They played it the way they wanted to, what's the problem? Unless it's that you couldn't stand playing with them so you never got a turn, I guess that would be pretty annoying.
It was a store that closed off a few years back, which was pretty much the perfect standard of a game store. A nice, comfy store with a big TV and all the available consoles from all generations for everyone to request and play. It survived on few customers, and it had regulars basically sitting around the lounge couch and playing a few games all day. Except there were about 6 people who pretty much JUST played the same game, same characters, same level, same stuff EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. At a certain point, people who came in were forced to set by their standards of play, since more than two of them were always at the console, and majority always won. The way Melee/Brawl tourneyfags behave around others is just stupid. It isn't just by this one example, I'm not stupid enough to believe a few people set a standard. I've seen this in so many places around the net, it drives me insane. So what if the items break the whole game? So what if it's so chaotic, that it's not 100% FAIR TO EVERYONE? It was never supposed to be. Wavedashing, tournament rules, that set of characters which turns it into a potential professional tournament game... it was never intended to be so, it was all an accident, which people simply got advantage of. Due to that fact, people got no place complaining about it being taken out. It's like complaining about a certain ingredient being taken out of some product because that one ingredient could be made to manufacture a drug. Just because people no longer get high over it, it's no reason to go crazy over it.