After the happenings that occurred at the Arena, Cloud and the other experts decided to suspend the tournament.
For every team and duo that fought hard to get into the top 16 Cloud made sure to give all of them a crystal card that they can use to exchange for a 4th ranked Soul Creature to their taste.
As for who will get the card inside the team that is totally up to them. Even this solution was the best that he could do because even like this, the Soul Association wasn't very happy with the fact that they needed to give out more than 25 Crystal Cards to total strangers just because of a small incident.
If something like this will happen a few more times in the future they could go bankrupt very easily and that's why they gave a warning to Cloud. It stated that if something like this would somehow happen ever again, they won't help him out no matter how hard he tried to beg.
