Im going to first propose this here, with perhaps a stronger message to follow perhaps right after we all get situated with a final build.
I saw someone on page 2 mention that he didn't find t!mmy's evaluations valid, simply because t!mmy lacked B'roomer status.
i'll pretend he was joking. it makes sense that he was joking. god i hope it was just him joking.
because if 10,000 freakin members just sit aside and let MELEE backroomers decide the fate of our community, i'll be shocked. This is the time, if ever, where we could see a shift in power within the community.
NO. im not saying "omfg brawl is a new game and ken and isai sucks and i can beat hugo" (isai don't kill me)
--good smashers will always be good smashers. perhaps the path to perfection in this game will be easier for those of us that have really gotten good in the last 2-3 years, seeing as we don't know if L-cancelling will return, and that's likely what most ppl in that cohort have to worry about more than anything else ( missed L-Cancels are the bane of the average-smashboarder's existence, oh and spacing geez who couldn't use more of that?)
NO im not neccessarily stating that the power within the smash community is held by any particular persons/factions/etc.
only a ******* would state that. This community is divided regionally, locally, etc. Hell I live in georgia and am the best smasher in a 30 mile radius and I get ***** at state tournaments. Florida would sht on my face in this game, and when i started playing, Florida sucked (tipman FTW).
BUT I do feel like there is some sense of power invested in those that are winning tournaments. And while that's great that people have champions to look up to, do you really want the same people who are sweeping tournaments now to be the ONLY people creating tournaments for Brawl?>
anyway i'll be ****ed if this community is NOT shaped by collective action and popular consensus. Chillindude829 and ChuDat and Manacloud won't determine the future of Smash. I guess its as easy as the fact that if you don't like how a tournament will be run, don't go. form your own tourney, convince people to not attend theirs, etc.
We don't need to be celebrity-centric. **** the backroom. yes im bitter! I want to read some intelligent discussion from time to time, and its entirely private? This isn't a free internet, and I respect the fact that the powers that pay are those that can organize their site however they wish, so i wont ***** on that. but the melee general board is svamped with the same crap same crap same crap same crap every **** hour! it'd be nice to know there's a light at the end of the tunnel
but really. this community is going to get *ing huge. We need structure, but I don't believe that we need to just throw ourselves at Melee's Power Ranking Members to guide the way. It's your community. You think Final Smashes should be allowed? Make tournaments. Keep items on, and throw a melee tournament at the same venue to guarantee some attendance. Then you can test items out in Brawl. It's really next summer or never, peeps. Melee gamers are going to want to let go (if they haven't already); hell I'm a nobody -- I just like combo-ing people -- and I've got bigger sht to do in my life right now (university, robotics, film&television), so naturally there will be prominent members of the Smash community who just don't want to keep paddling. Let them go, and move on. Many are used to that already.
Oh and Nealdt fVking rocks. I love your site and don't care if I'm contradicting myself when I state that you need to keep your shtuff goin. I like what you do, my friend. keep at it.
but seriously, people ***** about Manacloud all the time: Make your own Brawl scene. Make him come to your tournaments and buy $40 t-shirts and then ... [this is already turning to flame and I didn't even want to flame this guy. **** Mike you got a way about you, online]
We're going to all have to do some experimenting with Brawl. next summer is going to be something wonderful, though. I imagine tournaments every **** weekend across the nation, different rule-variations for many of them, certain levels banned/not banned, perhaps competitors in a set will get to strike two stages each and we can just leave more levels available for random. OR if there is ONE or TWO SPECIFIC character that is/are just TOO BROKEN for an otherwise neutral stage, BAN said character from being used on that stage! Then learn a secondary character for the level, and get better! Dave's Stupid Rule will likely remain, so say MetaKnight is wicked broken on Yoshi's Story. We ban use of MetaKnight from that level, and you can only play that stage once per set (you can't just dicck your opponent's main for an entire set)
well this is entering the realm of the theoretical so i think i should stop. god I hope someone reads this post