Yeah, my opinion on all this arguing.
So, to make up for the fact I haven't posted in the past few pages, I'm just going to cover the hot topics of recent arguments. Although I'm a competitive player, I'll try and stay unbiased.
All the Pit Ditto's nonsense- Yeah, what's with the big urge of Pit ditto's lately? LOL. It would be cool to do this, but I hope that no one claims they have the best Pit because they win in most dittos. In melee, I could beat my ranked friend in fox dittos and against his falco half the time with Fox, but I know he's far better than I am overall. So as long as this doesn't become "I am the best Pit because I beat X player(s) in (a) Pit ditto(s)" then I am fine with it.
-Asking- to be a captain?- Why does it matter? I didn't ask to be captain and I was just put there. It's cool with me, so if the clan leaders decide to put so-and-so at whatever rank, they can do it as they please since they made the clan. I'm not trying to back up the "newbie" clan members, it's just their responsibility to organize their own clan. If someone has a problem, don't join lol, it's just a fun online clan, nothing too serious.
Clans vs. Crews- I know that in Melee tournaments, crews were groups (usually within the same region) of people who play together and know eachother and stuff I guess. I'm talking about crews that stay crews outside of tournaments, like DBR (all in Northern California except DSF), I'm not talking about crews that assemble on the spot at tournies to play in a crew battle. Clans- never heard of people doing this in Smash until this flurry of Brawl people jumped in. It may be just a newbie thing, but it's new and I thought it would be something cool to be involved in as a competitive and skilled player. The new guys need support, us veterans should do the good thing and support them.
"Good" casual players- I agree that someone who is a 'casual' player has no chance against someone who is a tournament player. But, I go by the the definition of 'casual' as someone who plays the game for fun and stuff. If someone does NOT go to tournies, but still plays no items and knows l-cancelling, wavedashing, and implements whatever version of 'mindgames' they have, then they are a 'competitive' player who just doesn't go to tournaments. Obviously a 'tournament' player is self explanatory. So with these definitions, a casual player would lose to a competitive or tournament player, but a competitive player may have a chance against low level tournament players.
So anyways, I lets just all respect each other in here. I know that there's a billion new members who joined between january and february of 2008 becuase of Brawl. At the moment, they may be considered "newbie" by us who have been around for a while with tournament experience and a LOT more posts lol (though post count does not equal skill), but we should still be nice to them and in return they should respect us as veteran players.
Done ranting, thanks for reading.