When we started work on PGstats.com last March, we assumed we would be launching to a world that had already returned to regular offline competition. Unfortunately, that's not the case, and it probably won't be the case for at least a few more months here in North America. With Smash Ultimate competition restricted to the world of Wi-Fi tournaments for the foreseeable future, Panda Global is proud to partner with the brains behind the Wi-Fi Warrior Rank to present the Panda Global Online Leaderboard (PGOL), a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate online tournament ranking system to add some spice to the Wi-Fi grind.
When we started work on PGstats.com last March, we assumed we would be launching to a world that had already returned to regular offline competition. Unfortunately, that's not the case, and it probably won't be the case for at least a few more months here in North America. With Smash Ultimate competition restricted to the world of Wi-Fi tournaments for the foreseeable future, Panda Global is proud to partner with the brains behind the Wi-Fi Warrior Rank to present the Panda Global Online Leaderboard (PGOL), a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate online tournament ranking system to add some spice to the Wi-Fi grind.
The Panda Global Online Leaderboard will be a monthly ladder in which players will earn points for their placements in up to two online tournaments per week. Players are allowed to play in as many events as they want, with their best two events counting towards their leaderboard score. Basically, the structure of the leaderboard is set up as to not force players to grind daily. If you can win a couple of big tournaments and want to check out for the rest of the week, great. If you were already planning on streaming a tournament run every day this week already, that's great too, and you don't have to stress your worst result coming back to bite you because of an off-day or a lag spike.
The PGOL is a free competition, and there will be no monetary prizes. At the end of each month, we will publish the rankings, and those who appear on the top 10 will receive special Badges for their PGstats.com profiles. PGOL tournaments will also generate other badges for your player profiles, including badges for winning events, winning sets, or even just entering and playing. All of this begins in March, meaning this coming Monday (3/1) will be the first tournaments to start awarding PGOL points and badges.
Now, let's get into the specifics of the PGOL, starting with the tournament tier system, which should look somewhat familiar to those who know both the PGR and WWR systems. Event with at least 50 entrants AFTER DQs are removed will be counted towards the PGOL, split into six tournament tiers, specified below. Again, remember these are all entrant counts AFTER DQs are removed.
Tournament Tier System
Tournaments will be split into six tiers. Roughly 8-12% of players in any event will be rewarded points, with the tiers capping at S-Tier with 750 entrants.
Placement Point System
To keep things simple, the PGOL does not calculate based of strength of player wins. Points are awarded strictly based on placement and tier, and will be awarded according to the chart below.
Schedule
Each player’s monthly score will be defined as the sum of their best 2 scores in each week of a given month. A week will be defined as Monday-Sunday. When a week is split across the end of a month and the start of the next month, it will be split in two; whichever month has 4 or more days of that week will be treated as normal (each player’s score for the week is the sum of their best 2 scores), and whichever month has 3 or fewer days of that week will be treated as a short week (each player’s score for the week is the sum of their best 1 score). For March, that looks like this:
We highly encourage that you stick to one Smash.gg account. If players are flagged for using multiple Smash.gg accounts, we will hide the lower ranking of the accounts from the leaderboard. There will be no merging of accounts.
Competition for the first edition of the PGOL begins this Monday, so start entering those brackets and get ready to climb the leaderboard and stay tuned here at PGstats.com for weekly updates.
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