@Ouroboros:
I'd say to extend it. I've only fought against 3 or so other people, and I know that I'm missing a few others from the previous round. But on the other hand, it seems that a lot of the other competitors haven't showed up often enough for a match, so extending might not do anything. I'm holding out on the hope that they're just busy for the time being, and that I'll get a chance to fight them later on.
As for the stages, I say NAY on both of them. Jungle Japes's rapids are self explanatory, while N's Castle has too many stage hazards for my liking. Stairs attacking you, Reshiram/Zekrom attacking you, the stage randomly tilting, and sometimes the camera pulls back way too far making it harder to space properly and fight.
Back when starting this we definitely expected there to be the case for people to slowly participate less over time (always happens), but the extension is also mostly because there's fairly frequent fighters who haven't gotten in the expected number of matches, and if I'm not catering to current participants then I'm not doing my job
Panekai hasn't gotten in matches
Kubi hasn't gotten in matches
You, Purple and I haven't gotten in as many as before
Mick expressed interest last night and said he'll be able to play a lot more now
Rin hasn't played either
Meta hasn't played everyone
Kobra hasn't played anyone
Blax I haven't seen do as many matches as he could either
There's also Aaron! Don't think I've seen him around yet
So pretty much, I feel like if I ended this round now, it would just lead to possibly an even smaller and way too hurried round next.
I think a lot of it is also the fact that for some of us we go on the chat pretty regularly, and that has led to the case where no one is asking for matches here constantly like during the first round. So people who don't have the habit of entering the chat daily maybe just see silence here and assume no one is available or wanting to fight?
At least in my case I think I'll announce availability here more often just in case.
Meanwhile, we can hope for more participants to emerge when the wii u version comes out. At the least we get foolio, who, based on what I see of him in mario kart, will probably shake things up.