Okay, so here's the update on Brawl:

First off, I got knocked out of the tournament... It wasn't total ass kicking because the guy who beat me only beat me by just a little (and a really lucky smash ball X3). He was cool though.

Scotty and I got our copy of Brawl and we only went... 95 on the interstate to get home and play it until we collapsed.

We're both pleased with the one-player/two-player mode. IT'S A SSB WITH PLOT!! Jesus christ... and the Characters have Personalities and Emotions and whatnot... it's not just "Oh hayyyyy... *tosses Mario and Samus in a pit together*" And it's not something I'd recommend playing through in one sitting either... We decided to just test it around and play easy to get the hang of the new characters... And we're only 50% through the whole game... 50%... And we've been playing for like 8-12 hours. I lost count.

Online gameplay was a disappointment though. First you create a room, then you have to wait for 4 people to show up... It took 20 minutes for one person to get there, and we couldn't even play each other until the other 2 appeared. After about 40 minutes of drooling on myself, I just dropped out and wailed on Scotty instead.

Also Brawl pulled a quick one on us with the "Play your friends" mode we all knew about. Instead of just adding your friends onto your Wii console, you have to have a special SSBB number to play with other people.

Here is mine, but I will put friends above random people:

SSBB Friend Number: 4897-5612-8413

Wii console Number: 4518-9212-9928-3720