eggm - lol at comparing spoc FIVE to montage TWO. of course SPOC would have a bigger attendance, it's ran by a established member of the community, and it's the 5th one of the series. SPOCs 1-4 were all awesome and progressively got better and better. Montage had one small tournament (if im not mistaken, before brawl was even out) to prove their current tourney. The fact that Montage 2 had only one less person that SPOC V is crazy, and Montage 3 tomorrow should prove to be great. This is also without mentioning SPOC having better venues, and location.
a giant melee tourney can def be ran in 2 days, as seen with pound 3, and i doubt tality 4 will be that big. if it is, good ****. You said it yourself, we need more brawl tourneys in the area. whats wrong with having a national size melee tourney and a regional size brawl tourny in the same weekend. with only two events (singles doubles) in brawl versus all the possibility of melee events (such as regional crews), and the fact that brawl will have a smaller attendance, it can definitely be ran in one day.
im cool with a 3 day meleextravagansa, but i sorta liked the original idea with a 3 day all smash extreme blow out