Boy the tournament scene has changed in the last five years. The last time I attended a tournament was in the summer of 2002. This one was fun, but I have some personal opinions about it...
Instead of calling it 'Zenith: Smash Of The Titans', you should have called it 'Let's All Use The Same Five Characters and Wavedash To Win'. Its no wonder why MLG took Melee off of their tournament ring. A wise decision on their part.
What bugs me about Melee is that for people like me who have trained with their characters for 4 or 5 years now, we get beaten by high tier characters that wavedash relentlessly. For the people who trained with low tier characters and are really good with them, I commend you. I don't know names since I don't frequent tournaments that much, but there was a very, very good Bowser and Yoshi that I played in friendlies downstairs, and they were the ones I was most impressed by.
Wes, I played you in the Best In New York tourny about 5 years ago in a friendly match. Back then you were Samus. Now you're Link. You're annoying as hell, but I thank you for playing a character like Link almost flawlessly and without wavedashing. A true Smasher indeed.
Who the hell came up with this pool thing? It was confusing as hell. My pool had no idea what to do for about a half hour, and when we finally got into the swing of things we did it *** backwards.
I can't wait for Brawl to be released. I believe that if wavedashing will be incorporated as a legitmate part of the game, or will be erased all together. Brawl will be different, because all the characters will be equal. That will be a wake up call to all the Smashers out there who think because they wavedash, they're tough ****.
See you all online in Brawl in 2007. If anybody has any complaints, you'll be able to find me there when the game is released.