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 Early MTT Play
Disclaimer, This is mearly what has been working extremly well for me in the early part of tourney's (1st and 2 break). Take it with a grain of salt and don't ask me how to play later rounds because i stink like rotten tomatoes 
LIMP
When a tourney starts the blinds are rather insignificant vs your stack, So limp when you can... I generally don't limp rags, but hands like Q9, K8, Suited Connectors, ect. The idea is you increase your chances of landing a good hand a fairly minimal cost, this allows you to build up a stack.
Don't Chase, Don't get sucked in to calling AI's
This is tough ( or was for me) The idea behind it is you are limping a good number of hands and your time will come when you hit a good flop, thats when you make your money, by chasing you just decrease your stack, and can potentialy get sucked in. Now if someone bets the minimum bet or maybe a 2xBB at this stage it can warrent a call (4 to the flush, open ended straight, 2 over cards, ect.) I also don't call AI's that have potential to be a coin flip.
Play your good hands hard
Main reason i do this is because early in tourney's you get the bad players who call anything it seems, If you land a good hand bet it, especially preflop. Now there are always exceptions(read below)
Watch and Adapt
Watch the players on your table, do you have a maniac pot buyer? (slowplay your hand). Have a great read on the guy who folds unless he hits the nuts? (make a sizable bet to steal the pot), Poker can not be about stagnent play (passive, aggressive, Tight, loose, ect.) You have to change your responses (note: NOT your game) To the situations of the table and players.
Thats all for now, I hope that this brings someone good fortune, its definetly working very well for me (now if i can just be patient enough to finish ). Good luck and may all your tourney's be good .
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