Top 128: 16/16 - Bracket of Time

[The Shoemaker]

Personally I prefer Brawl or Smash 4 over Melee. It's just harder to control.

[Claytone]

Personally I prefer Brawl or Smash 4 over Melee. It's just harder to control.

Yes, but once you master the controls, you have a greater range of motion than any other Smash game. You can be wherever you want to be at any given moment in neutral. Because of various changes made in Brawl and Smash 4, that has become less and less the case.

[Kong Wen]

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past have secured places in the Top 64.

A tie-breaker between Shadow of the Colossus and Metroid: Zero Mission will be posted soon.

[Spore]

Project M incorporated a lot of the new characters and so the balance isn't quite as tight as Melee, in my experience. It also seems to run slightly slower. I'd agree that Melee's better in general.

Complete baloney. Project M is the most well balanced Smash game. When people say stuff about how well balanced Melee is they might say "I mean, Fox might be slightly the best but the other characters are all pretty much on even ground." Of course forgetting that literally 60 percent of the cast is almost completely unplayable in any competitive form. You want to play Melee? You can pick Fox, Falco, Shiek, Marth or Peach to start. You might be able to dip down to Captain Falcon, and perhaps Ice Climbers if you're okay with exploiting an infinite combo. There's basically only one competitive Jigglypuff in the whole game, one competitive Yoshi, and a couple Ganondorfs that ride completely on style that simply cannot advance past the high level foxes (despite how awesome it is to watch them). If you dig long enough you'll see a 2 Samus' and a part time Pikachu. No Ness, Bowser, Roy, Mario, Dr. Mario, G&W... The rest of 'em. It isn't a well balanced game all around, just at the peak. Project M actually tries to make everybody viable. I mean, Ganondorf in PM is so much better than any other incarnation of him it isn't even funny.

These charts sum it up:
http://smashboards.com/rankings/melee/league/teams
http://smashboards.com/rankings/project-m/league/teams