alphazealot was a notable tournament host from the midwest who was chosen to run the MLG tournaments before the brawl community ****ed up repeatedly and got kicked off MLG(go figure)
about a year ago he announces that he is overthrowing the formerly powerless brawl back room which just made ruleset suggestions, with a new BBR ruleset committee which would make mandatory rules. prior to this point the BBR created a recommended ruleset and each tournament host would customize it to some degree, each region tended to have differing rules. AZ, not being content to let people do what they please and have choices, spent a long time organizing a conspiracy behind the scenes with MLG, who owns smashboards, neal the owner of all is brawl, and a few other highly influential tournament hosts. with this announcement it was made official that if you tried to run a tournament not following his committee's rules, it would not be featured on SWF or AIB which is basically the entirety of the competitive smash community. as a result of this, pictochat was a legal stage nationally for a good while and brawl became even more of a joke than it was before.