Everyone's Reaction: "Wall of text! I will skip over this!"
My Reaction: I know you all will not read this whole thing and instead avoid it or glance through it
That is the problem though Exarch. Melee will still be the biggest influence here. Brawl has no chance to get started. Even if people start playing, you have said yourself that competitive play is a hard sell to begin with. Then we have sync, culvers, vino, exarch, sanchaz and john who all hate on brawl openly. Say only two other people join up with us regularly and they want to do compeitition. They will find that no competitive brawl players exist for miles around save for one. Instead they will see an already established melee community that hates on brawl (plus, we have a lack of set-ups). How long do you think people will stay with brawl before going over to melee and leaving brawl behind? I suppose there could be the chance that there might be people like me who will be willing to play both competitively, but I doubt it. People will commit to either all brawl or all melee if it was there. I would likely do all brawl if the community was here. Staying in Madison though has certainly turned me into a competitive player on all fronts of smash though.
I have given up any hopes of finding other competitive players with brawl. If they are interested, they would have already gotten competitive through wifi. If they were interested in getting offline, they would have worked their way into here like I did. Anyway, back to melee discussion. I know the thought of playing competitive brawl for anymore than an a couple hours gives you all headahces.
I sort of gave up on the Smash Org. The response I was getting from everyone seemed to be best summed up by Vino, "If you do the work to get it started, then I will join up." You all like the idea, but I cannot get much help with getting it going. It feels like a dictatorship when I really have no idea what would be the best way to go about setting this thing up. It will be in the back of my mind for now. I will likely bring back my hype for it come next year.