Vayseth's Proposal: the Global Smash Commission


Introducing the Global Smash Commission (hereon referred to as the GSC). The GSC is my proposal for a global communication initiative exclusively containing regions who regularly host PGR (Panda Global Rankings) level tournaments. What regions have shaped the PGR? I poured through the PGR's TTS for season three and season four and found the following regions.

Regions that made an impact on the PGR in 2017:
United States: 75 tournaments
Japan: 22 tournaments
Europe: 8 tournaments
Canada: 6 tournaments
Mexico: 3 tournaments
Middle East: 1 tournament
Australia: 1 tournament

Due to the overwhelming abundance of tournaments in the United States and Japan, I propose splitting them up into two separate regions for this project, an "East" and "West". This would bring us up to nine separate regions in total.

The regions to be represented in the GSC are the following:
United States East: (Florida, MD/VA, Midwest, New England, Southeast, Tristate)
United States West: (Hawaii, NorCal, Northwest, SoCal, Southwest, Texas)
Japan East: (Kanto through Hokkaido “Umebura”)*
Japan West: (Kansai through Kyushu “Sumabato”)*
Europe
Canada
Mexico
Middle East
Australia
*The Chubu region of Japan (host region of Karisuma) will be decided by Japan’s leaders as to which region it will be represented in.

What are the goals of the GSC?

The main goal is to create a global smash communication network. Show anyone who has their doubts about the current smash leadership that there are people who are getting things done. However, the difference is to give everyone who is putting in the work to get their events on the PGR tasks to work on so this actually does something.

What do I need to make this happen?

1. A single person or a small group of people come together and create some form of way to communicate with the leaders of their region easily.
2. There must be representation from every local scene in the region (a few people per scene)
3. It must have barriers to entry and not open to just anyone.

Essentially, I need each region to create a Facebook group, a Discord channel, a Twitter DM group, a LINE group or something similar where entry is based on merit. For example...

Are you a TO who has hosted an event that made it on the PGR? You're in.
Are you a player who has either been on the PGR before or regularly are power ranked in your region? You're in.
Are you a streamer/content creator/commentator who has regularly covered PGR-level events? You're in.

Those are a few examples I just made up on the spot. Specific barriers to entry should be the sole responsibility of the leaders/moderators of each group but as long as there are a few people from each community with clear rules on how to get in that will work. It is possible some of you already have something like this in place. Great! Let's use what we have already to get this started.

From each group I would like one community leader to be their region's representative in a group of nine (one from each region) that delegates what tasks need to be done and are given at least a month or so to complete. Here's an example timeline for the next three months:

March 1st: Announcement of proposal
March 15th: Deadline for a group to have been created and a single leader chosen
March 22nd: Deadline for leaders to decide tasks to be completed
April 26th: Deadline for regional data collection and discussion
May 24th: Deadline for all tasks to be completed internally
May 31st: Deadline for all data and task results to be public

What tasks could be accomplished with this group? A public calendar is not out of the question. Global data collection on hot-button ruleset topics so TOs have more information to base their rulesets off of is a great idea.

I have already spoken to leaders of each region who I think have the best chance of getting this started. We had great success with this last year with the creation of the European discord and the Australian Facebook group where we were actually able to have long thorough discussions on ruleset matters. I would like to try and bring that framework now to the rest of the world.

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