its more of a thing of give the TO the power and people will stop doing it cuz they dont want to take a chance.
also i think theres some confusion of what i was saying. I'm saying the TO should only have the power to say, "Ur planking, game over, other dude wins." and if no ones planking then the game continues.
Then it comes down to what one person decides is planking. Or what is "too much" planking.
I have a local TO who hosts events. Doesn't play much regular Brawl anymore. He's not up to date with the current metagame or planking or scrooging, etc. How is he going to be able to make a fair judgment call about something he may not fully understand? I mean, there are even probably reputable TO's of National events who have a preconceived notion of what planking/too much planking is, especially if it's represented by inaccuracies or gaps in knowledge.
The other main problem with leaving it all up to the TO is that people want to know ahead of time what the rules are, in a concrete manner. People want to know "Ok 3 stock 8 minutes, Dedede Infinites Illegal, these stages legal, etc". People do not want "Come on down to the venue and the TO will decide on the spot what to do." Even if the TO decides to use the same exact rules he would have pre announced, people want to know up front what is acceptable and what is not. When it comes to Planking, I think we should tell people up front what to expect.
Will there be a LGL? If so, what number? Is this for the entire cast or MK only? Any difference for teams? If you address all of that beforehand, people can go "Oh hey, this is what I can expect. Alright." Instead, if you just say "TO discretion shall be used in situations deemed appropriate", that doesn't really tell someone what is acceptable or not. If I can get DQ'd on a whim by the TO, and Im not informed of what his criteria is beforehand, what confidence am I supposed to have that whatever decisions made are fair or that his criteria is sensible? Nobody wants to go into a match unsure of whether they can lose a match for grabbing the edge 20 times or still win after grabbing it 60 times, or whether characters outside MK are to be judged, etc
Past that, you could have problems enforcing TO discretion early on with multiple matches going on at the same time.