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Panda
Panda.jpg
Location United States
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 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
United States ESAM Eric Lew Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 		Samus (SSBM)
Pikachu (SSBB)Ice Climbers (SSBB)
Pikachu (SSB4)Samus (SSB4)
Pikachu (SSBU) 		2015-06-24
United States Plup Justin McGrath Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 		Sheik (SSBM)Fox (SSBM)Samus (SSBM)
Pikachu (SSB4)Diddy Kong (SSB4)Rosalina & Luma (SSB4)
Mega Man (SSBU)Ridley (SSBU)Greninja (SSBU) 		2015-06-30
United States Marss Tyler Martins Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 		Zero Suit Samus (SSB4)
Zero Suit Samus (SSBU) 		2019-03-22
Japan Prince ? Super Smash Bros. Yoshi (SSB) 2019-07-19
USA iBDW Cody Schwab Super Smash Bros. Melee Fox (SSBM) 2020-05-05

Other smashers

  • USA suar Sheik (SSB4) (PG Stats director, joined May 7th, 2016)
  • USA Alpharad Mario (SSB4)Mario (SSBU)Joker (SSBU)Palutena (SSBU)(content director, joined June 30th, 2016)
  • USA Spike (PG Stats designer)
  • USA Dom Villager (SSB4)Sheik (SSB4) (PG Stats writer, joined May 7th, 2016)
  • USA fyazko (content creator, joined June 2nd, 2016)
  • USA Keith (lead graphics artist, project manager)
  • USA PSI Lucas (SSBU)Young Link (SSBU) (graphics artist)
  • Canada PracticalTAS (PG Stats mathematician)
  • USA Tantalus (PG Tournament Organizer)
  • UK Stimpy Roy (SSBU) (Actor Asa Butterfield, content creator)
  • USA Coney Inkling (SSBU) (Creative Lead & Commentator)
  • Canada Kantrip Diddy Kong (SSBU) (Influencer)
  • USA Juggleguy Captain Falcon (SSBM)
  • USA Chia R.O.B. (SSBU)
  • Australia Little Z Wario (SSBU)

Former smashers

Pro smashers

ID Name Game Main(s) Join Date Leave Date
United States SS Shane Bruce Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Villager (SSB4)Ness (SSB4) 2015-06-24 2017-01-02
United States Trela Alberto Miliziano Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U 		Lucario (SSBB)
Ryu (SSB4) 		2016-06-22 2017-01-02
United States Rich Brown Rich Brown Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U 		Olimar (SSBB)
Mewtwo (SSB4) 		2017-01-17 2017-10-17
United States MVD Jestise Negron Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 		Snake (SSBB)
Diddy Kong (SSB4)
Snake (SSBU) 		2015-06-24 2019-01-04
United States Wobbles Robert Wright Super Smash Bros. Melee Ice Climbers (SSBM) 2015-11-02 2019-01-04
United States Zain Zain Naghmi Super Smash Bros. Melee Marth (SSBM) 2018-04-12 2019-08-11
United States Cosmos Brian Kalu Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 		Corrin (SSB4)
Inkling (SSBU) 		2018-07-26 2019-08-11
Canada SuPeRbOoMfAn Daniel Hoyt Super Smash Bros. Captain Falcon (SSB) Pikachu (SSB) Kirby (SSB) 2017-01-17 2020-07-08

Other smashers

  • USA Bear Bowser (SSB4) (team manager, tournament director, FGC manager)
  • USA Zan Toon Link (SSB4) (PG Stats analyst, joined May 7th, 2016)
  • France Tetra Captain Falcon (SSB4)Cloud (SSB4) (PG Stats, joined June 2nd, 2016)
  • Canada 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 USA Wrath NA
Netherlands Mr.R EU		 USA Raffi-X NA
Netherlands Badr EU
PG Key to GENESIS 4 January 1st-5th, 2017 986 USA Cosmos* USA Wrath*
PG Key to Frostbite 2017 February 12th-17th, 2017 740 USA Cosmos* USA Zage
PG Key to 2GGC: Civil War March 5th-8th, 2017 620 USA Sonido USA CaptainZack
PG Key to Midwest Mayhem 8 March 18th-30th, 2017 450 Dominican Republic Sonix* USA 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.

Gallery

  • Panda's former logo.

    Panda's former logo.

External links

References

  1. ^ ESAM and MVD have officially signed with new esports team Panda Gaming!.
  2. ^ Plup joins Panda.
  3. ^ Panda signs Wobbles.
  4. ^ Panda signs Trela, will compete under team banner at CEO.
  5. ^ Alpharad joins Panda.
  6. ^ Panda announces new Smash 4 stats team.
  7. ^ juddy and Tetra join PG Stats.
  8. ^ Giant joins PG Stats as Lead Systems Engineer!.
  9. ^ Panda signs SuPeRbOoMfAn and Rich Brown.
  10. ^ Welcome to the Plup Club: Zain joins Panda!.
  11. ^ Introducing Panda's newest member, Cosmos!!.
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