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Panda
PNG New Logotype of Panda from their pack on their website
Location United States USA
Owners Alan Bunney (SamuraiPanda)
David Wu (Mashumaro)
Sponsors/Partners HyperX
GEICO
Vertagear
Twitch
Zippo
Meta Threads
Toshiba
Funimation
Other games Dragon Ball FighterZ
Guilty Gear Xrd
Hearthstone: Heroes of WarCraft
Heroes of the Storm
Marvel Vs. Capcom
Mortal Kombat
Splatoon
Street Fighter
TEKKEN

Panda, formerly Panda Global (PG), is a professional eSports organization based in the United States. It was co-founded by Alan Bunney (SamuraiPanda) and David Wu (Mashumaro) in June 2015 as a player centric organization looking to help their players' careers, facilitate their goals, and promote the growth of the eSports scenes they participate in.

Panda entered the world of Smash on June 24th, 2015 with the sponsorship of Florida Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Smash 4 top players ESAM and MVD as well as Villager main SS[1]. On June 30th, Panda took their first step in Super Smash Bros. Melee by signing Florida-based Sheik player Plup[2]. On November 2nd, Panda signed the EVO 2013 Melee runner-up Wobbles[3]. On June 22nd, 2016, they picked up Ryu main Trela[4]. On June 30th, Alpharad joined the team as their content director[5].

On May 7th, 2016, Panda picked up Dom, Zan, and suar as a newly-formed subteam called PG Stats which specialises in Smash 4 statistics[6]. They are responsible for the Panda Global Rankings, a biannual list that ranks the Top 50 Smash 4 players in the world. Tetra, juddy[7], Giant[8], and Spike were later added to the PG Stats team, although Tetra and juddy later left.

In January 2017, following SS and Trela's departure from the organization, Panda added SoCal's best Mewtwo main Rich Brown to their Smash 4 team and expanded into Super Smash Bros. by picking up SuPeRbOoMfAn, the best player in North America and second best player in the world according to the 64 League Rankings[9]. On April 12th, 2018, Panda added MD/VA's best player Zain to their Melee team[10]. On July 26th, 2018, Panda added Corrin main Cosmos to their Smash 4 team[11].

Current smashers

Pro smashers

ID Name Game Main(s) Join Date
  ESAM Eric Lew Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
 
  
  
 
2015-06-24
  Plup Justin McGrath Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
   
   
   
2015-06-30
  Marss Tyler Martins Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
 
 
2019-03-22
  Prince ? Super Smash Bros.   2019-07-19
  iBDW Cody Schwab Super Smash Bros. Melee   2020-05-05

Other smashers

Former smashers

Pro smashers

ID Name Game Main(s) Join Date Leave Date
  SS Shane Bruce Super Smash Bros. for Wii U    2015-06-24 2017-01-02
  Trela Alberto Miliziano Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
 
 
2016-06-22 2017-01-02
  Rich Brown Rich Brown Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
 
 
2017-01-17 2017-10-17
  MVD Jestise Negron Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
 
 
 
2015-06-24 2019-01-04
  Wobbles Robert Wright Super Smash Bros. Melee   2015-11-02 2019-01-04
  Zain Zain Naghmi Super Smash Bros. Melee   2018-04-12 2019-08-11
  Cosmos Brian Kalu Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
 
 
2018-07-26 2019-08-11
  SuPeRbOoMfAn Daniel Hoyt Super Smash Bros.       2017-01-17 2020-07-08

Other smashers

  •   Bear   (team manager, tournament director, FGC manager)
  •   Zan   (PG Stats analyst, joined May 7th, 2016)
  •   Tetra    (PG Stats, joined June 2nd, 2016)
  •   juddy (PG Stats statistician, joined June 2nd, 2016)

Other famous players

  • Kyohei Lehr (MarlinPie) GGXrd
  • Alexandre Dub-Bilodeau (Hayatei) MK11
  • Bryant Benzing (Kitana Prime) MK11
  • Jachin Harte (SKD) BBCF, BBTag
  • Stephen Stafford (Speedkicks) Tekken 7
  • Evan Towne (Rocketek) Splatoon
  • Joshua Thompson (Fullstream) Rivals of Aether
  • Derek Bruscas (Nakkiel) Dragon Ball FighterZ
  • Aaron Zheng (Cybertron) Pokemon VGC
  • Wolfe Glick (Wolfey) Pokemon VGC
  • Victor Woodley (Punk) SF5
  • Keenan Kizzie (Kizzie Kay) GGXrd, SamSho19

PG Key

PG Key is an online tournament series organized by PG and directed by Bear. Each entry is a qualifier dedicated to a major offline tournament, with the winner being flown out as an honorary player temporarily sponsored by the organization.

Tournament Date Entrants Winner Runner-up
Key to The PG House September 8th-18th, 2016 1994   Wrath NA
  Mr.R EU
  Raffi-X NA
  Badr EU
PG Key to GENESIS 4 January 1st-5th, 2017 986   Cosmos*   Wrath*
PG Key to Frostbite 2017 February 12th-17th, 2017 740   Cosmos*   Zage
PG Key to 2GGC: Civil War March 5th-8th, 2017 620   Sonido   CaptainZack
PG Key to Midwest Mayhem 8 March 18th-30th, 2017 450   Sonix*   lapis lazuli*
  • Cosmos and Wrath were both unable to attend, so the key was passed down to the 3rd place finisher, Koolaid.
  • Cosmos was unable to attend, so the key was passed down to the runner-up, Zage.
  • Sonix and lapis lazuli both declined their keys, so it was passed down to the 3rd place finisher, Locus.

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