qft pride
the tornado isnt unbeatable, its actually far from it. all you have to do is shield it, and if ur shield isnt big enough, just angle it and even a very small shield will block the whole thing.
so xzax found a weakness in kadiev and exploited it.... soooooo?
are you saying that in order to advance the tourney scene and keep it going we have to play to lose? fawk that, everyone does what they have to do to win. did i like it when kadiev counterpicked me in the first match disregarding the double blind (which there alone is a real jerk thing to do) with DDD and did nothing but chain grab me to edgeguard? well, besides the fact that i was pissed about the counterpick on first match, i wasn't angry at the way he played in the match. i was more angry at myself for not finding a way around all of it.
no matter how gay any match is, no matter how many matches of the set are ran till the end of the timer, as long as the opponent isnt being a **** trash talking me throughout it, i still give em a pound and say good game. even when i played inui lol.
but yea, to say that brawls scene is diminishing, you should take a good look at it. you cant base things off of this one tourney which was very poorly advertised to look at the scene as a whole. critical hit tournies are bringing in 100+ people now with people from the west coast and outside the country. thats simply something that won't happen again to melee, unless the community drastically changes.