Just curious because I can’t remember but do your brawl matches have time limits, if they don’t then there is your problem right there, every single match you do, fighting or fps, doesn’t matter should be timed, especially in this case where you are “running out of time”.
About Brawl, one side is saying it isn’t competitive enough (the same side that says, the LAN isn’t about being competitive (winning prizes), but about having fun?). Both sides seem to think that there is only a small percentage of the gaming club community who actually play either game. Look at the fights between CounterStrike 1.6 and CounterStrike:Source, believe it or not this is the same circumstance, you have to learn to live with both, if Melee is good enough to have a follow crowd then it should be considered, if Brawl beats it out because of popularity then so be it, sure we are sad to see it go, but the community has spoken, this is not about personal opinion.