i tried playing the game online a couple of times but it kept saying "Searching for Players" i waited 10 minutes or so but no one showed up at all , while i can easily find people on the spectator mode and bet on them but i can't join battles, is it that my Wii is region locked? or something to do with the servers?

Well "spectating" I believe is just a replay that is downloaded to your Wii, I could be wrong here.

But I got online the past couple of nights, random games seem to take a little time to join, its always going to try to find the best connection first, if its too bad/too far away it just rejects the that as a viable connection, so possibly no one near you playing or their connection sucks that hard.

Join the club.

so i can only play it with friend codes, since i'm too far from US and no one plays wii games online here, let alone buy legal copies..

Brawl online sucks, unless you play with friends.

But really, local multiplayer is the way to go for Brawl.

Yeah brawl online unless with close friends. I played brawl online a few days ago and the matches were unplayable. I hope it isn't my connection but it has made me nervous about facing the competitive players in the area who regularly practice on wifi.