Smash Panel Power Rankings
The Smash Panel Power Rankings was a power ranking that listed the top 25 Super Smash Bros. Melee players in the United States. It was compiled in 2006 by Hyugaricdeau, Marcus, Wife, KishPrime, Eddie, HugS, dcx1287, and Chillin. The rankings were updated over the course of the year, but it was later discontinued, leaving the Melee community without a national American power ranking or any other similarly scoped ranking for many years. The idea to rank the absolute best players in competitive Melee was later revived with the SSBPD, as well as the SSBMRank in 2013, albeit as a worldwide ranking. RetroSSBMRank would also later emerge to retroactively rank the ten best Melee players in the world each year from 2003 up to 2012, the last year before SSBMRank introduced a community accepted worldwide ranking.
The final rankings upon the ranking's discontinuation are listed below:
| Ranking | Smasher | Previous rank | Movement | Character |
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| 1 | Ken | 1 | 0 | 
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| 2 | Chu Dat | 2 | 0 | 
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| 3 | Mew2King | 6 | ▲ 3 |
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| 4 | PC Chris | 3 | ▼ 1 | 
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| 5 | Azen | 5 | 0 |
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| 6 | KoreanDJ | 7 | ▲ 1 | 
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| 7 | Isai | 4 | ▼ 3 | 
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| 8 | Chillin | 8 | 0 |
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| 9 | Dope | 10 | ▲ 1 | 
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| 10 | Vidjogamer | 13 | ▲ 3 | 
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| 11 | KM | 12 | ▲ 1 |
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| 12 | Tink | 11 | ▼ 1 |
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| 13 | HugS | 18 | ▲ 5 | 
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| 14 | The King | 15 | ▲ 1 | 
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| 15 | Neo | 9 | ▼ 6 | 
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| 16 | Rob$ | 17 | ▲ 1 |
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| 17 | Wife | 20 | ▲ 3 |
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| 18 | Drephen | 14 | ▼ 4 |
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| 19 | Darkrain | — | — |
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| 20 | Caveman | 16 | ▼ 4 |
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| 21 | FastLikeTree | 21 | 0 |
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| 22 | Marcus | 22 | 0 |
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| 23 | DieSuperFly | 19 | ▼ 4 |
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| 24 | Husband | 23 | ▼ 1 |
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| 25 | Eddie | 24 | ▼ 1 | 
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The following is the second-to-last ranking compiled by this panel. All previous rankings are lost to time, as the SmashBoards forum threads they took place on are now deleted, and the panelists' discussion of the rankings also occurred in now lost private forums, with no known archives.
| Ranking | Smasher | Previous rank | Movement | Character |
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| 1 | Ken | 1 | 0 |
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| 2 | Chu Dat | 2 | 0 |
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| 3 | PC Chris | 3 | 0 |
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| 4 | Isai | 4 | 0 |
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| 5 | Azen | 7 | ▲ 2 |
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| 6 | Mew2King | 15 | ▲ 9 |
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| 7 | KoreanDJ | — | — |
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| 8 | Chillin | 6 | ▼ 2 |
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| 9 | Neo | 5 | ▼ 4 |
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| 10 | Dope | 14 | ▲ 4 |
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| 11 | Tink | 18 | ▲ 7 |
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| 12 | KM | 13 | ▲ 1 |
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| 13 | Vidjogamer | 8 | ▼ 5 |
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| 14 | Drephen | 21 | ▲ 7 |
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| 15 | The King | — | — |
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| 16 | Caveman | 9 | ▼ 7 |
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| 17 | Rob$ | 10 | ▼ 7 |
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| 18 | HugS | 20 | ▲ 2 |
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| 19 | DieSuperFly | 12 | ▼ 7 |
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| 20 | Wife | 19 | ▼ 1 |
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| 21 | FastLikeTree | — | — |
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| 22 | Marcus | 23 | ▲ 1 |
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| 23 | Husband | 17 | ▼ 6 |
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| 24 | Eddie | 22 | ▼ 2 |
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| 25 | SilentSpectre | — | — |
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