lol @ the 'Lucario, DDD and TL are in mid tier' thing.
The whole point is that you can choose if you want them in or not in your tournaments. Why is this a problem? =/
There's a lot of problems. And I can speak from experience on it.
As I said, I'm actually a legit TO despite how trolly I can be.
4/20 I threw a mid/low tier tournament, basically just allowing Yoshi/PT/Ness/Luigi into LT because they were in the tier above low tier and it seemed to make the event more accessable to more people and get more people to enter it.
Bpow, who plays me a lot, accuses me of "cheating" because Ness/Luigi are two of the characters I play basically more than Wolf tbh.
Keeping in mind that MJG is entering, I'm being accused of CHEATING before it starts because of that.
It turns out I win the event, losing 1 game, playing Link and Luigi exclusively.
Salllllllllltttttttttttttttttt, people are mad mad mad mad that I "rigged" it and it's "robs rules" because I made an executive decision to add more characters that I thought would make it more fun. I guess I was wrong.
I MAIN WOLF.
If I run a mid tier tournament, and I'm like "Oh, no, D3 can't be in it, that's lame, I don't want to get CG'd across the stage like in real tournaments" and I'm like "Oh, yes, Wolf can be in it, that's awesome, I can teleport through the stage and no one will know what's going on". That's a pretty bad specific situation that applies to myself and not a lot of other people will experience (not to mention the Nebraska market is the Marlins equivalent in smash so no one cares anyway).
If I didn't main Wolf, I would be fine allowing Wolf/Fox/Pit/GnW, but because that's my character, I'd be a cheater and it would be great.
tldr; bias exists, and even if you aren't trying to be biased, other people will think you are biased because they are biased against you.
You might argue that due to the fact that the rules before the tournament said that those were the rules that people shouldn't complain because they had access to all of the rules 2 months prior to the event, but people don't actually follow black and white emotions like that.
I already have said that I am going to allow ROB/Peach and Luigi/Lucas/PT into my future events and yadadada, problem solved, but I'd just like to point out that giving people options isn't ice cream and lollipops, it's precision thought and ********.