*uses office computer at apartment complex*
I don't think you get what I'm saying... I don't think I can really break down what I said anymore. If anything, I think you're heavily underplaying the SBR's authority in the Smash community. It's almost like you're saying the SBR does what it does for fun and people just listen to them because they are sheep... I know that not everyone can be in the Super Happy Fun Time Smash Bros Club but please, please, PLEASE don't assume that people just willfully listen to the SBR because, like in a similar fashion to what Thomas Hobbes once said, we need authority to tell us what to do/think about certain things because we're so incompetent without it.
You're too much clenching on your construct of the SBR being an authority. I more see it as a symbiosis in between the SBR and the community.
The community hosts tournaments where top players go to. We see the results.
The SBR takes these results, analyses them and creates recommended rulesets/tier lists/what have you based on that data and shows its result to the community.
That's basically how it works.
We think that X is good for creating a competitive ruleset, so we recommend you using it. You don't have to, if you don't want to use this rule, though.
We think that the characters are ranked in how they are in the tier list. You don't have to agree with that, as the tier list has been based on the conclusions of the voters themselves. How they got to these conclusions, I can't tell you (except my personal ones).
We're not asking you to follow our rules, you follow our rules because they're reasonable, right?
If we made a ruleset allowing only 75m, banning Ganondorf and having Bob-Ombs on Very High, would you use that? I reckon you wouldn't.
The current ruleset is the basics, everything else is still evolving.
Who's the Luigi and/or Mario representative in the SBR? Because I don't think Boss is there, so I ponder
I've played the Mario Bros. a lot since the release and believe to be rather decent with them. I also do a lot of research dedicated to Mid and Low Tier, and, as it happens to be, the Mario Bros. are actually now in the center of my interest.
So you've got at least me as someone who knows quite a bit about the majority of Mid and Low Tier (exceptions are those I haven't had time to research yet, which is only a few - and a few I need to refresh my knowledge on, heh).
Furthermore, several of the SBRoomers have played other characters as well, and while there's no actual "representative" for several characters in the SBR, there are people who are able to talk about these characters without them being talking a lot of crap.