The majority of 2008 people are casuals or semi-casuals that give very little care to the tournament metagame or how the average tournament goer thinks. Trying to explain them the tournament mindset is nearly impossible, and all they really do for this community is create strife amongst the people using this site for its original purpose, improving the tournament community.
Now, back on topic, has anyone noticed that those characters that we thought were bad are ending back up in the Unranked category? Especially Ganon. I still don't see how people think he could crawl out of bottom tier. One 40% combo and tech chasing don't mean crap if you can never land the first hit, after all.
But some of us are semi-casuals because of lack of tournaments, I'm too young (15) to travel to the likes of england where theres the odd tournament, (I'm from Belfast, northern Ireland) and theres no tournaments near me at all so i have a group of freinds and out of them I'm considered the best by them, not me
but I still want to improve.
Also on your point, some of us do respect the tournament players opinions, heck I agree with tiers simply because they exist in all games that aren't balanced to perfection. I also understand the tournament aspect and would like to help but have very limited experiance
Yes the majoraty of 2008 joiners don't give a toss about tournament scene but some do so please don't label us all as "n00bz" or whatever (not saying you did or anything) because a few wish we were above semi casual level.
On topic: I agree completly with the ganon statement he should be in the bottom teir or at the very, VERY highest, near the bottom of low teir.