I think the no-parrying projectile is like Mk's low air speed; it can get covered up by his specials easily, so it becomes a techinical weakness, but not a practical one.
It is a genuine weakness, even if he seems to make up for it.. Most people I talk to don't even
know about this, let alone have thought about ways to use it to their advantage. (Most people don't bother hitting projectiles to destroy them, even though this changes the way I play a lot of fights. *shrug*)
I wonder about this community sometimes. Why are we giving people free wins?
We're not. The game design is. Seriously, blame Sakurai, he did a bad job. It's incredibly difficult and arbitrary for the SBR to say "No grabbing more than three times in a row!".... why
three, why not seven? Why some infinites, not others? Why allow grabs at all? Even if this weren't miserably arbitrary, it's extremely difficult for TO's to monitor this effectively. It's just a dumb part of the game.
Bum wins tournies, but beaten by two MKs at the last tournamnet
Azen wins tournies, but goes MK in the end
(...)
But if they're winning
any tournies, it means (presumably) that they're able to defeat a bunch of MK's in each (given how popular he supposedly is). So I have trouble concluding that MK is really ruining the tournament scene to the point that's been suggested.
But my mind could be changed. I'll come back later with more specific questions about OS' ban criteria.