MPGR 2019

The MPGR 2019 lists the world's top 100 Super Smash Bros. Melee smashers during 2019 as compiled by Panda Global's PG Stats division. They were announced in a series of Red Bull eSports articles published from January 13th, 2020 to January 24th, 2020.

Methodology[edit]

PG Stats asked 45 panelists from across the world, including top players, community leaders, tournament organizers and analysts, to rate the quality of play for each of the 120 qualified players during 2019 on a scale of 1 to 10 based on the quality and quantity of results. In addition to this, they were also prompted with the following question:

"A tournament is held every weekend during the ranking period, and all players on the list are able to attend every event. Over the course of the season, who performs the best? You may give the benefit of the doubt to players who attended more events during the ranking period if you so choose."

Panelists were allowed to abstain from scoring a particular player if they did not know enough about them. This had no effect on the player's score, unless enough panelists abstained from rating a particular player in which case the player would be disqualified. This only occurred to Duck. Once the scores were obtained, they would be normalized for consistency. Afterwards, each player's score would be calculated using a weighted average with higher weights given to an individual rating the closer it is to the interquartile mean of the given player’s scores.

Panelists[edit]

Central U.S. (9) - 100 Grand, billybopeep, Snowy, Kaiju, Killablue, Penicilin Krillin, Tuesday, Unsure, Zamu
Northeastern U.S. (14) - Ambisinister, bambi, Bitts, Cool Lime, DarkGenex, Dawson, EdwinBudding, GimmeDatWheat, Gtown_Tom, Jackzilla, Kalvar, Pikachu942, Redd, SaveAsUntitled
Southeastern U.S. (4) - Causter, Weis, Wills, Wily
Western U.S. (10) - Aura, BeyondFables, Captain Faceroll, Cat Named Virtue, Chango, Chroma, Destinyfan, Nickemwit, S2J, V$
International (8) - Faust, KayB, MetaKill, Moby, Mosh, Kyle, Nicki, Zedreo

Rankings[edit]

Hungrybox's player card

Ranking	Smasher	Previous rank	Movement	Character(s)	Rating
1	Hungrybox	1	0		100.0
2	Leffen	3	▲ 1		98.9
3	Mango	5	▲ 2		98.3
4	Axe	10	▲ 6		97.0
5	Wizzrobe	8	▲ 3		96.4
6	Zain	7	▲ 1		96.1
7	aMSa	9	▲ 2		94.6
8	Plup	4	▼ 4		93.5
9	iBDW	34	▲ 25		92.9
10	Mew2King	6	▼ 4		92.0
11	S2J	11	0		91.5
12	Fiction	28	▲ 16		90.3
13	SFAT	12	▼ 1		90.3
14	moky	52	▲ 38		89.2
15	n0ne	16	▲ 1		88.1
16	Trif	35	▲ 19		87.4
17	Captain Faceroll	33	▲ 16		87.1
18	Swedish Delight	13	▼ 5		86.9
19	Hax$	38	▲ 19		84.7
20	Lucky	18	▼ 2		84.7
21	Ginger	40	▲ 19		83.2
22	Spark	53	▲ 31		82.7
23	ChuDat	46	▲ 23		82.2
24	PewPewU	15	▼ 9		81.5
25	lloD	21	▼ 4		80.0
26	ARMY	20	▼ 6		79.6
27	AbsentPage	24	▼ 3		78.9
28	Bananas	19	▼ 9		77.6
29	KJH	25	▼ 4		77.6
30	Shroomed	29	▼ 1		75.6
31	Westballz	22	▼ 9		74.9
32	Medz	—	—		74.1
33	MikeHaze	43	▲ 10		73.4
34	Professor Pro	56	▲ 22		72.5
35	2saint	49	▲ 14		72.5
36	Gahtzu	27	▼ 9		71.3
37	Albert	—	—		69.8
38	Spud	47	▲ 9		68.7
39	FatGoku	69	▲ 30		67.8
40	Rishi	26	▼ 14		67.3
41	Bimbo	—	—		66.2
42	Setchi	—	—		66.2
43	Magi	97	▲ 54		64.8
44	Morsecode762	99	▲ 55		63.1
45	Jakenshaken	88	▲ 43		63.0
46	HugS	23	▼ 23		62.1
47	Stango	62	▲ 15		60.7
48	Zamu	78	▲ 30		60.1
49	Drephen	60	▲ 11		59.9
50	Michael	41	▼ 9		59.0
51	Ice	39	▼ 12		58.8
52	billybopeep	—	—		58.7
53	La Luna	32	▼ 21		57.5
54	Colbol	30	▼ 24		57.2
55	Overtriforce	57	▲ 2		57.1
56	Slox	50	▼ 6		56.3
57	Kalamazhu	37	▼ 20		56.2
58	Nickemwit	83	▲ 25		55.6
59	Jerry	55	▼ 4		54.2
60	Aura	—	—		52.8
61	Nut	—	—		52.8
62	Kalvar	79	▲ 17		52.6
63	Polish	—	—		52.0
64	Kevin Maples	—	—		48.0
65	Bladewise	44	▼ 21		47.6
66	Tai	72	▲ 6		47.4
67	Squid	54	▼ 13		46.5
68	Forrest	—	—		45.5
69	Joyboy	—	—		44.8
70	KoDoRiN	—	—		44.6
71	Ryan Ford	31	▼ 40		43.2
72	Free Palestine	101	▲ 29		41.7
73	Ryobeat	—	—		41.3
74	Ka-Master	58	▼ 16		39.4
75	Kurv	—	—		38.8
76	Frenzy	—	—		38.5
77	MoG	—	—		38.2
78	Boyd	67	▼ 11		38.2
79	Cool Lime	—	—		37.4
80	bobby big ballz	—	—		37.3
81	Nintendude	65	▼ 16		36.8
82	Franz	—	—		36.4
83	Nicki	—	—		36.2
84	lint	—	—		34.7
85	King Momo	84	▼ 1		33.5
86	TheRealThing	91	▲ 5		32.9
87	Umarth	—	—		32.8
88	Zeo	—	—		32.0
89	Pricent	—	—		31.6
90	Prince Abu	77	▼ 13		31.4
91	Amsah	64	▼ 27		30.9
92	Rocky	51	▼ 41		30.1
93	Sharkz	70	▼ 23		29.8
94	HTwa	81	▼ 13		28.0
95	Kage	—	—		25.4
96	Schythed	—	—		25.4
97	Panda	—	—		24.9
98	Soonsay	—	—		24.8
99	TheSWOOPER	—	—		24.7
100	Snowy	—	—		24.3

Honorable Mentions[edit]

Instead of having a "Mr. 101" player like they have in the past, PracticalTAS interviewed the players on the ballot that didn't make it on the PGR. The players listed here are in alphabetical order.

•  100 Grand 
•  42nd 
•  Azel 
•  Chango 
•  Duck  (did not make the list due to several panelists abstaining from voting on him)
•  Fizz 
•  Kels 
•  Krudo 
•  Kuyashi 
•  Leighton 
•  maXy 
•  Nagy 
•  null 
•  Qerb 
•  Quang 
•  Rik 
•  Smashdaddy 
•  Sora 
•  Tiramisu 
•  Wevans 

External links[edit]

• MPGR 2019 on Red Bull eSports: Honorable Mentions,100-91, 90-81, 80-71, 70-61, 60-51, 50-41,40-31, 30-21, 20-11, 10-1