Ephraim, I shouldnt have to do this, but I am going to anyway because I know a few people are still upset.
Before you start name calling and making accusations, at least hear both sides of the story. Unlike your friends who can only ‘claim’ things, I can provide hard evidence. Here is a picture I took of the brackets.
As you can see, only two names were switched. The person whom I think you are referring to that was excessively mad about this actually came up to me during the LAN very angry about how rigged the brackets were. He ended up all the way in the semi-finals (#8 Dekoa). Did he leave out that part when talking to you?
Also, you use the description of “cheap obsessives who only come to play one game, abuse every glitch, ect…” in a negative manner. Do you not do that in any game? In football, don’t they spike the ball to waste time off the clock? In basketball, don’t they intentionally foul during the last seconds in order to force a change of possession? In a serious CS match, wont you lose advantage if you don’t always have at least 1 AWPer on your team? Lets face it – to be competitive in a game, you HAVE to be cheap and abuse everything you can. If you don’t, you will fall behind to others who do. If the game is so broken that it is impossible to beat a certain strategy, then don’t play it; as it stands, though, Smashbros and every other game at our LAN is able to handle that kind of gameplay and still be competitively fair.
The thing is that with fighting games, it is much more noticeable when someone pushes the game to the limit (Leg-sweep in mortal kombat, anyone? Strong-low in street fighter? Wavedashing in smashbros?) because there is nothing else to focus on other than the players themselves. All eyes are on your character alone, so if you do 20 of the same attacks in a row it is easy to see and is incredibly frustrating to the other player.
You also say this, “Bottom Line: If you play for any reason other than fun, you deserve to be kicked in the head.”
My response is that, no, I am not playing “just for fun” at a LAN. I am playing to take the #1 spot and will do everything legally in my power to win. Now, catch me outside the LAN or in a friendly match after/before the tournament and you will get a different, more friendly philosophy. But, when the lights go off and the real matches begin, it’s all business.
A well ran tourney on a balanced game will have the best players finish the highest consistently, and I feel that the top three players did take 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at this LAN. A little known fact at this LAN is that Angel (the winner) was from App. I had never seen the guy before in my life, and therefor had no idea he was ballin before the brackets were made. It just turned out that he beasted through and made it to the finals.
And finally, even though wavedashing is indeed out of Brawl, there are still many many advanced techniques that have already been discovered. You can find the ever-growing list of them here http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=142139