Let's look at this objectively: Often Fox and Falco are not the only characters capable of abusing the stage in the manner offered as the reason for the ban. Using my personal favorite banned stage, Hyrule Temple, as an example, the reason for the ban is (largely) the circular shape it makes. Pichu is just as able to abuse this as is Fox.
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Also, how many smashers sit down and practice a stage looking to improve their play on that stage? When a stage is banned, players move on with no problem. Their practice time and invested effort isn't attached to a stage; it's attached to a character.
The game isn't about the stage; it's about the player's mastery of the character and the techniques of the game in general. Dropping stages weeds out environments that draw the focus of the game away from that.
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Also, who are the ones asking to ban characters instead of stages? Are these people even active in the competitive community?
Saying that the competitive rules should be changed because you disagree with them, although you do not attend smashfests or tournaments, is like saying you shouldn't be allowed to ride a horse taller than 14 hands in polo. You have nothing to do with the community, as you don't participate in it, yet you feel the need to say the rules aren't fair?
The majority of the opposition to stage banning came at the same time as the brawl forums... so one concludes that the newer members of the community are the ones pushing for the change. I acknowledge that there are new players who have been proactive in the community, but most of them simply complain about the rules, write one-liners to raise their post counts, and seem to use the brawl forums as a game because the real game isn't out yet.
It's saddening.
~Tom (Yang)
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