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[[File:NDJ Homepage 10-15-2014.png|thumb | [[File:NDJ Homepage 10-15-2014.png|thumb|300px|The homepage of Nintendo Dojo, as of 15 October 2014.]] | ||
[[ | [[File:AiBLogo.png|thumb|250px|The former logo, when the site was named AllisBrawl.com.]] | ||
''' | '''All is Brawl''', abbreviated as '''AiB''', was an online community website that was founded by certain [[SmashBoards]] members and owned by {{Sm|Nealdt}}. The site started in 2007 as a ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''-centric site and would operate as a general ''Smash'' site for most of its existence, though it was primarily used by the ''Brawl'' competitive community. The site also started the "All is" network, designed and ran by Nealdt. In late 2014, the site was renovated in response to ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', and repurposed into a general Nintendo-centric site under its new name, '''Nintendo Dojo''', up until its demise in late 2016. | ||
==Site features== | ==Site features== | ||
All Is Brawl's primary purpose was to bring the online community of ''Smash Bros.'' together and it allows for users to create various user groups (be it for [[crews]] or for socializing) and host their own [[tournament]] via a program known as [[tio tournament organizer]]. This feature was used for hosting tournaments for all three ''Smash'' games, as well as both online and in-person ''Brawl'' tournaments. The site was also home to its own ladder rankings system, where any user was welcome to join and challenge others to increase their rank. The ladder was updated on a weekly basis, and made use of the TrueSkill system, the same program used by Microsoft in its online ranking system. Another feature of All is Brawl was its chatroom, with 8 different categories of subjects discussed. This included a tourney chatroom, with four different rooms to allow tournament organizers and participants to communicate without interfering with other chatrooms or receiving such interference. Users could also upload videos via YouTube, such as technique/combo videos and recorded tournament matches. Users additionally had the ability to design their profile, leave each other shoutouts, write and post blogs, and use the site's forums and chatrooms for social and recreational purposes (in addition to their usage to discuss Smash). | All Is Brawl's primary purpose was to bring the online community of ''Smash Bros.'' together and it allows for users to create various user groups (be it for [[crews]] or for socializing) and host their own [[tournament]] via a program known as [[tio tournament organizer]]. This feature was used for hosting tournaments for all three ''Smash'' games, as well as both online and in-person ''Brawl'' tournaments. The site was also home to its own {{b|ladder|matchmaking}} rankings system, where any user was welcome to join and challenge others to increase their rank. The ladder was updated on a weekly basis, and made use of the TrueSkill system, the same program used by Microsoft in its online ranking system. Another feature of All is Brawl was its chatroom, with 8 different categories of subjects discussed. This included a tourney chatroom, with four different rooms to allow tournament organizers and participants to communicate without interfering with other chatrooms or receiving such interference. Users could also upload videos via [[YouTube]], such as technique/combo videos and recorded tournament matches. Users additionally had the ability to design their profile, leave each other shoutouts, write and post blogs, and use the site's forums and chatrooms for social and recreational purposes (in addition to their usage to discuss Smash). | ||
In its prime during the early-to-mid ''Brawl'' era, the All is Brawl community was active and large, being the second-largest and second-most active Smash-centric site after [[Smashboards]]. Many competitive Brawl regions, such as [[SoCal]], [[NorCal]], and [[New England]], used the site over Smashboards as a hub to communicate and coordinate with the smashers of their region, as well as the place to post about their tournaments and [[power ranking]]s. AiB's ladder was additionally seen as the pinnacle of Brawl's online play, with many of Brawl's best players, such as {{Sm|Ally}}, {{Sm|ADHD}}, {{Sm|Nairo}}, and {{Sm|Anti}}, first making a name for themselves on the ladder, and continuing to frequent the ladder throughout Brawl's life. | In its prime during the early-to-mid ''Brawl'' era, the All is Brawl community was active and large, being the second-largest and second-most active Smash-centric site after [[Smashboards]]. Many competitive Brawl regions, such as [[SoCal]], [[NorCal]], and [[New England]], used the site over Smashboards as a hub to communicate and coordinate with the smashers of their region, as well as the place to post about their tournaments and [[power ranking]]s. AiB's ladder was additionally seen as the pinnacle of Brawl's online play, with many of Brawl's best players, such as {{Sm|Ally}}, {{Sm|ADHD}}, {{Sm|Nairo}}, and {{Sm|Anti}}, first making a name for themselves on the ladder, and continuing to frequent the ladder throughout Brawl's life. | ||
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In its last year the site was mostly only populated by a few dedicated users who have stuck around since the ''Brawl'' days, with little activity of any sort, and was looked on by the greater ''Smash'' community as an obsolete relic of the ''Brawl'' era, if not forgotten altogether. According to the site's administration, it continued to hemorrhage money, while JV was becoming increasingly unwilling to fund the site, which lead to things such as the aforementioned hired programmers no longer being contracted, despite the site's many infamous bugs still remaining. Progress on improving the site stalled, with administrators having no timetable on when promised features and other improvements would be implemented. | In its last year the site was mostly only populated by a few dedicated users who have stuck around since the ''Brawl'' days, with little activity of any sort, and was looked on by the greater ''Smash'' community as an obsolete relic of the ''Brawl'' era, if not forgotten altogether. According to the site's administration, it continued to hemorrhage money, while JV was becoming increasingly unwilling to fund the site, which lead to things such as the aforementioned hired programmers no longer being contracted, despite the site's many infamous bugs still remaining. Progress on improving the site stalled, with administrators having no timetable on when promised features and other improvements would be implemented. | ||
On October 19th, 2016, JV officially announced on Nintendo Dojo that he would not be paying the site's server bill that month, and would no longer be financially supporting the site from that point forward, thus closing Nintendo Dojo down on the bill's due date unless someone else was willing to buy NDJ from him. As of October 21, 2016, with no buyer emerging, Nintendo Dojo went offline indefinitely. | On October 19th, 2016, JV officially announced on Nintendo Dojo that he would not be paying the site's server bill that month, and would no longer be financially supporting the site from that point forward, thus closing Nintendo Dojo down on the bill's due date unless someone else was willing to buy NDJ from him. As of October 21, 2016, with no buyer emerging, Nintendo Dojo went offline indefinitely. Records of old posts are limited to WayBack Machine archives, with only JV having the hard drive. Therefore, much of the old posts, tutorials, and other resources, are considered lost media. | ||
==All is Ultimate== | |||
[[File:AiU Banner.jpg|thumb|300px|The website banner for All is Ultimate]] | |||
An attempt to revive the site for ''Ultimate'', known as "All is Ultimate", was [https://twitter.com/AllisUltimate/status/1180976950166327297 announced on Twitter] in October 2019 and was to be headed by Mouse and other former-All is Brawl staff. Initially, a timetable for when the site would go live was not given and few details were given. In 2020, the team behind the All is Ultimate [[Twitter]] account began taking staff applications and created a banner for the website. A [[Discord]] server was created and posted sporadic updates on the website's progress. | |||
The website was initially slated to launch in October 2020, but the date passed with no update on the situation.<ref>{{citeweb|url=https://twitter.com/AllisUltimate/status/1309741103898189825|title=Launch date announcement}}</ref> Controversy arose months later due to several allegations against Mouse, who was accused of spending the funded money on himself, poorly treating other staff members, unbanning banned players from the community, and potentially pedophilic actions against him and his husband.<ref>{{citeweb|url=https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srj0im|title=Accusations against Mouse}}</ref> Two days later, Milky Gaga, who posted the allegation, announced that ownership of the website had transferred to {{Sm|Lewdcario}} and the site would be rebranded.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612110959/https://twitter.com/Milky_Gaga/status/1358906740113244160|title=Transfer of ownership}}</ref> Later that year, however, the Twitter page was deleted and most traces of its existence had been removed, possibly due to a mix of the previous allegations against Mouse, and Lewdcario's [[Smashcords#Luigi_Discord_owner_removal|own controversies]] and time constraints. | |||
==References== | |||
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== External links == | |||
*[http://www.nintendodojo.com Nintendo Dojo home page] (Now defunct) | |||
[[Category:Defunct websites]] | |||