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Para wrote:

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meh @ rules. I mean yeah they're good but even the Sakurai said he tried to make Brawl a non competitive game lol

Can people stop bringing this argument up with regards to tournament rules? How a developer envisions the game is supposed to be played is generally not how it actually works out in competitive play (key words being "competitive play"). Sakurai's opinion is even less relevant for competitive play because, based on that statement, he never bothered to think about how competitive players would want to play the game.

On the first point, the history of competitive play is littered with examples of players playing the game in ways the developers never envisioned. Here's a list of things off the top of my head that are huge parts of competitive play for specific games that developers didn't think would happen:

X-Men vs Street Fighter: infinites

Capcom vs SNK 2: roll cancelling to gain invincibility frames on special moves

Guilty Gear X2: Sol dust loop, Slayer bite infinite

Super Smash Bros. Melee: Sheik chain throw

Street Fighter Alpha 3: crouch cancel infinites

All of these tactics were removed in revisions or follow ups, so it is safe to assume that these all fell out of the bounds of what the developers thought should be in the game. However, during the tournament life of these games, all of them were used by players, in direct defiance of how the developers of the game wanted the game to be played. My point being, it is the competitors who determing the rules for the tournament, and how the game is ultimately played in tournaments, not the developers.