Tournament:Pound (series)

Pound
Info
Founded	2006
Region	MD/VA, United States
Format	Round Robin, Double Elimination
winners	SuPeRbOoMfAn (Pound 2016)
winners	ChuDat (Pound 1 & 2)  Mango (Pound 3 & 4)  PPMD (Pound V)  Hungrybox (Pound 2016 & 2019)
winners	ADHD (Pound 4)  Ally (Pound V)
winners	Abadango (Pound 2016)
winners	Ally (Pound 2019)

Pound is a tournament series initially held on a yearly basis, mainly in Maryland or Virginia. The first tournament in the series was held in January of 2006 and was organized and founded by Chinesah. The tournament organizer and owner for all subsequent Pound tournaments until Pound 2016 has been Plank, though Tantalus became a TO alongside Plank starting with Pound 4. JCaesar and Nintendude helped Plank and Tantalus with tournament organizing at Pound V.5 and Pound 2016 respectively. The tournament was originally exclusively for Melee, but this exclusivity ended in Pound 4 with the introduction of Brawl. The series is now owned and ran by VGBC.

At Pound V, Plank was unable to pay most of the top placing players due to financial issues he came across while hosting the tournament. This resulted in Plank being placed on the Smashboards Tournament Organizer blacklist and a 2 and a half year hiatus of the Pound series until Pound V.5, which occurred on November 9th, 2013. It wasn't until November 18th, 2015 that Plank finally paid off the top placing players of Pound V, and he was removed from the Smashboards Tournament Organizer blacklist. After another hiatus, the Pound series returned in 2016 with Pound 2016, the first mainline tournament since 2011. Pound 2016 ended up being the 12th largest Smash 4 tournament, the 11th largest Melee tournament, and the 10th largest Smash 64 tournament with 1610 overall entrants.

On December 12th, 2016, Tantalus announced that he and the other tournament organizers had made the decision to cancel Pound 2017. This is due to the fact that the Pound 2016 venue, Ritz-Carlton in Tyson's Corner, was too small for the event and the tournament organizers could not find a larger venue for Pound 2017.

On February 24th, 2018, VGBC announced Pound Underground, being held on May 12th-13th, 2018.

On December 31st, 2019, VGBC announced Pound 2020, being held on April 3rd-5th, 2020. It was going to be the first Platinum tier stop on the 2020 Smash World Tour for Ultimate and the second for Melee. The event was canceled March 12th, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. On April 6th, they announced Pound Online as part of the The Quarantine Series (series) to be held from April 24th-26th, 2020.

List of tournaments

Event	Date	Attendance	Games
Pound	January 28th, 2006	60
Pound 2	June 16th-17th, 2007	201+
Pound 3	February 2nd-3rd, 2008	220+
Pound 4	January 16th-18th, 2010	400+
Pound V	February 19th-21st, 2011	300+
Pound 2016	April 2nd-3rd, 2016	1610
Pound 2019	April 19th-21st, 2019	1745

Side Event	Date	Attendance	Games
Pound V.5	November 9th, 2013	95
Pound Underground	May 12th-13th, 2018	216
Pound Online	April 24th-26th, 2020	TBD

Champions

Smash 64 Winners

Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
Pound 2016	Daniel Hoyt	SuPeRbOoMfAn		tacos

Melee Winners

Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
Pound	Daniel Rodriguez	ChuDat		NEO
Pound 2	Daniel Rodriguez	ChuDat		Mew2King
Pound 3	Joseph Marquez	Mango		Mew2King
Pound 4	Joseph Marquez	Mango		Hungrybox
Pound V	Kevin Nanney	Dr. PeePee		Armada
Pound 2016	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Mango
Pound 2019	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Mango

Side Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
Pound V.5	Jason Zimmerman	Mew2King		Mango
Pound Underground	Zain Naghmi	Zain		lloD

Brawl Winners

Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
Pound 4	Wyatt Beekman	ADHD		Mew2King
Pound V	Elliot Carroza	Ally		Anti

Project M Winners

Side Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
Pound V.5	Jason Zimmerman	Mew2King		Zhime

Smash 4 Winners

Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
Pound 2016	Yuta Kawamura	Abadango		Ally

Ultimate Winners

Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
Pound 2019	Elliot Carroza	Ally		Myran

External Links

• Pound series' Twitter