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PGRContenders

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PGRContenders
PreGR.png
Years active 2021
Period active 2021
Region North America, Europe
Game(s) supported Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Producer(s) Panda

PGRContenders, also known as the Path to the PGR: Contenders Tier List and colloquially known as the PreGR, is an ongoing list of players in North America and Europe releasing between January and February 2022. The list was created to highlight new and upcoming players who made their debut during the COVID-19 pandemic and is a pseudo-ranking in the form of a tier list.[1] The list was planned to release in January 2022 alongside the return of the PGRU; however, due to the rise of the Omicron variant during the COVID-19 pandemic, the PGRU was postponed, leaving PGRContenders to release by itself.[2]

Methodology

The list was decided by panelists, who considered both a player's 2021 performance and their potential in the new year. Instead of a traditional ranking, a tier list is used instead in order to account for uncertainty in the scene. Each game received 2 lists: one for North America and one for Europe. Japan was excluded from PGRContenders as requested by the Japanese TOs, who believed it was too uncertain to properly rank their players in a tier list.

For the Melee rankings and Ultimate's North American ranking, 50 players were chosen for the tier list, with 30 of those players being on the final list. Panelists for each game and region gave each player a rating between 10 and 4, using the following as a reference: 10-9.6 for players they believed were S+, 9.4-8.6 for S, 8.4-7.6 for A, 7.4-6.6 for B, 6.4-5.6 for C, and 5.4-4.0 for untiered. Panelists who believed a player belonged between two tiers marked the player with "x.5," and panelists were allowed to abstain from rating a player they weren't too familiar with in 2021; although the latter did not have an effect on the final score, if enough panelists abstained from rating a player, the player would be disqualified (this only happened to moky). The scores were then normalized and the final score was calculated using a weighted average. These final scores were analyzed through K-means clustering to determine the final tiers for the list, with some tiers combined into a single tier if applicable.

The Ultimate European ranking has a different methodology. Instead of creating the tiers at the end of the entire process, tiers were created before the process began, with each tier having a set number of players and players in each tier assumed to be tied. 32 players will be on the final list. Instead of using a balloting process like the other rankings, the Ultimate European ranking was created from a consensus in a group chat.

Panelists

Super Smash Bros. Melee

North America (17) - USA Aura, USA Cool Lime, USA DarkGenex, USA Dawson, USA EdwinBudding, USA Faceroll, USA Faust, USA GimmeDatWheat, USA Kaiju, Mexico Metakill, Canada Mosh, USA Nickemwit, USA Tuesday, USA Weis, USA Wills, USA Zamu, Canada Zedreo
Europe (15) - Finland Acke, Germany big irf, UK GG, Switzerland Jah Ridin', Denmark King Funk, Spain Liax, Ireland Luan, UK max, UK Moby, Germany Nicki, Netherlands Noxxa, Netherlands Nuckels, Sweden Pipsqueak, Sweden Reverb, Norway Rich

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

North America (15) - Mexico 5ebas, USA Barnard's Loop, USA Cagt, Canada Dexy, USA EazyFreezie, USA FinallyRJ, USA Grayola, Canada Kantrip, USA kenniky, USA L4st, Canada Mistrals, USA moxi, Mexico Ripka, USA Stuart98, Mexico Toon
Europe (7) - UK Burning, Spain El_Bardo, UK G-P, Norway Lunner, Netherlands Muk, France Nives, Germany Rinor

Rankings

Super Smash Bros. Melee

North America

Europe

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

North America

Tier Smasher Character(s)
S+
S
A
B USA Fatality Captain Falcon (SSBU)
USA Goblin Roy (SSBU)
USA LeoN Bowser (SSBU)
USA MuteAce Peach (SSBU)
USA MVD Snake (SSBU)
USA Myran Olimar (SSBU)
Canada Riddles Kazuya (SSBU)Terry (SSBU)
Dominican Republic Sonix Sonic (SSBU)
USA Tilde Falco (SSBU)
USA WaDi Mewtwo (SSBU)ROB (SSBU)
USA Zomba ROB (SSBU)
C USA Aaron Diddy Kong (SSBU)Sora (SSBU)ROB (SSBU)
USA Anathema ROB (SSBU)
USA Charliedaking Wolf (SSBU)
USA Jakal Wolf (SSBU)
USA Scend Ness (SSBU)
USA Wrath Sonic (SSBU)
Hidden bosses
Smasher Character(s)
Mexico Cloudy PyraMythra (SSBU)Joker (SSBU)Cloud (SSBU)Sephiroth (SSBU)
USA Loaf Wario (SSBU)
USA Quidd Pokémon Trainer (SSBU)
USA VoiD Sheik (SSBU)

Europe

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