Tournament:Panda Cup Finale

The Panda Cup Finale would have been the Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate finale for the. It was planned to be held in Los Angeles, California on December 16th-18th, 2022, but was postponed on December 4th, and later confirmed to be cancelled on November 23rd, 2023. The 28 players of each game who qualified through the circuit would have participated in the tournament. A Last Chance Qualifier for each game was meant to be held the day before the finale (formerly planned for December 15th) with the Top 4 players qualifying, bringing the total to 32 players for each game. All finalists will have complimentary travel and housing for the event. The tournament was planned to have the ninth-largest singles pot for a Melee tournament and tied for the seventh-largest singles pot for an Ultimate tournament at the formerly planned dates.

Several players dropped out of both the finale and the Last Chance Qualifier due to a Panda Cup boycott. Some of the players would have been going to hosted by  on the same weekend instead. In addition, the tournament was going to not count for OrionRank 2022, and Panda Cup Finale and all future events hosted by will be blacklisted from ΩRank.

Format
Originally, the Last Chance Qualifier would be played on December 15th the Los Angeles Convention Center. Phase 1 of the finale was to take place on December 16th-17th up until the Top 8, also at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Top 8 would be played to completion on December 18th at The Novo.

Melee
The following players qualified through offline tournaments in the circuit for Melee:

Players denoted with an asterisk (*) were qualified but are not attending the finals.

The following players were invited by panelists for Melee:

Ultimate
The following players qualified through offline tournaments in the circuit for Ultimate:

Players denoted with an asterisk (*) were qualified but are not attending the finals.

The following players qualified through online finals in the circuit for Ultimate:
 * Heartland:
 * Mid-Atlantic USA:
 * Southeast USA:
 * South-Central USA: *
 * Southwest USA:
 * Mexico:
 * Northeast NA:
 * Northwest NA:

The following players were invited by panelists for Ultimate:

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(32 entrants)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles
(32 entrants)

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(TBD teams)

Super Smash Bros. Melee Mid Tier singles
(TBD entrants)

Super Smash Bros. Melee Random Stage With All Items On
(TBD entrants)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles
(TBD teams)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Squad Strike
(TBD entrants)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Random Stage With All Items On
(TBD entrants)

Trivia

 * The tournament was planned to be the first Melee tournament with three of the Five Gods competing since, almost three years prior. However, this will not happen as Hungrybox and Mango dropped out as part of the Panda Cup boycott.