lol, that's funny.
I go to Melee tournaments every week at a local gameshop that will go unnamed. I play as Luigi ad Ice Climbers. No wave-dashing. No l-canceling. No glitches, nothing. Luigi, without wavedashing. Yes, I know, this is astonishing.
I like the majority of stages. Especially fast-moving stages like Big Blue, and Brinstar Depths is another favorite because of its sheer adaptiveness, where if you don't have your bearings straight you are ****ed proper.
We have about seven or so regular people, and occasionally some newcomers.
Our rules are as follows:
No items, ever.
Limited to a few select stages, although nobody ever picks anything other than Final Dest. Hell, most of the time, it's just picked anyways regardless.
Five lives.
Eight minutes.
The main players picked are naturally Fox, Sheik, and Marth, with Samus and Falco treading close behind. Every single one of them wave-dashes, l-cancels, everything. They know every glitch and exploit ever written on these boards, they regularly use "advanced techniques" as such, and for people like ME, who DON'T use these techniques but still have a bit of skill, are completely wiped out. This no longer becomes a tournament of fun and skill, but of exploits. Do you know how absolute ****ing BORING Final D. gets? Or how nothing but Fox and Marth gets, especially with no items or NOTHING thrown into the mix? It's not about skill. There's no mind-games or any fancy terminology. It's about who can glitch over there and shinespark the living **** out of the person. There is no balance in this game. There's a few select broken characters that people use solely because they are broken.
It does directly affect people who are tournament goers but don't abuse exploits. Because those who do completely dominate those who don't. And don't just say "well lol lurn to use 'em", because that's NOT the way it should be. If you should have the option to play as you want, then why don't we get the same right?
I like what Sakurai is doing. Everything from the spawn-with-final to the jokes about wave-dashing. He's focusing the game on fun and crazyness, how it should be. There shouldn't need to be a competitive scene. That's now what Smash is about. It's about the dream fight of seeing every single one of your favorite characters in one game, fighting with or against each other. It's not a technical fighter, and it's nowhere near as deep as you'd like to believe.
tl;dr.