Half these posts seem childish, disappointing, and like unorganized *****ing. The main thing I picked up aside all these is "lol high players should have the choice, no the TOs should stoopid."
My tourney experience is limited to Melee Play N Trade tourneys and MLG Orlando for friendlies when my friends played Halo 3. However, I play paintball at a national level and there's some similarities like arguments on play formats, scrubs *****ing about how high level play should change, etc. There's also some differences like how players are ranked divisions 5-1 and then pro, which makes some things easier when running tourneys. I'm not going to run on and bore everyone with something they probably aren't familiar with.
Bottomlines are:
when you can only choose MK or Snake to have a decent chance at winning something needs to change. Compared to 8+ characters in Melee.
High level players have the biggest impact on the metagame. They "write the textbooks" for how to play the metagame, their opinions actually matter and more.
TOs play just as important of a piece for obvious reasons and have as much say as the high level players.
Like M2K said voting isn't a great way to get this done. I'd suggest something like implement some divisions already. Back to paintball, for example higher division play to 7 points, lower divisions play to 4 points. One reason being paint is expensive and the higher your division the more things get cheaper through sponsorship and things are more frequently given to you.
Something like
Pro
Amateur
Beginner
could work. Make something where everyone (at least everyone who matters) is happy. For example if the majority of US pro players don't want MK banned, then he's unbanned in pro division. If the TOs want more turnout and newer players having a better time ban MK for amateur and beginner.
I believe implementing divisions can lead to a much more organized community as a whole. From there other things will get better, a smoother transition to pro level, more accuracy when people say things like Melee Shiek is better than Melee Fox at mid level play, and more. Not to mention I'd be much more interested in attending MLG, Apex, Genesis, etc. when I know I can aim for making podium in Amateur instead of "lol make sure I don't get beat too bad by pro players much better than me but keep playing and improving. Try not to let that cash you spend on a plane ticket/gas get to you man."
This would make players of every level happy and give TOs some flexibility with rules.
