Actually, on that board, I would suspect that opening talisman is paramount to conceding the tournament game to the opponent. The talisman opening will be explosive, but will sacrifice a lot of tempo to get going, and will certainly have a hard time producing $8 any time soon.
Talisman/Caravan is solid, but I don't think Talisman/Tournament is very good.
Ideally, Talisman decks want to buy another talisman with their first talisman.
For example,
Turn 1, Silver
Turn 2, Talisman
Turn 3, Play Talisman gaining 2x talisman
Turn 4, Caravan or Silver
Turn 5, Caravan or Silver
Turn 6, Play triple talisman, gaining four caravans
This is cute and all (and likely devastating, especially if there is a +buy somewhere, or a cheap source of +action/$), but the province deck just bought a turn 6 province, making tournaments a very risky buy.