Tournament:Pound (series)

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. The tournament organizer and owner for all subsequent Pound tournaments until has been, though  became a TO alongside Plank starting with Pound 4. and helped Plank and Tantalus with tournament organizing at  and Pound 2016 respectively. The tournament was originally exclusively for Melee, but this exclusivity ended in with the introduction of Brawl. The series is now owned and ran by.

At, 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, at the time, the 6th-largest tournament for both Smash 4 and Melee, as well as the 8th-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, 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 COVID-19 pandemic. As a replacement, on April 6th they announced as part of the   to be held from April 24th-26th, 2020. On February 8th, 2022, Pound was announced to return to offline at on April 22nd-24th, 2022.