2.6
I've played some of the earlier versions of P:M back in the wild west days of Brawl hacks, but I wasn't really into Smash anymore at the time. As good as Melee was and still is, I'm pretty much burned out on that game. Even though I'm far from a world-class player (not even good relative to my region, for that matter), playing Melee feels like treading on old ground for the millionth time in a row. I needed something new, but vanilla Brawl offered no respite. And SSB4 is still a long ways off, and of dubious nature until proven otherwise... the sting of Brawl still afflicts me after all this time.
But when P:M 2.6 came around and I decided to try it out in greater depth, I felt something that I hadn't experienced in years: Smash was exciting again. Smash wasn't a dead-end anymore. Smash had a future I could revel in, independent of whatever Sakurai's next attempt at the series will produce.
So yeah, thanks for making this mod, folks. You've brought purpose to the series again.