I agree that a lot of the minus chars are really vanilla and boring. Although calling in support characters does sound like over kill and is D3's thing.
Dallas has had only one that I know of and I went to it. It was called Low Tier City which should tell you everything you need to know about where I live. Most smash events are in Austin or Houston. And local players around where I live aren't very good ;_;
I used to live in Toronto but I'd go down to the Tri-state region all the time. Bent and I could probably get together since we both live in the south.
Bingo. The thing is if enough of us say, "this mechanic is bad" it will get changed or we are being stupid and it won't. I do think it would be better if the Minus Backroom was bigger though.
More like a PM tourney. My thought process didn't go very far. But if we want a balanced fast paced game where we don't bitch about everything let's just play some PM.