https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/4dhlag/the_spanish_smash_community_is_considering/
Bayonetta has been banned from Smash 4 tournaments in Spain.
UPDATE: Apparently it isn't official yet but it seems like it is going in this direction.
Thoughts? I'm completely fine with a ban until she gets inevitably nerfed. We probably won't be seeing a ban in the UK or the states anytime soon though, nor am I expecting or promoting one. She is definitely beatable, she isn't broken by any means but I see the problem being elsewhere.
Its no secret at this point she makes the game incredibly unfun, as a competitor I try my best to get around her but that doesn't nullify the fact she is extremely unbalanced with a risk/reward ratio that is completely out of whack, forcing her opponent to play extremely campy which is boring for players and viewers alike. If she actually had some kind of obvious weakness other top tiers have e.g Shiek has bad kill power, Cloud has a bad recovery, Rosa is mediocre without Luma, then there wouldn't be a problem and I'd just have to 'git gud'.
At the same time its only been two months, and players of Melee and Brawl are used to dealing with characters like Bayo. On top of this she has yet to get high rankings at nationals, which makes the ban rather controversial. Despite this, I still think its more beneficial to the game as a whole to temporarily ban her, seeing its very obvious that she is not fun to fight or watch for the majority of people, and for the scene to grow the game needs to be 'fun', that's what it is intended to be after all, if its not fun people are more likely to quit or just pick Bayo themselves, which is bad for the scene.
Its only really more of a problem at Spanish locals, but I still think that locals in smaller communities are important, as its where new players begin and they're an opportunity to make the scene bigger as a whole. If people of the community get turned off the game by Bayo at square 1... it won't look so good for the future.