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I've always been curious about something; many other games that have competitive aspects (Starcraft, Magic the Gathering, Halo 2), rely on a variant of some kind of the Elo ranking system, a system designed to calculate relative skill between people in a 2 player game.
Smash has always been highly competitive, so I'm just curious why either this or some variant of this ranking has never been implemented in competitive play. For the people who were with MLG when they sponsored melee, tell me, did they have any type of formal ranking system like this? I think if so many other games and areas can manage to use this effectively, then why not smash, especially with such a huge fanbase behind it.
Smash has always been highly competitive, so I'm just curious why either this or some variant of this ranking has never been implemented in competitive play. For the people who were with MLG when they sponsored melee, tell me, did they have any type of formal ranking system like this? I think if so many other games and areas can manage to use this effectively, then why not smash, especially with such a huge fanbase behind it.