With that same money you would spend traveling to a tourney, you could spend it on getting a venue and hosting a tournament. Even if it's once every six months, you'd be doing a huge part towards working to a solution on things.
Aside from the fact that my community is dead. (see: Attendance: 30 to Attendance: 3 in Brawl tournaments in 1 year.)
My community also sucks. I would be ASHAMED to have to represent them at any level, and would end up representing myself and only myself so as to not risk being kicked out of the URC for saying nothing of use.(assuming I got in, ofc)
The entire ruleset is viewable to the public:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=12492158
How to fix the ruleset:
1. Go find flaws with it.
2a. Host tournament fixing flaw in ruleset
2b. If not 2a, Convince local TO to fix flaw in ruleset
2ci. If not 2b, Make a thread on why the flaw should be fixed.
2cii. Use thread to rally other TO's to your cause, getting them to change their ruleset
3. Get significant number of players to attend tournaments hosted by TOs with amended ruleset
4. You have now changed the ruleset for the better
If people won't host your rule or people won't attend your tournament, then your rule is probably detrimental to the community. It's nothing personal and may or may not mean you're wrong. It just means that the rule doesn't serve the community and is therefore bad in the eyes of the community.
So basically, starting from something close to the biggest possible psychological(and phsyical) disadvantage ever,(psych being that I'm going against the status quo, hard. Physical being my region) don't get unlucky, and convince people to follow you.
In case you haven't noticed, I've been trying. The problem? Aside from the fact that my threads are barely noticed, nobody seems to be able to understand what I'm saying. I get very few logical refutes and a lot of 'why is this what you say?' when it's basic knowledge to me why it is what I say.
Note that there are some rule changes(see: my only current thread) people might just leave out because 'it wouldn't affect anything'. If this happens, am I just screwed while you basically say "eh, can't do anything guy"?
I live in the Midwest. At this time last year, my local scene was pretty dead. I had to make a choice. If I don't make my own luck and host my own tournaments and recruit people outside of my normal social network, I have to drive 3.5 to 4 hours for the next closest local tournament. I got a job specifically to do both. I can now host local tournies AND travel. All while at one point maintaining 2 jobs, an internship, going to KU, Smash Lab, URC, and a relationship.
I could host tournaments. It would require me getting a job and some other things, but I could likely do it.
And I would, if I felt my community would be worth representing.
3 People are not worth representing.
Going to other tournaments is also doable, aside from me missing 1 day of school per tournament I go to.
I would need a job, and being 16 and living where I do that could be difficult, but it's possible. However, my inability to host a tournament is out of my hands.
If you really want to change things, stop arguing rules on the internet with "the community". Go make your own local smash community and play with them. You'd serve "the community" better by helping it grow. Go out and do something about it and actively work towards the solution instead of saying you aren't being heard. You absolutely can be your own voice, but I can confidently say without even knowing your situation that you are choosing not to exercise that power.
I wasn't saying I'm not being heard, actually. See, your post confused me a good amount, mostly because we got way off track.
My main complaint was that you guys aren't telling us anything. EVERYTHING goes on behind closed doors and we don't hear see or know anything except the very infrequent and usually conclusionless information you give us. This makes no sense.
I don't know what you are trying to say here.
If I talk to my local TO it doesn't fix the problem as I still have no idea what goes on or even what is being said by my own TO and if I have any influence on that.
(And reading your posts again...is what your telling me 'don't ask?' You seem to just want to give ways around it instead of addressing the actual problem. I proabably should've called strawman somewhere in here a long time ago.)
What? If the stage is already legal why do we need a gentleman's rule?
I think they mean if it isn't legal for the given tournament.
@Gentlemans Clause: Inherently bad for competition.(Am I assuming too much in that people can understand why this statement is logically true?)
Unless there is an extremely large reason it should be put in over the above, no reason at all to consider it.