Yea, honestly, how come there is never a small melee side event at these tournaments? There's SF n all kinds of other stuff but no melee? There is always a nice amount of interest, why not make it happen?
Its mainly because of TV usage and what the TOs had interest in.
MVC3, SSF4AE, and MK9 only use up 2 tvs and 1 table. Those tvs are also HDTVs which can't be used for Brawl.
Melee needs the tvs we use, and I'd like any tube tv to be brought to the tourney to be used for Brawl. I like when people have tvs to play Brawl friendlies on and when Brawl singles starts every tv will be needed for a couple hours for singles matches. I've thought of including Melee multiple times for a KTAR but the interest quickly dies out for me.
Marvel and SSF4AE were suggested the hosts Heavy Garbage and DM, which I was originally against, but DM said he'd run it by himself so I let it happen. MK9 was also suggested by HG and Vex wanted it so I allowed it since it uses the same tvs and systems the other 2 games use.
I could have done Melee, but with all the side events and main events already here it might be a bit much. And I wouldn't want to have to run it at all since I already have so much to do here.
Basically it is possible, but I'm not trying to overwork myself to run another 2 events.