trashremember, if you don't already have a massive competitive fanbase, you're guaranteed to always lose. just look at super smash brothers melee, 12 years in and they get into a major tournament? pffft, like that'll ever go anywhere
are you ignorant or just pretending that they weren't in mlg (and even in earlier evos)
smashwikiMelee was added to the circuits of MLG in 2004; it was retired in 2007
smashwikiEVO 2007 was the 6th edition of the Evolution Championship Series, a fighting game tournament held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada, which took place on August 24th-26th, 2007, at the Green Valley Ranch. It was the final tournament of the EVO 2007 circuit, which consisted of EVO South, EVO North, EVO West, and EVO East. The top 8 finishers for each of the previous events were automatically qualified for the bracket round at EVO World.[1] It was the largest Melee tournament before the international release of Brawl with 270 players in attendance.
also when melee was small when esports in general were small where as now that esports are bigger melee is bigger (where as tf2 has gone almost no where in the past 3 years)
This is not to say that tf2 won't ever have a higher competitive scene but the melee argument is just wrong at its core.