If you don't feel like reading the link above, what the author is basically saying is that if a tournament structure is so badly designed that it sometimes incentivizes losing on purpose, then that's the fault of the organizers. The players are just playing to win within the rules given to them and shouldn't be blamed.

"The players are just playing to win within the rules given to them and shouldn't be blamed."

Indeed. It seems kind of stupid to penalize them now instead of refining the rules afterwards as they didn't particularly break a hard rule.

What should be the correct way to go about this?