We actually need more people playing Snake, but I feel that Bowser is just easier to pick up and play at, like, all levels of play (similar to Zelda?). Just like 2.1 Ike, you're going to see more early results favoring Bowser until the metagame has had time to flesh itself out. I remember when 2.1 just came out, Ike and Bowser were destroying everyone and spacees were nearly nowhere to be found (Lucario also wasn't deemed broken by anyone other than a few, like me and Vwins
). Once the metagame had a bit of time to develop, one started seeing the spacees in the top 3 of nearly every tournament, lolz!
Edit: Likewise, almost NOBODY was using Zard, so it looked like he was a Low Tier char, despite all my rantings that Zard possessed all the traits to be a better char than that (better than Wario and G&W, at least). Then Metroid started playing him after he had enough of winning with Ike (lolz) and we started seeing more Zard in top placements, hopefully proving my points (hopefully.....).