After the recent drama revolving around the cancelation of Smash World Tour by Nintendo, Panda Global has finally been vocal about its involvement. But their approach has enraged the fans. Many followers and top-tier content creators are openly stating their disappointment to the response.
Right around thanksgiving, the indie smash tournament scene, known as Smash World Tour, was canceled by Nintendo without any prior indication. The tournament was almost about to wrap up as the final matches were getting close. But with a simple notice, the gaming giant put a halt to the tournament’s progression and potentially canceled all further plans by the organizers.
This action was highly criticized by the fans. The Official Super Smash Bros. tournament, the Panda Cup organized by Panda Global, had remained silent until this time regarding the whole drama. But recently the Esports Org broke publically posted their response and apology. But according to the community, their statement was hollow and failed to give any actual answers.
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Fans believe Panda Global used Nintendo as a “scapegoat”
The statement by Panda began with a paragraph talking about how hard the team worked to create “an exciting, welcoming environment,” for the Super Smash Bros competitive scene. According to them, “Panda Cup began and continues to be a project of passion that seeks to magnify and enhance community efforts made through competitive Smash.”
The statement claims that “the organizers of Smash World Tour were not required to cancel their 2022 championship even, and implicated that Panda Cup team had any influence in that regard is false.” Panda Global states that SWT canceling their event was a “disappointing” surprise for them. The response referenced many statements by Nintendo to make themselves clear from allegations.
So cool that someone who claims to care about the scene and their employees would gush about how much he appreciates all of us, then spend the next three days carefully crafting the worst fucking horseshit which throws the very same employees under the bus in the first paragraph https://t.co/g3GzMe5b6S
— 🪑 | turndownforwalt (@turndownforwalt) December 2, 2022
In the statement, Panda “acknowledged and regretted” the interaction between the CEO of the org Dr. Alan Bunney, and BTS. They agreed on making efforts to rectify the situation by making changes in their internal structure and approach to contacting the main event runners, following statements to defend their CEO without providing a single direct quote from him.
Yucky response, actually just dropped a nothing sandwich after two days. Don’t really see how Panda moves on from this https://t.co/CgZvggW1VW
— Charlie (@MoistCr1TiKaL) December 2, 2022
How did fans react to Panda’s response?
The response was very skeptically received. The community was furious as they pointed out that the whole letter was hollow and didn’t touch upon any of the serious issues. Popular online journalist Jake Lucky wrote in a tweet, “Panda Global has responded to the allegations against their CEO Alan and the shutting down of the Smash World Tour. Reiterating they had no part in Nintendo’s decision, admitting blame for their CEO Alan in his talks with BTS, but otherwise standing by Nintendo’s statement.”
Fans poured in the replies to express their thoughts on drama. They explicitly criticized Panda Global and said that this is will be the end of the organization.
I hope everyone can see how empty of a statement this is. It does nothing but piggyback off of Nintendo. It’s interesting because it seems like both are trying to use the other as a scapegoat. It’s just damning because SWT has tons of evidence that isn’t being countered.
— Jerome (@justjeromeyo) December 2, 2022
Panda won't survive this, at least with the Smash community.
— TheVP 😈 (@Vietpride218) December 2, 2022
welp rip smash and panda, unfortunate.
— Gimp (@Gimp_tv) December 2, 2022
This response was probably made by a robot or a secretary which is essentially the same thing
— ⚡️STATIK⚠️SPARK⚡️ (@statikspark) December 2, 2022
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Shame that even if they are telling the truth, the org will be known negatively just because of their ceo.
— PRVK godz (@godz144) December 2, 2022
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