I've heard plenty of horror stories about pro smashers being dicks in some way to casual players, even at charity events, but hey, ancedotal evidence. My own brother is somewhat of a pro smasher and if I play him he can be a huge dick to me about it sometimes.

But enough shit flinging.

Naw it's not that they can't be dicks - I mean it really bases down to the stereotypes of the Psychopathic All-Items Fun Stages Player vs the Chainthrowing Statistical Breakdown of Attacks Sneering Tournament Entry.

It's just that accusing tournaments of being, well,
...like that is unfair.

I know!

Peach is where the fappin's at. Everyone knows that.

Ok, maybe that was a bit harsh, but the majority of tournaments I've been in have been full of those in the later rounds. If you guys have managed to find places to play tourneys that are free of that, then all the better.

EVO's Melee last year was, as far as I know, one of the most well-organised and respectful tournaments in the fighting fanbase (as opposed to, say, Guilty Gear, which was such a mess of late arrivals and trash-talking that it caused the hosts of the event to ban the game from this year's iteration). On the whole, Melee's professional players have a reputation of being very well-behaved.

Check it out SRK discovered that there's a probably unintentional system of controller priority in this game. The only thing it really effects right now though is Bowsercides.

Also, transformations. If four players (all using Sheik or Pokémon Trainer) start the transformation at the same time it will load from number one to four, giving a disadvantage to the players in the latter ports.

Dang Nintendo and their non-patching half finished game. Too much of this feels like Nintendo just decided to completely skip Beta testing. Not that thats going to make me stop playing, though.

If they had skipped Beta testing, we would have had L-cancelling.

E for All and that one other Brawl event WAS the beta test.

Exactly.


Actually Brawl related, tournament people are currently being idiots. Eventually it will calm down and they will just play the game though.