
So all beware that It might be better to cater/fight for a province then loose alot in the next round. You must do your own math and judge if you should finish as many provinces above ring 9 as possible. Each of us has a different situation, so I can not say what to do one way or the other, but do feel we all should be aware of what will happen in the next 24 hours and make strategic decisions.