Kal
Smash Champion
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Many tournament hosts who were members of the Melee community seem content on running their post-Brawl tournaments as Brawl-Melee tournaments, with the same fee for each event. This seems to be more trouble than it's worth.
Instead, it seems that tournaments should be dedicated to either game, but not both. In other words, we should host Melee-only tournaments or Brawl-only tournaments. Several big name Texas Melee players do not enter Brawl tournaments, and the same holds for big name Texas Brawl players entering Melee tournaments. As such, it seems that, though there is potential for an increase in turnout to host a tournament with both games, the trouble of hosting both games exceeds the reward of having additional players. There exist too many Brawl-only and Melee-only players for venues to run tournaments for both games. Instead of inviting one community to play two games, the Brawl-Melee tournaments invite two communities to play two games.
Similarly, hosting them together enforces the notion that Brawl is the "sequel" to Melee. This discourages people unfamiliar with the smash series from entering the Melee events, as the common conclusion newbies are lead to when they see both games is that Brawl is an upgrade, when in fact it is an entirely different game with a very different meta-game. Because of this, they think "why enter the worse game?" when they should be thinking of Brawl and Melee as different games, and not necessarily of Brawl as an improvement over Melee.
Tournaments are significantly harder to run when there are two games to keep up with. It's hard enough just to run both singles and doubles for one game, let alone two games. It makes sense for people to stop trying to integrate the two communities, and instead let each of them host their own tournaments.
Instead, it seems that tournaments should be dedicated to either game, but not both. In other words, we should host Melee-only tournaments or Brawl-only tournaments. Several big name Texas Melee players do not enter Brawl tournaments, and the same holds for big name Texas Brawl players entering Melee tournaments. As such, it seems that, though there is potential for an increase in turnout to host a tournament with both games, the trouble of hosting both games exceeds the reward of having additional players. There exist too many Brawl-only and Melee-only players for venues to run tournaments for both games. Instead of inviting one community to play two games, the Brawl-Melee tournaments invite two communities to play two games.
Similarly, hosting them together enforces the notion that Brawl is the "sequel" to Melee. This discourages people unfamiliar with the smash series from entering the Melee events, as the common conclusion newbies are lead to when they see both games is that Brawl is an upgrade, when in fact it is an entirely different game with a very different meta-game. Because of this, they think "why enter the worse game?" when they should be thinking of Brawl and Melee as different games, and not necessarily of Brawl as an improvement over Melee.
Tournaments are significantly harder to run when there are two games to keep up with. It's hard enough just to run both singles and doubles for one game, let alone two games. It makes sense for people to stop trying to integrate the two communities, and instead let each of them host their own tournaments.
