It seems like I've missed a lot in my absence. I just read about twenty pages of discussion and I think I'm pretty much all caught up now. There's too much here that I want to comment on to even consider quoting, and besides the posts are days or even weeks old now, so I'll just say what I've got to say.
So SC Brawl is nonexistent now huh? That sucks. I know a lot of you say that Brawl sucks, but I still like it. Before Brawl I had never played Smash, so unfortunately I don't have the same point of view that you all do. All I know is that after my first week of playing Brawl all I wanted to do was find some people to play it with. Preferably so people who are better than me who can help me improve my game. It wasn't long after that that I discovered Smashboards and started reading and learning all that I could so that I could one day go to a tourney and at the very least not get 3 stocked by everyone there.
Now I come to find that I'm in the only state in the country that doesn't have a Brawl scene to speak of. That just makes me sad. I'll keep hoping though that something changes and that someway, somehow I'll finally get to play against another person that isn't connected to me via wifi.
And one last thing, though my opinion on the matter probably doesn't carry any weight, as someone who doesn't play MK I don't think he should be banned. He is beatable and I don't think anyone can really call himself pro unless he can go head to head with every character on the roster.
Edit: P.S. You guys make me feel old.