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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
1	Ken	1	0
2	Chu Dat	2	0
3	Mew2King	6	▲ 3
4	PC Chris	3	▼ 1
5	Azen	5	0
6	KoreanDJ	7	▲ 1
7	Isai	4	▼ 3
8	Chillin	8	0
9	Dope	10	▲ 1
10	Vidjogamer	13	▲ 3
11	KM	12	▲ 1
12	Tink	11	▼ 1
13	HugS	18	▲ 5
14	The King	15	▲ 1
15	Neo	9	▼ 6
16	Rob$	17	▲ 1
17	Wife	20	▲ 3
18	Drephen	14	▼ 4
19	Darkrain	—	—
20	Caveman	16	▼ 4
21	FastLikeTree	21	0
22	Marcus	22	0
23	DieSuperFly	19	▼ 4
24	Husband	23	▼ 1
25	Eddie	24	▼ 1

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
1	Ken	1	0
2	Chu Dat	2	0
3	PC Chris	3	0
4	Isai	4	0
5	Azen	7	▲ 2
6	Mew2King	15	▲ 9
7	KoreanDJ	—	—
8	Chillin	6	▼ 2
9	Neo	5	▼ 4
10	Dope	14	▲ 4
11	Tink	18	▲ 7
12	KM	13	▲ 1
13	Vidjogamer	8	▼ 5
14	Drephen	21	▲ 7
15	The King	—	—
16	Caveman	9	▼ 7
17	Rob$	10	▼ 7
18	HugS	20	▲ 2
19	DieSuperFly	12	▼ 7
20	Wife	19	▼ 1
21	FastLikeTree	—	—
22	Marcus	23	▲ 1
23	Husband	17	▼ 6
24	Eddie	22	▼ 2
25	SilentSpectre	—	—

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-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 [[Smasher:Dr. Z|Hyugaricdeau]], {{sm|Marcus}}, {{sm|Wife}}, {{sm|KishPrime}}, {{sm|Eddie}}, {{sm|HugS}}, {{sm|dcx1287}}, and {{sm|Chillin}}. The rankings were updated over the course of the year, but it was later discontinued, leaving the ''Melee'' community without a superregional power ranking for many years; the idea was later revived with the [[SSBPD]], as well as the [[SSBMRank]] in 2013.
+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 [[Smasher:Dr. Z|Hyugaricdeau]], {{sm|Marcus|p=Illinois}}, {{sm|Wife}}, {{sm|KishPrime}}, {{sm|Eddie}}, {{sm|HugS}}, {{sm|dcx1287}}, and {{sm|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:
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 {{PowerRankingsRow| 7|Isai          | 4|{{head|Captain Falcon|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
-{{PowerRankingsRow| 8|Chillin      | 8|{{head|Fox|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
+{{PowerRankingsRow| 8|Chillin       | 8|{{head|Fox|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
 {{PowerRankingsRow| 9|Dope          |10|{{head|Falco|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
 {{PowerRankingsRow|10|Vidjogamer    |13|{{head|Peach|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
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 {{PowerRankingsRow|20|Caveman       |16|{{head|Marth|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
 {{PowerRankingsRow|21|FastLikeTree  |21|{{head|Marth|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
-{{PowerRankingsRow|22|Marcus        |22|{{head|Sheik|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
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 {{PowerRankingsRow|23|DieSuperFly   |19|{{head|Sheik|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
 {{PowerRankingsRow|24|Husband       |23|{{head|Marth|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
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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 forums, with no known archives.
+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.
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 {{PowerRankingsRow|20|Wife          |19|{{head|Peach|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
 {{PowerRankingsRow|21|FastLikeTree  | -|{{head|Marth|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
-{{PowerRankingsRow|22|Marcus        |23|{{head|Sheik|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
+{{PowerRankingsRow|22|Marcus|location=Illinois        |23|{{head|Sheik|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
 {{PowerRankingsRow|23|Husband       |17|{{head|Marth|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}
 {{PowerRankingsRow|24|Eddie         |22|{{head|Ganondorf|g=SSBM|s=20px}}}}