My friends and I play this game constantly still. I'm all about the Link though he's only a mid tier player. A interesting fact with link is his run speed is slower then bowser's, test it out if you want. I really enjoy playing with no items on so its more player skill then player luck. My friends and I are all pretty good but I for one wouldn't want to join any tournament because of that lame ass shit called wave dashing which boils down to you hop off the ground, but stay low then air dodge diagonal down so you're character slides against the ground. If you do that really fast you can move faster then you could normally also you can still do all your attacks and grabs while wave dashing. And the real shitty part is since its really a glitch in the game certain characters are alot better to do it with then others so that isn't fair. And thats pretty much what everyone does in the tournaments or so I've read.