i cannot believe that i JUST found this thread.
SSBB is ****ing FANTASTIC, to be honest it's the only game i spend my time on these days. my friends and i at my school play straight marathons of it in our campus center.
my favorite character to play is Mr. Game & Watch, he's fairly qick as well as surprisingly strong. along with him i also like R.O.B., Fox and Ike.
and i too love the chaotic nature of the games, attacks coming out of nowhere and the characters' abilities that are damn near unpredictable, which is why i hate when my friends prefer the bare minimum to all of the possiblities.
also, GC controller all day, although i'm trying to improve on the wiimote and nunchuck. though the first time i tried it i held the nunchuck in my right hand and the wiimote in my left
oh yeah, and when you guys play, do you have any specific strategy? i don't really, i just go for the hit the sh*t out of the other guy till he gets knocked out