>>45520771Slippi is an actual mod (as in, an unauthorized modification to Melee), while Showdown is just a simulator. The main problem was that they were running a tournament with sponsors and cash prizes using that mod, and the organizers decided to cancel the Ultimate event as well (which was clean) to put more blame on Nintendo.
I think Nintendo are being kikes but the problem is that with how IP laws work they have no choice but being kikes, so even if I don't like it I understand why they do this. The brainlets on Twitter that spam hashtags like #freemelee and #savesmash don't grasp this because their idea of big corporations is based on a cartoonish (sometimes literally, as in based on the Simpsons or Rick & Morty or whatever) understanding of society, laws and capitalism.