| Panda Global | |
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| File:Panda Global Gaming.png | |
| Location | United States |
| Owners | Alan Bunney (SamuraiPanda) David Wu (Mashumaro) |
| Player manager | Bassem Dahdouh (Bear) |
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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 the 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 SSB4 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 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 the world.
Current smashers
Pro smashers
| ID | Name | Game | Main(s) | Join Date | |
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ESAM | Eric Lew | Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. for Wii U |
   
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2015-06-24 |
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MVD | Jestise Negron | Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. for Wii U |
  
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2015-06-24 |
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Plup | Justin McGrath | Super Smash Bros. Melee | 
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2015-06-30 |
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Wobbles | Robert Wright | Super Smash Bros. Melee | 
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2015-11-02 |
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Rich Brown | Rich Brown | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U | 
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2017-01-17 |
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SuPeRbOoMfAn | Daniel Hoyt | Super Smash Bros. |   
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2017-01-17 |
Other smashers
suar 
(PG Stats director, joined May 7th, 2016)- Alpharad
(content director, joined June 30th, 2016) - Bear
(tournament director, FGC manager) - Zan
(pro player, PG Stats analyst, joined May 7th, 2016) 
juddy (PG Stats statistician, joined June 2nd, 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)
Former smashers
Pro smashers
| ID | Name | Game | Main(s) | Join Date | Leave Date | |
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SS | Shane Bruce | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U |  
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2015-06-24 | 2017-01-02 |
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Trela | Alberto Miliziano | Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. for Wii U |
 
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2016-06-22 | 2017-01-02 |
Other smashers
Tetra 
(PG Stats, joined June 2nd, 2016)
Other famous players
- Ryan Ramirez (Filipino Champ) SFV, UMvC3
- Steven Delgado (Coach Steve) SFV, UMvC3, PT
- Raynel Hidalgo (RayRay) UMvC3
- Kyohei Lehr (MarlinPie) GGXrd
- Evan Towne (Rocketek) Splatoon
External links
References
- ^ https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/3b7nhd/esam_and_mvd_have_officially_signed_with_new/
- ^ https://twitter.com/pg_plup/status/615981769058316288
- ^ https://twitter.com/pandaglobalpg/status/661343133712674816
- ^ https://twitter.com/ESPN_Esports/status/745655232202309632
- ^ https://twitter.com/pandaglobalpg/status/748646569436602368
- ^ https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/4ibrb5/panda_global_announces_new_smash_4_stats_team/
- ^ https://twitter.com/PandaGlobalPG/status/738452493936558081
- ^ https://twitter.com/ThePGstats/status/799378123833929728