Team:Panda

Panda Global

Location	United States
Owners	Alan Bunney (SamuraiPanda) David Wu (Mashumaro)
Player manager	Bassem Dahdouh (Bear) (former)
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 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 Global 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 Global took their first step in Super Smash Bros. Melee by signing Florida-based Sheik player Plup^[2]. On November 2nd, Panda Global 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 Global 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 Global 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 Global added MD/VA's best player Zain to their Melee team^[10]. On July 26th, 2018, Panda Global added Corrin main Cosmos to their Smash 4 team^[11].

Current smashers

Pro smashers

ID	Name	Game	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

suar (PG Stats director, joined May 7th, 2016)
Alpharad (content director, joined June 30th, 2016)
Spike (PG Stats designer)
Dom (PG Stats writer, joined May 7th, 2016)
fyazko (content creator, joined June 2nd, 2016)
Keith (lead graphics artist, project manager)
PracticalTAS (PG Stats mathematician)
Tantalus (PG Tournament Organizer)
Stimpy (Actor Asa Butterfield, content creator)
Coney (Creative Lead & Commentator)
Kantrip (Influencer)
Juggleguy
Chia

Former smashers

Pro smashers

ID	Name	Game	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.

External links

References

[1] ESAM and MVD have officially signed with new esports team Panda Gaming!.

[2] Plup joins Panda Global.

[3] Panda Global signs Wobbles.

[4] Panda Global signs Trela, will compete under team banner at CEO.

[5] Alpharad joins Panda Global.

[6] Panda Global announces new Smash 4 stats team.

[7] uddy and Tetra join PG Stats.

[8] Giant joins PG Stats as Lead Systems Engineer!.

[9] Panda Global signs SuPeRbOoMfAn and Rich Brown.

[10] Welcome to the Plup Club: Zain joins Panda Global!.

[11] Introducing Panda Global's newest member, Cosmos!!.

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