well now that smashboards is back up can talk again ;x
anyway, still not seeing your reasoning to ban norfair, played against fmatt doign several matches with metaknight and i fail to see how the strategy(though I could be doing it wrong, but you said anyone could do it ;x) is so dominating that it warrants the entire stage being banned. this does not seem anything like Peach in melee using her fwdB on Fourside or a fox using the shine infinite on stages with walls. Even in fox's cases, it took several years for many of the stages that he had an advantage to be banned, but it did not seem to stop fox players from winning tournaments regardless ;x. Just because a character does well on a certain, does not mean it warrants a ban. It also doesnt mean it wont get banned in the future. besides, most of the stages have been on anyway since this would be the first tournament for many of us, we have no real idea what truly needs to banned or not yet. Better that we take this opportunity to test everything out.
so in summary, put more stages on
mainly Pokemon Stadium 2 and Norfair though
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also, I was thinking about having a smashfest at my house this friday. Any who would like to come simply message me on AIM, my sn is BuDuhBand. Or post in this thread, whichever works best for you ;x. Ive got 2 TVs of my own(dont know if my roommate is willing to lend his) and 1 Wii(once again dont know if my roomate will lend his, he probably will though)
so yeah, brawl is awesome ;x