It's late and I'm tired, so this is gonna be brief!

Go here for All is Brawl's new tournament calendar, which organizes tournaments into a friendly calendar system to give an easier overview of what the tournament scene is lookin' like the next few weeks. Filters let you narrow down the events shown based on a few criteria, like location and whether the tournament is in-person or online. Tournaments automatically get added to the calendar when created and moved when you edit their start date. Comments made on the calendar go straight to the tournament's shoutouts so you don't have to watch two different areas for comments.

How the calendar decides what tournaments to show on the calendar may seem confusing at first, but there is a pattern. Tournaments run by Certified Hosts will always show up on the main calendar page (unless filtered out). Non-certified tournaments will show up if there are 3 or fewer tournaments for a given day; otherwise, you'll only get a link to view all tournaments for a specific day. This is to avoid the ridiculousness of fitting 26 different tournaments in a single calendar cell.

Groovy.

On this day, two years ago, the earth stood still as it watch a tiny little white box make its way into our homes.

Through trials and troubles with broken wriststraps and windows to joyful flinging of arms and swinging of hips, the Wii has become a breakthrough piece of technology in the gaming industry. It has brought us many games that we love... one in particular but I can't seem to remember its name ;)

Now, 24 months later, OVER 36 MILLION Wiis have been sold worldwide and it is currently on top in the console wars. So make sure to wish your Wii a happy birthday today by playing some good old Wii Sports and that one little fighting game... what was it called again?

With 2 years down, what do you think the next 12 months hold in store for the Wii?

All is Brawl's admin team is looking for programming & web design volunteers to help maintain and expand the features offered by All is Brawl, the All is Network, and tio tournament organizer. We have a lot of exciting ideas and plans for the future, but programming resources are scarce and we need some help if we're going to bring many of those ideas to the users. So if you're interested in helping out and are proficient in at least one of the following areas:

• C# (Java is an acceptable alternative if you are at an intermediate/advanced level and can learn a language on your own)
  
• ASP.NET
• MS SQL Server

please send an email to neal@allisbrawl.com. Please include your knowledge & experience levels, citing examples of your work where appropriate.

Thanks!

If you're a beginner to Smash, what's one of the first things you learn? The moves of the characters, right? Well, that's an easy answer -- those are the basics. You can't play if you don't know what the controls are.

So, let's say you've mastered the controls and the moves of your character(s). Have you learned all there is to learn about Smash? Not really. If you knew everything about Smash, you would probably never lose. But chances are, unless you're someone like Ken or M2K, there's someone out there who's better than you. ^_^

The question now, then, is, what makes one player better than another? There are countless answers to that question. And that's the premise behind this series: We're going to explore some of those answers. Learning the controls of Smash is important, true, but there's a lot more out there to learn.

A quick disclaimer before we begin: This series is intended mainly for beginners and intermediate Smashers. If you're an experienced player, you probably won't have very much to learn from this series. You know more than the vast majority of Smashers, anyway. xD And now, on to the article.

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One fateful day, a player lost a game of Smash. Distraught, he sought the advice of Isai the Wise.

"Isai the Wise," the player inquired, "what should I do differently from now on to prevent myself from losing?"

Isai the Wise stood there in his holy glory, looked at the player, and said, "Don't get hit."

Just a friendly reminder to those of you who haven't voted to vote in the 2008 AiB Smash Election by 11:59PM PST TONIGHT!!

Voting instructions:

Go to one of the following groups and simply vote in the group poll

To vote in the Smash Character election, click >>HERE<<

To vote in the AiB Community Member election, click >>HERE<<

Polls will close at 11:59PM PST!
Keep an eye out for the announcement of the election and ad contest results later this week!